The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-06-12
MANY ENCOUNTERS.
Blood Spilled Owing to the St. Louis
Street Car Mems Strike.
Gov. stephens Has Everything in
Readiness to Call Out the Militia,
but VIII Wall Until the
Last Moment.

St. Louis, June AT union head
quarters il is announced that the
striking carmen are preparing for a
long siege, in the belief that the set
Element of the strike is not near at
hand. The subscriptions which have
been received are being distributed
among the various divisions, and the
division committees are also actively
at work in providing for the needs of
the strikers.
A mob Of furious women and boys
last night beat and denuded Lena
haenter, young woman who makes
her living by peddling lunches among
employees of the California avenue
street car line. When the mob had
stripped her TO the waist one woman
daubed her with green paint, while
two others held her, the jeering boys
and women Of the mob applauding
the outrage and throwing mud.
Two shop girls were attacked by
the same mob an hour later, and they
also were partly denuded before they
escaped.
An organized committee" of wom-
en- began TO visit the public schools,
entering the school rooms, accusing
the teachers Of riding on the taboOed
ears, and threatening them with bod
lily harm if they did so again. At the
Mt. Pleasant school the leader of this
committee seized the principal, Mrs.
Rose Tanning, shook her violently
and announced that she would be
tarred and feathered if either she or
any Of her teachers rode on the cars
ngain.
s.. GOgis, June 11.-Sunday was one
of the most eventful and bloody DAYS
since the great strike on the st. Louis
Transit began more than a month
ago. There were numerous encoun-
tiers between strikers and other riot
Gus individuals and the constituted
authorities, resulting in three deaths
and the wounding of half a dozen
more persons, mostly strikers. One
Of the latter VIII die. The dead are:
c. Edward Thomas, striking con-
ductOr on the Chestnut avenue line
shot in breast by deputy sheriff; died
on way 10 hospital.
George Ri1e, striking motorman on
Delmar avenue line, shot in abdomen
by deputy sheriff; died at city hos
pitaL
Fred BOehm, aged citizen, shot and
instantly killed, while standing in his
front yard, by deputy sheriff.
The wOunsed are:
Ed Burkhart, striking conductor on
Delmar avenue line, shot in head;
may die.
Oscar Marvin, conductor on the Lee
avenue line, shot in right hand and
arm; serious.
August Smith, shot in right arm
and breast; not serious.
Charles Ludwig, shot in hand; not
serious
Ed Barry. mOtCrman on Laclede av-
enue line hit on head with brick and
badly injured.
James Mcclure and John McElroy,
severe scalp wounds received in trou.
bic with strike sympathizers.
Jefferson City, No., June 11.-Gov.
Stephens says that everything is be-
ing put in readiness for calling out
the national guard of Missouri TO
quel disorder in St. Louis consequent
10 the street railway strike, but he
viii not issue the call except as a last
resort 1t viii cost, he says, 5000 TO
land $500 men in ST. Louis, and as
<auch per day TO maintain them, and
as there is no appropriation for that
purpose, he does not know how the
Legislature would view a deficiency of
100000 for maintaining troops in St.
Louis. IT might require an extra. ses-
sion of the legislature TO appropriate
the money, he says.