The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-21
R|OT IN STREETS
 OF PHILADELPHIA
Demonstration By Foreigners
 Brings on Trouble
MANY TAKEN TO HOSPITALS.
Two Policemen Are Badly Beaten, While Several of the Leaders of the Paraders Are Bruised
 and Others Arrested.

Philadelphia February 2O.-The march, ing of nearly 1000 foreigners upon the city hall where they said they intended to make a demonstration upon Mayor Rey- burn for work, precipitated a riot in Broad street in the heart of the city late this afternoon in which 20 persons were injured before the police, by picturesque and heroic methods, dispersed the march, CTS and arrested IA of them.
 The men, most of whom were Italians and Poles, marched from the foreign set They intended to call on the Mayor as a preliminary to a meeting which they in- tended to hold in a hall tonight The leaders and a score of others in the line carried red flags having a black border. When they reached Broad street few blocks below the city hall, several wagons attempted to pass through the line, and the drivers were dragged from their seats by the marchers and badly beaten.
 Policemen ran to the rescue of the drive CTS and a riot call was sent in. The motor bicycle police were sent flying through the center of the city and rounded up the entire mounted police squad, the big re- serve street squad and all patrolmen who were hurried to the scene in wagons and automobiles. The reserve police force from six central districts were also hur- ried out.
 Blood Is Shed.
 number of persons who were watching the paraders got into the first disturbance and when the big reserve force Of police hurried down upon the marchers gun f1p4 4l,f raI CTS drew revolvers and began firing at the police, and the mounted squads, riding into the center of the fight, used their ba- tons right and left upon the heads Of the leaders In the melee three policemen were shot and slightly wounded, and Charles Mum, who was watching the fight, was struck in the leg by stray bullet Reserve Officer Pott was beaten unmercifully and is in a hospital. as Is Policeman Smith, who first went to the rescue of the drivers who were attacked. Harry Druding, one of these, was beaten and nearly stripped of his clothes, and IA pafticipdnts in the demonstration were so severely clubbed by the police that they had to be sent to hospital.
 These IA were either foremost in the ranks of the marchers or were flag car riers who were singled out by the police and arrested when it was ascertalned that the men had secured no permit from the city officials to parade. sThe clash with the police occurred directly in front of one of the big hotels on Broad street, and for few moments it looked as though the marchers would sweep into the place.
 Josepn Troi is declared by the police to have been the leader of the marchers, while Dominic Donetti and Michael Cos tello were assistants, Donetti according to witnesses, is the man who shot one or the policemen, and with the other two he was locked up on charges of melting to riot, assault and battery with intent to kill The other II prisoners are charged with incitlng to riot. Nearly all of those arrested carried weapons of some sort. They oeny being anarchists