The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-07-12
BROKE UP In A RIOT.
Boston Fourth Of July Parade
Ends in Bloodshed.
Ehe Trouble Started From the Persistence
Of Those Who Managed the Parade In
Introducing a Float Representing the
''Little Red SchooIhoEse"

SUCKS, STONES anu I6VOlKbES W5I6 hoSu
with fatal effect. John W. Wills, q
laborer Of East Boston, enc of the spec.
tators, was shot and instantly killed
Michael Boyle of East Boston had his
head split open by a club and now lies
dying in a city hospital A young man
named Stewart had his nose cut of
with a saber in the hands Of one Of the
paraders. Patrick Kelly sustained
severe scalp wound, whether from
club or a bullet is not known, and Off
Ger A. S. Bates was hit in the mouth by
a brick thrown by an unknown person
and lost several teeth, besides suffering
from severe decorations.
A Float Causes Trouble.
1t is claimed that the trouble all
started from the persistence Of those
who managed the parade in introduce
ing as a feature a float representing the
"Little Red Schoolhouse," which from
its association as the emblem of the A.
P. A., has become obnoxious to many
persons, and particularly those who do
not sympathize with the A. P. A. move
ment. The Fourth of July committee
refused to permit this feature to appear
in the parade and those desiring to pre-
vent it, tried to have an order passed by
the board of aldermen, but it fasled. So
great was the interest excited by this
controversy and the expressed determi.
nation of the paraders to display the
school house, fully $4,000 visitors
gathered at East Boston
The police officials, anticipating
hostile demonstrations, had a special
squad of 300 men, in addition to the
East Boston force on duty, but they
marched at the head Of the procession.
At several points the feeling of the
crowd was given vent in Kisses at the
1900 paraders and the schoolhouse, but
no further demonstration was made IN
til the rear Of the parade had reached
Putnam street, when the crowd tried to
oyerturn the last carriage. Word was
sent to the front for police assistance
and squad of 20 officers were sent back.
A skirmish followed between the crowd
and the officers and Michael Doyle re.
ceived a fractured skull. A man named
Stewart of Brooks street had his nose
cut off by q saber in the hands Of Albert
E. Andrews of Everett, a private in the
ROsbury Horse Guards.
When tie parade broke up and those
who had participated were proceeding
in companies to the ferry a group Of be-
tween TO and 70 were surrounded on
Border st,set by a crowd, who COM
menced hooting and throwing stones.
A dozen revOlYers were drawn and in
response to the fusilade of stones eight
or nine shots were fired. The firing Of
the revolvers brought a large body of
police to the spot and the mob was soon
dispersed. As the scene was cleared the
officers found John Wills dead in the
street, with bullet hole in his right
side. and Patrick A. Kelly lying seri-
ously wounded about the head 1t was
learned later that several other persons
had been slightly injured, all Of whom
were taken away by their friends.
Bloody Riot at Picnic,
ENGLISH, Ind, July THE scene Of
the frightful picnic riot at Siberia in
which three persons were killed and 80
injured, a number fatally, resembles a
battlefield after a severe fire, with the
exception that the dead and wounded
have been removed. Broken bottles,
clubs and splintered chairs litter the
ground for half an acre. The sod, which
was torn up by the struggling mass, is
tinged with blood. and bloody garments
torn off in the desperate encounter are
streWn everywhere.
Up to this time there has never been
a serious outbreak between the German
Roman Catholics and their opponents
in the vicinity, although there have
been minor encounters, indicating that
the feeling of bigOtry was growing.
The desperate fight, which lasted for
an hour, was precipitated by a gang of
local rOughs, whose numbers were aug
mented by additions from the swamp
locality along the Ohio river. They
came to the picnic inflamed with whisky
and armed with clubs and knives, and
started a fight, in which LOCO persons
engaged. Many Of the injured are
women and children. for it seems that
the intruders spared neither sex nor
age
The dead are;
FRED ELMER
WILLIAM GELS.
FRANK HART.
Those fatally injured are:
Peter Bennett.
Robert Dodge.
Abner Stroud.
Samuel Wilson.
Samuel Wilson, a leader Of the out
siders, was armed with a huge knife,
which he welded on every side, stab
bing and cutting many persons. He
was finally opposed by a sturdy Ger.
man, who was more than a match for
him until Wilson plunged the knife
into his neck. AS the man fell back
his wife sprang through the crowd and
dealt Wilson a terrible blow with beer
bottle, crushing his skull. During the
melee one Of the intruders kicked
woman about to become a neither, kill
ing her child and fatally iniuring her.
National Populist Convention.
LITTLE Rock. Ark. July 8.-It IS
learned here that the Popalists viii. in
the next few days. issue a general call
signed By the leaders Of that party for a
peoples convention 70 meet either in
Chicago or St Louis early in August.
It is proposed to invits free silver men