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Show 1 DEAD LY BUTTLE IS FOUGHT II DAI Clash Between Striking Coal Miners and State Constabulary Constabu-lary in Pennsylvania. By Associated Press. ,GREEN'SBUKG, Pa., July 30. In a fight last night near tho Export coal mines, ten inllos from this pace, a striking strik-ing cbal miner was shot and killed" and George Davis of Wllkesbarre, Pa., a member of troop A, Pennsylvania state constabulary, was seriously wounded. Nearly a score of others received minor injuries. The battlo between tho strikers and authorities was fought out In tho dark and was the result of the efforts of officers offi-cers to arrost tho sharpshooters, said to be strlko sympathizers, who for tho. last week have nightly endeavored to shoot out a searchlight placed on the tipple of ono of the mines, whoro a strlko had been In progress for three months. Yesterday thirty-four persona, among them two women, were arroBted on charges or "inciting to riot." Thursday night a striker was shot and killed in an encounter with tho state authorities. Warrants for tho arrest of thirty-eight coal miners of this section arc ln the hands of tho sheriff and will bo served today. The borough of Hufftown has appointed ap-pointed twenty prominent men to serve ns deputy constables. At Irwin, tho members of the 1910-1911 football team of the University of Pittsburg are acting as mine guards. |