The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-28
BATTLE
WITH BIC Mob
THREE KILLED
ROCK ISLAND OFFICERS AND
STRIKERS ENGAGE IN
FIERCE BATTLE, !
Attempt Made to Assassinate Mayor
schriver by an Unknown Party Who
Fired from Top of Building Several
Blocks Distant.

Rock Island, ILL.,, March 27.-An un-
successful attempt to assassinate
Mayor Schriver at the city hall was
made this morning by an unidentified
person, who fired a rifle bullet thru
the mayors office window from the
top Of building several squares dis
tant.
The bullet missed Mayor Schriver,
who was standing in front of the
window, and buried itself in the wall
of the office. Militiamen and deputy
sheriffs at once started search for
the person who fired the shot.
Sheriff BruDer, after an inIestiga-
ton, declared the shot had been ac-
cidentally fired by a deputy sheriff
who was loading riot gun.
Despite quiet in all parts of the
city this morning, the sheriff, police
and the militia prepared to resist a
resumption tonight of the rioting
which resulted in three deaths and
the wounding of nine persons here
last night.
Sheriff o. L. Bruner said today:
Although everything looks peace
full now, there is an undercurrent Of
vicious feeling against the police, and
| epect an attack by the mob tonight
My deputies report that number of
desperate characters jim Davenport,
Moline and Rock Island are today
carrying around the word that they
VIII run the militia into the Missis-
sippi river tonight. This feeling in
my opinion, will get stronger as the
day goes on"
Last nights rioting continued prac-
tically unchecked for three hours.
The police said there were more than
5000 persons in the mob which surged
through the downtown district
After the attack on the police sta
tion had been repulsed by volley
from the weapons of the officers, the
authorities found a dozen dead or
wounded men in the streets.
Three companies of the Illinois
National Guard ordered by Governor
Deneen to quell the riot last night,
in which three persons were killed,
two perhaps fatally wounded, and
nearly dozen Of others slightly hurt,
controlled the situation today.
The mob attacked the city jail iasc
night in an attempt to relea 5e sym
pathizers with John Looney, publisher
Of a weekly paper, which had severe
ly criticised Mayor II. NJ Schriver.
During the last three days the peo-
pie have been stirred up over the
controversy between the editor and
the mayor, anG last night the police
arrested two speakers who were ad-
dressing a crowd. This infamed the
friends of Editor Looney, and they
began to, hurl stones at the police
and break windows of the police sta
tion.
Mayor Schriver, who was directing
the police, ordered the officers to fire
on the mob. Three men were in
stantly killed and about dozen were
wounded.
The mob dispersed, but reformed
after an hour and attempted to pro-
cure arms from hardware store.
The police surrounded the store and
were able to drive back the mob.
The sheriff, shortly before midnight,
asked Governor Deneen for the state
troops to assist the police in Dreserv-
ing order. The local militia company
and a company from Moline, five miles
away, reached here before daylight,
and a company from Galesburg ar
rived early today.