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DISREPUTABLE CORNER.*Bank and Oak Streets Obtaining 1 ^a Very Unenviable |Reputation. I* 11Bushing the Oan and Free Fights jthe Features of the ICorner. ICharles Howard, colored, was ar* I rested last night at Rafferty’s Row, I Bank and Oak streets, by Officers Jackson and Courtney, for being V drunk and disorderly* He was sent I to jail to await trial in the circuit coart for hbitua! drunkenness. The I I corner of Bank and Oak streets Is se* I I curing a very unenviable reputation I for toughness. Scarcely a day or I night passes but what the denizens I of the tenements are having a rumpus followed by free fights and ar-J rests. Colored and white people intermingle, the can is rushed incessantly and drunks are numerous.I The respectable residents in the neighborhood are becoming very tired of the noise and racket and in-1 tend to circulate a petition to have the tenements declared a nuisance. I I Complaints will also be fi!ed against I the owners of the buildings W they do not secure a better class of I tenants, who will think of something {more than “tanking up” on stale I beer and then making pugilistic I I records; I
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New Albany Evening Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1895
Page 4
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