People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — CRISIS AT OMAHA. [ARTICLE]

CRISIS AT OMAHA.

Two Police Forces Are Doing Buslnemi There To-day. Omaha, Neb., Aug. I.—The situation In Omaha over the effort of the A. P. A. to get control of the police force is becoming more serious hourly. Two police forces are doing business in the city—the present force drawing authority from the present commission, and a new force under authority of a police board under alleged authority of a new law which was passed by the last legislature. A collision Is imminent. The A. P. A.’s have organized and armed a police force to do their bidding. Walt Seeley, who was sent out over the state bv the A. P. A.* combine to feel the pulse of the state militia and find out how they would act in case they were called out by the governor to suppress trouble in Omaha, returned last night. He reports that the soldiers did not give him much encouragement, as they will neither resign nor refuse to fight if ordered into the field by the executive.