Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — FEAR MORE RIOTING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FEAR MORE RIOTING.

TROOPS SENT TO QUIET THE STRIKERS AT ECKLEY, PA. More Trouble Near Hazleton—Operators Appeal to Gen. Gobin, Who Orders the Philadelphia Militia to the Scene—Funerala of the Victims. Miners Forced to Qnit. The situation in the Hazleton (Pa.) mining district is one of unrest. All the collieries in the district are apprehensive

of danger. Requests have been pouring in to Gen. Gobin from the various mines asking that he send troops to the places in order to prevent any possible outbreak. The general states that he will not send troops ,to any point unless an outbreak does c-c----cur. He declines to give the names of the collieries, as all the men in them are still at work. The

operators, however, are apprehensive of a strike and want to be prepared for an emergency. Two mine superintendents in the immediate vicinity have asked Gen. Gobin to place guards around their houses. Trouble has broken out at Coxe Brothers’ colliery at Eckley. Two hundred miners at Buck mountain, which is about three mines from Eckley, went on strike and started toward the Eckley mines. The superintendent of the Eckley colliery telegraphed Gen. Gobin for troops. The miners marched on the Eckley mines and forced the miners to quit work. It was stated that the miners had been roughly handled by the strikers. Gen. Gobin cr-

dered the city troop of Philadelphia to go to the scene of the disturbance.

SHERIFF MARTIN.