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Show Decreasing the Tramps. Port Richmond, Pa., 15. A sanguinary san-guinary conflict between a number of tramps and drunken miners occur-red occur-red this morning near Shamokin, in the Northumberland coal region. The fight lasted several hours and resulted in the death of three of the participants, including one miner. Some strikers from one cf the mine in the district also engaged in the f nw,. L-iinron iia Rio Bully was thrown over an embankment embank-ment along the Shamokin branch of the Northern Central railroad and instantly in-stantly killed by a tf.iin of 90 heavily loaded coal cars passing over him. After the fight some of the parly went to another part of ttie region near Schuylkill county border and committed numerous acts" of violence. |