Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — TURBULENCE AT CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

TURBULENCE AT CHICAGO.

Import?!! Str»»t-(>rW<>rkin»n Again Attacked by a Mob of Slrik •»». , ’Chicago, Oct. 21—Judging from the experiences of this afternoon and last night, the imported conductors and drivers in the employ of the North Chicago Street Railway Company will continue to have indefinitely, “a hard road to traveL” Fully three hundred of the old hands are now out of work, mainly OWinjuthey clgim, to an unfair construction placed by President Yerkes upon the agreement of last Sunday. All these men and their sympathizers are intensely bitter in Renunciation lof the new men. In addition to the outbreak after the Blaine procession, last night, there was another serious tumult this afternoon. Claybourn avenue and Halsted street was the scene of the disorder to-day.. At this point huge timbers and loads of briek were suddenly, and with no little show of system, thrown across the street, forming a series of obstructions resembling in some respects regulation barricades. The neighborhood is densely populated with working people, and these being idle on Sunday, filled the sidewalks windows and house-tops. All women passengers and several men of the first car to approach, had been frightened off by crowds of yelling boys before reaching the obstructions. A couple of strangers in the city, a reporter, the conductor and, driver and the two policemen acting as guards were the only ones who remained. When the car was brought to a halt the air became black with missiles flying from house topsand windows. The car was literally bombarded; shouts and imprecations of all kinds were as plentiful as the missiles, the lead in this part of the affair being taken by the women mixed in the mob. The riot virtually ended with the arrival of a timely patrol wagon filled with police. The crowds were dispersed without serious trouble, little or no pounding of heads being necessary on the part of the officers. The mob reassembed immediately, howOVAT—TV hPU fkiM Wflcmn VlzAyva vTti, vv xrvxJt tilt; W VLx vl”tzevx 71 prisoner was rescued from two officers who were left behind, and the pair of police were being roughly handled when the wagon returned in the nick of time. So far as known not a person was hurt dangerously.