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TROUBLE BREWSFNILES MAYORHOLDS TO COURSEKnijfhts Of Flaming Cir-TilBrnh(thicle And Hooded OrdertllfOrder Clash. ^ha1.000 IN FIGHTOfa piindDeputies From WarrenCalled To Aid In Quell-Mring Riot.ahtthiNILES, Aug. 5.—With two per-sons seriously injured, several beaten and six under arrest, police today began an investigation of what is reported to have been an open clash between Knights of the Flaming Circle, an anti-klan organization and members of the K K. K,One thousand persons are said to have participated in the melee. The fight resulted, police said, when hundreds of thlt;* opposing organizations met in the streets. Deputies from Warren, near here, called in and assisted Niles police in break- I Siing up the riot, klansmen whose organization wag instrumental inelecting Mayor Harvey C. Kistler*nd Police Chief Hound in the last election charge that members of the Flaming Circle have sought to oust the mayor and police chief through appeals to Governor Vic Donahey.* * *CHARLESTON, W Va . Aug 8.—Warning notices signed *‘K. K. K.,# an were posted on the doors of a dozen folt; houses during a demonstration by ^ hooded and robed men in South Charleston that issted from 11 last(thiHonight until 2 o'clock this morning * The explosion of aerial bombs.which marked the beginning of thedemonstration in the vicinity of ^ Armour Park, a government reservation ;n the calling out of the marine guard to learn the cause of theMast. . * ^ ** -tragn(torer
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Tue, Aug 05, 1924
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