People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — STARVATION IN MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

STARVATION IN MICHIGAN.

Several Hundred Iron Mountain Laborer* Threaten Bloodshed. Iron Mountain, Mich., April 30. Poor Commissioner McClintock handed his resignation to Chairman McNaughton of the county board Friday afternoon. Five hundred idle workmen had met and unanimously passed a resolution giving him two hours to leave the city or suffer the consequences. Everyone who marched through the streets was given an order for two dollars on the poor commissioner good at any store. During the afternoon 300 orders were issued to married men. Single men cannot get orders and are getting boisterous. A conservative estimate places the number in the city absolutely without food at 2,500. Friday night fully 600 men gathered in a building in Chapin location. The men are nearly all Ital ians aud Finlanders, with a sprinkling of Swedish, Cornish and Austrians. Scores of deputy sheriffs are on duty.