Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — PUTTING DOWN THE RIOTS. [ARTICLE]

PUTTING DOWN THE RIOTS.

Magazine Broken Open and a Quantity ol Dynamite Stolen. A Duluth, Minn., special says: There has been consideable rioting on the Mesaba range. Gov. Nelson cubed out the militia, and latest reports are to the effect that they are quelling the trouble. Word was received fi om Virginia that 700 strikers were marching up and down the streets denouncing the owners of the mines and the men still at work in the most violent terms. Much excitement was caused at Virginia when it was learned that a magazine at a mine near the village had been broken open during the night and a number of kegs of gunpowder and some dynamite seized. About 500 men were out. The militiamen were greeted with hoots and jeers while they were forming in line. The seat of greatest trouble seems to be at the Franklin mine, where the men claim that the wages paid are not sufficient to live on. They have been getting 20 cents a car. At the Oliver and Auburn mines and on the Auburn spur $1.35 to $1.50 day was paid. The men demand $1.65 for miners and $1.50 for common labor. A strikers’ committee was in conference with the owners and managers of the mines nearly all the afternoon and evening. Sheriff Sharvv and the militia have been called to Mountairt Ii on, where an outbreak in which there was some shooting is reported, and preparations were made to move at once to that place, leaving Virginia for the time being to the mercy of the strikers. As tne strike covers much territory it is quite probable that more of Duluth’s militiamen will be called out. The men are in waiting.