Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — RIOTS GALORE. [ARTICLE]

RIOTS GALORE.

Fatal Conflict Bitwern Detroit Official* •nd a Poli«h Mob. At Detroit. Wednesday, a riot of serious proportions was precipitated by a difference of opinion over wages to be paid laborers at work on the trenches being dng for an extension of the waterworks. The city water commission decided to pay by the cubic yard, hut" for several days 30C Poles had hung about the locality declaring that they would neither work nor allow others to work for less than 11.53 per day. Sheriff Collins and five deputies went to tho scene to protect those who wished to work. After consider wrangling the irate Poles concluded to annihilate the officers and a fight ensued In which two Polish rioters were killed and fifteen persons were shot and more or less injured. Sheriff Collins was badly lacerated by the shovels of the enraged rioters. Twenty of the rioters were arrested during the afternoon an 1 an intensely bitter feeling prevails among Ute laboring classes.