The Detroit times., 1912-03-27
SOLDIERS ON DUTY WHERE
ONE WAS KILLED AND MANY
HURT IN POLITICAL RIOTS
Attempt Is Made To Assassinate
Mayor, Object of Last
Nights Attack
REGIMENT ORDERED OUT.
Mob Tries To Attack City
Executive and Police Open
Fire On Members
THE DEAD.

THE DEAD,
y. heilOgg, 90. engineer. of Dsven-
pors, :hot through arm, died OF frfxhf.
according tc physicians.
THE wOUNDEDs
raymond swingie, Is, OF Rock ISL
snd. shot through the abdomen. viii
aIe, William VogeI, -, Rock IsIsnd.
shot through left kidneyt WfIIi.rs
nnsuck, n, j.. shot through Ieft hips ;.
ieu hip, Lee a. Fawcetf. Moline. rkef
through neck, DIR. Alfred stoeker. a.
shot through palm OF hand. while bank
aging nm Injured man. 3.
toout IL Others were hit by bricks
nnd other missiles. Most OF these were
sent tn their homes.
ROCK ISLAND, Ills, March 27.--5
Ihe entire Sixth regiment OF the ILL.,
nois National Guard has been ordered
10 Immediate duty here by Gov.
Deneen, as the result OF last nights
rlotlng and bieedshed. The regiment,
composed of between 900 and 1000
men. VIII be assembled here by to-
night. Adjutant General Frank 3.
Dickson will be in charge. Gov.
Deneen was informed by Mayor Harry
M. Schriver and Commissioner of Pub
lie SAFETY Hart that it will be neces-
sary to keep the troops here until
after the primary election April 9 to
prevent further rioting.
An attempt to assassinate the
mayor was made today. Mayor
Schriver was standing In the police
station when bullet fired from
high-powered rifle crashed through the
window and buried itself in the wall
above the mayors shoulder. The DO
lice could find no trace of the would
be assassin.
Grave fears are entertained by the
officials that further rioting will oc-
cur tonight, as the business portion
or the town may be in entire dark
ness. The electric light wires that
feed all the street lights were cut at
dawn.
Threats have been made that the
city hall would be dynamited If the
troops We're brought in.
Adjt-Gen. Dickson is expected to
arrive here late this afternoon and
will immediately take charge OF the
city. IL the situation warrants, he
will declare martial law as he has
been given full power to deal with the
situation by Gov Deneen.
Business is practically suspended
and the city is almost isolated from
Moline and Davenport, adjacent
towns. Persons OF suspicious charac-
ter are not permitted to enter Rock
Island.
ali pedestrians moving.
dying and many in the hospitals
desperately wounded as the re-
suit of a battle between the police
and mob. infrriated over local poll
ticai developments OF the last few
weeks. civil law in this town has
practically been suspended today
Members of the Illinois National
Guard are patrolling the streets, all
saloons are closed and no one is al
lowed to loiter about the streets.
The trouble which led up TO last
nights bloodshed grew out of bit
ter political fight that has been rag.
ing for a. month or more between
Mayor Harry NJ. Schriver, Rock Is
lands first mayor under the commits
sion form of government, and the
men opposed to him and the politi.
cal machine he has built about his
Office.
lnfuriated by the speeches OF Harry
McCaskrin. candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for states attorney,
Edward Gardner, editor of labor pa
per and several other speakers in
Market Square last night, the crowd
gathered by these orators went to
the police station, demanding a speech
from Mayor Schriver, answering the
charges against his administration.
When Schriver failed to appear
some members of the mob began
throwing stones at the station house.
This outbreak was the signal for de-
termined measures against the mob.
The mayor ordered Chief OF Police
James BTinn TO clear the streets
Schriver, with Brinn, appeared in the
tCoutinued on Page Four.)