| Show from the louisville daily democrat may ath more know nothing riots outrages and Bloods lied may fth saturday morning early a crowd of jac jackal kahs kuhs beenes and arid bawdy bandy house honse bulles bullies took possession of the polls in fit the first arid arld second wards swearing that no anti antl know nothing foreigner or not should be allowed to vote or even approach ap the polls and they kept their word faithfully A few of tho tha incidents we will give our readers dr strader passi passing irm tim down main alain street from the tile polls was stoned by the crowd and com compelled to run ran this th s was about the beginning ali an aged german some CO 60 years old was standing oil on the door sill of lib his hou house se on oil clay street near main maln saying nothing to anybody when the c crowd assaulted him dragged him into tile the street and arid beat him film R F baird esq endeavored to protect him but without avail geo W noble went into the first ward polls while the crowd were off at a fight and deposited ills lils vote 0 hi ip comin coming 0 out a large man asked him liow ilow he voted As I 1 pleased was tile tiie reply when lie he was knocked down getting up he was knocked down a second arid and a third time and then dragged some distance by the hair of his head an old german apparently about 70 years of age was w as beaten almost to a jell jelly yand and covered with blood young bamberger in quietly parsing i along was pursued for seve several ral rai squares and succeeded in escaping only by hiding biding III in an old od buld ing fog A birge crowd pursued two germans from the first ward polls to the united states brewery oil on market just below wensel weasel street Ana an aged gedman man seeing the crowd corning coming hurried to pass through a private eriv ite tte alley into his own house before he lie could ouid open the gate and pas pass in ill tw two 0 or more assaulted him and knocked bim him down trying to get up lie begged for his life but not his age liis gray hairs llor nor his entreaties were of any uvall avail the miscreant assaulting him struck at him with a slung shot the blow A missed its aim striking tile the wall of lle ile the lie house at tha moment the crowd diverted attention to the house of P merkel keeper of the brewery and the poor old man escaped the main crowd were furious in fit the pursuit lt of tie tle the two young germans they assaulted the tile house demolished the barroom bar room breaking every thing in fit it beat bir air merkel in it a most cruel manner r not satisfied the mob pushed on through the house breaking and tearing to pieces all that came in their way chairs beds dishes pictures and glasses up they tiley pushed into the room where here mrs merkel and her children cli cil ildren lidren were some one no struck her a severe how mow oil on tile the shoulder four or five shots were fired into the room where the children were chas hunt mr markels Mer Aller kels keis driver was pursued up upstairs stairs and arid shot at the ball lodging in the door casing above ills his bead heid the crowd overtook him knocked him down and beat him lim nearly to death all the furniture in the house except two small rooms back was entirely entirety destroyed mr hunt was robbed of fifteen hundred dollars the money drawer in mr markels Mer Aler kels keis bar room was rifled of its contents something over ovet fifty dollars the two young germans lohn ohn John snider snyder and C raich reich were cut and mangled in a terrible manner ner one of them will in all probability lose one of his eyes all an attempt was made to fire tile the house the crowd returning from the brewery stopped a milk mans wagon the young son of the milkman milk man frightened jumped out and ran down street screaming with terror A blacksmith near by rushed out and endeavored to protect him for this human attempt the crowd stoned him A A funeral proceeding up jefferson threet to the gr graveyard va beyard was stoned the ile lle drug store corner main alain and campbell was stoned A shoe store on main alain near clay was also stoned A wagoner from shelby county while passing along quietly was assaulted and forced to run in the second ward about 9 a german living on jefferson street between preston and jackson streets stepped out of his house to take a child of his from the sidewalk when a crowd that was passing looking for some fun knocked him down with the infant in hs Irs arms about the same time mr F frishe frisbe a candidate for magistrate went with a friend to the second ward polls to vote when they were assaulted and severely beaten mr air jacob seibert going to the polls was knocked down by one and severely beaten by several others As mr VV IV veitch was about entering the engine house he was dragged out and arid beaten A crowd on jefferson street knocked down an air old ola german whitewasher white washer and while lie was down s stamped I 1 ped oil on him kicked and beat him about a square further farther off oil the same crowd assaulted an all old man a very 0 old 1 d ma man 11 a poor man whose clothes tattered and torn whose steps were feeble with weight of years on ou his head add and him they beat unmercifully capt knapp was assaulted but managed to escape A mechanic returning from his days work passing on the opposite side of the street was assaulted and chased several squares the following persons were also beaten but we are unable to give the circumstances john flesh fles felix a blacksmith living east of the woodland garden and john mann the first ward was the scene in the afternoon of great excitement pistols pistola firing men running ru women a and lid iid children screaming nor was the firing confined to the vicinity of tile the polls ba M vm gray who had been quietly watching most of the forenoon for an air opportunity to vota without meeting violence and who returned after dinner at last took advantage 0 O of the absence of the crowd which was off chasing chasins some unfortunate fo foreigner reinier and deposited his izote vote oncoming on coining on out lie he was stopped by one of the crowd which was then return ng ngy and arid struck on the head mr gray was seen to replace his liis hat and then drawing ino ing a double pistol fired before he could fire the second barrel three pistols were fired at him ho he shot the second time lime and fled no less than fifteen to twenty shots being gired fired after him ile fie fled into a stack yard and endeavored to hida lida behind a pigpen pig pen eight balls were picked out of the fence behind which ho be took refuge six holes were made in a his hat ilat and two balls bails were lodged in his lis body one in the fleshy part of each tah thigh Offie officers ers gilmore arid and hammond interfered and took him home in a wagon with mth the exception except ian of this interference there was no police about the city marshal marshai mars lial was not oil on the ground all day the know nothing mayor was not there tile the deputy A sheriff ariff was appealed toto preserve the peace but replied that lie was a 4 quiet mail man and the people must tahe taka care of themselves there are ether other inci incident denti connected with the election for which we have nat nut room they are however of the same stamp as above mentioned mention td 8 in all there were yere not les ies than from loo 0 I 1 to I 1 persons injured during the day in the hetio two 0 ward T s to thee the exertions of officers gilmore and hammond nit BIT ir gray owes his life lire had it riot not been that they unaided aided interfered and rescued rescues him from the infuriated mob he lie would most certainly have been killed |
