| Show T ATTACK THE GUARDS STRIKERS FIGHT IGHT F WITH ROCKS guard guards armed with ball cartridges and instructed to shoot situation critical at shenandoah pennsylvania shenandoah pa aug a L the entire eighth regiment was i called to arms arm last night as a result of diree a attacks tt acke 1 b men in ambush who ho at ticked the tile troops now in camp on the plateau out hille the town those attacks arc li re becoming ao 0 o frequent that BrIg brigadin adit r gen cral eral gobin has dickler to adopt stern t to end them 10 night ix a dou ble guard supplied liedwith with ball surrounds the camp and the sentries 4 liae been instructed that if last nights stone iNing Is repented they must shoot to kill and after wards v ards one of the attacking party william Sto ponitz a la Is luder arrest anil and the protest marshal arshal in la Is on thi trail of others baleto to number inore more th in a dozen the first attack net according to col theodore 11 hoffman was uns made nt at 10 45 last night arh ante pa ne of company 1 I on sentry dut pam aw a party of men on the Ala Al ahone lione city oty roid which aich separates the camp of the eighth regiment from the twelfth lie ile commanded the men to halt and called the corporal of the guard but before the latter could re respond a show er of stones and locks wa mas thrown nt at the sentry one rock struck him on the chest knocking him down domn and causing his gun to fall from bis his hands he ile jumped up and nied flied several iota in the air and aa as he lie did t io to i o the men ran doan the road one of the pickets captured Stop nitz but the others escaped the shooting n routed the whole camp mid and the eighth regiment was mas put un der arms and compan companies les 13 E and IC m eie soon out in lines they beat the underbrush and laurel which Is or six 91 c feet high nil all around the camp but ailed failed to find any one and and the regiment return returned 41 to quarters fifteen minutes later another shower sho cr of atones stones u was as tl thiron thrown iroN a n nt t the stable guard south of tho the eighth regiment the guird turned out and three men nero mere seen running avay am ay but no pursuit U as gh gli en shortly after 3 tina this morning a third attack mas as made and it vas as of such a nature that the bugler under or dors dera from colonel ii bounded sounded the whole regiment to arm ahe guard ins ft as again the ol object jt of attack several volleys of stones being sent in the dire tion of the beatrie ben trie the regiment mas as under amis arms and ready for action within three minutes on account of the laurel underbrush and the darkness the soldiers could not see the offender offenders however Ilou eer the sentries Bent rles tired about a dozen into the bushes but it Is bellei believed ed no one j was hit some of the bullets nent whistling I 1 oer the tents of the sleeping soldiers sold lera of the twelfth regiment across the road the noise of the firing and tho the bugle call aroused tho the twelfth regiment and the governors troop of caa ulry and each sent out detach mante to investigate the trouble the brigadier general has issued or dora ders that stringent measures mens urea are to be taken with all euch such offenders 1 I have ordered sen general eral round rounds of ball cartridges to be issued to each sentry he lie said and that the ofil cers of the guard be instructed to have them used the guild nt at the camp will mill also be increased colonel said last nights OL occurrence currence demonstrates that we ue can bo be ready foi nn an emer emergenci getic in three minutes ef and hereafter we will stand no nonsense and will give a bullet ballet for each atone stone |
