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Show SERIOUS -RE RIOT . IN ILLINOIS TOWN i,JL ? Americans Attack Foreigners Who MurderfMusicians Many Jnjured -, Benton, III.,, Sept 22. A race riot between American ard Polish Pol-ish miners 'wasl begun on the town squaref here tonight, as a result of the double murder here last night of Eweil Hutchinson and Quincy Drurrimonds, who wore killed by aJ5and of miners while returning'5 from a Polish dance, where they had furnished the music. i The disturbance soon assumed such proportions that Mayor Espy sworoinftwcnty-fivc extra police and seuMor the sheriff of Franklin cojintyr The m4yim,rthen mounted a box in the'lrtiaT' of the square aiTd;QUght?i:o 'pacify the Ameri- -In s'pfyrJJiis address, it is feayed serMji&rouble may oc-ecur. oc-ecur. beforjipiQpning. llwenty-jv&foreigners who appokcodapntho square were seyerelyeattn and pursued to theii homes ithe Polish colony. |