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Fire On Rioters

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ottawa, Hls., Jan. 9.- The miners at Rutland were up in arms and ready for Irouble early Friday morning. Sheriff ïockey and his corps of twenty deputies arrived in Rutland at 3 o'clock in the morning. At G:30 the coal miner3 congregated in one of the public streets and marched to Mr. Hakes' shaft. Then the trouble began. They started to dcstroy the mine property and were attacked by the deputies. The flght grew so severe that Sheriff Yockey ordered his men to open fire, and later reports are to the effect that two men were seriously wounded. The sheriff's posse includes sixteen picked men of company C, Illinois National guard, armed with repeatin? rifiea. The miners have been out on strike against alleged unjust weights for nearly two months, and are in a starving- condition. They threatened trouble on last Tuesday, but were pacified with promises of settlement by Manager Hakes, which were not fulfilled. They again threatened riot Wednesday, but were put off by promises of settlement. This promise also failed, and several hundred of the miners visited saloons, filling up on whisky. In a state of intoxication they became ünmanageable, and made a rush for the mine, being prevented in their purpose by the determination of the village president and six deputy sheriffs. The miners threatened to murder Manager Hakes and his clerks, who are keeping under cover. Deputies are guarding Hakes' residence.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat