Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — MOBS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS [ARTICLE]

MOBS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS

Come In Collision at Lemont, Illinois. The strike which has been in progress at the stone quarries and on the canal at Lemont, 111., for some time assumed a serious phase, Friday. At noon an encounter took place between deputy sheriffs, armed with Winchester rifles, and a mob of the strikers. One man was killed and fourteen. badly wounded. Thirty of the strikers were captured by the sheriffs. The situation was regarded as so serious that the Governor at Springfield was called on for troops, and he ordered out the second regiment and a part of Col. Bennett’s regiment to report at Lemont at once.