Show 40 Negro Soldiers Start Riot With Fixed Bayonets By International News Service CHICAGO ept 9 negro ne nee nee- neeR R gro soldiers of company F Eighth Illinois Infantry shortly after midnight started a riot at Thir Thir- ty-fifth ty street street and Wentworth avenue With bayonets they held off a crowd of white persons estimated ted at four hundred The negroes shouted that they would start another another another an an- other Houston and another Brown Brown- vIlle Six white soldiers from the Seventh regiment armory tried to subdue the negroes but the latter formed in a hollow square threatened threatened threatened threat threat- and with drawn bayonets ened death to any anyone one who ape ap ap- e preached them Several whites white s soldiers were slightly wounded by bayonet Jabs Five policemen and several detectives the tho first civil officers on the time scene were threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened with death by the negroes if they attempted to arrest them The commanding officer of the black company finally arrived and marched his men off The trouble is said to have started when an effort was made by a policeman to arrest a negro soldier The policeman said that the soldier was intoxicated |