Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
o IN CLEVELAND.

President Brown Badly B~eaten-The
street-Car Troubles In Chicago Adjusted
in ~ Manner Satisfactory to All.
CLEVELAND, O., July Son Monday
the striking r%olling-mill mob, having been
snubbed by President Chisholm, of the
Cleveland rolling-mill, and advised by the
Mayor to be orderly, went home to the
Eighteenth Ward and held another mass
meeting. 1t rained too hard for active
operations, although a large meeting
was held and a perfect patrol sys-
TEN was organized and is now being
carried out by the strikers with
military procession to keep the black sheep
from entering the mills. Yesterday mora-
ing a crowd of yelling Poles with drawn
knives wa seen pursuing n mar on Broad
way, near the mills. He Outran them,
however. Thomas Bradley, Waterman in
one of the idle mills, was assaulted By the
mob, beaten and taken home. The Polish
strikers boast that they come of a nation Of
born warriors, and that if the militia is
| called out to cOerce them there will be
blOOdshed.
An immense gathering of the strikers
took place yesterday morning at nine
O'Clock, and the suggestion that the nail
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works should be forced to shut down was
greeted with cheers of approval. Many Of
the more conservative advised against
such a course, but the mob howled them
down. Fayette Brown, President of
the Union screw works, heard that
the mob was coming and went to
police headquarters to ask for protection,
1t was not granted, and he angrily de-
nounced Mayor Gardner as a coward for
not protecting the workmen of the city
from the mob. The strikers marched to
the natl works at the corner of Case ave-
nue. and King street, Here about three
many of them being girls and boys. The
mob entered the building, and Che Lead
ers told the Superintendent they would al
low them five minutes to stop the engine
and ten minutes for all the employees to
leave the buildings. Their demands were
promptly complied with, and in less than
the time allowed the buildings were de-
serted and the fires drawn from beneath the
boilers.
The strikers, elated by success, then
made their way back to the Union screw
works, arriving there just after the noon
hour. They found the establishment pre-
pared to receive them. The Office was
closed and every door in the buildings was
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The strikers surrounded the buildings, and
held a conference. Inside the works were
about three hundred employees, of whom
one hundred and seventy-tive were boys
and girls. The mob began yelling and
hooting around the building, while the
women and boys inside leaned out of the
windows and called for help to their fright
ened relatives, gathered at a respectful dis
lance from the mob. Many Of the girls
tainted and som jumped from the lower
windows and tried to escape by the rear
gates. The mob was made up Of
young and hot-headed Poles, who acted as
leaders, and older Bohemians and Poles
who followed them like sheep. After a
consultation the mob broke down the fence
about the works, and with ilmprovised bat
tering rams beat down the factory doors.
Then, with wild shouts, they burst into the
building.
President Fayette Brown is an old man,
but of strong physique, and single-handcd
he held his W against the mob until felled
with blows ,1ained upon his breast and
shoulders. He was borne out by friends ut
the risk of their lives, and sent to his homo
In a carriage. The shock has Frustrated
him. The mob finally overrum the build
ing, and gave the $50 employees ten min
uses to get out. One employee having failed
to put out his fires quickly enough, was
brutality beaten. AS soon as the employees
were all out of the building the mob dis
banded. Thus 200 employees in the shovel
works, $50 in the nail works and $50 in the
Union steel screw works, in all OF which
the ChiShOlmS are interested, are out OF
work.
The blood of the owners of the various
mills is now up. They are holding meet
ings and demanding that the authorities
call out the militia and police to protect the
mill owners and their employees. The mob,
the daily newspapers and demanded tina!
they should espouse the cause of the strik.
erS.
The various militia companies have dc
tailed men to guard the armory to prevent
the strikers from carrying out threats to
capture the 260 rifles, four field pieces and
10000 rounds of ammunition stored there.
The Superintendent of Police has detailed.
$50 regular police, and will call out
as many special policemen as may
be needed to. quell the mob. Should
military assistance be needed the fire
bells will toll. The Governor has
10Th regiments Ohio National Guards under
order to hurry to Cleveland in case the
police and local militia are unable to hold
the mob at bay. Last night Contractor
Churchill. who is sinking a gas-well in the
%rolling-mill yards, saw the leaders of the
strike and begged for permission to finish
his work, as his employees were poor men
in want. The mob not only refused his
request, but warned him to clear out and
threatened him with violence.
PEACE IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 8.-After a lengthy cor
ference between President j. Russell Jones,
of the West Division Railway, and repre-
fentatives of the striking employees, yoster-
day, an amicable adjustment of the re-
cent difficulties was effected, by virtale
Of which the conductors and drivers
returned to work at schedule time
this morning. The charges against the
sixteen men, whose discharge caused the
strike, are to be investigated at once by
President jones, and, it not sustained, the
men will be reinstated. At a meeting of
the strikers last evening this arrangement
was ratified. During yesterday cars
were run under police protec-
ton at irregular intervals Oh four Of
the company's lines without being mo-
Tested. Legal papers have been prepared
and suit will be entered in the Superior
Court against the West Division Railway
Company, to obtain a decision regarding
the right of occupancy of Randolph street