The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-08-02

| tne SITUATION remains unCnanBeu HOm last ul6hI'
In obedience to the request Of the Mayor, nearly
all the saloons and other places Of business re-
mained closed. Trade is completely paralyzed,
and leading merchants state that the injury to
business will be incalCulable, and that num-
Der of
Commercial Failures
VIII inevitably result. The streets have been
thronged with people all day in feyerish state Of
excitement, there being constant expectation OF
bloody collisions between the various mobs parad-
ing the streets and the police and the military
Companies of Citizens
Organized yesterday, Atten o'clock this morning
procession of two thousand men, consisting part
ly of workingmen who have Joined the strike, but
mostly of loafers and idlers, marched from Lucas
market to the manufacturing district north Of
Washington avenue. They first visited
Belcher's Sugar Refinery
Where four hundred employees were forced to quit
work yesterday and finding the doors closed
broke them open, rushed in and extinguished the
fire in the furnace, and displaced the machinery
so that the employees could not return to work, as
they had announced their intention of doing,
Many of the workingmen
Protested Against Injuring or Destroying Property
,ua 0ho,doroa ..o ,roooss,o,, h,, ,ho r,oh oon.
tinued the march, visiting about forty different
faclores and -four and planning mills, compelling
the employees, aggregating nearly thousand, to
quit their work and close the DOORS although the
employees inmauy Cases earnestly protested against
being interiered with. On Riddle street. they
visited a vacant building that had formerly been
used as chair factory. The rioters not knowing
the building was disused,
Broke open the Doors ana kushed In
A snned oF nolica onnesred on tbe scena and
commanded the mob to leave, which they did,and
discovered 10 be on Are. An alarm was sounded
and the fire-enpines came ont but the fire had
progressed too lar to be checked, and the building
together with large quantity OF lumber in an adj.
Joining ward, was DESTROYED. The mob who had
iIndouhiedIv annlied Ihe torch at once disperSed
when the FIRE alarm was given
Al the rOur COURTS bunulhg,
yUhor, .l,o orro,,,rent of ciBzons had been nro.
ssio foro a, aeriy bnur IN he noTnino thara
k haS tha rao oet Intar5ation
ni od ,be ,,,,bniant cIsssoo haing ca tharad
~, T SaIyarai tho,,sonds ISatcbino
the noooss Of orssni1stinn among the citizens and
IN '5nIS;n,9 IN h6isterous and riotons demonstra.
tinna nSo ~ brpSroS ,'nijcernen orc on dutv theTa
ond durn9 the Sav bOnt ii Ttv Sjsorderlv charac
ters were srrested and are now confined In the
County jan In some cases weak
EnortS al rescue
Were made and the police used their clubs effect
uAly A local company, known as the National
Guards while going Though the drill, were rock
ed by the rabble, WhereupOn the Guards proceed
ed TO load their guns and the rabble retired to
respectful distance. inside the building General
A. J. Smith directed affairs with the assistance of
the Mayor and Governor Phelps, who. arrived |
from the State Capltal len tnousaL9 CtIzeLs aIe
Works are closely guarded. by company Of vol
unteeTs.
Tho JntarrotionalIsts and the NeWsnaners.
About two hundred of the InternatiOnalists Wis.
tied the offices of the German daily papers during
he afternoon, and demanded that the printers
quit work but were Informed that the printers
" 6erenSon the Ipternationalists retired. At the
nffiee ofthe Westliche Post the editor Dr. Preto.
rious, made q speech to the mob denouncing them
as villains and towards. Police were at each of
The offices and offered to arrest the leaders of the
his was not reoueSted in any case The English
iaiies IRE expecting visits tonight or tomorrow
Bitter threats nave peen naqe agalIls. an oI r' t1e'
or Sturgeon has 6is office in the republican build
me-. and 1t is announced that GeneIal Davis has
Irdered company of United States infantry from
he Arsenal 10 guard the building.
novo-no. phoIns
UO'erhOr EheiPS
Un1 ,ssue a proclamation to.nipbt commanding
ba rotsrS 70 5isnerse Mavor verstoIz IL seyereI9
,ri,icised for his Ianiencv toward he rioters and
m raico sIsgs that r. t5av are Given neTmissioS
- 'S iso, derlv nd processons
ON rative oniet Jgonid he restored in twenty
,,. bI,.s bs TnteTnatonaIs and worLing neo.
" aro bmIding nestn"s to.niVht but so far eV.
nc nc ,biIa III ~ js .nI,H{st w
u 'iiNs 10
The Union Depot
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3uTlinpton & Quincy. No freight trains in any