Show MEN TARRED AND i fEATHERED BY MOB t Priest and Grocer Taken to public Square Forced j to Kiss Flag i y International News Newt Service Ill m. March 23 In 1 C nation tion against disloyal remarks to have been made against the theote theand ote and President Wilson roe ro- ro citizens hero ld d in four suspected e cl and feathered by a mob of over OO 00 hundred d persons and forced to kiss kissh h flag after the tarring and feath- feath of Theodore Kunger a grocer ri ted for disloyal remarks who had he def fl dragged from Jail jan with Henry T 1 brOOk and Herman Wheeler the thea treatment was administered th the a sine ge njohn Kovalsky pastor of the polIsh Catholic church After fter receiving word that the mob moba 52 a coming to his home the pastor red a shotgun and waited One Onelie lie mob gained entrance to the louse through a window and easily casily J the pastor gather Father Kovalsky was then led to the I c square where the other three pU D cn had been tortured While the theof thew I k kettle e of tar was being heated two and he lie fla lag handed the pastor to kiss them er he lie had bad done this he was forced 10 Ik up and down while the crowd o jeered ered as he lie swore his allegiance to Ih trailer Kovalsky was was- was disrobed disrobed to the ox while lust two Iwo of the crowd poured n ts of hot tar over hi his body Ho Hofer Hoffr offered fer d no resistance Feathers were scattered over him IThe The e priest was then sent home with 1 ning to be bo a more lo hoah al citizen in inie I Je ie e tarring an anc feathering grew out ont 1 C trial of Theodore Kunger who a arrested rested for uttering disloyal re re- i against the president during an r Cation with a woman customer I I the purchase of tf flour substitutes R. Lv R. R Jones of Benton Ill lawyer I 0 Hunger unger who had said he would 15 for or a new trial was warned by In lens ellS to leave the town LH e began walking down the rail rail- u oJ tracks to Benton and had reached ln when hen lie he was wac overtaken by an i filled with men lIe He was aken k n back to Christopher and in the theMe thelic lic square was compelled to kiss Me American flag parade up and 9 own tz tho street and praise the after which Jones was Vas told to li the city and not to return lie He |