COKE WORKERS
RIOT.
NINE MEN
KILLED AND MANY MORE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
Fighting
All Over the Coke Regions. Unless Prompt Measures Are Taken Wholesale
Slaughter May Result—A Foreman Brutally Killed by Strikers. Many
Arrests Made—The Situation Constantly Growing Worse.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 5. — It would take
columns to tell in detail the exciting events of the third day of the big coke
strike now on in the Connellsville region. At least nine lives have been
sacrificed during the past 24 hours.
Unless the strong arm of the military
interferes the dead will be counted by scores instead of tens. So much
excitement was never known in the region.
The rioting began early in the morning, but
the climax was not reached until afternoon, when a body of strikers numbering
several hundred marched in the Davidson works of the H. C. Frick Coke company
at Connellsville, Fayette county, where men were working.
The strikers had been there in the morning
to get the men out, but no one was working.
In the afternoon when they returned deputies
had been placed to receive them. When the strikers approached they were ordered
to stop. They came on and tried to get at the men in the ovens. The deputies
fired.
The strikers returned the fire and charged,
driving the deputies and men from the plant.
Chief Engineer Paddock of the Frick company
ran up in the tipple of the works. The strikers followed and shot him in the
back of the head. They beat him and crushed his head with stones and threw his
body from a tipple window to the ovens 40 feet below.
They then attempted to fire the tipple, but
left when they saw the deputies returning with a large force from
Connellsville.
Hearing of Paddock's murder hundreds volunteered
to avenge his death.
The pursuing party in command of County
Detective Frank Campbell, overtook the strikers half a mile from Davidson and
opened fire on them.
The strikers fired in return, but ran on.
[Ten] of the strikers fell, one was killed instantly, shot through the body,
and two others were fatally wounded.
Another of the strikers, who got the start
of the main body, was shot by a deputy at Bradford, a mile distant. He was also
killed instantly, the ball penetrating his neck.
Eleven strikers were captured where the first
battle took place and the pursuing party kept up the chase until Dawson, a
point seven miles distant was reached, where 53 more of the strikers were captured.
All the efforts of the deputies and more
level-headed citizens were needed to prevent the lynching of the 11 who were taken
back to Connellsville. The law-abiding element had their way, and a special
train arrived here with many of those who were in the mob that killed Paddock.
A great crowd greeted their arrival, and amid cries of "lynch them!" the
prisoners were hurried up a back street to jail. A large body of the strikers were
present, and made a rush to rescue the prisoners, but were held back by the big
crowd and the deputies. At the jail Hugh Cole, assistant chief engineer of the Frick
company, identified five of the prisoners as among those who killed Paddock.
Thirty more of the same band of strikers have been arrested, and the deputies will
return to bring them to jail.
Paddock was highly esteemed and was widely
known. His murder occurred in sight of his home.
All the officials of the district
organization of strikers will be arrested for complicity in the Paddock murder
and inciting the riot and murder.
At the Mayfield plant of the McClure company
two men were fatally shot during the day. The strikers charged the men at work
in the morning, but were driven off by the deputies after a striker was shot
through the body.
In the afternoon they returned and renewed
the attack. There was much firing and a deputy was fatally wounded.
At a riot at the Paintor works two men beat
a workman fatally.
One hundred rioters are now under arrest.
Hugh Cole came and recognized nearly all of the Huns in jail as the ones who
helped commit the assault at Davidson when Paddock was killed.
Twelve hundred rioters are marching on the
Moyer works of J. W. Rainey, where 150 deputies are on guard.
A massacre will occur there if the projected
attack is made. The latest news is that an assault will be made on the jail
here to rescue the rioters.
The
Sheriff is Powerless.
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., April 5.—The sheriff
has to-day notified the governor of Pennsylvania that he is powerless to check
the excesses of the strikers in the coke region. He says that ten thousand
lawless strikers are now in possession of that region.
ANOTHER
ARREST IN TROY.
Cleary
Charged With Assault in the Third Degree.
TROY, N. Y., April 5.—Jeremiah Cleary, whose
connection with the events immediately preceding the death of Robert Ross on
election day in this city, brought him into considerable prominence at the Ross
inquest, was arrested last evening on a charge of assault in the third degree,
Ellis Hayner being the complainant. Cleary, it is alleged, assaulted Hayner
when the latter protested against the invasion by "Bat" Shea, John
McGough and Cleary of the polling place in the Thirteenth ward. Before
Magistrate Donohue in police court this morning Cleary pleaded not guilty, and
his trial was set down for a week from to-morrow. He was committed to jail.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
Some
Excellent Suggestions.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Crooker has never failed in his annual report to make some valuable and
practical suggestions in the line of educational improvement. His report this
year is not an exception. While we are not in sympathy with his opposition to
state aid for higher education—because we believe that the great state of New
York is rich enough and ought to be liberal enough to provide both for
elementary and higher training—we endorse most cordially what he says about the
meager educational advantages offered to children in weak country districts,
the need of improvement in this direction and the obligation resting upon the
state to provide for all its children the means of obtaining a thorough common
school education. To our mind this obligation is greater in the case of the
child in the remote country district than in that of the city child, where
private liberality supplements the work done by the state.
In favoring a longer school term, in order
to draw public money and in advocating better pay for teachers, the
superintendent is decidedly in the line of progress.
Perhaps the best suggestion in his report is
that favoring taking out of the hands of school commissioners the work of
examining and marking the second and third grade answer papers in examinations
for teachers certificates and having it done by a central board. A higher and
more uniform degree of attainment would thus be assured in teachers, the
commissioners would be relieved of extra work and all chance of error or
favoritism in passing unfit candidates done away with. This method of
examination would mark almost as great an advance as the establishment of the
uniform system itself.
Superintendent Crooker also favors and
wisely, the doing away with the two educational departments now existing in
this state—the department of public instruction and the board of regents—and
uniting them under one head. The board is really the one which ought to go, or
be organized on a different basis. At present, membership in it is simply a
kind of honorary position for a number of men most if not all of them actively
engaged in other than educational pursuits, many of whom rarely if ever attend
its meetings, and whose chief exercise of authority seems to be to appoint a
secretary, who may be an impractical crank or a level-headed educator, just as
it happens, with the chances about as much in favor of one as of the other.
The appointing of the regents for life is
one of the worst features about them. The constitution regards it as wise to
dispense with the services of a judge after he is seventy years old, but a
regent can live on into second childishness, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans
brains, sans everything, and still lag superfluous as one of the directors of
the educational system of the state. If their terms of office were limited,
like those of judges of the supreme court, and one or more of their number went
out of office at stated periods, and their secretary were nominated by the
legislature and confirmed by the board, or the reverse, and given not only the
powers exercised by the present secretary of the board but by the present superintendent
of public instruction, and the two educational departments of the state thus
combined, it might be a good thing all around—though the better way would be
the conferring of all the power and the locating of all the responsibility on
one man, with the regents simply acting as an advisory body, if existing at
all.
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Another wealthy farmer has been robbed of a
large sum of money—$5,000. This
wealthy farmer was luny enough to keep the cash in his house. Burglars got in,
seized the rich ruralist and began burning him by touching him up with the
flame of a lamp. They tortured him till he was forced to tell them where his
money was hidden, and they got it all. It does seem as though some people are
either crazy or else they never read the newspapers. Time out of mind these
friends of the public have been publishing warning stories of how people who
keep large sums of money in their homes have been tortured and robbed, often
murdered, yet the warning is not heeded. Especially when persons live in small
villages and in lonely farmhouses it is nothing less than inviting robbery and
murder to keep so much as $100 in the house. Even when the money is locked up
in a safe the owner of it can be tortured till he is forced to reveal the
combination and give up the key.
SOMETHING
OF A SMASH.
Dray and
Bakery Wagon Meet to the Disadvantage of the Latter.
About 10:30 o'clock this morning J. B.
Barrows, the drayman, left his team with an empty dray standing in an alley
next the grocery store of J. S. Squires, while he did an errand. A shower came
up and a conduit pipe from the roof of an adjoining building began to pour a
stream of water upon the heads of the horses. They believed in cold water but
they didn't like that kind of application, and they started out upon Main-st., turned
and ran at full tilt northward on the west side of the street. A tug unhooked
and let the tongue out of the neck yoke. The wagon wouldn't steer then, and with
the tongue bobbing around the whole establishment went across the street to the
east side.
Chas. H. Smith, the baker, was coming down Main-st.
in his delivery wagon when he saw the team come out of the alley. He was on the
west side of the street and when he saw the runaways taking that side too be
hawed over upon the east side. When the tongue dropped, the dray team made a
bee line for his wagon. He tried to get out of the way, but couldn't. Directly
in front of the Second National bank the smash came. The tongue of the dray
struck the left front wheel of the bakery wagon and went through it taking out
some of the spokes and striking the body of the wagon and forcing it against
the curb with force enough to knock the spokes out of the left rear wheel,
throwing the felloes and tire down upon the side and letting the wagon drop
flat on the hub of the wheel. The other rear wheel also lost some spokes.
As Mr. Smith saw the smash coming he leaped
out upon the curb and seized his horse by the head. One of the thills of his
wagon struck the breast of one of the horses of the dray team and then glanced
along the side of the animal. It was a narrow escape for that animal. The crowd gathered and quickly caught the
runaways. The driver came up soon and claimed his property which was not
injured. Mr. Smith and his horse escaped, but his wagon was a wreck.
Virgil.
VIRGIL, April 3.—Mrs. Florinda Ellster
Bloomer, wife of William Bloomer, died at her home in Virgil, March 23, aged 70
years, 2 months and 11 days. The funeral was held March 26, Rev. Mr. Dayton and
Undertaker Crain in charge. Deceased has always lived in Virgil and for many
years has been a member of the Baptist church. She leaves a husband and seven
children to mourn the loss of a kind mother and a good woman. Her children
George, William Fitch, Mary Jane, John A., Faith Dell, Charles and Nettie L.,
together with the husband wish to thank their friends for acts of kindness
rendered them in their affliction.
Of the three farms sold last week at
mortgage sale the P. B. Bloomer farm was sold to Asa Davis and will be occupied
by Mr. Farnum Wood.
The Nathan Shults place was sold to Abram L.
Hutchings and will be occupied by his son Fred. The Graves place was sold to
Mrs. R. M. Price and will be occupied by Mr. George Darling.
Mr. John Jewell has purchased the Jay
Fortner place and moved onto it.
Mr. Leroy Robinson has purchased the place
owned by Mrs. John Sheerar.
The cheese factory commenced taking milk on
Monday and will doubtless receive an excellent patronage.
At the regular meeting of the W. C. T. U.
held last Wednesday at Mrs. J. C. Seaman's,
an excellent supper was furnished by the hostess. We believe it was styled a
"white ribbon tea."
Mr. Frank Stillman has moved to Gee Hill and
will have charge of the creamery there.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Dann, who have been absent
some weeks, have returned home.
Mr. William Bell has moved in the rooms over
Winslow hall.
Mr. B. J. Jones has rented his tenant house
to Mr. Pudney.
Mr. Henry Homer has let his farm to Mr. Jay
Ballou.
Mr. Frank Hutchings and Mr. Lewis Chrisman
are each building an addition to their barns. Mr. Willis Foster has charge of
both jobs.
Mr. W. A. Holton is getting the frame ready
for another large barn on his farm.
The season for maple sugar making is not an
average one thus far. There are plenty of freezing nights but the wind is so
cold during the day that sap does not run. Much damage is being done to wet
land meadows by freezing and thawing.
Miss Maud McKinney of Cortland is visiting
at Mr. Henry McKinney's.
Sunday evening, April 1, a union temperance
meeting was held at the M. E. church, under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union. It was led by its president, Mrs. Myron Ballou, who
in her usual earnest and persuasive manner presented the needs of the work, and
urged upon all the importance of personal responsibility, and conscientious
action. Reports from departments were read and discussed by ministers and
others. The united choirs gave excellent music, and altogether the meeting was
one of interest, and we trust of profit. It is hoped there may be established a
temperance service to be held monthly at the churches alternately.
BREVITIES.
—The Cortland Manufacturing Co., Ltd., have
just been connected with the telephone exchange.
—The appropriation of $14,000 for the
Cortland Normal school has passed the senate and now goes to the governor for
his signature.
—In another column we publish a list of
hospital wants. The articles are very much needed and will ,be gratefully
received.
—The Grand Union Tea store is being
freshened up in appearance by new paint outside and inside. Almeron Loucks is
in charge of the work.
—The plant of the Cortland Desk Co., which
has of late been operated by the Jones Mfg. Co., was yesterday sold at
sheriff's sale and was bid in by Hector Cowan, for the Desk company.
—The Normal Banjo club has been entirely
reorganized and two mandolins have been added. The club is now practicing for a
recital to be given in Normal hall on Friday evening, April 13.
—The will of the late Gen. Gustavus Sniper of
Syracuse, the former colonel of the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Regt. N. Y.
Vols., was yesterday admitted to probate. The estate was valued at $54,000 of
which $38,000 was in personal property,
—Some Binghamton real estate dealers are
trying to get the D., L. & W. station in that city moved from its
present location to the south side of the Susquehanna river. This will
necessitate a change in the whole line of the railroad through the city. There
is not much prospect of success in the undertaking.
—The Ladies' Foreign Missionary society of
the First Methodist church met yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. H.
Pearce. An appropriate program was presented. An elegant tea was served at 6
o'clock, of which about 120 people partook, quite a number of them being
gentlemen.
—The Misses Annie and Clara Keator last
evening entertained about fifty of their friends at their pleasant home, 168
Main-st., at a 7 o'clock tea. The menu was about the most elegant and elaborate
ever served upon a similar occasion in Cortland. Later in the evening cards
were in order for those who cared for them. Others were entertained in a serial
way, and the evening was passed in a most enjoyable manner.
—Mrs. C. L. Kinney this morning received a
telegram from her husband who started yesterday morning for Detroit, saying
that he reached there at 10 o'clock, last night, and his brother Mason had died
of typhoid pneumonia before his arrival. Mr. Kinney will arrive in Cortland
with the remains on the 10 o'clock train Saturday morning and they will be
taken to McGrawville for burial. Mr. Kinney left a wife and a son and daughter
eighteen or twenty years old. None of them can come on, as the son is himself
very seriously ill with typhoid pneumonia and hardly expected to live.
—A Binghamton crook attempted to get Mrs.
Weld, the mother of Mrs. I. T. Deyo of Binghamton to advance some money to him
the other night, during the absence from the house of Mrs. Deyo and the absence
from the city of Mr. Deyo of the local board of the Cortland Normal. He claimed
to be a client of Mr. Deyo and said that that gentleman had collected $1,600
for him and he wanted a few dollars of it then. His tears flowed freely, but
Mrs. Weld was unmoved by them. She thought his story was not very straight. He
promised to call at Mr. Deyo's office the next morning and get the money there,
but he failed to keep his appointment. Mr. Deyo is now trying to locate his "client."
PAINE'S
CELERY COMPOUND.
What the
Cortland Druggists Say About its Use.
A STANDARD reporter lately called upon the
Cortland druggists to inquire as to the sale of Paine's celery compound.
G. W. Bradford says that the sale of Paine's
celery compound is one of the heaviest of any medicine he has. The sale is
steady and increases daily.
F. I. Graham says it is the best seller of
any patent medicine we have. The sale keeps up so we conclude that it is a good
thing.
Charles F. Brown says: We sell stacks of it.
Have sold a gross in the last six weeks and hear good reports of it.
Frank E. Brogden says: "P. C. C."
gives as good satisfaction as any medicine I have ever sold.
Maj. Aaron Sager of the firm of Sager &
Jenninge, says: "We just received a gross of Paine's celery compound. We hear
nothing but words of commendation for it. It is no uncommon thing for us to
sell a quarter of a dozen to one customer. It is one of the most staple articles
we have in stock.
Mr. C. H. V. Elliott of the firm of Fitz
Boynton & Co. says: We judge of the merits of a medicine by its sale. We find
Paine's celery compound an excellent seller and it has given excellent satisfaction
to all who have need of it, so far as we know. We buy it in gross lots.
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