The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-16
WORSE THAN THE MODS
EVANSVILLE LABOR UNIONS PERsE-
CUTE MEMBERS OF MILITIA.
Soldiers Assaulted and Robbed of EN-
ployment-Progress of Investiga-
tions-Queer Report from Newburs.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 15.-The labor
unions of the city are making hot fight
on the members of the local military COM
pany which took part in the recent riot.
and the indications now are that all the
members of the company will have to seek
other quarters.
Captain Julius Blum, of the militia COM
pany. is employed by the Cook Grocery
Company. The labor people informed the
firm that unless Captain Blum was dis
charged the house would be boycotted by
the laboring people. Following this the
Good Citizens League informed the gro
Gerry company 1t would be boycotted by
them if Blum were discharged. Captain
Blum has been retained thus far.
At least forty members of the military
company have lost their places of employ
ment since the riot as the result of the
opposition of the labor unions. All MEM
bers of the company belonging to the unions
have been released from membership In
the unions. Several members of the militia
have been assaulted on the streets at night,
supposedly by members of labor unions.
Coroner Matthew Wallng, with the ex-
ception of one witness, finished his exam
nation this afternoon of the recent riots in
this city. By far the most important wit
ness was Mayor Charles G. Covert. The
mayor teStlIleQ tlaL he ndQ OlleTeO 10 give
Sheriff KRAFT twenty deputies for the jail
on the night of the shooting, July 6, but
that the sheriff replied he needed only one
man. The mayor said he sent over pa
trolman, Ira Wiltshire, and the rest OF his
specials and deputies were sent to Baptist
town. the negro suburb that had been
threatened with destruction. Only the mil
ita and one officer were left to guard the
JAIL One city official owns about sixty ne
gro shanties in Baptsttown, and. as he had
been notified that the insurance on the
buildings had been Cancelled, he asked for
protection from the police, and 1t was given
him.
Dr. William II. Gilbert testified that he
asked Patroman Wiltshire to go outside
the Jail shortly after the shooting began
and arrest the man who seemed TO be the
leader of the mob. He refused. saying he
placed some value on his life. DE-. Gilbert
thinks had the leader been arrested there
would have been no bloodshed.
Joseph Altman, father of Hazel Altman,
who was killed while seated in the buggy
with her parents, said the militia fired on
the mob without PROPAGATION.
Late this evening Judge Louis o. Rasch
of the Vanderburg Circuit Court. received q
telegram from Joseph A. Byers, superin-
tendent of the Reformatory at jefferson
ville stating that Lee, or Tinsley. the muir
6erer Of Patrolman Massey, had developed
pneumonia and was in serious condition
Judge Rasch said he would not attempt tc
have the negro brought back until he had
fully recovered. He thinks the negro is in
a precarious condition, as superintendent
Byers states.
At Newburg a small town a few miles
east of here, to-day two negro boys. Henry
Asher and John Powell, each aged fourteen,
tied paper to the body of Roy Moore, a
white boy, aged sixteen, and set fire to IT.
The boy ran home. badly frightened, and
his parents extinguished the flames before
he badly burned. The affair has
caused considerable excitement among the
white people of Newburg. The negro boys
were arrested.