Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1909 — LABOR TROUBLE ENDS IN DEATH [ARTICLE]

LABOR TROUBLE ENDS IN DEATH

Volleys Exchanged Over Attempt to Rescue Prisoner. SLAIN lAN A COAL MINER Wage Readjustment Dissatisfies Foreigners Employed In a Pennsylvania Colliery and When One of Their Number Is Arrested They Try to Take Him From Deputies—ln the Melee the Man, Who Wae Being Escorted to a Magistrate’s Office, Makes His Escape. Pittsburg, Pa., April 2.—One man was killed and another probably fatally injured in a riot between a crowd of miners formerly employed at th,e Harwick mines of the Allegheny Coal company at Cheswick, Pa., near here, and two deputy constables. The dead man is Mike Strenyard, aged twenty years. Norwalk Bulterge, aged twenty-four, has two bullets in his back. The coal company posted a notice several days ago that a readjustment of wages would go into effect The men refused to work under the new scale. One of the miners, Milo Zolovitch, was arrested by Constable Shaner. The constable turned the man over to Deputies Albert Holland and L. C. Blair to take to the office of a magistrate. The deputies and their prisoner had proceeded only a short distance when the crowd of miners attempted to rescue Zolovitch. The crowd surged around the two men and their prisoner and it is said that Strenyard drew a revolver and began firing. Holland then pulled his weapon and returned the fire, Strenyard being almost Instantly killed. Blair also drew a revolver and began firing. Bulterge was hit twice and when the foreigners saw him fall they rapidly dispersed. In the melee Zolovitch escaped.