Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-05-04
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A new feature appeared in the
strike and 1t will be in full evidence
whenever a wagon of the Employers
roaming company goes through the
! streets. This feature will be the Win
chester rifle. 1t will be carried on all
wagons OF the company in open view.
during the last week there has been
much complaint on the part OF strike
| sympa thizers of the readiness with
which the nonunion men, particularly
the negroes, have drawn and used re-
| VolVers. A number of them have been
arrested on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons and the attorneys
OF the employers called upon Chief of
Police O'Neill and asked if their men
had not the right to carry weapons
provided they were held in open view
and were not concealed. Chief O'Neill
replled that there was no law against
it, and arrangements were promptly
made by the employers to place Win
chesters on every one of their wagons.
over 1000 of the weapons were pur-
chased and a number of wagons went
through the streets with rifle lying
across the knees of the driver and his
assistant. Five men were seriously
hurt during the fights. but the number
actually injured is greatly in excess
of this and it is impossible to state it
accurately, for the reason that many
OF those hurt disappear in the crowd
OF are carried away by their friends
as soon as possible after being in.
jured. Those seriously hurt are: c.
| F. ingalls,, nonunion teamster, badly
beaten; Otto Helmer, shot in the leg;
John Williams, nonunion teamster,
badly beaten; William Crockett, non
union teamster, dubbed and stoned
until insensible; Charles Kullett, non.
union teamster, badly beaten by mob,
| nose broken and head cut.
President Shea of the teamsters'
| union said that If the Employers
leaning association armed its drivers
with Winchester rifles he would do
the same with the union drivers. "If
it is legal for the nonunion men to
arm themselves" he said, ut certainly
is not illegal for us to do likewise"
Police Sergeant Dies of Injuries.
Police Sergeant Cummings, who was
run down on Thursday by an omnibus
driven by John Ceresa, union driver,
died in the hospital. Ceresa is now
held to the grand jury.
No decided increase in the number
| of men on strike was made, the most
important accession to the teamsters
being the drivers of the delivery
wagons of retail grocery stores. These
declared that they would in no case
call for goods at any wholesale estab-
teamsters are on strike at practically
every wholesale grocery in the city,
the apparently visible supply of food
| for the citizens of Chicago is limited
| to the stocks now held in the retail
groceries. The retail drivers also de-
clared that they would refuse %
handle meat if any strike occurred in
the stock yards. So far there has
been no trouble in this direction.
Two serious riots took place last
night. The first was at the intersec-
| ton OF Harrison and Desplaines
streets, where mob containing many
women and numbering fully 1000, at
tackled a crowd of sixteen nonunion
men who were being taken to the
| depot under the guard of a squad on
police. Stones and missiles of all
kinds were hurled at the men, and
it was with great difficulty that the
police were able to protect the men
from the crowd. Several of the non.
union men were injured with stones
and many of the mob suffered broken
heads from the clubs of the police
A number of arrests were made.
The second fight took place at
Twenty-seccnd and State streets,
when crowd attacked four coal
wagons which, under the guard of
eight private detectives, were return.
| ing to the yards of the Daniels com.
pany The nonunion men were pelted
with stones thrown from the second
story of a building which they were
passing and the detectives, drawing
their revolvers, charged into the place.
The inmates fed and no shots were
fired. A riot call brought the police
to the scene and the crowd was dis.
! persed. The detectives were arrested
for carrying concealed weapons.
Heavy Damages for Accident.
| Glenwood, Ia, April 1.-THE jury
in the case of the administrator of
tho actate of William r Nehh AGAIN II