The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-03-28
ONE MAN SLAIN
IN WILD R|0T|NG
City Of Rock Island is Under Martial
Law To-day.
GUARDS PARADE THE STREETS
Outbreak is the Result of a War Be.
tween the Mayor and a Newspa-
per Editor-Mayor Beats up
Editor-Is in Hospital.

Rock Island, Ill.,, Mar. 27.-Special ::
With one man dead and another dy-
ing and nine in the hospital badly
wounded and four others hurt as re.
suit of battle between the police
and mob. Martial law has taken
nois National Guard are patrolling the
streets. Infatuated by the speeches
of Harry McCaskin, candidate for
nomination for state attorney, Edwin
Gardener, editor of the labor paper,
and several other speakers, a crowd
gathered and went to the police sta
ton and when the mayor did not ap-
pear the men threw rocks and stones
at the building and the police march
ed into the street, headed by the may.
or and fired volleys into the crowd
wounding many. One man Whose
name is given as J. L. Kelly, is dead.
Another man known as Ray Swigle
was taken to the hospital and will
die. Others who were wounded were
taken to the hospitals and some are
IN critical COnQltlOnS.
Mayor J. NJ. Schriever recently be-
gan a campaign to clear the city OF
undesirable persons, so he announced,
but his enemies declared that he
wanted to GUST his political enemies.
Mutterings of discomfort have been
growing louder for several days. The
other day the eritor of weekly news
paper scathingly denounced the may
or and the mayor ordered that the is
sue of the paper be suppressed.
Announcement of the publication
was made at a mass meeting of oppo'
nents of the mayor and after the
meeting a large crowd went to the
newspaper office Monday night to get
copies of the paper. The mayors op'
ponents had been angered by the fact
mat Mayor Schreiver had physicalis
chastised the editor Of the paper for
previous editorial assertions. The po'
lice ordered the crowd from in front
of the newspaper office and beat back
the people with clubs.
Many arrests were made and a
small riot ensued. Yesterday the body
of Frank b. Potts, of WinOna juno
ton. Wis, was found in a hallway
1t was reported that he had been kill
ed in the riot. Feeling ran high and
a mass meeting was called for last
night. Petitions for the recall o.
Mayor Schreiyer and Commissioner
Hart were circulated at the meeting
A crowd gathered after the meeting
swearing vengeance for the attacks
made on the crowd at the newspaper
office the evening before. Some oil
the rioters declared that the police
had murdered Potts, although physf
clans announce that the man probably
died of appoplexy.
Fl. NJ. McCaskin, candidate for dis
trict attorney, at whose meeting the
crowd formed to go to the newspaper
Office on Monday night, di5Claimed re
sponsibility for the action OF the moi
that attacked the police station last
nigh.
paper that angered Mayor SchrelVer
is now in a hospital, recovering from
injuries sustained during his fgh'
with the mayor.
The entire Sixth regiment of state
troops, twelve companies from ten
towns, have been ordered by Cover
nor Deneen to report here tonight anc
preserve order under command OF Al
jutant General Dickson. An attempt
was made today to assasslnatt
Mayor Scheiver when bullet was
sent from a high power rifle was fired
from distance through the window
of his Office, just missing him. More
rioting is feared tonight. Threat
have been made to dynamite the city
hall. The troops here will remain
iuntil after the primary election.