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Show RIOTING SCOTCH STRIKER'S. They Refilled to be Evicted, and the Riot Act Waa Read. - Glasgow, Jan. 6. Though the railroad rail-road strike is practically ended, yesterday yester-day was the most, exciting since it begun. be-gun. A large force of policemen, backed by hussars, was engaged in evicting tho strikers from houses belonging be-longing to tho railroad companies. There was 110 actual violence, but many distressing scenes. At Motherwell Junction, a point about thirteen miles from here, a crowd of strikers and sympathizers made a hostile demonstration and refused to disperse when ordered by the police, but began throwing stones. The sheriff read the riot act and a squad I of police and military cleared the I streets. Six rioters were badly injured I by police batons, and this enraged their comrades. They gathered and attacked the railway station, wrecking the signal sig-nal boxes. Trains were compelled to run through without stopping because of volleys of stones. Kventually the military tired blrfnk cartridge and dis-Joged dis-Joged the crowd. At Biantire, w here a number of evictions evic-tions were recently attempted, a crowd of miners sacked a shop und the military mili-tary had to be summoned. At Cambridge, nine miles from here the striking railroad men today stormed the dormitory occupied by non-union men and pelted the building with stones. The police who finally repulsed them were also pelted with stones. Many on both sides were injured. Six of the ring leaders were arrested. |