Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — CLUB HOOSE SET ON FIRE [ARTICLE]

CLUB HOOSE SET ON FIRE

Mine Manager Wounds Boy and Stirs tire ire of Angry Mob. Rioting Caused by Dissatisfaction Over New Eight Hour Act—Village Shop Looted. London, Jan, 28. —A strike of the Horden colliery at West Hartlepool owing to dhs": i'-fm-tton in connection With the now eight hours act has led to several disturbances during the past few days. Tho worst outbreak occurred when strikers looted a vilIneg shop and attacked the hones of the colliery manager. They snr shed every window in the building .-nd torroriimd the inhabitants. The men:'. - , r. hoping to frighten the rioters or to summon the police, Ilred a shotgun ana injured a 1. d. The mob then forced an entrance into the house in an attempt to lynch, the nfhtm ger. who took refuge upstairs. , The police arrived in time to protect him. Wb le the police were thus withdrawn another party of strikers set tire to a large new club house which the colliers managers had built and equipped for their men at a cost of 10,600 pounds. Tiie building was soon consumed