Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-09
.DENUD[D BY TIE MOB.
Shameful Proceedings Of sympa-
thizsrs Of Striking Street Car
Employees.
One Woman's Clothes Torn Off and
Her Body Painted Teachers
Attacked.
Delegation Enters School House and
Handles Principal Roughly
Troops Ready.

st. Louis, Mo, June "a mob of flu
rious women and boys last night beat
and denuded Lena kaenter, a young
woman who makes her living by ped-
ding 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 ap-
plauding the outrage and throwing
mud.
Mrs. Naenter got cffsa car at Chero-
kee street, where y crowd was Assem-
bled. Neither OF the policemen on the
car made any attempt TO check the
demonstration. which began at once
Mrs. lNaeIster dropped her basket and
ran west in Cherokee street, With the
crowd after. her. There We're no men in
the mob; but the boys, encouraged by
the women, pulled at the victim
clothes ard dashed paint at her The.
scared woman ran across an empty lot
in the hope OF reaching a quarry watch
mans hut neai. by, but the crowd
caught her smeared her hair and body
with paint and Let her go.
Two shop girls We're attacked by the.
same mob an hour later, and they also
Mere partly denudea before they es-
capped The victims have made no.
complaint to- the police, partly from.
fear of the MODS vengeance and partly
from shame.
a reign Of terror existed all day yes
3terdas and last night along the routes
sof the south side lines. The arrival Of
more than 200 recruits, brought by the
Transit COMPANY in the morning from
eastern cities, has made the strike
sympathiZers frantic.
An organized committee of women
began To visit SOME Of the pubic
schools Yesterday afternoon. boldly en-
terins; the school rooms, accusing the
teachers OF riding on the taboosd cars
and threatening them With bodily harm
ii they did 50 again. Al the Mount
Pleasant school the ieat,srsof this COM
mites seized the principal Mrs. Rose
Tanning, shook her .,i9lentlS ard am
Isnpuncel thar she would be ts,Ifd and
feathered if8either she ar any Of her
.eachers rode on the cars again. Mrs.
Fanningis delicate woman, laine and
tEnaid, and vas 50 badly frightened that
! she became III ard vent hons.
Mrs. IL BsutltlyG society editor Of the
Globe Democrat WAS set upon by a mob
bof nleIl and boys al Jefferson and st.
ii.oais avenues, and, althoi two police
/ 7nsn Were standing on the corner che
Mas forced 10 take refuge in a house and
MATT for nearly an hour before the mo.
I tisappea.ed When she came our anc
walked UP ST Louis avenue she was
taeain attacked BY about twenty boys
/ who lay n wait for her imam alley She
ESCAPED by taking Il carriage TO her Of
!. fee.
4 Most of the disorder Of the. day was
45carried on al some distance from tbs
4 street car lines, the nohs following
passengers and assailing them only at I
4 cafe distance from the police sentry
Hines which guard the tracks. Chic
lEcanpbell added his voice TO the cry TO
I militia. and the resigna ton Of dozens %
i prominent citizens from the posse com
Jtiatus is due TO the refusal of the polio
Ito punish those arrested by members o
4 the posse.
u The governor was in communication
Il with Adj. Gen. Bell and three regiment
4 of state troops are now ready for orders
4 The Second and Fourth regiments vii
a probably be got into service first, be
lcause they are both country regiments
A While the First, st. Louis regiment,
4 chietly made up of union men or me-
who are in sympathy vii hthe striker.
8 Battery a of the light artillery is as
q sembled i'll barracks and ready for dut,
There are no Indications of arbitra
tion or of yielding from either side, an
the police admit that they are utterl
unable to cope with the disorder that
becoming more frequent and violent !
l3South st. Louis
Thursday nights riots in North S
Louis, in which three policemen and
boy We're shot, developed the fact the
the rioters are armed With noiseles
weapons and deliberately selected the
victims. The gun is described az
'noacher,' of n pattern widely used !:
trespassers on preserved huntin
grounds of Europe.
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