Washington County News | 1900-05-05 | Page 4 | Labor Riot

LABOR RIOT. One Man Shot Dead and Sli Others "Wounded. In a labor riot at Racine and Wellington Welling-ton avenues, Chicago, Wednesday, Peter Miller was shot through the head and killed and six other men were more or less injured. Miller, together with John McGuire, William Pottger, Louis Jackiske and James Gibbons, all of them union printers, waylaid three non-union men who had taken their places in the Baker-Sawyer Printing company's office and attacked them. II C. Raster, the company's superintendent, who was one of the men attacked, opened fire on the assailants with a revolver. Miller was instantly killed and McGuire was shot twice and badly hurt. Policemen quickly surrounded the fighting men and arrested all except Gibbons, who escaped. Two of the union men wore brass knuckles and the others carried clubs