Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

The Governor of Pennsylvania to Mr. Sherman.

Harrisburg, Pa., October 13, 1897.

Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 11th instant, representing that his excellency, the Austrian minister, had filed a communication in the State Department representing that in this Commonwealth, near Hazleton, on the 10th of September, 1897, a conflict took place between the sheriff of Luzerne County supported by an armed force and certain striking workmen, which resulted in the death and wounding of a number of strikers, and asking that the matter be fully investigated and the facts reported to you.

I will at once take steps to collect the facts relating to the unfortunate occurrence and report them promptly to you.

I have, etc.,

Daniel H. Hastings,
Governor of Pennsylvania.