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onire eoraiauy invited to attend,'■ STAUNTON APPLIES TAUND fK feathers to german aidesOURINO BIG LABOR MEETING°g I Whole Village Oh The Warpath For nd Pro-German Sympathizers(By United Press Ueased Wire)of Staunton, 111., Fob. 13.—Staunton ed was still on the warpath of the .proof Gormans today.id- Hostilities bfegari last night when •e- a riot '©rowing: out of alleged pro-tl- German activities ait a labor meeting was followed toy tihe tarrlnlg and IC- I feathering of Severlno Oberdan, sus-68 peoted' I. W. W;, and John L. Met-a zen, Chicago lawyer, by a mob of 33 400,men.o'! Search for others, ealid to be dls-, I'oyttl, was' being continued today,= with further .prospects of more tarr-15 lug parties.^e- Fteelinig against pro-GermnnfemJd fi-ad disloyalty has bean growl nig for ,j_ Bome time. It reached vits climax when Oberdan and Metzen addressed 10 the labor meeting last night..n After applying the tar and feath-at re3(to 'the pair Metzen was ordered e- |to 'hike” toward Chicago and Ober-,h dan toward St. Louis. Preceding the r_ tarring ecores who were suspected' of Lt disloyalty' were rounded u:p and e- made ito sign .pledges of loyalty to [n the United, States and' kiss the flag.I * -■
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Freeport Journal Standard

Freeport, Illinois, US

Wed, Feb 13, 1918

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