The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-07-11
RlOTING STRIKERS
New York cloakmakers' Mob
Their Successors.

They Are Rendered Desperate by
the Cries of Their Wives ana
Children for Bread.
New YORK, July 4.-The striking
cloakmakers, rendered desperate by the
cries of wives and children for bread,
assembled on Broadway this morning
and assaulted a number of men who had
taken their places. There are many
pitiful stories Of want and despair
ca used by the strike, and the violent
temper OF the striking mob, made up OF
men who are usually peaceful citizens,
only goes to show that they aro in des.
perate straits. Not q few received no.
tices to leave their homes, and were
turned ont into the streets like sheep.
Last night was cold and cheerless and
the rain WAS coming down intermit.
tently.
Last night on Orchard, Eldridge and
Forsyth streets there were whole fami.
lies who were homeless and hungry.
They had no place to go and nothing to
eat. This morning in the drizzling
rain, fathers, sons and brothers, NUN.
boring over 200 who had been up all
night, went over to their old work
shops with a desperate resolve. They
massed in front OF Meyer Jonasson Il
Co.'S place and the Mercantile Cloak
company, two of the largest establish.
pents in the city. Joseph Leyburger,
d buyer in the employ of Meyer Jonas.
son, came briskly down the street.
When the strikers saw him they made
rush at him and Leyburger was badly
beaten before he managed oescape from
the mob.
The success of the attack upon the
first victim seemed to turn the usually
peaceful men into q body of rioters.
They ran down to the Jonasson store.
The front doors being open, few OF
the bolder ones entered and seized an
office boy, Charlie Buttner, and in a
second he was receiving the same kind
OF blows which fell upon Ley yburger.
VIM. Wasner, an operator, Joseph Rodel-
heimer. a packer, and Bookkeeper
Simms were the next to receive similar
treatment as accorded the other two
Two Italians we're then attacked, but
they drew weapons and the strikers
fed.
The mob next gathered around a
! cloakmaker named Kunze. He did not
get away so easily as the other men.
When tho police, who had been notified,
came running down tho street the
strikers scattered, but they left kunze
on the sidewalk, bleeding from half q
dozen severe cuts in his head. They
must have klcked him, as his injuries
were serious.
All this time another detachment of
strikers had been busy two blocks below.
/ They were the men who had been in the
employ of the Mercantile Cloak com
pany and they gathered there just as
! they had in front of Meyer, Jonasson &
/ Co. S and waited for scab workman to
come along. They were rewarded just
\ before O'Clock, when they surrounded
two men, struck them half dozen
/ times, and then chased them up stairs.
| The mob was then scattered by the po-
| lice.
While all this was going on, an angry
mob OF striking cloakmakers collected
at the corner Of Irvington and Eldridge
streets, determined to obtain work or
prevent the bosses from employing non
union workers Samuel Nillett, a Pole,
has about a score of men making cloaks
for him. He did not like the looks OF
the strikers. Accordingly he locked
and barred his door. About 1,:3O. when
tho crowd was the largest, Villes and
his employees were startled by a crash.
! The strikers had broken open the door,
and mob of about thirty, led by Abra-
ham Rosenburg, rushed in upon them.
They demanded that all hands stop
work, and, meeting with no success,
began to threaten and intimidate
Nillet and his workmen. The strikers
threw out the windows plush cloaks
being made. Pandcmonium reigned,
and the streets in that vicinity were
filled with surging mass of people.
Yillet became terrorized and, after re-
ceiying an ugly cash across the right
eye with knife, whipped out re
volver and fired two shots. One bullet
lodged in the back of Abraham Rosen
burg, and with Shrek he staggered
out on the street.
At this moment the police arrived
They captured Villet and eightcel
other persons and carried them off tt
Jail. Rosenburg was removed to hos
pital, where he lies in a precarious con
dition.
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An Athletic Contest.
CHICAGO, July 4.-Hundreds of ath
letes from tho middle and western
states are en- route this morning
to tho grounds of the Wander