The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-20
Children Cry for
Pitchers CaSto1la.
Lively Times at lemont /.

Lively s"bSS a. SCihSbts
LEMoNT, ILL.,, June, 12,-It wa
only because SIX negroes could run
faster than 600 white men that there
was no blood shed IN the streets OF
Lemont Sunday. Sunday afternoon
six of the colOred workmen of the
Lockers camp. where the fight
ing took place Friday night,
came strolling into town. The streets
were filled with strikers who were quiet
and orderly until somebody said ''see
the niggers." In one second a
crowd of men rushed for the
negroes, who were fully as prompt III
rushing away. The crowd of strik-
ers soon numbered into the hundred.
and a bowling bloodthirsty mob chas-
ed the negroes through the streets.
Three of them managed to escape t.
the camp of the second infantry,
where they were safe, but the other
three were caught. A wild mob sur
rounded them. and cries of kill
,nem," and throw them into the can
all, met with decided approval. May
or Mccarthy and several police off,
Ger, got the men away from the
crowd, but not before they had been
badly beaten and nearly stripped of
their clothing. Two OF them were
locked up for earring carrying weap-
ons, and the third was escorted out of
the town and advised not to return
Gov. Altgeld met several of the
contractors at the Joliet penitentiary
Sunday and after listening to their
side of the case wrote out an order
directing the troops to return home.
The order was given to AdjGtant
General Orendorff with instructions to
arrange before issuing it a basis o.
agreement between the contractors
and strikers.
Gen. Orendorff was present at big
meeting Sunday afternoon between
several Of the leading strikers and the
Contractors, but no agreement could
be reached. the men demanding con-
cessiOns which the contractors posi-
lively refused to grant. The bosses
claimed that they would be able to
resume work if their men were pro-
tected. 1t was agreed that they
would make an attempt to start up
Tuesday, and the order to the troops
was not published.
The infantry is now stationed at
different places for ten miles along the
canal, and will remain as long as
there is likelihood of trouble.
THE GOVERNORS POSITION.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Ex-Governor
Altgeld returned this afternoon from
LemOnt, where he went to personally
acquaint himself with the facts regard
ing last Fridays riot. The Governor
states authoritatively that the an
nouncement in a Chicago paper that
the troops would be Withdrawn forth
with is not true. He says he has
reached no definite conclusion regard
ing the matter, but that for the pres
ent the troops will remain in camp
where they are. He thinks their pre-
mature withdrawal might be attended
with grave and unforeseen results.
The governor says, with considerable
emphasis, that had the sheriffs of Will,
Dupage and Cook counties done their
whole duty there would have been no
need Of calling out the troops. The
sheriff of Will county, he asserts, was
the only officer who made any effort
to enforce the law, and he did not do
as we'll as he might. The situation is
now such, however, that the governor
does not feel warranted in calling off
the troops for the present, not at least
until he has more fully considered the
matter, and the soldiers might as we'll
settle down tor couple OF weeks of
service.