Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1894 — MARTIAL LAW. [ARTICLE]

MARTIAL LAW.

Proclamation by the President ol the United States Warning All Atl<>t<-rs Against Lawlessnesg autf Ordering Them to Disperse by Monday Noun. -Sunday—night just before niidnight President Cleveland, at Washington, afte.i a full Cabinet discusßLsnUassiled~tlLe fob lowingproclamation: "Proclamation by the President of the i nited Staunt* "Whereas. By reaon of unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages of persons, it has become - tmpraetica ble in the judgment of the President to enforce by the ordinary course of Judieiai proceedings the laws of the United States wjthin the of Illinois, and especialse ly the city of Chicago within said State; and, ~ "Whereas. That the purpose of enforcing the faithful yxecution-of the laws Of the United States and protecting its property and removing obstructions to the United States mails iir the State and cityaforesaid, the President has employed a part of the military forces of the United ."Now, therefore. T. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, dohereb.v admonish all good citizens and all persons- - who may be or may come within the city and State aforesaid agwnsjcaiiiUtg. emmtenancing, encouraging or taking any part in such unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages; 1 hereby warn all persons engaged in or in any way connected_with such unlawful obstruct ions, combinations and assemblages to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 1? o'clock neon on the 9th day of July instant. Those who disregard tliis warning and persist in taking part with a riotous mob in forcibly resisting and obstructing the execution of the, laws of the United States or interfering witlrtlie functions of the (lovernment or destroying or attempt ing to destroy the property belonging to tiie United Stales or under its protection cannot te regarded otherwise than as public enemies. Tfoops employed against such a riotous mob will act with all moderation and forbearance consistent with the. accomplishment of tiie desired end. but tiie ni'cessities that confront them will not with certainty permit diserinii+iation betweun. gnilty participants and tliose who are mingled with them from curiosity and without criminal intent. The only sale -venrse, -therefore, for those not actual I y unlawfully ptirticipating is to abide at” their homes, or at least not. to be found in the neighborhood trf-riotous assemblages. While there will be no hesitation or vaccination in the decisive treatment of the guilty, this-warning is.especially inlendetP to protect and save the innocent. In testimony whereof. I hereunto set my hand and cause the, seal of the United States to bo affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this Sth day of July, in the, year of our Lori, one thousand eighthundred and ninetv-l'our, and of tiie Independence of the I nited States of America, the one hundred and eighteenth. G ItOVER CI.E VELA XI >. By the President, W. Q. Gresham. Secretary of State. This is the action which Gen. Miles has desired from tiie start of the troubles, as it gives him more ample authority in tiie city. The War Department sent a dispatch to Gen. Miles givhtg -him full authority. The. Presidi'iivand Cabinet are watching the_developments with tlia utmost vigilance.

LATER. The. storm center Sunday wa« at laininond. ind. Saturday night a inoJj was in-possession and no troops in sight. They ransacked the Western Union telegraph office, overturned freight, ears and coni' milted all kinds of depredatloiis. Five railroad employes were Mounded at th< -hands of-the mob, one fatally. The outbound Sunday passenger train from Chi 4 cago, on the Monon real, was brought t\i a halt by the men. Engineer and firemen were made-to dismount and- the. locomotive was quickly "killed” by opening a valve and allowing the water to run oui of tiie boiler. Tlig active loaders of the mob Were not local strikers or known to the Hammond people. Under their leadership, however, the town was terrorized throughout th i night. and railroad trail!e para 1 yzi d. Boldly operating in the, center of town, the mol) had nearly everything its own way. The worst trouble came about 3 a. m., when in a skirmish with railway employes. three mon were lai I low in a bunch. Two other railroad nu n w re badly injured in other encounters, 'The man whose wounds are supposed -to ba mortal is 11. B. Miles, an employe of the. Interloeking Switch Company. Sunday afternoon in attempting to move the north bound Monon train at Hatninond the United States troops were compelled to tire into a crowd of strikers and sympathizers. Ciias. Fleislicher was instantly killed and five others seriously injured. None of tile persons shot were strikers but merely onlookers. At.a o'clock ten cars came in over the Michigan Central bringing about two hundred soldiers. The train also hud a wrecking car attached. The erew had been clearing up the tracks which all the way from Kensington had been blocked by overturned box ears. The Michigan t'eiitaal succeeded in removing all obstructions by 7 o’clock and several trains were run out from Chicago. Gov. Matthews, at midnight; Saturday, ordered out the State troops to go to liaintnond. Eight hundred men from all the points north of Indianapolis received orders to mobilize at Hammond l)y Sunday night. Sheriff Fredericks sent to the Governor, Sunday morning, the following dispatch: United States marshals saved; they are in bed. Send militia to get them h line. Everything else wrecked. About twentyeight box cars turned over across tiie tracks. One Pullman ear burned; two with windows all smashed. On tiie, Monon every telegraph operator driven from has office. Employes pounded. I wapowerless to stop tiie rioting, which 1 have told all along. There will be no danger now in tiie daytime, hut look out for breakers at night. I have been up aii ifight and arn going to bed. After sheriff Fredericks dispatch had been sent the mob learned the fact in some way and an attack was made on the W. U. Telegraph office. The operators were driven out and the office wrecked. Then they beat with a coupling pin the switch inspector,, though he was not seriously wounded. During the night cars were overturned on every track so as to wreck trains on three or tour roads. The windows of the Pullman coaches were riddled with stones. Ata late hour Sunday night all was quiet at Hainmond. IW. M. Eggington. general overseer at the Elwood diamond plate glass works had his eyes nearly burned curwfth nitric add, Thursday.