Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-05-08
TELEoRAPHic NEWS.

nineteenth anniversary OF the famou,
Haymarket riot when eight person:
were suddenly blown to pieces anc
sixty-six fearfully wounded, and again
today the police find themselves
meeting a situation almost as bad
Tney anticipated the strikers would
be especially active today and were
prepared for trouble. Dynamite
however, is not looked forward to.
Measures are now being taken to
insure the calling out of the state
troops tomorrow. Notwithstanding
the bitter opposition to this move by
the labor leaders and toe disinclina.
ton of Mayor Dunno to take the in.
itiative.
The American, National, Pacific
and Northern express companies To-
day followed the move of the United
States Express company, and each
sent out a hundred men under escort
of hundred policemen Each ex.
press driver is heavily armed.
CHICAGO, May 4-Continued riot.
Ing and violence again marked the
teamsters' strike today, making the
employers more determined than ever
to get troops.
Charles Riebling, while on his way
TO work. had trouble near the Hub"
barns, and his skull was fractured by
case hook in the hands of negro.
Ribling ran a block and fell uncon-
sclous on the steps OF st. Joseph's
cnurch. One of the worst riots of
the strike then followed. The police.
after calling for reinforcements, re-
stored quiet.
john Terra, the driver OF the wa
gon which ran down and killed Ser.
gesnt Cummings is held for trial un
der 5000 bail.
Jen Murphy, negro. was arrested
on the charge OF causing tne death
of Charles Beard, an innocent by.
stander, in the riot yesterday.
The employers sent a big commit
tee OF prominent men to Springfield
this afternoon TO see Governor De-
neen in an effort to nave him call out
the militia. Before leaving the com
mittee adopted a resolution stating
that open rebellion exists in the
streets OF Chicago.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, May 5.-Atter
long onference with Chicago busl-
ness men Governor Deneen today de-
cided not to send the state militia to
Chicago until the conditions are much
worse than they are at present.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor is taking a poll
by telegraph of the members of the
executive council OF the Federation at
Chicago TO ascertain their views re-
garding a settlement of the Chicago
strike
CHICAGO. May 5.-Orders were is.
sued this morning 10 The police 10 az
rest persons indicating tendency to
follow wagons manned by non-union-
lists. Huge caravans were started out
this morning with a heavy guard of
police and special deputy sneriffs. In
the early hours disturbances were few
and unimportant
Besides entailing loss to CONNER
cial interests aggregating millions of
the city and employers about $4,000
a day for armed men. The strikers
are spending about $4,000 daily be-
sides losing wages. The actual ex
ira outlay occasioned by the strike
daily foots up TO about 100000.
The mercantile houses sent out an
increased number of drays today es-
corted by police in buggies.
The strikers concentrated their eff
forts to prevent the Peabody Coal
company from delivering coal to the
Union Traction company, in an ell
deavor to force a suspension of street
car trafic.
A meeting OF leading business men
convened this afternoon for discuss
ing the strike and also to ask the
sheriff to call out the militia.
The fruit commission men received
practically no goods today.
KANSAS CITY, May 5.-Local EN-
ployment agents ceased listing strike
breakers for Chicago today. Either
the demand is supplied or tne system
was too expensive on account OF the
high percentage of desertions. A Chi
cago dispatch says all but thirty of
40 shipped from here last night de-
serted on the way.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.-Dis-
patches from Holbrook, Arizona, say
one Mexican was killed aud hun
dreds OF thousands of dollars worth
of property destroyed as the result oil
a flood breaking the dam at ST
Johns, seventy miles away, That VII
lage was totally wiped out witn heavy
loss of life. The residents OF ho!
brook escaped on the long special
Santa Fe train.
Later-(2 p. m.)-The river has fai-
len four feet at noon and all danger
is now apparently over The damage
10 the town of Holbrook proved to be
very slight, but was only saved by a
narrow margin. the river cutting ITS
way 10 within ten feet OF the resi-
dences. The waters are still wearing
away the banks next to the town ana