St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-02
ANARCHY Is UNPOPULAR.
A Red Flag Almost Leads to q
Lynching in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May Lone of the eXcit.
ing incidents of yesterday was wit.
messed by about 500 persons who had
assembled in front of the headquarters
of Fire Engine Company No. II at s
West Lake street. Capt. E. Anderson
and dozen members of the company
were at work decorating the front Of
the building. Suddenly man thrust
his head from window of the fourth
story of the building east OF the engine
house. and after noting the decoration
announced himself as an arar-
chist. He reviled the stars and
stripes and the decorators in the
most insulting manner. Little atten-
ton was paid to the man, however,
until he fiOated the red flag of anarchy
from the window, announcing it as ''My
tlag-my cOlOrS." Then the crowd be-
came excited and angry, and loud calls
were heard. Tear down that rag or
you will be sorry you ever tlOated it,'
was cried to him from 100 thrOats. See
ing that the crowd was in a bad humor,
and that several men had offered to
climb up the fire escape on the front of
the building and tear the rag down. the
man secured an AK, and taking posi-
tiOn in the window. declared he would
kill any man who touched his flag"
The crowd was almoet frenzied, and
constantly grew larger. Half dozen
men exhibited reyolverS and offered to
drive the wretch from his position
in the window long enough to
tear the anarchist colors down.
While the debate was in progress
as to the best thing to be done.
Capt. Anderson appeared on the roof OF
the building with a rope in his hand, to
the end of which was attached an iron
hAn1- Ia lAxrnral fhn hook ,,nfil ifi
came beneath the staff of the red flag,
and then. with a sudden jerk upward.
disloged the unsghtly banner. 1t fell
to the sidewalk, and a moment later had
been torn into hundred fragments. A
moment later the man emerged from
the stairway and came out upon the
sidewalk. He was seized by dozen
men, and some one cried out, Get a
rope; let's hang the anarchist dog"
Several men rushed into the engine
house ane returned with rope. In the
meantime the man had been knocked
down or tripped up nalf dozen times,
under his left eye. About the time the
men returned with the rope police
officer, who had been sent from the
DesplaineS street station to see
what the trouble was, appeared on the
scene and advised the crowd to deSist.
The man whose name is NJ. ". DOty
was finally released and allowed to go
up stairs. Doty gives different ver-
sion of the affair from that published.
He says that he is not an anarchist;
that, on the contrary. he is an American
citizen, and patriotic one. Seeing that
his neighbOrs were decorating, he got
out red umbrella. which did duty last
fall in Harrison and Morton parades,
and yyifhOut tbOurhf fbof ~ waS tho
chosen color of the anarchistic clans.
swung it from his window as a piece Of
patriotic decoration. When the crowd
gathered and began to abuse him and
call him an anarchist, he ''got his dam
der up" and refused to take the obnOX-
iOus bit of color in. That was how it
came about that, when he cOOlly
marched down into the angry crowd for
the purpose of explaining matters, they
would not listen to HIM, and came nea1
stringing him up.