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Grottey if he eam-e* here and committed pep jury the wraith of the New York man knem 110 bounds.TWAS FREE FOR ALLITHE FIGHT UP AT BID ML* COY'S SAloon ykstkkday evening.t)Klot Alarm Sent Into Police Station | j Three of the Belligerents WereSent to Jail.y )II Peter (“Bud”) McCoy’s piece on North I Second street was about it« hottest of theIred hot yesterday evening at 6:30. Peteri: Bud McCoy tried to run an up-to-date place; and keep abreast with the times. When the! convivial loungers who make his saloon. their headquarters ere not busy changingi imaginary mice and snakes they are engaged5 in some mirth-provoking diversion wbitb3 usually attracts the attention of the public * !and police.Yesterday was Labor Day and Peter Bud‘ #► ** * ' . . ,/V - ai and his lieutenants celebrated the event iu 5 a decidedly lively manner. Viewed from tstatutory standpoint, they put too much ex-I pression into the festivities, but they dreW a big crowd, some blood and five strapping policemen. Along with Peter Bud werd Jack Rush and Frank Clark, two levee« celebrities. There was a third member o-l . the little band of West Side unterritied. but : he managed to escape notice when the offi-5 cers of the law appeared on the scene. The j police were just getting ready tor roll caH 3 ■ when the telephone sounded and it was an. nounced the Indians had broken out al | McCoy’s., : Superintendent Hyland sent five men irhot haste. It was reported that fifteen oi *j twenty men were in a hand to band light 1 on Second and Mulberry, that one fellow was being killed and that the brickbats were ’ so thick in the air that it would require a ; week for them all to settle. The five policemen hurried through the streets and aU i leys on the way to McCoy's. The speed with which the officers hurried to the scene . naturally attracted a crowd and by the timi the officers reached the scene of action 304 j excited men. women and boys were bringing• up the rear. Second street was a sight.I Every house on the avenue had turned outjts collection of Woudined inmates and thlt; street was filled with an excited, chu*.tcrin§throng.At the bar of McCoy’s saloon were Jacl . ‘ Rush. Frank Clark and the proprietor him- self. They were just putting away some ot Peter Bud’s wife-beating extract when thlt; officers rushed in. The fight in the saiool* ! was the result of five men from Faris com.- ! ing in and. as McCoy says, trying to bite i r hoie in the house. They called for whisk! 3 and then refused to settle, declaring they f would fight the bill out. This declaration. caused Peter Bud to drag his trusty otf . weeping Willow from under the bar and if a another second the big show was on. Rush.Clark and a third man waded into the me!elt; t and for the next two minutes the saiool r very much resembled the Chico go wheat p.fc- The men fought all over the saloon and ihc* o out into the street, where bricks, cluhs ant c other articles of warfare were brought irtfuse. .i Men were being knocked down right antleft and blood was flowing like water fro ita street sprinkler. Just how the battfi1‘ wound up no one appears to know, but tb»last of the fighting was between Clark anlt;is Rush and a wiry little man from Suckerdorait The little man was taking Clark to ?. “cleaning.” when some one hit h;m on the hea*10 with a board and he was forced to give up5 The three men arrested by the police wery sent to jail. The men from Paris made thel1?r escape. Jack Rush wag cut with a knifduring the mix-up. The cut is in his handlf His left eye isdecorated and his nc.slooks like a probosis of a rhinocerosClark received one or two jabs, but Mr Co*came out of the battle without a scratchA SALOON FIGHT.Walt-r Wood Badly Beaten by the Forme,
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Terre Haute Semi Weekly Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Tue, Sep 07, 1897
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