Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-20
STRIKE LEADERS INDICTED
Over Seventy-Five to Be Tried for Con-
spiracy.
Troops Leaving Chicago - They VIII
man Works to Open.

man Works to Open.
The net continues to tighten about Debs
and his associates. The federal grand jury
returned twenty-three indictments in Judge
Seaman's court at Chicago yesterday after
| moor and were discharged from further ser
vice.
In the twenty-three indictments were in
cluded the names Of about seventy-fve indi-
viduals who are charged with violating the
federal statutes during the railroad troubles
of the past three weeks. The indictments,
as soon as they were handed to Judge Sea-
| man by Foreman Sanborn Of the grand
jury, were put into the hands of Clerk
Burnham and were laid away from public
gaze.
District Attorney Milchrist instructed the
clerk not to issue warrants on any of the
indictments until this morning. as there
would be no judge present to accept bail
for-the prisoners. The district attorney and
his assistants refused to give the names of
any Of the indicted persons beyond admit
| ting that there were several new indict-
ments against Debs Howard, Keliher and
| Rogers, the chief officers of the railway
union Included In some Of the indictments,
| also, are other officers Of the organization,
| who have not been so prominent as the four
! now in the county Jail.
The others who go to make up the sew
enty-five are strikers against whom are
charged specific acts Of Interference with
trains or other property of the companies.
One Of the indictments is based on the riot
ing which occurred along the line of the
Rock Island at Blue Island and other
points. In 1t are named score of defend
ants.
Debs and the other officers are in nearly
all of the twenty-three indictments. When
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batch of rioters who committed specific acts,
| such as the derailing of trains. Debs and his
companions were named with them as con-
spirators
In addition to that there is an Indictment
against Debs, Rogers. Keliher and Howard,
charging them with conspiracy to deprive a
citizen of the United States of one Of his
constitutional rights, that is. the right to
ship goods from one state to another. The
citizen who was thus deprived of his rights
Is shipper who Is named in the indict-
ment, with description OF the goods which
were delayed in the blockade.
The grand jury, in its investigation Of the
whole strike situation, classified the indict-
ments according to the reads on which the
riotng occurred. On each road at least
one indictment was found against the worst
Of the rioters and Debs and the other off,
GERS included with them in a general charge
of conspiracy.
Question of Hail.
Mr.. Milchrist said the question as to
whether Debs and the other officers will be
compelled to give bail on each separate in
dictment has not been settled but will be
after the bench warrants are issued and
served today. They are already under
heavy bonds. and I suppose the court Will
take that fact into consideration and not
make the bail so high as to be oppressive
A few of the indicted men have never been
arrested and that Is the reason the names
of all are kept from the public for the pl es-
ent"
petition was filed in the United States
Circuit court by the Santa Fe railroad yes
terday for writ OF attachment against
four Of its late employees for contempt of
court. The petition sets up that Bert Cor
nell. Ed. Rhodes, Ira Henderson and Robert
Lawrence. who were employed by the COM
pany at Chillicothe, ILL.,. violated the in
junction of the federal court on July Il.
and at other times.
1t charges that Rhodes and Henderson in
Inundated Cornell who was a fireman, and
compelled him to leave his engine and that
the four then intimidated other employ es
and tried to compel them to quit. 10 one
fireman they said, III You do not quit you
will be killed
Judge Seaman issued a writ of attach
| ment and made 1t returnable next Friday.
Troops strike Tents.
Bustle Of preparation to strike tents and
get away was the distinguishing feature Of
the lake front camp of regulars yesterday,
and by sunset little was left IN the park
along the Michigan avenue but camp
| debris. All the United States troops were
| ordered from Chicago. as well as The go
men of the second brigade of the Illinois
National Guard. under command Of Gen. J.
H. Barkley of Springfield. and as there is
| still an uneasy feeling among the strikers,
| trouble is looked for.
| All of the United States troops, with the
| exception Of the ninth infantry. have been
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| return to its post at Sackett's Harbor N. Y.
| This concentration of the forces at Fort
| Sheridan puts 800 men there of the three
branches of the service. Capt. Maus of
| Gen. Miles staff said yesterday that ad-
| vantage would be taken of the opportunity
| to put the men through thorough drills and
| exercise, and that Gen. Miles expected good
results to follow.
Pullman Works to Open Monday.
The indications are that the Pullman
| works will be opened Monday at the latest.
but the number of men who will return to
work will probably be comparatively small.
| Active preparations are being made to start
| the works, 800 men being Justly engaged in
oiling the machinery, cleaning the shops
and doing other preliminary work. The ad-
| vent of a gang of these men. numbering
| about 100. was the signal yesterday morn
| ing for a small riot near Kelsington The
would-be Pullman employees were Holland
| ers living at Roseiand. and at an carly hour
1 they set out from home for the Pullman
works. number of residents of kensing-
| ton heard of the move and The Hoilaaiers
were intercepted a short distance west of
| Pullman. Dissuasive measures were en-
| ployed by the Kensington residents to Ire
| vent an invasion of Pullman by the Rose
Ianders, and an all-round fight ensued which
! terminated in the new men agreeing to go
| home. They started and the crowi broke
| up, but after returning nearly to Roseland
| IF ra1 l,,to
| groups Of two or three, and by IA circuitous
| route returned to Pullman and went to
| work. Most of the Hollanders are IRON
| founders, but all were pressed into service
| at cleaning up.
The company decided yesterday TO re-
! sumo business" said Vice President Wickes
| THE following notice was at once post ed
| on the gates Of our works at Pullman: