OCR Text |
Show PELTED WITH MISSILES. Pormer Minister to Liberia in Trouble In New York. NEW YORK, Nov. S. Negroes hi One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street attacked a truck from which James R. Spurgeon, a former Minister to Liberia, was haranguing the crowd In support of a Democratic Congressional nominee. The crowd, incenseet by me remark of the ex-diplomat, pelted him with various va-rious missiles, and finally set fire to the bunting with which the truck was decorated. dec-orated. Flames shot up all around the speaker and those on the truck with him, and they beat a hasty retreat. Police reserves had to be called out, and night fllcka frequently used at an Interval of an hour and a half before the negroes were persuaded to go to their homes |