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Their Plans Frustrated

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mount Pleasant, Pa., May 8.- The first attempt to introduce dynamite in behalf of the coke strikeTS was frustrated here, thanks to the vigilance of General Superintendent William Ramgay of Southwest Connellsville Coke company and the prompt action of Sheriff McCann. A week ago Mr. Eainsay got reliable information that the strikers intended blowing up his company's "A" plant at Morewood. i Mr. Ramsay at once consulted with the sheriff and 'as a result suspected partiea were put under the closest surveillance, which ended in locating them while putting the finishing touches on the bomb in the woods on Sand Hill, a half mile north of town, and leas than a mile frona the shaft which the infernal machine was intended to destroy. The sheriff took six of hig most trusted deputies on duty at Morewood shortly before 3 o'clock and droye to the woods. The little party quickly surrounded the suspected point, closed in, and the astounded quartet of plotters were handcuffed prisoners the next moment. The bornĂ­), a metal ball wire, covered and filled with dynamite, was found hidden in a pile of rails and was taken along with the prisoners to the Greensburg jail. lts weight is given at 20 odd pounds. The prisoners are Edward Davis, a younger brother of the imprisoned United Mine Workers' president, William McCracken, both of this place, the latter not yet of age, and two foreigners. Davis and McCracken claim they had no hand in making the bomb, and were present by accident.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News