Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-30
ST. RS RESUME
fierce R|OT|NG
LUMBER DELIVERIES REsULTIN
FURTHER DISTURBANCES.
STREETS BLOCKED BY MoBs
Police Forced to Open Fire in Order
to Dispense Rioters-Building
Industry Rapidly Being
Tied UP.

Industry Rapidly Being
Tied UP.
Chicago, May 27.-State's Attorney
Healy announced Friday that next week
he will turn the grand jury into a strike
Investigating body, to probe all phases
of the struggle. Mr.. Healy will take per-
sonal charge of the jurors. The states
attorney invites all persons who have
any knowledge Of the strike to become
witnesses and tell all they know. Slug
ging, conspiracy, blacklisting and any
thing that pertains to the strike will be
gone into, whether it affects the labor
side or the employers.
Fierce Riots General.
The forcing of lumber deliveries with
nonunion teamsters Friday caused
6erce riots, In which bricks and clubs
were used. Caravans of lumber wagons
were attacked by mobs, determined to
prevent the passage of the vehicles, and
battle after battle occurred.
Acaravan was attacked at Twenty-sec-
ond street and Ashland avenue by a
crowd of pickets, who, taking advantage
of the small number of police on hand,
hurled bottles and other missiles at the
drivers. The street was blocked in a
few minutes by the mob that collected.
and the wagons were stalled. The police
guard advanced in a body and ordered
The mob to dispense, but the hooting and
5eering only increased. The police then
AroH nyraY fhn hnolc nf tho nrouyl u,hioh
became panic-stricken and broke up.
Two men were arrested and the wagons
proceeded on their way.
Another riot occurred at Sixteenth
street and Blue Island avenue, when q
wagon Of the John Spry Lumber COM
pany was forced into a rut by another
truck. Several hundred boisterous men
surrounded 1t, and the police charged
the crowd after a number of bricks had
been thrown. In a riot at Thirty-ffth
and Morgan streets Policeman George
Heape was hit on the head with a brick
and seriously hurt. A mob of 400 men
attacked 8 nonunion driver and was re-
pulsed with difficulty by the police. In
another disturbance in the lumber dis
trict ten men were arrested for refusing
to dispense when commanded.
Fresh Complication Sets In.
The building industry in Chicago is
rapidly being tied up by the Transfers
strike, and now a fresh complication has
appeared in sympathetic strikes among
carpenters and other building workmen.
AT dozens of buildings the contractors
Rann1 thu o1farpofir,n ~ co-Jin. I..I.
consignments of lumber delivered by
nonunion teamsters or having strikes on
their hands.
In a number Of these instances the
humber was accepted by the contrac-
&ors, whereupon the carpenters and
other workmen promptly laid down
their tools and quit. So serious has the
6carvu 10000 men would be thrown
out of work before night. These include
furniture makers, lumber handlers, lum-
Der showers and carpenters.
If the strike continues a few lays
longer the whole building industry will
be at a standstill. In addition almost all
other lines Of business will be crippled.
About 5000 furniture makers will be out
Of work. Six thousand lumber handlers
In the yards, 1000 lumber showers at the
docks, and 5000 carpenters will be idle.
Shea Escapes Jail.
Bernard Mulligan, president of the
Express Wagon Drivers union, and
John H. Donaghue, a member of that
organization, were ordered to jail
Thursday by Judge Kohlsaat. Cor
nelius P. Shea, president of the Team
sters' International union, who was
cited for contempt with the other two
labor leaders, escaped punishment be-
cause he was under indictment by the
Cook county grand jury.
Judge Kohdsaat decided that if Shea
answered questions which were put to
him in the hearing before Master in
Chancery Sherman he might incrim-
1nate himself by admitting that he was
guilty Of conspiracy to injure the bust
ness OF Montgomery Ward & Co. On this
Hroundthe judge declared that Shea need
not answer certain questions that had
been asked Of him in the hearing before
Master in Chancery Sherman.
Mulligan and Donaghue were taken to
excuse as Shea for refusing to answer
The questions. Judge Kohlsaat held
them both In contempt and ordered Null
ligan taken to the Du Page county Jail
ut Wheaton and Donaghue to the Kane
county lookup at Geneva, The Judge or.
dered that the two leaders should be
locked up until they agreed to answer
certain questions asked of them or un-
I'll released by due process of law.
Mulligan and Donaghue were taken 10
the Briggs house, where they will re-
main for five days in nominal charge
Of Deputy United States Marshals Ruel
and Griffith. Meanwhile their attorneys
will perfect a review before anotherfed-
eral judge on habeas corpus proceedings,
on the outcome of which depends their
release.
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