The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-07-11
ONE DEAD IN A RIOT.
At Cleveland a Boy Shoots a
Striker.
Police and Militia Barely Able to Pro
teot Their Prisoner

Cleveland. O., July 3.-Ihe most scri-
Gus rioting that has yet marked the
strike mt the Brown Hosting works took
place Yesterday afternoon. \ bystander
was shot through the heart by non
union man. and the latter narrowly IS
capped lynrhiug.
At ) o'clock 80 police were maSsod at
the works, then the gates were thrown
open and The Workmcn, 100 III number
surrounded by a hollow square OF ponce
marched out. The mob outside mum
bercd from 5000 TO 1000, and shower
If stones greeted the column. The po-
Ice forced "a passage through the rioters,
Gsng their clubs freely.
Roy Kills a striker.
As the main body of police and work
mon disappeared two Young men, named
respectively Albert q. Saunders and
William IL. Vernon. came out Of the
ward on their bicycles. Saunders, who
: young student 1t Case School OF
Applied Sciences and whose father lives
al :i::il Prospect street, has been working
for the Brown company during vacation
for the practical knowledge il would give
him He did not leave with the non
union men under police guard, hut
mounted his bicycle and sought to reach
acme alone. As he turned up Hamilton
street Il knot of strikers saw hln anu
shouted for him To- stop. lie did not
ohcy. and they began to throw stones
and bricks at him. y brick struck HIM
IN tn" head and knocked him Oft has
wheel and he claims, that after he
was down they continued to stone him.
Rising to his knees. he drew his rCyoi-
yer and fired. The ball missed his as
SailantS. sped across vacant lot ana
buried itself in the lrTCaSt of William
Rcttgcr. ono of the strikers who was
walking through the alley with several
companions RcttEcr was sent To-
hospital where he died in a few minutes.
was unmarried, - years old, and was
brother of Pitcher Rcttgcr of the Nil
Naukcc baseball club.
just Their twenty policemen, VIII" had
nnou detached from the main body, cam"
M. \ fierce fight between the squad
If police and the mob cnSucd, and with
Great difficulty Saunders and Vernon
we're taken to the office of nearby
factory They were placed inside the
building. a small onc-Story affair. and
the police stood guard outside. As if 10y
magic rope appeared IN the hands u
some of the mob, and cries OF Lynch
him Lynch the scah,' were raised.
\ determined rush was made at the lin"
# police hut the leaders of the mob
fol- back with bodies bruised and heads
broken ny the heavy clubs in the hands
If the hluerOatS.
Militia on Hand
.,;,t. 49,. $780,.
y S''ohn rhdiE' H''9 VIM ,"' - .'','
ETPll"!, anG ne I,'', 80" '- l,,I ~,
busy ana NV" companies 2i me "'h
regiment. .. n II" when haH 'r'E
under arms all day, were ordered 10 Ine
scene. The troops arrived JuHi a. IN"
mob was preparing L. rhafG" the ponce
for the th!rd time. me- troops If'W lP
across the street ana IeE"!rd thrIr iI'lGS
At the crowd. which at once scattered in
every direction y patrol wagon "aS
driven up and Saunders and Vernon
were placed in it ana taken to the central
station. one company of the troops r~-
curting the wagon and the other holding
the mob in check.