The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-02
rmE AMERICAN COMMUNE.
The War for Wages Continues -Threat-
encd Scarcity and Want-The Strike
subsidinG but not yet under control.

The War for Wages sCOntlnues-Threat-
encd Scarcity and Want-The Strike
subsiding but not yet under control.
A RIOT IN SAN FRANCISCO, AND TIE
TORCH APPLIED.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2G-no0n.
The citizens committee, who had been
| engaged all day yesterday in organizing,
assembled at p. m., ut Agricultural
Hall. W. +. Coleman called the COM
mittee 70 order. Almost Immediately
a fire was reported at the Pacific Mail
dock, in the lumber yard. 4 hundred
men, armed with clubs, were dispatched
TO the scene, and were followed soon by
! hundred more. The remainder were
tollcd off in companies by wards, and
with the exception cf two hundred were
moved off TO the City Hal! to await orders
from the chief of police. Sixty were
sent to dispersc crowd at the corner Of
Sixth and Howard streets, who were en-
gagged in smashing Chinese houses. All
| the committee men were armed with
clubs in addition 70 pocket arms. Mus
has started again in the lumber yard. a
man detected cutting the hose was shot
dead.
|
street and Broadway, and Il detachment
| of vigilants have been sent there. The
central portion of the city is quiet.
President Coleman says he has three
thousand v;yilants on hand. At IL
o'clock the fire at Stockton and BROAD
way WAS cxtngui,hcd. Small crowds of
hoodlums are moving about, smNslling
Chinese houses, the vigilants following
them. The fire in The lumber yard gains
strength, and the mob is becoming more
dcmonstrativc, attacking the police and
vigilants with stones. Two yigilnnts had
been shot Another alarm comes from
the corner Of Mission and Stewart streets,
a few blocks from the lumber yards and
factories.
lp. m.-Thc crowd has been dispersed
from the Pacific Mail docks, and the fire
is under control and police and vigiants
masters OF the situation a long chain
is stretched from the Pacific Mail docks,
and the captured roughs are manaclcd to
it. The ships in the dock have been
towcd to place of safety. The driver
of horse car has been shot dead. Two
other citizens have been killed, and
great number w0undcd by stones and
clubs. AT present the rioters are roam
ing about in sa;rll squads, closely
watched.
The whole city is patroled by police
aud yigilants. -Four thousand stand of
arms were received from the arsenal Mt
3cnicia by the late boat, also ammun-
ton and thousand rcvolvcrs
CHICAGO THE SCENE OF y cONFLIcr-
| THE MOB ROUTE, AND ORDER RE-
STORED.
CHICAGO, July 26-9 p. IN.
At II n. IN. adviccs from West Twelfth
street stated that the mob are holding a
small detachment Of police in check.
Ono policeman WAS seriously wounded
with stone. The Second Regiment was
called out to assist the police.
| 1t was reported at l o'clock this morn
ing that the police had fight with tic
mob on Ncwburg avenue and fifteen of
tho rioters were hurt. A squad of
mounted veterans will, drawn sabrcs
charged on the Sixteenth street mob, and
wounded ana ten killed outright. Six
m, two boys were killed Mt Halstead
street viaduct. One policeman ia reported
killcd. The mob has dispersed and all
is quiet in that vicinity now.
At 11:iG q. IN. the artillery left their
! quarters for the scene of conflict, which
was Mt the corner OF IInlstead and Six
tecnth streets, and few minutes after
the booming of cannon showed that the
regulars had opened on the mob with
grape and canister. a correspondent Mt
the scene confirms this. The slaughter
Will be terrible. The fact that the Sec
ond Regiment with two guns had left for
the scene is not confirmed by official dis
patches to the secretary of war There
hTo no official details.
The Governor of Illinois this morning
made formal application to the Prcsi-
dent for troops.
The following order was received here
to-day:
Cot. r. G. Dunn, assistant Adjutant- Gen
F, era, Chicago, Illinois:
The President directs that you use
United States troops in case of cmergen-
cy in suppressing the riot ut Chicago
under orders of the Governor of the
State.
+. ID. TowNsEND,
Acknowledgement.
At $40 p. m. press reporter on the
crowd of police and mounted yigilants are
conducting prisoners to the station.
They are crossing Halstead street Via
duct, and many shots are being firti by
the rabble, and serious trouble is antici-
pated before they get across tho viaduct."
The Office of the Metropolitan Tele-
graph Company nearest tho scene was
taken possession of by the mob this fore
noon, which -.ccounts for dilatory and
meagre reports. The next nearest office
was several blocks away, and is managed
by g Lady operator.
II p. m.-Some cutting of telegraph