Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1919 — SHINY BAYONETS CALM THE CHICAGO RACE RIOTERS. [ARTICLE]

SHINY BAYONETS CALM THE CHICAGO RACE RIOTERS.

I Race war terror and (bloodshed had abated Thursday night after four days and nights of rioting, but violence continued to occur sporadically, notwithstanding a force ’of 6,500 troops and thousands of policemen who were on active duty in the south side negro district. Three negroes died Thursday, making .the official' corrected list (thirty-two, of whom eighteen were negroes. Only one of these was shot Thursday, though a dozen or more of both races were wounded in scattered disturbances, most of them of a minor nature. In the j downtown district a crowd of white men attacked and severely beat a j negro who was on his way home from work. The police rescued the I negro and he was sent home in a patrol wagon. There was no shooting by the troops who were ordered on the streets last night by Governor Frank O. Lowden on the request of Mayor William Hale Thompson.