The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
RIOTOuS STRIKERS.

Bloodshed in Pennsylvania - Nom Union
Nj ners and the Police Attacked at Shen-
andoah Skirmish Between Coiored
Iron-Workers and strikers at Pittsburgh
Several Persons Badly Hurt in Both
Instances - Troops Fire Into Body Of
Rioters in SpaiG--Fifteen Killed and Sew
eral Wounded.
sANGUINARY sKIRMIsHES
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Feb 6-At the Kelley
Run colliery Saturday evening. when the
non-union miners were returning home
after finishing work for the day, they were
accompanied by the police. They were
met by crowd of exasperaued Polish and
Hungarian strikers armed with clubs and
stones The latter made an onslaught on
the non-union men and officers and drove
them back. The officers concluded
not to shoot down the Poles in
cold blood, and retreated a short
distance, warning the excited men to keep
back. Several shots were exchanged, how
ever, on both sides, and just when mur-
derous fusilade was about to be commenced
the citizens appeared as messengers OF
peace, mingled among the mob, and finally
succeeded in keeping them off, dispensing
them and sending them back to their shan
was wounded, Officer Whitman, of Pot sville.
The Knights of Labor have decided to Sc
cure speakers in the Polish and Hungarian
languages to make q strong personal appeal
to the riotous foreigners to desst in their
murderous work. The Knights of Labor
offered their services to protect the town.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 6-The Solar iron
works of Clarke & Co. have been idle for
fN,ro 70 ha%,x
the company and its employees. On Satur-
day the mill was filled with negro work
men, the furnaces lighted and the ma
chinery set in motion. At the conclusion
OF the days work the negroes, eighty in
number started home, escorted by the po-
lice. Trey were followed by crowd of
about 800 men and boys. A short dis
lance away from the mill one of
a crowd of boys threw brick, which
hit policeman. Nearly all the negroes
at once drew revolvers and fired at the
boys. A policeman also fired one shot and
the boys scattered in ali directions Joseph
Kenny, aged II, was found unconscious in
the street He was shot in the face. Two
other boys are said to have been wounded
and spirited away by their companions No
arrests were made.
MADRID, Feb. GA rot occurred at
Huelva Saturday and in conflict be-
tween the mob and troops ten civilians
were killed and FIVE others so badly wound
ed that they have since died Two OF the
soldiers We're also wounded. - +
The Rio Tnto miners, who are ON strike,
Joined the peasants living in the vicinity in
protesting against open-air calcinations
The civil Governor of Huelva, accompanied
by two companies of troops and some
civil guards, arrived at the scene on
Saturday and found the streets occu-
pied by a threatening mob, number
ing about $4,000 The Governor tried
to restore order, but the crowd
drowned his voice with shouts, and fired
pistols and threw dynamite cartridges at
the soldiers The troops were then ordered
to fire, and after hard struggle succeeded
in dispensing the rioters. The town and
surrounding villages are now occupied by
1000 soldiers and civil guards.
Magistrates sent to investigate the affair
found arms and dynamite secreted in a
number of houses. Socialist agents were
also discovered The strike was caused by
an English company reducing. salaries be-
cause the density of the smoke arising from
exclamation stopped work for two or three
hours daily. The company, on advise, has
resolved to pay the old wages.