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Show f B 1 Via w IS EU BLA Citizens Badly Beat a Newspaper Delivery Wagon Driver Chicago, May G. Alexander Hick-oy, Hick-oy, 2S years old, a striking newspaper delivery wagon driver, wna sevorely beaten by a crowd of citizens early this morning after he and several other strikers are said to hao assaulted as-saulted an old man who was selling newspapors at a North Side elevated road station. The newspaper dealer was unconscious when the police arrived. ar-rived. . Ittckey-wns knocked down and persons per-sons who had witnessed the attack upon the newsdealer say the man's assailants were kicking him when the police arrived. Cries of "lynch him" were hoard In the crowd and tho police po-lice weie obliged to stop a passing taxlcab and drive away with the striker to aave him from a more serious seri-ous attack. HIckey suffered cuts aud bruises about his head, face and body. Later, when he had been given medical medi-cal attention he was locked up on a charge of assault. Joseph Murray, -11 years old, waB stabbed in the shoulder while engaged engag-ed in an nrgument with two men at a North Si'lo street corner over the pressmen's strikn He was taken to a hospital by the police, who later arrested two suspects |