Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-21
ALL QUIET AT THE YARDS.
CHICAGO PORK PACKERS DOING BUT
LITTLE WORK AS YET.

Begley, the Victim of the Pinkerton Men.
Dead-Comment on the Affair = The
Knights of Labor at Richmond Finish |
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alton at Minneapolis.
CHICAGO, Oct IA goodly number OF
old hands were put to work at Armour's and
the other packing-houses Wednesday morn
ing, but vast majority of the striking
butchers are still out peaceably awaiting the
receipts of sufficient stock to start up the
houses with full forces There were fully
500 more men at work in Armour's houses
than Tuesday, and hog killing was going on
almost as though nothing had happened
Fowlers house was also running a good
force.
The 200 coopers about the packing houses
refused to resume work Wednesday morning
on a ten-hour basis. They went out when
the butchers went and were included in the
order to 60 to work again, but Wednesday
morning announced their determination to
stay out
II was decided to send in one-half of the
Pinkerton men, of whom 800 remained, about
noon. They were dispatched to the city on
Lake Shore train. Another 100 of the I'M
ported workmen were to be sent back to the
city after the houses closed Wednesday even
ing There will be still some left after this
exodus, but ii is believed that before next
Monday there will not I've non union man
left in the houses.
Terrence Begley, the man who was shot by
Pinkerton men, died late Tuesday night. He
made an ante-mortem statement before Jus
tice Frank Becker and two police officers. In
| this he says he saw no shooting, but heard
several shots as the train went by, and found
that he was wounded The shots were fired
as tine rear end of the train passed the east
side of Halsted street; as it passed this cross
ing cries of ''scabs" were heard from the
| crowd. Deceased made no cutlery or allusion
to the Pinkerton men and had nothing what
| ever to do with the crowd at the crossing
but attended strictly to his own business
Michael Cudahy said regarding the shoot
ing: at was a very unfortunate affair. |
had hoped and believed that we should get
through without bloodshed The guards, ac-
cording to general testimony, were reckless,
and should be held strictly responsible" Capt
Markey, of the Town of Lake police, said:
81 have made careful investigation Of this
row, and / am satisfied that the shooting was
| done del iberately and without any provoca-
ton. mean that the CT ovid was not hostile
not throwing stones or anything Of that
sort-hence the Pinkerton men were in no
danger whatever The fact is, these fellows
constitute an irresponsible mob, who have no
more right to have guns than an Anarchist
has to have a lighted bomb. They get ex-
| cited at the smallest demonstration on the
part Of the opposing crowd, because they be
leve every crowd of workingmen will resort
to extreme measures to in ture them, and they
do not wait to be attacked, but generally,
through cowardice and fear, fire the first
shot. So it was Tuesday, and so it was two
years ago, when lot of them fired into a
crowd at McCOrmick's. It's an outrage that
such men should be given authority to bear
arms"