Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — TWO CRISES IN PROSPECT [ARTICLE]

TWO CRISES IN PROSPECT

Situation at Hanging .Rook, 0., Where Thera Are Labor Trouble* Calling for Ohio Troop*.

Hanging Rock, 0., June 3. —A crisis in the strike situation here will be reached soon. The soldiers will take into custody a union man and striker who Is said to be a leader of the forces which the troops have been sent here to quell. The soldiers have started a house-to-house search for arms and are confiscating all they find either in the hands of union or non-union men.

This is one crisis. The other is the imminence, as allaged, of an end to the strike. The state board of arbitration Is at work, and It Is stated that an agreement has nearly been reached. This agreement Involves the discharge of the non-union men and the return of the union men to their old places, according to report.