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Show SHERIFF TO STOP RIOTS IN CHICAGO ' Police of the Windy City Find Them elvei Unable to Cope With the Strike Situation SCORES INJURED EVERY DAY Two Thousand Deputlei Will Be En rolled In an Endeavor to Protect Life and Property, -' hlcago Sheriff Thomas K Hir retl of (ook county will take etlve control of the strike situation So much prersure haa been brought (o bear upon him and upon Mayor Dunn-by Dunn-by men who believe their inter sta t i lie seriously Imperiled by the con ttttit riutlng In the streets Ihat Ihe sheriff has been ninit elh-il to swear In n large force or deputies and lake nc lite stepa to do away with the present disorder Two hundred deputies wert awurn In Thuradn) alteriioon at the office of Hhtrlff llarretr, and It Is be-lleteil be-lleteil 2 000 havn now been enrolled A committee of prominent liuslneui men headed b) John Sheild of Mar shall 1'eld Co, on Thursday took steps lo la) the sltuntlon before the governor and declare that conditions are. such Ihat the militia Is Impera tlvely needed The Chicago Clearing House association ulopted sweeping resolutions declaring that the riots In tho streils were constantly Increasing Increas-ing In fur) and bnto gone beyond the I power or the civil authorities of the city and county to control It waa therefore the opinion of the member? of the clearing house that troop should be called out cjj Ihe sheriff Is determined to take the situation In hand himself declar Ing that until be has done so ho will j not be Justified In calling for the militia Notwithstanding Ihe constant fight- gsjj Ing In th- street and the numerous attacks made upon nonunion men , the large drv goods houses and whole. J sale grocers report that they were M steadily making progress and Increas B Ing their rhlpments while the strikers H are equally confident of success , H There was less disturbance Thurs s dit) In the whulesale district but thn J fighting went on with Its tmunl persist 1 inc and vlcloiisness In the heart of I the fnihlonsble shopping district A numbir of nonunion nun wcro I clubbed and beaten nnd Ihilr wagon 4 guards and the Killce retnllateil with vigor tiK)ti the rlotira In every In atanre the cnind were dispersed 2 after a brief scrimmage, which was, 1 haweter in seternl cases of a rather . iharp character 4) The nutnlier of Injured was from all nccotinls nlout the same as that of I the previous two days About 30 or I 10 men hate been rnred for at the various hospitals and there are fully ns man) inon who hnve receive-1 tneil leal ntti ndatice nnd whoso names are not known to the l-olln |