Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-07
Comparative Quiet Prevails in
Chicago and Milwaukee.
The Police in the Former City Hunt
ing up the Anarchists Nests.
Three of the Wounded Police Dead-Hon.
est Workingmen Denounce the
Anarchists and Socialists.

CHIcAc, day s.
In Chicago, this morning, ther as appar
ent greater feeling of confid ce in tn,
ability of the authorities to pre- e peace
Inc outlook continues threatening ,,certair
quarters ana the police expect that IF lay
be called upon to disperse gatherings IA. er
tain portions Of the city but the arres, OF
the Anarchist leaders yesterday, has insured
feeling that the element will no lonpe,
prove SO troublesome. The police now be-
lleve that all the leading instigators of the
recent troubles have been Gagged with posi-
bly, one exception.
The executive committee of the Furniture
manufacturers Association has made al
necessary arrangements to secure the arres
OF Stahlknech, the Socialist agitator who i.
at the head of the Furniture Workers Union
and he will be prosecuted to the fullest ex
tent for conspiracy and other violations O.
Federal, State and municipal statutes.
The collecting of evidence against the con.
spirators is proceeding rapidly. The State.
attorney says:
''We shall push the prosecution of the men
who instigated the riot and helped carry out
tie murder, as far as the law allows US to-"
Officers Barrett, Flaven, Miller, and Jacob
Hansen. who were injured Tuesday night
are beyond the hope of recovery. and the two
former are sinking rapidly. The remainder
of the wounded men are resting easily and
the wounded citizens, is in dying condition.
An attempt was made this morning to start
an incendiary fire in lumber yard The
police are very active against Socialists.
1t is thought that the man who threw the
bomb was a revolutionary agent from the
East. Several persons claim that they saw
him and can identify him The police are
searching diligently.
The manufacturers of parlor furniture
have resolved to recognize no labor union.
1t is probable that the employees of Roths
child's Sons will return to work.
A mob surrounded the Deering harvester
works this morning, and hooted what few
cided to grant the S-hour dav and advance
wages 10 per cent. The men will return tt
work tomorrow.
The executive committee of the Trade,
and Labor Assembly, and the master work.
man of District Assembly No. "a, of the
knights of Labor, have issued the following
circular:
Fellow Citizens,-T tragic events of the
last few hours, and the to be deplored sacri
fee of human life connected Herewith, -
legitimate results of the teachings of reck
less, law-detylng men-together with the ex.
cited condition of public feeling, demand
that the position of the organized associa
tions of this city represented in the Trade.
and Labor Assembly and District Assembi,
No. "a, should be clearly and officially de
fined the means employed to secure recogni
ton of their demands stated. and the fact,
spread broadcast. that they have neither
sympathy nor affitiation with any class o
men who set law and order at defiance
From the inception of the 8-hour movemen
to the present time, they have spoken will
no uncertain sound. They have consistent,
and persisteptly deprecated a resort to vio
lence, and that course they mean to pursue t
the end. Their reliance is, and has beer
based on the justice of their cause, the pow
er of organization, and the sympathy of tn,
public, whose sympathy, when the facts ar,
known, is seldom misplaced. But while the,
thus unhesitatingy condemn the action o.
all law breakers as unwise and unnecessary
thev take this occasion to announce that the,
are none the less determined to secure tn,
recognition and adoption of the S-hour sys
TEN by any and all lawful means within thei
power. and intend ''to fight it out on tha
-, all In
ton they earnestly request all saloon keeper
to refuse to sell llQuor to men under its inf1u
ence, or to those known to be addicted to il
use. By so doing they will not only show
their sympathy with the movement, but con
tribute their quota to securing quiet and wei
fare to the city. They also request that al
members of this organization refrain from
participating in public professions and opel
air demonstrations, and that, even at thei
Union meetings, they avoid the use of al
| boisterous and infammatory language.
The following resolution was adopted b,
the switchmen of Chicago at a meeting las
night
Resolved. That we denounce the action o
the mob which took place on Old Haymarke
Square Tuesday evening, May 4, as being al
outrage TO the public at large, An irredeema
BILE injustice to the organizations and work
ing people of the city of Chicago, and an in
sufierable insult to the liberty of all, particu
larry to the stars and stripes under which VI
now live and as citizens hope to continue t.
live
As an illustration of the character of SOM
of the alien Socialists of Chicago, and the
ideas of freedom, the Ceicago News tbi
morning prints the following:
A reporter who speaks the Bohemian Ian
euage, mingled yesterday with crowd tina
was encouraging the boys to break the win
dows of Rosenfeldt's drug store. He engage
one of the men in conversation. The mai
said he could not understand why it was tha
men could not do as they think best He ha'
cone to this country because of an agent VIII
had told him to emigrate, promising him tina
he would come to a free country. He hac
come here with the idea that this country wa
a free one in which man could do what h
pleased Now he found that the police il
this country were just as bad as those in Eu
rope, and protected the property of the rich
which the workingmen wanted to destroy
because they wanted to compel the rich Il
become their equals. Therefore he hate'
the American police As much as he did th
| officers in Europe, and thought it just to Kill