People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — SENT HOME. [ARTICLE]

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Fart of the Militia on Duty at Chicago Recalled. Chicago, Aug. 1. — Mayor Hopkins sent a telegram at noon to Gov. Altgeld recommended that eight companies of the First regiment on duty at various points along the Illinois Central railroad within the city limits be withdrawn from service. Three companies of the First-will be retained at Pullman under the command of a major. The Second regiment, which is in service in the stock yards district, will be kept in the field for some time yet, the mayor indicating that neither they nor the troops at Pullman would be repalled until the strike had been declared off. Gov. Altgeld during the afternoon complied with Mayor Hopkin’s request.