St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-12

Of st. Paul. For several days there have
been mutterings of discomfort among
this little army of little fellows. No
doubt they heard much wild talk
on the part of railroad strikers and
sympathiZerS in relation to the news
papers of this city. and their excitement
was heightened to fever heat when they
learned that their comrades at Mime
apolis had struck. To cap the climax
they had a grievance, a real "sure
enough" grievance, as one of the boys
put it.
The publishers of the Dispatch had
decided to give out free among the
delegates of the Republican convention
number of Tuesday night papers
which contained diagram of the con-
vention hall. This was a dead blow TO
the business of the newsboys, to which
they would not and could not submit.
The already strained spirit broke
through all barriers. For short time
the boys gathered in small groups about
the more prominent corners in the BUSH
ness portion of the city. They were IN
active consultation. Delegates were
sent out to every nook and corner, aud
about ii O'Clock over 300 of the boys
gathered in the neighborhood of the
West hotel. Then there was a mad
rush up Fifth street. All were eager to
get somewhere, and i'll the excitement
the larger boys would run over the
smaller ones. They were there in all
ages. Little tots who could hardly
walk joined in the wild stampede, eager
to be in the procession. The whole
looked like huge swarm of grasshop-
pers invading field.
When passing the building of the
Minnesota type foundry they concluded
to take short cut through an open lot
in order to reach the Dispatch Office.
They hooted and they howled to their
hearts content. The whole neighbor.
hood became aroused, and large crowd
of spectators assembled to see
what was up. Every one of
the boys carried club, a bar
rel staye, broom handle or anything
they could possibly lay their hauds on.
For all hour they contented themselves
with besleging the Dispatch building,
shouting and pounding with their sticks.
Some had tin cans, with which they
made fendish noise. Several police
officers were called to preserve order,
and had difficult task in handling the
kids.
About noon the boys became more
Doisterous. They boarded passing
street cars, and some went so far as TO
throw rocks and sticks at the passen-
gers in the cars of the cable line. At
this juncture Officer Casserly decided
that the time had come to interfere. and.
graphing one of the older lads whom
he detected In the act of throwing a
missile, took him one side and, LAYING
the boy across his lap, gave him sound
spanking. The kid ran away bowling.
and for while matters quieted down.
When The papers noon edition was
out the real trouble comm .nced. A few
of the regular carriers appeared and
received their papers. AS soon as one
OF them had gone little ways the en-
tire horde would run after him shout
Ing 'Scab. scab," Woe to the boy who
fell into their clutches. immediately
his papers were taken away from hif5i.
and torn into fragments and thru WI
into the streets. This was kept IN for
some time. until one boy with little
more grit than tine rest resented this
action. He was standing near the mar.
ket house selling papers when 4 Small,
gang of youthful toughs made an on
slaught upon him and his papers. But
they did not succeed. Quick as fasl
the boys fist shot out aud knocked tn
first one of the gang into the gutter
The rest stopped, turned and ran. The
boy quickly sold out his stock of papers
At ] o'clock the entire crowd BRO
ceeded 10 Labor hall, where they calico
upon the A. K. U. men and told theil
tale Of woe. ALI were decorated will