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Show ! BU11STS INTO FLAME. 1 The Mrikinj aoalmaVcrs or eir lorL l!sort to Act or 1 iolence. STARVATION STARES THEM IN THE TACE Senate anil Hone in ijosslon. Arrrst of a eir TorL Forger. Telegraph to tne M.wt.1 srtm ATI on A 110LIML. Tin- Striblnsr Cloakmaker. of 5tw lark: Turbulent Time. irw Vork, July 3. It lias lcn fraretl for some time that starratlou wouIJ lorcu the striking cloakmak-era cloakmak-era to acta of iolcnce?. Tlure fcars wire realized toilay. It bas been a matter of common notoriety for several days ut that thoe unfor tunate people bare actually been In a ml straiglitfi, anil not a few bae kin confrouteil with the necetsity of leaving their homes for lack of monr to pay rent. Lat night teviral families were out on tiie streets all night, and the men this morning wire dri en to the point of desperation, and about two hundred oftbemnent over to their old work -shops. They mused in front of Meyer, Jonaron & Company 's )Iace and the Mercantile Cloth Company, t oof the largeat establbbmuits in the city. Joseph Lcnburger, a bu er in the employ of Meyer & Jonasm, came (low n the treet, when the strikers saw him. They made a rush at him, and Iercburgir was badiy beaten before he managed to escape from the mob. The success of Lb: attack ujou the first ictlmeemed to turn the usually peaceable men into ripters. They ran dow n to Jonason's store. The front doors being oru, a few bolder ones entered, seized the cilice boy, Charlie Iluttner, and in a second sec-ond he was receiving the same kind of Mow W1IIUI LLI 1 I1J.N I.UtlXUKOFK William Wasiar, an oratur. Jo-Mph Jo-Mph toeJ"llieimer a laiktr, and llookkeernrbims wire the nutt to receive similar treatminta.4 accorded accord-ed the other two. Hie Italians wire then Kttaiked, but tiny drvw uea-ions uea-ions and the strikers lied The mob next gathered around a cloakmaker lumed Kunze. He did not get awayvo easily as the other mm. When the iolicu who IiaJ U-en notifietl cami running down the street thestnkirs scattired, lut Hies left Kunze on, the side walk, bleedingfromhalfnilozenseverecuts on the head The) niut have kicked Iiim, as hi" injuries wire venous. ve-nous. All this time another ditacrimint ot strikirs were buy two block awai- Tlicy were men who had bun In thueniIoyof thu Mercantile Mercan-tile Cloak Company, and thy gathered gath-ered Uicre Just as they did In front of Mryir, Johnsm A. ConiianV, and wailed fur scab workmen to come along. The) wire rewarded ju-t before S o'tlock, when they surrounded two nun, -truck them tadl) half a dozen times and then chaeil them up stair. Thu mob w ax then scattered by the police. While all this was going on an angry mob of striking iloakmakirs collected at the corner of ltivim;toii and Kldredge street", determined to obtain work or prevent the bosM from imploding non-union worker", work-er", baniuei Vllkt, a Tole, had ataut a score of men making cloaks for him. He did not like the looks of the strikers and accordingly he locki-d and IltHltLDlUSIUUK. AboutII.no. when the irowd was largest, Villct anil his employes were startled by a crash. Tin- strik ers had broken open the door and a mob.jfal.out thlrtj led by A bra m Iloinberg, ru-hcd in upon thim The) demanded that all hands stop work, and meeting with no siicccw begin to threaten and intimidate Villa and tils workmen. The strikiri threw out of the windows the pluh cloaks bUng made. l'andemonium reigned, ami the streets In that vicinity were filled n ith a surging mass of jieople. Vii let becoming terrorized, and nftir receiving an ugly stab acro the right e with a knif. , whipind out a revolver and (lre.1 two shots. One bulla lodged in the back of Abraham Ro-enlnirg, and, with a -hntk, he stiggtred out Into the street. At this momint tin nollccarrived. Tiny caj tured Vlllet and eighteen other persons, and carried them oil to iail. Roenburg was removed to the hoepltai, wliere'he lies in apiccari-ous apiccari-ous condition Tonight 3)0 Ji 1 attacked at-tacked a loaded cloak manufacturer's manufactur-er's truck, on which alo rode a policeman. po-liceman. The latdr caught the mob leader and lit his club fall on bis head, after w hkh he colIacd and the crowd slunk away. |