Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-01
POLITICAL RIOTS.
HIGRLR SENSATIONAL REpoers
FROM DENVER, COLORADO.

Evidently Got Up by Some Enthusiastic
Liar for the Republican Party-Anti-Chi-
nese Kiois-sbooting and Clubbing at ST.
Louis Between Policemen end Ne9roes-
Bad News for Young Man Away From
Home-suicide of his Intendsd-Back
Broken by Railway Accident.
DENVER POSSESSED BY MOB.
DENVER, COL. Oct. 31.--Denver has been in
! the hands of mob for eight hours. and there
are now fully fifteen hundred rioters in the
streets The trouble has been growing for
| uays' It was discovered while ago that there
we're Iuiiy eight Thousand illegal names regis
| ,erec In this city, and Immediately afterwards
| the streets were filled with straneers of tbe
WORST character. Ever since the publication of
uarneio Q Chinese letter violent partisaps have
s.ll'ep to make an issGe of the Chinese uues-
| 'ioe and the Democratic press mas besn filled
with articles asserting that as SOON as Garfield
was elected the State would be flooded
with Chinese and all white labor
| driven out. Saturday night the Democrats
nao procession, carrying transparencies with
| inscriptions and cartoons tending to excite an
lmoslty against the Chinese. a considerable
portion became intoxicated and remained ont
| All night. This noon they made an assault on
Chinese houses, tearing down the honses and
| beating and driving out the Chinese. One vas
dragged from Hop Lees place with ropes
| around his neck and his skull was crushed in
With boots and bricks. The police were
called out but were unable to control the mob.
lie nre department was ordered to throw water
on the rioters, but the mob attacked Them and
wounded fireman. Many Cinnamon were
| fesrfully beaten. One was rescued by the
police and taken to the ia;l
which was Immediately surrounded by m ob
| or about l,0OO who hurrahed for Hancock and
| yelled, "Lynoh the leper." The special no.
hce managed to keep back the crowd. Anoth-
er mob remained intact in the lower part of
| the CITY. About dark they were entirely be-
yoDd cent-ol and marched from street to
street, quitting Chinese houses wherever they
| saw them. and assaulting citizens. On Law
renee street, from an isolated tenement, a
| Cblnsman was dragged, his ears cut off and
otherwise terribly mutilated. He was finally
| rescued In dying condition, placed in car.
| rlage and driven towards the city Jail. At Six
teenth street an unsuccessful eff ort was made
/ to drag him from the WAGON
Several are reported killed, but the condition
| OF the streets is such that it Is impossible at
| this hour to get definite report. Many colored
men were knocked down and beaten
| At this hour the rioters are still on the
| streets in full force. Special police have been
sworn In to the number Of thirty. There is q
great deal of incendiarism tonight sud the
| hre department have been called to be ready
| at the slightest warning. Reports OF pistols
| are heard all over town. and the militia will
| be called out. Threats have been freely made
| that the Tribune Office would be sacked. bnt
| though the mob have been bowling across the
street at 1t, no stack has been made as vet
| Oitlzens. irrespective OF party, are intensely
| indignant.
| The tronsparencies carried in the Demo-
| cratic procession Saturday night were devoted
altogether to the Chinese and this, with con-
| stant repetitiOns of the Garfield forgery are
| causes of the mob. There is dangerous night
ahead. The Chinese population cannot exceed
one hundred and fifty ell told, and from the
beginning of this disgraceful riot not single
incident Is reported OF any one OF them having
resisted the onslaught.
1l:30 P. M.-At this time everything is
quiet, the mob having dispersed, but large
police force is patroling the streets, and the
multitude are ready for action at moments
| notice.
cut off is mistake, but several had theis.
queus cut off.
| ALI the saloons are closed, with orders to
| remain SO uRtil after election.
| The rioters gutted every China house in town
| with two or three exceptions. One Chinaman
was hung over his front door and seveIal badly
beaten and wounded with stones and other
| missiles. In nearly every instance the police
men rescued the Cinnamon through the back
door while the mob were forcing the front
| door.
Four or five rioters were slightly wounded,
| one seriously, being shot in the right side.
PISTOLS AND CLUBS IN ST. LOUIS.
| ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 30.-About IL o'clock TO-
| night white man and a negro got into an al
tercation at the Twelfth street Republican
| meeting, and the white man struck the negro
Two policemen interfered and arrested the
white man, and while he was being taken out
| of the crowd a pistol was fred and an old
negro named Brown was shot dead. A num-
Der of negroes belonging to one of the clubs
| IN attendance at the meeting, supposing one
policeman fred the shot ran him into a saloon.
Great excitement prevailed and a number of
shots were fired into the crowd, and five men
| were wounded. The crowd scattered in all
directions, and some assert that a party of
roughs assaulted the negroes, but the truth
OF this cannot be assertained at this writing.
At all events the meeting was broken up and
great excitement existed until large force
of police appeared ON the ground aud restored
| something like order. The real facts of the
case cannot be obtained tonight nor can the
| names of the wounded men be ascertained
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31.-It is now asserted that
the trouble began by brick being thrown in
to crowd of negroes, one of whom was struck.
The negroes then rushed towards the saloon on
the corner of Twelfth and Locust streets, under
belief that the brick was thrown from that
point. On arriving at the saloon they were
confronted by three policemen, who prevent
ed them from entering. They began throwing
rocks at the saloon, breaking it's windows
and shutters, whereupon one policeman dis
charged pistol in the air as a call for help
Promiscuous firing then commenced, during
which an old man named Brown was killed
and a policeman struck on his head by rock
and severely injured. The negroes say Brown
was killed by the policeman who fred the
shot in the air, but this is denied. As far as
hA rtaip cd plxy, LII
and Policeman Shattery and negro wounded.
THE LATEST ACCOUNT.
Sr. LOUIS, Oct. S1.-The exact origin of the
row at the Republican meeting last night is in
doubt, but it does not appear there was any
concerted purpose action to break up or
seriously disturb the meeting. A good many
| negroes were in the procession and at the
| meeting, and they had been hooted at and
otherwise provoked by lot of urruly fellows
| during the march. This was kept up after
| they arrived at the meeting, and some of them
| resented it by using their torches over the
heads of some of their assailants. This led
| to throwing stones and other missiles at the
negroes, and then the fight began. The negroes
still insist that Brown was killed by the police
man, but there is no evidence to prove it. The
| only man killed was Brown, but perhaps q dog
en- were more or less injured by the policemen's
| clubs when they charged the crowd. Jas.
| Simmosu. q negro, had his skull fractured snd
will probably die. Jno. Wegmsu, white
man, was shot in the hand and several others
were pounded and bruised with clubs and
torches. Policeman Shattery, whose upper Jaw
was shattered, is in critical condition.
| SUICIDE, AANsLAUGHrER, ETC.
| CLEVELAND. o., Oct. S1.-A special to the
Leader from Upper Sandusky says: This fore
noon Jacob Pfsifer and family, living near
town, VIZ Mt to church, leaving but one daugh-
ter, young woman, at home. On their re-
turn they found the daughter in the workshop
hanging by the neck dead, her feet resting on
the floor. No cause is assigned for the suicide
| She was shortly to be married to Geo. Hill,