The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-05

Men Not Connected With the Dis
turhane. nj All Were Roughly
Handled.
Chicago. May 2.-The strike situa-
ton in Chicago assumed a peculiar as
pect today, and tonight the interests
which have been opposing the striking
Transfers are not rs united as hereto
fore. The case of this slight dissen-
sion IS the Team Owners Association,
which has contracts with the railroads
and many Of the large firms through
Out the city TO transfer their merchan-
disc. Until today it was supposed that
the Employers Association and their
allies were firmly bound together i'll
the fight for supremacy against the
teamsters.
The Team Owners Association
which employs non but union teanl-
sters, fatty refused this afternoon to
make deliveries 10 any of the firms in
rolved in the strike, when asked TO do
SO by the Emp!o-erS' Association at Il
conference at the Union League Club.
When the employers received this u
~tinlatum they notified the team wne"
that unless tie request that no discriln-
llations were made in deliveries was
granted an effort would be made to
Lave all existing contracts between
team owners and the business houses
and the railroads cancelled.
During the day the employers a
informed Mayor Dunno and Chief of
Police O'NeilI that they intended 10
move tomorrow 1885 wagons, owned
by them and the different express COM
pan.es and canned 10y n~On-union men.
This necesSitated Il call for the swear
ing in of 1900 additional policemen,
but after the conference at the Union
League Club, the employers modified
their plans and informed the city hall
officials thai they would only increase
very slightly the number of wagons in
SCI vice. Although the plans have been
81 anGed as to the moving of the wag-
on>, the new men will be added to he
police force tomorrow, and will be put
On strike duty as rapidly as they are
needed. Nine hundred of them will be
paced on State street alone. The large
retail establishments have announced
that they will make deliveries. There
have been numerous complaints OF the
Interference by the strikers with wO-
men shoppers and he authorities have
determined to put an effectual stop to
all such practices.
Judge j. J. Scholsaat, of the United
States Circiut Court, at h request Of
the attorneys representing the seven
express companies today issued a tenn
porary injunction restraining all per-
sons from interfering with the wagons
OF the petitioners, or the men employed
upon them.
The fighting today in the streets was
even more fierce and savage than that
of Yesterday. The strikers and their
sylupathiZers attacked the n~on-unioa
men at every opportunity, assisting
them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives
and any and every other offensive wet
pom upon which they could lay their
bands. The fighting occurred in the
heart of the business section of the
city. men being shot down within t~o
hundred feet of the retail store of Mar
shall Field * Company, and dubbed
nearly to death at the corner Of the
Auditorium hotel, in plain view Of hun
dreds of ladies who were compelled 10
run from the mob to save their own
lives. In many instances men walking
along tie streets who had no active
connection whatever with the strike
were assaulted by nooliums who beat
them first and later accused them d
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stance OF his kind was that Of K y.
W. X Wheeler. pastor OF the Ninth
Presbyterian church. vino. while pass
ing the corner OF Des PLANES ami
.3dams street OH his way to the Penn
Syiyania depot. was attacked by three
lien, who knocked him down Il beat
him numerically, until the timely arri-
val Of the police saved him from fuT-
ther injury. Mr.. Wheeler managed 20
hold one Of his assaiiants until the
police could arrest him.
William Miles. a colored waiter,
while at work in q lunch room at
Adams and Sangamon streets, half a
mile frorl any former scene OF riof.n.
during the strike, was also a victim Of
the strikers fury, although he had ha..
no connection whatever with the trou-
bic. He was accused Of being a strike
breaker, was pounded on the head with
a billy, knocked down and trampletl
upon. Miles was removed to the hos
pitaI where his injuries were pro-
nounced severe.
As far az known but one man was
killed during the day, Charles Beard.
struck in the forehead in q fight near
tho xraffa~S-ru Hotel Uo d.0a - =