Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-15
RIoTING IN CHICAGO.

Rioting growing out of the packing
house strike occurred in the stock yards
at Chicago last night, and Alfonso An
drulis was shot in the left shoulder by
the police. He is not fatally injured.
The incidents leading up to the shooting
began when a party of strikers met
detachment of police in Paulina street,
near the stock yards. One of the crowd
hurled stone at the officers. He was
arrested. The police started toward the
station with their prisoner, and his COM
panions attacked them with stones. Sew
eral volleys of stones had been thrown
before the police drew revolvers and
fired several shots at the crowd. An
drulis tell with a bullet through his
shoulder. His companions fled.
Andrulis and the man first arrested
we're taken to the police station, which
in few minutes was surrounded by
crowd of several hundred men, women
and boys. The temper of the crowd
was ugly, and for time it looked as
though they would attempt to storm
the station. Calls were sent for re-enforce.
ments, and in short time patrol wagons
filled with policemen from other stations
arrived. The crowd refused to give way
and the re-enforcements were compelled
to fight their way to the station doors. A
line of officers was at once drawn up IN
front of the station, and after short
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Another fight occurred at Marshfeld
avenue and Forty-ffth street, where a
mob attacked squad of policemen with
bricks. Several officers were injured
slightly, and they were compelled to use
cubs to disperse the crowd. Several
other fights occurred last night, but no
one was severely hurt.
There were numerous cases OF "slug-
ging" at the stock yards yesterday by
strike sympathizers. John Peterson and
two other men leaving Swift e. CHS plant
were attacked by fifty or more men.
Peterson was so severely beaten that he
may not recover. His skull was fractur-
ed. His assailants were not captured.
The mob was dispersed BY the police.
At conference in Chicago yesterday
evening between the representatives OF
the packers and union officials in an
effort TO reach an adjustment of the
butchers strike the packers refused to
arbitrate on the terms proposed by the
union and submitted a counter proposal.
BY the terms of this proposal the packers
agree to take the strikers back at the
wages they were receiving before the
strike. The packers purpose to retain
all the help that has been employed
since the strike began. This reply OF
the packers is under consideration by
the executive committee of the unions.
Four of the six Kansas City packing
plants resumed killing yesterday on
limited scale.
Twenty cars of stock were received at
the South Omaha stock yards yesterday,
mostly hogs. All the houses were
slaughtering cattle, and two Of them
killed hogs. All the South Omaha
houses are hiring men as fast as they
can get them, and are employing their
Office force in the packing departments.
About 200 beefhandlers, employed in
Jersey City by the dressed-beef con-
Germs. Joined the strike movement yes
terday. A few men were still at work
yesterday afternoon, but very little meat
was being handled. The boss retail
butchers of Jersey City met yesterday
to discuss the advisability of closing
their shops at once and suspending
operations until the strike should be
ended. After much argument it was
decided to keep open the shops as long
as any beef could be obtained to supply
patrons. The increased demand for
poultry, eggs and vegetables caused by
the lack of meat has raised the prices of
these necessities. Hotels and restaurants
have begun to feel the effect of the strike
and prices are being advanced in all
eating places. In the poorer sections of
the city, on the East Side, many of the
butcher shops, unable to procure a
stock, have been forced to close their
doors. In the tenement-house district
many families are going without meat
altogether.