The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-18
GROWING MONOTOSOUS.
Siege Of the Panhandle Shops Varied by Live
ly Brawls Yesterday Morning.
P. s.-Her Majesty's Corset fitted by an expert

The state of quarantine to which the nom
union workers at the Panhandle chops have
for some time been subjected is beginning
to get monotonous. The vigilance with
which all the entrances to the shops have
been guarded to prevent the entrance of
the union men has kept the non union men
in as effeotually as it has kept the union
men out.
For long time the new men seemed we'll
contented with their Imprisonment in the
shops. but as their hair begins to grow
shaggily down their necks and their boards
begin tn wonder where the razors have all
gone TO. the spirits of the men begin to
the barber shops thereof especially.
The other day ex-ChIef of Police
Travis took one of the men down
to barber shop on Washington street
north of the shops. and stood guard over
him while the barber amputated his hair,
but as the cost of extra police service adds
materially to the price of shave. this does
not occur often. AS time goes on the
workers inside tho shops grow more and
more eager to get ont, and the union men.
who pass the greater part of their time
around the grocery store. near she shops,
on q salary of 81 per week. grow correspond
Ingly anxious TO get In, or get at
the invaders in some sort of physically SUBJ
stantial way. This feeling precipitates
occasional disturbances whenever the op.
portunlty occurs.
The railroad company owns a private
way or road that. leads from the shop
grounds down TO Washilg gtOn street, near
which point is situated the grocery store
most tantaliZiDg and despised of the non
unionists Is 1.-The little Englshman." who,
knowing that the strikers will not at
tack him upon the cOmpany's property.
takes advantage of the statute By
lighting his pipe, holding it between his
teeth with Its bowl high in the air and his
tourist cap drawn over his eyes, parades
this sacred precinct during his hours of
from the grounds down to Washington
street looking defiance into the eyes of the
came out as usual on his cake-walk and
went back. The strikers were furious al
his menacing maneuvers and after a
basty, but heated. consultation agreed to
simply atomize the Importation If il come
back again. but "he never came back"
Yesterday morning little fight occurred
between a striker and one of the men W hu
ventured little beyond the dead-line. in
which one of the strikers fingers was
nearly bitten off, While the biting was
in progress, however. some fellow stepped
mp and. tapping the non -unionIst bitter
gently on the head with piece of plank
caused him TO unhingo his jaw and turn
TO the leeward with a sudden nauseous
sensation.
Shortly after IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing Captain Dawson and a small posse o
policemen were called to the shops.
Somebody had, il seems. induced one o.
the shop men to go over near the saloon OF
Washington street, where be wa.
met by q determined striker, who
planted 8 blow between his eyes
and as he rolled over on the
ground. stopped down and relieved him oi
arevolver in his hip pocket with which ht
had previously made several threats The
non-unionist. whose name is said to be
Davis. got up and ran west on Washington
the commons His revolver is in Captain
Dawson's custody, and hos not as yet beer
called for. No arrest was made. The shor
men came out. but were induced TO return
by the company's detective. Mr.. Rogers