Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
TROOPS NOT YET CALLED
Many Shots Are Fired During Riots
and Several Policemen Are Hit by
sharpshooters Armed With Air
Rifles-lmportant Meeting VIII Be
Held Tonight.

Chicago, May 26. With the IF
tieth day Of the teamsters' strike
comes increasingly serious apprehen-
sion Of huge spread of Industrial dis
order. The lumber district and its
dependencies hold the key The car
penters are restive and some are re-
fusing to continue work where "un-
fair" lumber is used. The carpenters
district council has not ordered action,
but $4,000 carpenters may be involved
# the individuals persist in their hos
tile attitude.
Important Meeting Tonight.
Tonight the Associated Building
Trades, comprising craftsmen other
than carpenters, will send delegates to
meeting, the deliberations of which
may vitality affect the position of co.
600 workmen.
Police Clear Out Saloons.
Vigorous enforcement of the police
order to clear out the saloons in the
lumber district and the movement of
considerable lumber, under guard to-
day, brought out several riotous dis
turbances.
No Call For Troops.
Shots were fired and many arrests
] weresnade. Mayor Dunno, however,
after q review of the situation, said
the condition does not warrant call
for soldiers atssthisstiane.
Riotng In Lumber District.
Strike riots began in the neighbor-
hood of the lumber district at Thirty
Fifth and Morgan streets today, when
twenty lumber and shaving wagons,
guarded by forty police, were attacked
by 400 strike sympathizers with bricks
and stones. The police drew revolvers
and charged the crowd, which fed.
There were no arrests.
Air Rifles are Used.
At Thirty.Fourth street nearby the
police on guard were forced to take
refuge inside buildings. Strike sympa-
thizers armed with air rifles fired from
behind lumber piles and buildings in
termittently at the officers, number of
whom were struck.
Work on Many Buildings Stops.
Carpenters and other workmen quit
work today on several buildings be.
cause the contractors accepted lumber
delivered by non-unionists.
Mob Stops Express Wagon.
This afternoon rioting broke out at
Madison and Canal streets. An Amer
lean Express Co. wagon, containing
policemen and a driver was stopped by
mob of 500 men who attempted tc
upset the vehicle. Three patrol wagon
loads of officers answered a riot call
and charged and dispersed the crowd
n1akinc r1I1ro pro11c ctc
Shea Keeps Out of Jail.
Cornelius P Shea, president of the
International Transfers union, was
upheld late yesterday by Judge Kohl
saat Of the federal court in his refusal
to answer. questions before Master o1
Chancery Sherman, which might tenc
to incriminate him. Shea is now under
Indictment in the, criminal court, anc
Judge Kohlsaat decided that answers
to some of the questions put to hin
might prejudice the hearing of his
case In the same decision the cour
ruled that Bernard Mulligan, presiden1
of the Express Drivers union, anc
John Donehue, a member of the same
union, had refused to answer questions
which could not in any way connec
them with any criminal proceedings
and they were therefore in contemp
of court. He sentenced both men tt
jail, but allowed them to remain il
nominal custody in the hand.
of United States Marshal Anne.
for five days, in order tina
the attorneys may perfect review OF
habeas corpus proceedings before
another federal judge. The, men will b,
In a hotel for the five days in charge O
two deputy marshals.