The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-15
AFTER THE BATTLE.

CHICAGO, May 6.--The mayor was in CON
sultation all yesterday morning with the of
icers of the city law department and prom
inent citizens and the various city officers,
preparing 10 take action In regard to tho
murderous occurrences of Tuesday night
The militia were held in their armories
ready to turn out at a moments notice. Be-
tween 800 and 400 police have been armed
with Springfield rifles, and every man on
the force has been given two 44-calibre re.
volvers.
Inspector Bonfeld raided Seph's Hail.
the socialists rendezvous, and found lot
of muskets and red flags, and German books
expounding sociallstlc doctrines.
Nearly $4,000 have already been sub
scribed on Change for the families OF the
wounded and dead officers.
1t has finally been decided by the mayor
to issue a proclamation calling on all per.
sons to keep off the streets after dark, and
warning people not to gather in crowds on
streets or in vacant lots.
street yesterday afternoon. This is a n0tO-
riOus resort for Socialists. One Of the
rooms was occupied by the freight handlers
The police cleared the place.
The police raided the establishment kept
by c. p. Bessel, No. Is South Clark street.
yesterday afternoon, carrying away ninety
guns and revolvers. 1t was declared that
Bessel had been supplying the Socialists
with guns.
The dynamite found in the Arbeiter Zeit
una Office was taken to the lake front and
exploded. The effect was terrible. A
piece about the size OF hens egg was
placed in a coupling link and exploded the
heavy piece into fine bits.
Twenty-Five printers engaged in the
Arbeiter Zeitung office were arrested yes
terday afternoon, and that paper was NOS
printed to-day.
About three o'clock yesterday afternoon
Detectives Bonfield and Wiley made another
search of the Arbeiter ZeitlLng premises.
They were rewarded by the discovery OF Q
great lot Of ammunition used for Winches-
ter rifles, shOtguns and revOlvers, several
| fuses for bombs, dirk knife and huge
Colts revolver. The stuff was found un-
der an old sink.
CHICAGO, May 5.-A horrible outcome Of
the excitement resulting from Tuesday
nights rioting, occurred last evening shortly
after six o'clock. Two officers had been
stationed on the Desplaines street viaduct,
near the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
freight yards, to prevent crowds gathering
and idlers from guyng the men at work in
| place of the striking freight handlers The
officers noticed two particularly suspicious
looking individuals slowly cross the viaduct
and enter saloon on Despanes street
near Carroll avenue. Officer Michael Mad
den, of the Desplaines street sta
ton, who was somewhat closer to
the saloon than the other two
policemen, was given signal
TO keep his eyes on the ugly pair. At this
moment revolver was thrust from the
saloon door by one Of the men and a shot
fired into the street in the direction of the
officers. Madden at once stepped briskly to
the saloon door and grappled with the man
who held the revolver, while the two other
officers hurried to his aid. In the scuffle the
man with the revolver pressed It's muzzle to
Madden's breast and fired. Madden reeled,
but, steadylng himself, instantly brought his
own revolver into proximity with his
assaiant's head and pulled the trigger.
Madden and his prisoner, locked In each
others arms rolled to the floor just as Of
ficers DAILY and Hartnett running reached
the saloon. The companion of Madden's
assallant had vanished. Both Madden and
his prisoner we're taken to the county hos
ptal. The doctors say the man was some
what under the influence of liquor and the
result of his injury can not yet be told. A
paper found on his person shows that his
name is John LOeffelhardt, noted anarch-
list of EnglewoOd, railroad station just
south of the city. Officer Madden's wound
Is mortal.
CHICAGO, May 6.-Mob violence again
asserted itself in the southwestern portion
of the city yesterday morning. About nine
o'clock groups of men, women and children
began gathering at the corner Of Eighteenth
street and Center avenue. These groups
soon aggregated 5000 persons. On one OF
the corners Is the drug store OF Samuel
ROsenfeldt II became apparent that the
owner Of the store was the object against
whom the crowd were bent OH venting theiE
spite. Men surged toward the building
with threats and violent language.
"Tear down the place." they yelled.
"Kill ROsenfeldt; he's q police spy"
came from the Threats of all.
The fury of the mob was directed against
the druggist because he had a telephone In
his store, and they had an idea that he was
giving tips to the police. Some police Of
ticers in the vicinity teIephoned to the Hin
man street station, and wagon load Of
police was soon on the scene, and, taking
ROsenfeldt and his family into the wagon
they conveyed them to the station, leaving
guard in the vicinity.
Shortly after noon the police made an
other raid on the Office of the Arbeitel
ZeitlLnQ and arrested a man who, upon be
ing searched, produced large revolver anC
a dirk knife. He was placed under arrest
In the Office were discovered several bOxe'
of dynamite, with a number of red flag
and incendiary banners. These were al
; seized.
A mob Of from six to eight thousand per
: sons reasSemOed near the corner ct Eight
eenth street and Center avenue at noon anC
d raded RosenfeIdts store, carrying Otfsverl
thing portable in the store. Then the!
raided a liquor store in the near vicinit!
Il kant nv w EiSkOpf carving away O