Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-03
IN NASTATE OF WAR
Cleveland Has to Call in the Aid
of the Militia.
TUMULT AT THE HOSTING WORKS.

Non-U oOn Men again have To BE Guard.
ed-Student Is Set Upon and Knocked
Down-Drawing His Pistol He Misses
His Assailants and Kills Another Man
Mob Attempt to Lynch Him, but Is Held
at Bay by Bayonets.
CLEVELAND, July 3.-The strike at Che
Brown Hosting Company's works has
reached a point where the authorities as
well as the strikers are in no mood for
trifiing. When the non-union men left
the works at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
there was more rioting. Two hundred
and fifty policemen emerged from the
gates, guarding fifty-three workmen An
immense crowd had gathered a block
away. but the police took new route and
eluded them for the moment. The strik.
ers set up yell and ran, soon overtaking
the marching column, hooting and yelling
A huge moving van was in the rear, filled
with strikers, and with it a small wagon
laden with empty beer bottles. The police
suspected that the bottles were intended
as missiles and compelled the driver of
she wagon to turn back.
Police Charge on the Mob.
road train blocked the way and an effort
was made to drive the van through the
guard of police. The officers dragged to
the ground the driver, Fred w. Hearn, a
moving contractor and the man on the
seat beside him, w. ]. O'Eeil, a paving
contractor. These men resisted and the
police used their clubs on them with such
off. hat q, hoo 4
mass of cuts. O'Neirs ankle was broken.
The strikers in the van jumped out and
the police charged the crowd, using their
clubs on all the heads within reach.
Frank Coopenhecker, machinist return
Ing from work and not a striker, was
caught in the crowd and severely dubbed
on the head. Hearn was arrested and
locked up.
Rioters Attack Student.
The strikers dispersed before the on
slaught of the police and the non-union
men were sent home. Meanwhile a
tragedy had taken place at the Brown
works Albert q. Saunders, a young stu
dent at Case School of Applied Science,
whose father lives at 33l Prospect street,
has been working for the Brown company
during vacation for the practical knowl-
edge it would give him. He did not leave
with the non-union men under police
guard, but mounted his bicycle and
sought to reach home alone. AS he turned
up Hamilton street n knot of strikers saw
him and shouted to him to stop. He did
not obey and they began to throw stones
and bricks at him. A brick struck him on
the head and knocked him off his wheel,
and he claims that after he was down they
continued to stone him.
Bullet Hits on-Combatant.
Rising to his knees he drew his revolver
and fired. The ball missed his assaiiants,
sped across a vacant lot, and buried itself
in the breast of William Rettger, one of
the strikers who was walking through an
alley with several companions. Rettger
was sent to hospital where he died in a
few minutes. He was single man p
years old, boarding on Hoadlcy street and
was fbrother of Pitcher Rettger, of the
Milwaukee base ball club. Patrolman
Gibbons heard the shot fired, and rushing
UP seized young Saunders and hurried
him into the Office of the Bishop -Babcock
Company. In wonderfully short space
of time a furious crowd which packed the
streets rs far as the eye could reach
| surged against the front of the Office, de-
| manding that Saunders be given up to it.