Show PRESIDENT CANNOT ACT IN COAL STRIKE law was repealed in 1898 and therefore roosevelt is without authority shooting of a boy by coal and iron policemen angers the strikers new boik june 6 the board ol 01 trade and transportation received a telegram from president koo sevelt today apprising them that he would be glad to re cehe the appointed by the board to ask alie president to appoint a commission commis dion to investigate and take stepi looking towards the of the anthracite coal strike but adding that alic law empowering the president to act in instances bini ilar to the anthracite miners strike in 1803 in bew of the fact that alie law had been repealed the committee decided not to visit the june C after a confer with the members of his cabinet today president says ethcie i no legal ground for interference by him in the settlement dispute between the coal operators and the striking miners alie resolutions of alie new york board of trade requesting the president to appoint a to visit the coal region and investigate alio situation was at great length but as the law of 1892 which confined authority upon the president to take such action had been repealed the president Pret ident has no desire to assume the responsibility which the new york board of trade suggested Wilkes barre june C the shooting affray at the stanton colliery at south Wilkes barre last in which n 13 year old boy was seriously wounded by coal and iron hiis stirred up this community more than any other happening since the strike biegan the strikers have moat contempt for the deputies and coal and iron police and trouble can be started at the least provocation the police were fortunate iff getting llie four men alio cre accused of doing alie shooting away from alie colliery this morning coal and iron policeman was arrested for flourishing a revolver an fn a threatening manner ii sheriff jacobs of this county had a particularly busy time last night being called upon by several companies to protect their properly proper lv sien were bent to some localities bierc trouble VM looked for riot net but this was not done hundreds of yards of fencing ing collieries colli eries have been burned by boys and young men alie coal companies officials hold the mine workers responsible for all the disturbances they argue that jf the strikers wish to keep tho peace they should prevent their son from starting trouble alie hearing of the accused policemen lias been postponed until aliis afternoon A crowd police station all morning extra men have been placed on duty there to protect tho prisoners all the local unions at the request ot president matchell Ml today appointed guard committees whose duty it will be during the period 0 strike to prevent persons from destroying property and to keep men away from alio collieries colli eries alt mitchell said it is unsafe for children or any one else to walk along the streets or roads bordering collieries colli eries the irresponsible men who have been employed by the companies to do police duty arc not to be trusted june C some of alie imported men who left alie services of tho valley coal company at yorktown last night are reported by the strikers today to have disposed of their revolvers tor trivial sums in order to raise money to get back to philadel ania ahe yorktown local hag requested the women and children of mat place not to congregate at the barracks where the imported men and deputies are stationed one of the delaware schuylkill and ft railroad crews which lias been hauling special from one town to another refused today to do this work district president dutty and sheriff of carbon county will have n conference at yorktown today regarding the withdrawal of alie deputies placed by the of iio sheriff wednesday night nearly strikers stationed on the public road leading to the drift on the colliery of coxe brothers co stopped the nonunion non union firemen and pumpanen pump inen at that mine from going to work today there was no violence on the part of the strikers scranton june 6 shutting down of the small screens and erected at some of the refuse piles of long aban donad drifts and tunnels ig now engaging attention from the coal strikers of the lackawanna valley there are perhaps a score of these working with six to ten men eacle and their trade h chiefly to farmers nd gome small industries dus tries in every section where ec exist the several local unions thereabouts haio begun their dosing chok at carbondale ji Prock villo and tailor fre ill reported today m being clot cd tho luzerne Luz crne it mihall c in north scranton was cloned but iti owners put on a new forpe of workmen today equipped with puni nd told them to work the place at all hazards it about tons daily most of which goe goei i to the scranton railway company the strikers in north ton plan a march on the pae today and nic confident they m ang 1 up dettrict ct oaid I 1 continue to bome fome f the iier tion of 1 maev imported men aal the situation 1 continues most pa jinn afon 0 o alie valley region ia be coming liehr jeaa decided to increase hiir force 0 o additional deputies will go lykan nal and R on duty until the rouble h 01 cr I 1 W |