The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-04
Nonunionists Defended by Woman,
Who Escorted Them to the Mill
with a Revolver in Her Hand.
RIOT AT KNOXVILLE, TENN
EFFORT TO PREVENT RUNNING OF
CARS BY IMPORTED MEN.
Attempt to BE Made to Tie Up the
Whole Business of San Francisco
Glass Bottle Scale Signed.

PITTsBURG, Aug. 3.-wellsville o., re-
ports this the most exciting day since the
strike began. A riot at an ear hour this
morning around the clearinghouse kept
by a mill worker named Phillips, in which
nonunon men are quartered. was followed
shortly after noon by the proprietor of the
house swearing out warrants, charging
twenty-seven of the members of the Anal
gamated Association with riot. Organizer
Evans's name is included in the affidavit.
OF the men named in the affidavit and on
the list handed by Phillips to the mayor,
Edward Price, Richard Rumbaugh, Will
lam and Elmer Moore, Charles Peth,
Frank Adams, Jay Davis and District Or
galzer George Evans have been placed ur-
der arrest. Adams and Evans were re-
leased on $500 bond for preliminary hearing
to be held Aug. ii. The remainder still
in Jail. Amalgamated leaders are working
hard to secure bail for them, but so far
without success.
The informations were made by Phillips
at the request of the American Sheet Steel
Company. Sheriff Morgan, of this county,
has two deputies on the ground tonight to
assist the local police in maintaining order
Mrs Phillips was seen by a reporter and
told very disconnected story of the affair
She mentioned that the yard was full of
men armed with clubs. knives and revolv-
ers and contradicted herself several times
in her story of the men under arrest. She
says none of the men is stopping at her
house, but only have lunches packed there.
The Amalgamatei Association leaders say
they will employ the best legal talent OBJ
tainable TO defend the men. The majority
of the strikers have not yet returned from
the picnic. which was attended by a large
number, but telephone advices say that if
the men are not released by midnight the
men at the picnic say they will tear down
the Jail and release them.
A correspondent at Wellsvile gives this
account of the trouble this morning:
Deeply enraged by being outwitted by the
mill officials. who yesterday succeed in run
ming nine nonunion mill workers into the
mill, the strikers became desperate last
night and asserted that no more accessions
must be made TO the mill workers. Accord
ingly, more than a hundred Of them guard
ed both entrances to the mill all night.
They made extra effort TO be vigilant when
the midnight train from Pittsburg came to
town. but were unable to locate any more
strike breakers About o'clock this
morning lney went 10 the mouse or mill
worker named Harry Phillips. Phillips's
wife boards three of the men who came
here a few days ago to work at the mill.
The strikers pelted the house with stones,
breaking nearly all the windows, and de-
manded that mill men who were boarding
there come out. Several shots were fired
with revolvers by the men. but no one
was hurt. Mrs. Phillips is plucky woman
and, armed with a gun, she went out into
the crowd of strikers and dared them to
touch her. She then took the men who
were boarding with her. including her hus-
band TO the mill, she walking beside them
with loaded revolver in her hand, and
at the same time daring the strikers to
interfere. She got the four men inside the
mill and then turned and put the mob. as
she calls them, TO rout.
A late dispatch from Wellsviile SAYS:
Harry Phillips, around whose house the
riot occurred this morning, notified the
police late tonight that an effort would
be made TO blow up his home tonight.
The entire police force is guarding the
Phillips home tonight"