The true northerner., 1896-07-08
IN 4 STATE OF WAR.
THE MILITIA ORDERED OUT At
CLEVELAND, o.

Non-l nion Men Again Have To he Gusrd-
ed-student Is Set Upon aud Knocked
Down-Drawing His Pistol He Misses
His Assailsnts and Kills Another Man.
CLEVELAND July 3.-The strike at the
Brown Hosting Company's works has
reached point where the authorities as
well as the strikers are In no mood for
trifing. When the non-union men left
the works at 8 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 block
away but the police took a new route and
eluded them for the moment. The s.rik-
ers set up yell and ran, soon overtaking
the marching column, hooting and yelling.
A huge moving van was in the rear filed
with strikers, and with IL small wagon
laden with empty beer bottles The police
suspected that the bottles were intended
as missiles and compelled the driver Of
the wagon TO turn back
Police Charge on the Mob.
At Wilson avenue and Euclid a rail-
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. j. O'Neil, paving
contractor. These men resisted and the
police used their clubs on them with such
effect that their heads were soon swollen
mass of cuts ONeil's 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, a machinist return
ing from work and not striker was
caught in the crowd and severely clubbed
on the head. Hearn was arrested and
locked up.
Rioters Attack a Student.
The strikers dispersed before the on
slaught of the police and the non-union
men were sent home. Meanwhile q
tragedy had taken place at the Brown
works. Albert G. 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 II 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 a 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 a Nom -Combatant.
Rising TO his knees he drew his revolver
and fired. The ball missed his ASSISTANTS,
sped across a vacant lot, and buried itself
in the breast of William Rcttger, one of
the strikers who was walking through an
alley with several companions. Rettger
was sent TO "a hospital where he died in q
few minutes. He was single man 25
years old, boarding on Hoadley street and
was brother 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 a wonderfully short space
of time a furious crowd which packed the
streets as far as the eye could reach
surged against the front of the Office, de-
manding that Saunders be given up to it.