Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Strikers. Riot in Rochester. [ARTICLE]

Strikers. Riot in Rochester.

At Rochester, N. Y., the clash that was expected on account of the strike of thi street and building laborers came on schedule time. The union members endeavored to rush a gang of non-union laborers, a squad of police interfered, and a riot followed. The police were badly handled, a dozen of them carrying away bruises and lacerations to show where bricks and stones had hit them. Several of the strikers were roughly dealt with. Bishop Fott.r*. Wlf. Dead. Eliza Rogers Jacob Potter, wife of Protestant Episcopal Bishop Henry C. Potter, died suddenly Sunday in New York at her home at No. 10 Washington square north. Death was due to heart disease, superinduced by the intense heat of the last few days. Child Wife a Suicide. Because her husband, a workingman, was unable to buy her a new dress, Mrs. Mary Laurer, 17 years old, and a bride of only a month, committed suicide at her home in China go by swallowing carbolic acid.