Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — NOTES OF THE STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF THE STRIKE.

Gen. Gobin say* that he will not allow the miners to hold secret meetings. In the Shnmokin neighborhood a large number of collieries have been abandoned. The funeral of the striker kilted in the Shenandoah riot ended in nn impressive spectacle. Hungarian women tried to whip tlireo coal and iron police near Hazleton, and a tight was narrowly averted. Eugene Bramblet, representing the Southern Coal Company, of I’nrsons, Knn., is taking large gangs of miner* West. Joseph Begos, a Hungarian, at Wilkes* barre, was the first man arrested since the strike began. He is accused of threatening to shoot a miner who refused to strike. While a number of miners were gathering coal on the culm banks at Scranton some one cried, “The watchmen are coming I” An aged miner named Frank Siangan, In the excitement that followed, dropped dead of heart failure