Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — MILITIA STOPS RIOTS. [ARTICLE]

MILITIA STOPS RIOTS.

THREATENED TROUBLE AT PANa, ILL., AVERTED BY SOLDIERS. The Presence of Nearly 700 State Troops Awee the Strikers Into Quieter Ways— Golden Jubilee of the Y. M. C. A. Closes In London. Srikers Calming Down. The presence at Pana, IIL, of the First Regiment from Chicago has undoubtedly accomplished good. There has been no attempt on the part of the invading strikers to attack the few men working in the neighboring mines and Sheriff H. W. Johnson is'firmly convinced that the splendid showing of military order and the grim appearance of the rifles, cartridge belts and Gatling gun has had its effect and the gathering mobs of Springfield miners lounging about on Pope's farm and thal vicinity will soon disperse. There are over 687 men in camp. The authorities have abandoned the idea that the invading strikers will attack either Camp Orendorff or the outer lines, says a Pana dispatch. The mobs, however, are growing larger, and a lounger who strolled into the Big Four depot from Pope's farm says the men are determined to c impel any miners who begin work to stop immediately. The ringleaders of the mobs who affect indifference over the wellestablished military post within easy call say they will close the Pana mines if they have to stay six months. That they are largely braggarts was shown by their non-in-terference with a large party of miners who re-enforced the small number at work in the Penwell mine. Col. Hugh E. Rayle, Assistant Adjutant General, made a tour of the mines in the immediate vicinity of the city and reported that seventy men out of a possible eight hundred are at work. A conference of the mine operators held in a hotel near the Illinois Central depot decided that .an attempt should be made to resume operations in all the mines. Slsiriff Johnson thinks that if tho sheriff of Peoria County can quell any uprising in his district with a force of deputies armed by the thirty stands of small arms that General Orendorff sent from Springfield, his men can certainly take care of the mobs in Pana.