Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — FOUR PEOPLE KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR PEOPLE KILLED.

The Mining Troubles tn the Northwest Lead to Serious Trouble. A special from Franklin, Wash., says that the white strikers, angercd_at the action of the Oregon Improvement Company in taking negroes to tho New Castle coal mines, started to clean out the negre camps Sunday night. In the scrimmagt four persons were killed. The deputy sheriff, who had been at the scene for th< ytasVfour has called for the militk and two companies left on a special train Later—Companies B and D, of the First Regiment National Guard, left for th< Franklin coal mines on a special train a< one o’clock on the morning of the 29th The only news received so far is that on< white miner was killed and three wounded, and one negro guard wounded. Ovei one hundred shots were 6xoll in the riothe night before.