The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-08-27

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BrryAsr, Aug. 1.-THE City q again
upset. The honr o midnight
la hardly passed Saturday night when
nrine we heard IN the vicinity q Norm
Howard street. which runs between ne
Shank HIN and The Falls road. AZ nrss
here we're bur few shots, and The ~
lhoritIes did not give serious attention -
HE matter. But the shots came quickers ,
nnd 4 was soon apparent that ne MODS
were aGain q each other. The might va
very DARK. and 81 was almost impossible
70 locate lhe firing. but u MAS soon d'ecov-
cred he Catholic mob was - the corner
81 tho Falls road and Conway street, ana
che Protestant mob q the upper END
a. CONWAY street, about . quarter
a. 4 mile apart. The weapons used
were riflcs and rcvolvers, but the range
40 too lone for the latter and no pos
ofblc harm could have been Indicted b
them. There WAS the greatest confusion
among the police and the military forccs:
The mobs shifted their ground and small
parties on each side lodged from corner
70 corner and from house 70 house. The
policemen made two charges, ana
the riot oct was read twice oy
the resident magistrate without any
result, and The firing grow more
constant It was nearly elk o'clock %.
fore the police and military succeedeo
in quellins the combatants.
Strange 70 say. there was not fatality
on the Catholic side. One man was
killed and two we're badly wounded on
the Protestant eide. One q me cetno'
Hes who carried gun told me ne nap
pened 70 zee the killing ~ "a Orange
mn whose name Was Samuel McFar.
land. man Of twenty. 81 saw" SAID
~. aone 81 our men. an ex-soldicr and
rood marksman, climb to the roof OF .
house and get behind the chimney, maxi
lng rest for MS Snider ri6e- Il was 10
FIRST street, close TO Conway street, ana
II about four O'Clock Mcfarland came
out into the middle Of the street, firing
4 other mcn. A shot from the man
NJ the chimney made Mcfarland throw
up both hands and tumble over: =
shout went MP from the other side and We
moved M. Mcfarland Law there fully
thirty minutes, and knew he was dead
for he never moved. BY and BY t~o men
came 6ut Of : house anu started TO take
him. but I shot from the man It the
chimney hit one Of them In the leg and
they dropped Mcfarland and got back.
Later on I woman and man went out
and carried Mcfarland away"
Mcfarland was taken to DR.. Lewis
eurcerv Oh the Shank Hill road. Within
4 few minutes Of his arrival two Others
were brought there who received dam
gcrous wounds, James Smith, Of East
land street aged twensy-four. who was
struck while endeavoring 90 assist NO
fariHnn, ms "ounc oenE !" 80 ~;
whence ~. Lewis suosequenIy eHe-" 49,
the Dali o. rnioer nne' ~ .sy,
lnomas sonns.o"' .c-y go - Ds~,d 4 $500
was snot a. tne corne, ~ Dasw 49,
The bail passed tnrousn ms sno.
smashing the oiane snu nncnk
lacerated wound a. tne polns y ~ 49,
He walked 20 ~. Lewis, ~ 80. ., ns
naa received suts'cl . isHn, - -sesh:,
inquired from ne meoicai men wns.ns'
ne could go 70 nls work ~ .n - ~. - .'n !,
II me meantime tneic 49, 80 ~ q
tack on squad 81 tMenty-losr Po'' =
men under sne command = gs'I' 7.
spector Warour'ons VINO 49, 49, Nv "
out o mtonlgnt 70 fensse -
guard % We cP'"ensu 49, 49,
Inc Attack cane ASom sne e.ss'
ant quarter 1ney nag nasuy s1se'
<H 1900 -"~- - F~ ". 1900 - ~
bullet wnts!ieo between - ne 49, y. =
inspector ana tnas q ons = 80 ''e y
1ne marksman 49, oen,no s - =
moment Two otnef snoss ~ u
ground near ~: ine poncS ~
refuge behind Pile q o!'eks' w sspp
on the nrng Ma renewed from .nc 49,
quarter. The inspector tnen wsnss ~
his men Into naiI-completeo onc
building near py, eno keps snsu 80 ~
during me remainder q me n.sns ~
Of the bullets tnat struck tne ns's moeu,n
Catholic chapel was Iounu ~ ''e ''o'' N"
and was o. unusual slze. -.
There was ~ snooune ~ o. ~
They seemed aosoluteiy poweI'e:s. ~
0ring would pe one momen. Itom ~ -
quarter, the next from anc.ns'' snu !. !.
that section q ne CITY va " s'@'e
absolute terror.
The police were uneer st'. g. o.us ~ \. y
70 nre and the dispersion q tne no1 ,, y.
accomplished ~ . company q so'u,s
who. however, o1o ~ ntlnE 80 ~
arrests made weH mos ~ ~.
and his Two oauxnu. "no ~
IN . house from which me po'r
saw shooting: They were Cs'noI'cs Z.
claimed that three men io.ceu sns,. ~
into the house against tuelf Will