The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-05
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE
THE CAUSE.
An Orange Dress and an Orange
Plume Signals for the Fray.
BRAVE TROOPERS SWORD DRAWN
IN DEFENCE OF A WOMAN.

She Wore the Orange Dress, He the
Orange PIume-Police Dashed to the
Rescue Clubbing Right and Left-One
Man Shot and Killed by One of the
Paraders-Another Dying in the
/ Hospital.
Boston, July 4.-One man was killed,
one fatally wounded and several injured
| during 1.-THE Little Red School House
parade" in East Boston this afternoon.
| This parade was booked to move at 1. 80
and the head of the column sarted from
| White street about on time. The column
was headed by police, and policemen
fanked both sides of it for hundred
yards There were fully 800 policemen.
under command of Deputy Pierce and
Capt. Irish. About 1900 men were in the
parade. 1t was headed by float bearing
a fac simile of the regulation New Eng
land school house. In front were num-
ber of men wearing sashes made of stars
and stripes. Standing in the open door
way OF. the house was tall figure repre-
senting Uncle Sam. On each side of the
miniature building were three windows
and in each window was a man reading
book The float was covered with red,
white and blue bunting, and the school
house was surmounted by the stars and
stripes
/ At the end of the procession, which was
without police protection, came a ba-
rouche drawn by four gray horses, con-
tanning Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Emerson, H.
E. Roberts and Mrs. E. ]. Campbe H.
The carriage was profusely decorated
with American flags and Mrs. Campbell
wore an orange dress. When the rear of
the procession was on Saratoga street, be-
tween Brooks and Putnam streets,
drunken woman marched up to the rear
of the carriage and made insulting re-
marks in 81 loud voice. One of the men
in the parade pushed the woman back
and some men in the crowd fell upon the
man with loud shouts. A milk can was
thrown into the carriage and the occu-
pants shouted for help Albert E. An
drews OF Everett, was standing on the
sidewalk in the uniform of the Roxbury
Horse Guards, and
The bright yellow plume in his helmet
caught the attention of the ladies in the
carriage. One of them called on him, as
a soldier, for help. Andrews rushed into
the thick of the fight, drawing his sabre.
AS he waved the blade above his head,
the crowd fell back, but in second
rushed upon the orange plume with a
tTQr1 md roo me c,fn INV An,
drews, one brandishing two self cooking
reyOlvers In few minutes, errible
battle was raging Andrews was driven
up Saratoga street. Twice, he fell and
twice the man with the revolvers fired.
II is probable that the weapons contained
blank cartridges. Andrews welded his
sabre, but made only one cut, slashing
off the nose of a young man named Stew
art When the fight began there was no
policeman within q quarter of mile of
the scene but a messenger was sent for
the officers Three mounted police were
sent to the spot. Andrews and his sup
porters were nearly done for and Officer
knocked out with a brick immediately
after he reached the scene of the fight
J The officers did considerable fighting,
protecting Andrews with great difficulty
until he reached his fathers house at 449
Saratoga street, where he dashed under
| bdU6S s uOTS6 anu over Uu6 fence INTO the
yard The policemen held the crowd at
bay ten minutes here. Then fourteen
officers dashed to the rescue, clubbing
} right and left. Many heads We're broken
before the crowd went scurrying down
Saratoga street Michael Doyle was
dubbed so severely he is
DYING AT THE CITY HOSPITAL.
Two arrests were made The crowd made
another attack on the line at Princeton
street, but were easily dispersed. After
the parade was dismissed, small de-
tachment of paraders was passing the At
lantic works on Border street, near Nav
erick, when persons in the crowd began
hooting and kissing. Sticks and stones
paraders drew pistols and began indis-
criminate firing. According to the testi
mony of an eyewitness, John Ross, one
l of the paraders, fired his pistol directly
at John W. Wills, who is said to have
been an onlooker The bullet struck Will
lis above the right hip, passing into tho
abdomen and killing him. John Quirk
/ sprang towards and bent over Willis
when bullet grazed mis- right temple
Quirk claims Ross fired the shot at him.
Patrick A. Kelly was injured in the back
0 the head. 1t is not known whether
with bullet OR not. Ross and Harold
G. Brown were arrested on suspicion and
} many persons We're held as witnesses.
Ross lives in Cambridgeport Wills
lived in East Boston and was a long
shoreman. The police formed a guard
about this detachment and escorted it to
the ferry, where the paraders hid their
badges and regalias, and mingled with
the crowd.