Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-09
THE CINCINNATI RIOT.
Further Particulars About the Popular
Uprising.


CINCINNATI, April 1.-The CONNER
cial Gazette. in an editorial o.day upor
the situation, speaks in the stronges
possible terms in condemnation of Sher
iff Hawkins for calling on the militia
and takes an account o
the salvage from the three days
of terror. The result it declares, to bt
the saving of jail full of murderers. L
adds: "The reign of law and order is
restored in Cincinnati, that law an6
order which makes murder the safest
trade, and which has made impotent the
administration of law against crimes OF
atrocity."
Capt. Foellger, who commanded the
detachment of militia which fired the
first shots, has published card deny
ing the statement that he ordered his
men to fire. He says: "He (Sherif
Hawkins) gave the order in these words
Give it to 'em, boys! frep and in the
excitement I could not stop them:
SO I cried 'for Christ's sake, boys,
fire highp My men would never
have fred had it not been that four OF
them were wounded with stones and
shots from the crowd, and they shot on
the sheriff's order. [ have been in the
war. ] would rather face an enemy than
such crowd of citizens, with whom /
have fellow feeling, and [ would not
rashly give an order such as has been
said gave.
An appeal issued by the Municipal
Reform Association embraces the fol-
lowing ticket:
Judge of the superior court, Lawrence
Maxwell; member of the board of pub
lie works, Jacob Lowrey; clerk of the
police court, Emil Hoffman; director of
the infrmary, S. FL. Frank; wharfmas,
ter, John Baker; school board, J. P.
Carbery, Chris Won Seggert, VIM. FL.
Anderson and Dudley W. Rhodes;
board of aldermen, Nicholas Wolff, A.
Howard Hinkle, j. G. F. Grote, and
Samuel Bailey, Jr. These are men
from both parties.
CINCINNATI. Aprils2. = While Main
Street and North and South Court
Streets are open to public travel, the
barbados in front of the jail and on
Sycamore Street are still in position.
These cause comparatively little inter-
ruption to business and they make it
impossible for q crowd to press closely
on the jail. While all signs are hopeful
and the belief is general that no further
violence is probable, there is some ap-
prehension among those charged with
the preservation of order.
At the burial yesterday of Adolph
Meinking, one of the killed Saturday
night, his father tainted at the grave.
He was carried home in an unconscious
condition and died before morning.
The executive committee of fifteen
hold meetings with closed doors be-
cause their duties are advisory, and they
regard it wise to keep the information
and plans from the general public. At
the meeting to-day the only business
transacted proper for the public to know
was the adoption of resolution advising
against holding public meetings in the
city where the riot and its incidents
would be discussed.
CINCINNATI, April 3.-Matters con-
tinue quiet everywhere in the city.
Portions of the barricades in Sycamore
Street, near the jail, remain as a rallymg
point In case of any further attack. The
lower portion of the courthouse will
soon be protected by boards to keep out
the crowds. The militia on duty, the
Seventeenth Regiment, patrols the side
walks all around the court house an6
Jail and keep everybody from approach
ing nearer than the curbstone. Though
almost every building In the vicinity is
marked by bullet holes, which ordinari-
| ly would draw crowds, the sight-seers
are comparatively few
COLUMBUS, O., April 3.-Gov. Hoadly
in a message to the general assembly
recommends provision by law for the
offer of adequate rewards for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer of Capt.
John j. Desmond, Company B., First
regiment, o. n. g., killed on the even
ing of March %, in Cincinnati, while in
the discharge of his duty in the service
of the state. He also recommends the
propriety of making provisions for the
relief of Desmond's aged mother from
the pecuniary loss entailed by the death
of her son, he being her support.
A bill was passed by the Senate to
allow all the militia men injured
or Frustrated by sickness while in the
service of the state at Cincinnati 100
days time at $2a day. A bill was intro
duced In the Senate providing that clti.
zens may recover from the state dam.
ages for the destruction of property By
riotous assemblages. The bill looks tx
making good the losses sustained by the
citizens of Cincinnati.
A man wounded in the riot and takel
to the hospital, his name not being
known, died yesterday. Just befor
death he rallied sufficiently to say hB
name was William White. This makes
forty-nine deaths. Of the thirty
eight burial permits of the victims of tb
late riot, eleven of the killed were bon
in Germany; eighteen were American,
mostly of German parents; one of Ir'-
land, and one of Wales. There wen
1873 persons wounded.