The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-06-08
ASK FOR THE MILITIA.
Prominent St. Louis Citizens Make
an Appeal to Gov. Stevens.
Assaults on InOnensive Passengers
Continue, and Several Persons
Were BrutaIIy Beaten-Farm-
er Taken for an EmpIOye.

ST. Louis, June 5.-The citizen
members of the posse comitatus had
their first experience with active
service Monday, when several com
panies were armed and assigned for
guard dIty at the Park avenue, East
ern avenue and Southern electric
power houses of the Transit com
pany. While on guard duty the mem
bers CT the sheriff's posse will be
subject to strict military discipline.
All but two or three of the di-
visions of the Transit cOmpany's sys-
tenn are operating cars Monday. The
interference with passengers in some
sections of the city by strike sympa-
thizers is becoming serious. Pas
sengers alighting from cars along
South Broadway have been repeatedly
assaulted with sticks, stones and
fists. Several women have been bru-
tally beaten and their clothing al
most torn of. In every instance the
police have rescued the victims.
ST. Louis, June 5.-TheodOre Nc
Corner, Of Milwaukee, employed by
the Transit Co. as line repairer, was
shot while repairing wires. Wound
not serious.
Last night the accidental discharge
of gun in the hands of John ~ Ger
nez, a member of the posse comitatus
on guard al the power house of the
Transit Co. at Broadway and Gascon-
ode streets, Wade Sargent, a non
union man, was shot - the ankle
Ills condition Is serious and amputa-
ton will have TO be resOrted to. Sar-
gents home is in Medina, o.
St. Louis. June 6.-The strike as
sumed such a serious phase that so
prominent citizens united in n tele-
gram TO Gov. Stevens asking him TO
call out the militia for the protection
of life and property.
Negotiations between the strikers
and the St. Louis Transit Co. looking
to a settlement of the strike are of
for the present, and probably viii not
be resumed until the strikers agree
not to demand the discharge of the
men now in the employ of the COM
pany, in order that they may regain
the positions they gave up when the
strike was declared. Attorney Leh-
mann, for the Transit Co.. stated
plainly that every man now in the
service of the company must be re-
tanned in the place assigned him, and
until this is assented to by the stri-
kers negotiations as 10 other matters
are useless.
From a rioting standpoint the day
was practically uneventful. Assaults
on inoffensive passengers continue.
VIM. y. Sanders and VIM. Deneke
were brutally beaten by a crowd be-
cause they rode on Transit Co. car.
John Krenhall. farmer, was taken
to the city hospital suffering from a
number of severe scalp wounds and
internal injuries. KrenhalTs story
leads to the belief that the assault
upon MIN was committed by strike
sympathizers who imagined him an
employee of the Transit Co.
st. Louis, June 7.-On account of
the absence from the city of ex-Gov.
Stone, attorney for the striking en-
ployes, negotiations with the compa-
ny looking 10 a settlement of the
strike were not resumed. Chairman
Edwards, of the strikers grievance
committee, said that nothing will be
done toward effecting n settlement of
the differences in dispute until Mr..
Stone returns.
Thirty-One affidavits in support of
the application for a permanent fed
eral injunction, restraining strikers
and others from interfering with the
running of mail cars in the city of ST.
Louis, were filed with the clerk of the
United StateS circnit court