Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-28
ARREST THE RIOTERS
FEDERAL MARSHALS At MOUNT
OLIVE TAKE FORTY.
seventh Regiment Fills striksrs With Fear
and They Onsr No Resistance to Omcers
Guilty Ones Being Apprehended Wher-
ever Found.


Among the coal-mining districts
which refused to abide by the Colum-
bus agreement was Mount Olive, Ill.
Strikers there interfered with the
running Of coal trains on a road which
Is in the hands of q receiver, and
threatened other lawlessness. Deputy
United States marshals from Chicago
went down to enforce order, but were
routed Saturday in pitched battle.
Governor Altgeld then ordere1 out the
Seventh Regiment, /. N. G., and the
troops reached the scene Monday
morning. Then the marshals revenged
themselves on the strikers. Forty ar
rests were made, and the troops took
charge Of the prisoners. 1t is expect
ed that fully as many more will be ap-
pretended. Almost without exception
the miners arrested are non English
speaking Slavs, Huns, Italians and
Germans. The miners were fright
ene1 even before the arrival of the
boys in blue. In the morning large
ly attended meeting had been held and
q telegram had been sent to Governor
Altgeld asking him to have the troops
called home and agreeing to surrender
all the prisoners that had been taken
from United States Marshal Br. nton
and his deputies Saturday night.
Those who were foremost in the. as
sault upon the marshals were now in
mo t abject fear of the troops. They
knew enough to be aware of the fact that
In interfering with government off,
cial they had committed grave offense.
Deputy Sheriff Henry Hitler has State
warrants for more than one hundred
additional strikers. He has a large
force Of deputy sheriffs with him, and
he will prosecute the search until he
Is satisfied that every man in Mount
Olive who intimidated train crews or
interfered with traffic in any way has
been arrested. 1t Is feared that many
Of the guilty will secretly leave the
city.
After the troops arrived and pitched
camp in the yard of the Zion Evangel-
ist Church, the real work began. Mar
shall Brinton had United States war
rants for the fur men whom he and
his deputies had under arrest for a
short time on Saturday. He also had
an order from Judge w. o. Allen, o.
the United States District Court at
Springfield, to arrest everybody who
could be identified as having aided in
the rescue II the four prisoners on
Saturday evening.
If you want to make some arrests,
said Colonel Colby, Il have some men
ready to take care of them. This was
addressed to Marshal Brinton and Act
ing Sheriff Hitler. BY this time the
old-fashioned board fence around the
churchyard bore wall OF humaeity.
The deputy marshals and deputy sher-
ifs had been carefully watching the
faces OF the men along the fence.
Among them was an old man with a
sneer on his face, and in broken Ger
man he was mocking the commands OF
the officers of the guard. Two deputy
marshals walked out to where he was
standing. One got each side of him
and he was made prisoner. He pro-
tested against his arrest, but he was
hurried back to the west side of the
churchyard and placed in care OF the
guard.
"I'll never forget that fellow" said
Marshal Brinton. "For an instant last
Saturday evening l was OF the opinion
that he was the instrument by which
was to be ushered into eternity. In
the thick Of the fight, when we were
trying to retain our prisoners, he
showed revolver into my face and
held it there long enough for me tc
feel its muzzle grating against my
teeth. How it happened do not know
but one OF the deputies managed tc
knock the gun from his murderou:
grasp. am sure that this action saved
my life Rapidly the prisoners were
brought In, and as familiar faces ap
peared the mob of women around the
fence jeered at the soldiers In a frenzy
The prisoners are In jail at Springi field
and Carlinuilla