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Full Title	Newspaper Article, "The I.C.B.U. Convention," Lancaster, Pa., September 2, 1886.
Date Added	10 January 2014
Language	English
Publish Date	1886-09-02
Source	ACHS ICBA
Topic	Irish Catholic Benevolent Union.
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OCR 2” Service Claimed -py tht ey? GY -oucitor, But Common Council “ 8 to Pay Him the 8386, - pdnesday evening. -pmbers were present: Messrs. “Sans, president. a Mne—fotrowi “hd. referred : iseless pavement, 3 of the bar and the county officers. -“\shall be done, and Messrs. Riddle an sitteo Would Not Notice th ~ “f+ meoting of the city councils was held yn select council tho following nanjed Me Bolsnins, ““oprger, Long, Remloy, Riddle, Whito abd \ Ug—Potitious “were presente —-{To grade Mast Walnut street, betwelt =~ uppen and Plum; to lay water pipo & “Ame, betwren East King and Walnut ¥¥! jade and gutter East King street beyo 4 .fanklin; to pave the first half square {; “-prth Duke street with asphaltum or oth Bags This last petition wy «(ned by the judges of the court, the men* '.p resolution attached to it, which wa > -Apted by select council, directs that. thé va “ . 2 a " Jarge. num ber Ot Tig active in organizing the strike were arrested, and those who could not give bail committed to jail. ‘The strike proved a failure, the men being finally forced to return to work at the old priee. . But the companies were determined to take the opportunity to pun- ish the ringleaders, and virtually prosecuted the cases, omploying three lawyers for the purpose. On their part the miners secured the services of W. J. Brennen, of Pittsburg, and two lawyors of the county. . The cases wore tried:at the-county seat in the agricultural part of Washington county, in May. .The miner on the. panel , only | was peremptorify challenged by the prose- ention, and — t jury was made up almost entirely of farmers, whoin this part of the country, if not throughout the state, have a class prejudice against miners and miners’ strikes, which reduce the market for their produce, and as some of them think increase the tendency of poultry, etc, to mysteriously disappear. ® cases as to some of the men indicted were dismissed by the prosecution, the real reason being, it is said, thatthe men were of use politically or owed money to the companies and twenty- seven were put on trial. Against three of +1, sa 1 t - Wore appointed a committea tor =p t could be adduced, “sin their cases verdicts of not guilty were - eyed during the progress ..of a trial “ttion of the court. One ofthe men thus --4sed had already lain in jail for fourteen ts, another for seven weeks, and in the “Df the third it was shown tbat he had =“1working in Obio for nearly. a year, and “pny returned to Pennsylvania a few * <-dbetore the grand jury had. found a bill =p ease. Yet his name had been inserted pindictment without any preliminary Mg, and he had been taken out of his “8 midnight on a bench warrant, and had “mm jail until the trial. Only two of.the -43 were in any way connected by nce with the violence, but the theory of “osecution, enforced in tho charge of the “hy was that the violence was a result ofa “piracy in which all who took part in the --4rg’ strike and meetings were concerned. “48 proved as to some ot them that they not even in the neighborhood when the “ce occurred, and that their counsels had 478 been against force or threats of force, “done of the thivgs incidentally shown “9 trial was that the strike in its incep- {bad been encouraged by the principal owner, who at that time had a consid- jo stock of coal on hand. The twenty- wore, however, all found guilty ina J, and with one exception. were all sen- .epd to eight. months imprisonment with “labor. The exception was in the case of “in who was in tho last stages of con- --apotion, and who was condemned to six s"jths imprisonment in the county jail “png the men thus sentenced werea num- vho bear the very highest character in - neighborhoods, yan of .the pded himself, and lost his father and two and who has a wife and eight dren dependent upon him, was connect- “with tho conspiracy only by the mak- the:| healing in effect. USE TATA DAT 6 Ont rm FEN ——_ HE Ivory Soars st scratches, etc., etc., on h tating, and the vegetable oils of which There are many white soaps, each represented to | they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the} «. of the genuine, Ask for ‘Ivory’? Soap and insig). orses, for A WORD OF WAI, Copyright 1886, by Procter. 6 : t Rar DRY GOODS, - HAGER & BE. DRY G@oons.} eae

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