Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-04

Chief OF Police O'Neil is steadily in
oiedsins his force and he believes he
VII We abe to cope with the situation
says l4OO policemen are on duty.
III franklin street, Walter Schultze
,'oo'eu the non-union drivers and was
hnoched down and badly beaten by two
co'ored guards. Volleys Of stones were
thrown and many Of the colored men In
Tue wagons were injured. At Mad;son
street. the caravan was stonnad ord c.
ten minutes battle RACED there ~,
coiored men in the wagons fired do.
en- shots. Police finally broke tho RI
ale ana enabled the caravan with ~,
strike breakers to move east in Mad;..-
street
The fighting continued and the str;,,o
breakers again fired, wounding Walter
Martin in the leg. Two of the non-un;,-
drivers were arrested charged with tbs
shooting. George Wright, one Of tn.
hcn-union transfers. was struck nv -,
stone and his right ear cut half off Tba
caravan eventually reached it's destin,-
ton.
Mayor Dunno has directed Chief of
Police ONeill to see that all tbe
streets to be traversed by President
Roosevelt during his visit as Chicago's
guest snail be clear of traffic and of
strikers and independent workers.
There was a story afloat to the eff
feet, today. that four Chicago men
have offered to establish a $1,000 ono
cooperative carriage company. the
stock of which would be Offered to
union transfers.
In a disturbance in the rear NJ ,,bo
Fair. Adams and Dearborn streets =
negro fired two shots into crowd.
NO one was struck. The negro was ar
rested.
More determined efforts to secure the
presence of troops in Chicago. either
federal or state, were made. today, by
the employers. The commanding Off
GERS of the Department of the Lakes
have received no information in regard
to the possibility of troops being sent
here.
Contrary to Mayor DUNES advice
and a denial by Manager Reed of the
Employers Teaming Co. of such inten-
ton, $50 wagons were sent out, today
provided with guards carrying rifles or
repeating Shotguns. The wagons be-
longed to seven different railway ex-
press companies. After Il conference be-
tween Mayor Dunno and Sheriff Bar
rctt, today. the sheriff said he might be
called upon to aid in the suppression
of riOting.
An important joint meeting of the
executive officers of the Chicago En-
ployers Association and the Employers
Teaming Co, was participated in by
representatives of many of the largest
wholesale and retail stores and of the
express and railway companies. The
main question before the conference
was whether the police without the aid
of troops could control the situation.
The question Of troops was left I'M
settled until full reports could be re-
ceived. AS to the independents" who
have SO far broken away from the as
sOciation and the Tcaming Co.. the
firm decision reached was: "All con-
tracts which they have had with men,
bcrs of the association will be abrO-
gated
Employees on wagons of the United
States EXDrcss Co. began wearing IS
cnlibre rerolvers in holsters at their
sides.
MdlN lOIty. NfIt NlupDIt
in the mistaken belief that they were
union transfers or sympathizers.
There was practically no sea food to
be had i'm Chicago.
Produce commission men in Chicago
are facing a loss amounting to hum
Greds of thousands of dollars.
Itiotous scenes. this afternoon, We're
witnessed by hundreds of persons from
windows in the Great Northern and
Majestic hotels. the Marquette, Fair
and other structures. The cause was
the delivery of coal from wagons at
the Majestic hotel. The wagons on
leaving the hotel under heavy guard
were followed and attacked by excited
thousands upon whom the example of
the clubbing incidents had no effect.
r. e. Carlson, who has charge of the
operation of the auto trunks for Mont
gonery Ward & Co, where the strike
first started, was probably fatally in
jurcd i'm front of the Transfers Union
Headquarters. today. Carlson was rid
ing on the first of d caravan of six
freight laden auto trucks, when 4 brick
thrown from a window struck him on
the side of the head. He was picked up
unconscious and hurried to a hospital,
but has slight chances of recovery.
4 lone iincman on wagon owned by
the Adams Express Co. held at bay a
crowd OF 1000 persons at Jackson BouIe-
ward and Chicago river. today. AS the
wagon proceeded without police along
jackson boulevard toward the river, a
crowd raridly gathered. The appearance
of the rifleman on tn" rear of the wag-
on, peering steadily from under a SOM
brero hat and with a full cartridge belt,
kept the mob at a distance until the
wagon approached the Jackson Boule-
ward bridge, where two strike pickets
rushed toward the wagon shouting that
they would fix" the fellow. At this
the young rineman calmly stood up In
the wagon, placed his rife to his Shout
der. and commanded the rickets to stop.
They stopped short, looked up into the
muZzle of the rifle then at the deter