Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — TROOPS HELD IN READINESS [ARTICLE]

TROOPS HELD IN READINESS

Will Be Send to Kenosha If Rioting Is Resumed In That City. Milwaukee. Wis., July 23.—Anticipating a further outbreak following the rioting at the plant of the Allen tannery where three strikers were shot, state troops were being held in readiness here to proceed on a moment’s notice to Kenosha. General Otto H. Falk, in charge of the Wisconsin state troops, declared that at the first sign of further rioting he would order a troop of cavalry and two regiments of Infantry to the scene. The rioting began when the guards attempted to disperse strikers who gathered in numbers about the entrance of the plant to jeer at 200 or more men who remained at work. One of the men shot is injured severely.