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i oumnuiiiicHtioris effectively.MORE TROUBLE AT MT, OLIVEPro-German Sympathizers Made to Kissthe American Flay.Fearing a recurrence lt;»f the trouble which happened in Mount Olive, III., Thursday night, when a mob i/f enraged citizens compelled a score or more uf alleged pro-Herman sympathizers to hiss the A met lean I lag. .Mayol* flavin ♦•arly yesterday afternoon issued an order rinsing all of tin* fifteen saloons in the town from dark until early this morning. Mount (dive is about ten miles fromStaunton, where bitter antagonism bus been shown towards Herman sympathizers.Mayor flavin declared yesterday that tlie men wlm did the work on Thursday night did not constitute a mob, but that tin- crowd was composed or practically itll of the best citizens of Mount Olive, and that lie believed they were Justified tliorniifthly in questioning tlm Americanism of many residents of tlie town.As a feature of the Mount olive affair Peter Heine, a merchant. was compelled to kiss every star in the American flug.'fin* crowd first visited his home, 11*tied in his night clothes to the home ofa jieighbor ami nought refhtfC Uy .^hybasement. He came out when the Fire Department was called and the firemen threatened to turn t lie hoso on him. Heine is said to have been lieurd making disloyal remarks.At Staunton, Ilk. a short distance away, tilings appeared to be quiet. During cho atDnioon, John Novat. a miner, who bad been taken first I).*, a mob of seventy-five Staunton citizens and then turned over to the police on a charge of having threatened to tear u Ited Cross buttonfrom the lapel of Mrs. ISdwurd Hays’ eoiit. was fined .1*10 and costs bv Justice of the Peace Jesse Itond. He paid the fine and was released.Novat. during the trial, said that ho may have made such a threat against Mrs. Hays, but that if he did so lie was drunk when lie did It. Mayor Samuel Williamson replied that “what a mail itus in Ids mind when lie is suiter usually , comes to the surface when he is drunk. I• K- ' I * '
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East St Louis Daily National Live Stock Reporter
East St Louis, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 16, 1918
Page 5
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