Adjacent nail works were ordered to close and all
employees were driven into the streets. Finally, near night, the strikers
were subdued by platoons of police and forced to return to their homes.
The mayor issued his riot act, which was printed in all the evening
papers and read as follows:
TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRISVILLE AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
In the name of the people of the State of Ohio, I, David A. Duty, Mayor
of the City of Harrisville, do hereby require all persons within the
limits of the City to refrain from unnecessary assemblies in the
streets, squares, or in public places of the City during its present
disturbed condition, and until quiet is restored, and I hereby give
notice that the police have been ordered, and the militia requested to
disperse any unlawful assemblies. I exhort all persons to assist in the
observance of this request.
David A. Duty.
_Mayor._
The mayor telegraphed to the governor for troops. The governor responded
promptly, and ordered the First Brigade to be in readiness, and to report
at 5 A.M. next morning in Harrisville, with rifles, cannon, Gatling and
Hotchkiss guns and ammunition. Orderlies went flying through the city
with summons that must be obeyed.
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