People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — A. R. U. MEN FREE. [ARTICLE]

A. R. U. MEN FREE.

Attorney-General Harmon of Wisconsin Quashet Indictments. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 7.—Attorney General Harmon yesterday surprised the members of the American Railway union by quashing indictments against the following well known members of the organization: Eugene V. Debs, George W. Howard, . W. Rogers, Sylvester Keliher, Frank W. Archibald, Cornelius S. McAuliffe, Walter L. Dunn, William Crimmins, John C. Callahan, D. A. Sullivan, Charles Van Ells, Matthew L. Johann, John Poulter, E. B. Dawes, William Hogan, F. Zimmerman, Sims. The indictments grew out of the celebrated strike in 1894, the acts with which the men indicted were charged culminating in the city on July 3 and July 5, 1894. There were two indictments, though not all of the men were included in the second indictment. The first indictment contained two counts. Conspiracy was the principal charge.