Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-04
AMBUSH GUARDS
ON DUTY AT Min nE
in STAuNT0N, ind
Staunton, Ind, Aug. 4.-First hostties with
taking of Indiana mines by the state occurred
today when national guardsmen on guard duty

here were fired upon
from ambush.
The fire was returned
by the soldiers.
Reports received by Nal. Gen.
/ TyndaIl in command of the troops
/ sa!l that no one was injured. Military
C'.h ials said that altlt) the firing
lasted several hours the attacking
party was small and came from near
| by towns with the announcement
that ,hey We're going to get flock
| of soldiers"
They fired on an outpost and the
fire was Immediately returned.
AS a result of this firing whenever
there was any movement in the
woods nearby the guardsmen fred.
offers in command ot the troops
said that the affair ,JaS a minor
sKlrish'
Await Hardng's Next Move.
Chicago, August IA. P)-De-
velopments in the railroad strike were
confined to speculation as to what the
of violence from various points dur
ing the last twenty-four hours.
Union officials today were awaiting
word from President Harding with re-
gard to their message accepting his
proposals for ending the walkout.
Railroad executives and strike leaders
still maintained their attitudes On the
question of seniority, the executives
insisting that-rights of men who stay
ed at work and new men be respected,
and union chiefs holding out for res
toratiOn of rights to strikers.
Considerable Violence Reported.
At Waco, Texas a guard in the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas shops was
shot thru the groin in an argu.
ment with a fireman.
Union Pacific trainmaster was seiz-
ed on the main street of Las Vegas,
Nevada taken several miles out into
the desert and given coat of tar
and excelsior by number of men.
At the same town four women at
tackled the wife of a Union Pacific
roundhouse foreman as she was car
rying dinner to her husband. She was
beaten severely
Two men were injured and half a
dozen windows in passenger coach
were broken when crowd of men
stoned an Illinois Central train at
New Orleans, La.
At Birmingham Ala, two white
men We're wounded, a negro woman
wounded and another negro woman in
1ured severely by being trampled upon
in a clash between non-unon workers
and striking shopmen of the st. Louis
San Francisco railr><d police report
said The white men and one of the
negro women We're shot One of the
men was seriously wounded.
Mayor COwart of Waycross, Ga,
revoked the licenses Of two barber
shops where BARRIERS refused to shave
non-union men. The shops continued
to operate, but the proprietors and
BARRIERS We're summoned to appear in
court to answer charges of doing busi-
ness without licenses.
Deadlock on Street Car Strike.
Chicago. Aug. 4.-The fourth day Of
Chlcago's street car strike saw repre-.
sentatiVoS Of the car companies and
strike leaders in an apparent deadlock
over terms fOf settlement.
Meanwhile Mayor Thompson and
the city council were considering plans
for the purchase and operation of city
owned motor busscs through appro.
priatiOns from the $50, ,O00,O0 traction
fund.
In a communication to the council
yesterday the m@yOr suggested appro.
priation of S3,000000 for the purpose
aud Alderman Oscar Olsen introduced
a resolution to that effect
Under the mayors plan the busses
would be operated on scent fares.
number of municipality operated busseI
are now running, with fare of
cents.
Meet on Peace Proposal.
Washington. Aug. 4.-Representa-
tives of the six striking shop crafts
unions on the Southern Railway will
meet in Washington tomorrow with
II. W. Miller, vic president in charge
of operations on the system, to con.
slider proposals for settlement of the
strike on the basis suggested by Pres
ident Harding to the executives of all
the railroads
No Coal for Illinois.
Chicago. August 4.-Illinois, restrict
ed to its own supply of coal, faces the
most critical situation that ii has been
compelled to face, according to Rob-
ert NJ, Medill, state fuel director.
Protection is TO be assured to the
twenty-six penal, reformatory and
charitable institutions and possibly to
the university of Illinois and the state
normal schools.
Mr. Medill left Chicago late yester-
day for Springfield where he went to
confer with acting Governor Sterling.
Before he departed. he said:
Illinois now is absolutely up
against it, | am going to the capital
70 a~raupo If noSsihie with acting