Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — NEAR RIOT IN EVANSVILLE [ARTICLE]

NEAR RIOT IN EVANSVILLE

Work Car Injures Man and Crowd Murmurs Threats. Evansville, Ind., June 15.—Excitement ran high here when a car on the city lines ran down and seriously injured B. F., Knight, a brewery worker. A great crowd, many of its members in sympathy with the striking carmen, gathered, but before threats could be carried out James Pearce, the motorman, was arrested and hurried away. Labor leaders have issued a statement in reply to the ball of a local newspaper for a business men’s meeting with a view of arbitrating the strike. The statement declares that the strikers are prohibited from meeting by temporary Injunction.