The evening world., 1888-08-07

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Jumped ON by Three Members or the q.
q. p. mud Otherwise Injured-The Affair
Referred TO n COMMUNICATIVE OF the
a. o. p. Arrested and Discharged.
There was music in the Eighth Assembly
District last evening and politics had q cor
ner on the crowded tho%roughfares Of John j.
O'Brien's borough. The machine Republi.
cans raised q banner at Chrystie and Grand
streets, there was q parade of the followers of
o'Brien and q high old time in general.
Ex-Assemblyman Charles Smith celebrated
his renewal Of political ties with John j.,
and there were by actual count two Harrison
and Morton transparencies and fourteen
Charles Smith for Assembly transparencies
in the procession.
The first blood of tho campaign is claimed
for the Eighth District, and it will have to
be awarded to IL. Ex-Alderman George
Hall, the Tammany Hall chiefta'n of the
district, was standing in front of his store.
when a crowd of O'Brien's friends came
We will carry this district for HARRISON
shouted one of the O'Brien gang.
NO you wont" replied Mr.; Hall, and the
next moment there was q sound of q bif and
Hall was lying fiat on the sidewalk. Three
members OF the G. o, p, jumped on him.
Hall got the fingers Of an assailant in his
mouth, and the man yelled Murder" His
companions were sweeping the ex-Alderman
towards the gutter when the friends Of Hall
rushed up.
For q few minutes the air was full of ists,
legs, cobblestones, and q small sized riot was
The wicked Republicans who had assaulted
Hall were finally driven down Chrystie
street. Moses Stern, a friend of Halls, lost
o valuable gold watch. which was stolen
from his pocket during the melee.
After the ex-Alderman had wiped the blood
| from his nose and had evolved O white silk
handkerchief into a Thurman bandanna, he
secured the services of six stalwart Tam
cans who had wiped the sidewalk with him.
Hall and his bodyguard went boldly to
| Charley Smiths " Silver Dollar" saloon and
recognized two of the sluggers.
asked one of Halls chums.
Charley Smith glanced at his mirrors and,
jumping upon q chair, waved q white hand.
kerchief as q token OF surrender.
Both sides. appointed Commissioners Of
Peace, and the Commissioner went in SEES
The Commissioners finally decided that the
two men who assaulted Halt should be ar
| rested.
This agreement was signed by the repre-
sentatives of each side.
Policemen were called and the two men
we're arrested and taken to the Eldridge
street police station.
They gave fictitious names, and to-day they
| were taken to the Essex Market Police Court.
Judge Duffy could not hold them because
Hall and Smith had at midnight signed an
other article OF peace and good will.
Under its provisions Wall was to withdraw
his charge and MIR. Stern was to get back his
watch
All parties concerned in the fight agreed to
keep the names Of the arrested parties q Sc
cret. The row is the talk of the Eighth Dis
trict.
81 tell you" remarked q gentleman, who
saw Hall giving battle to the Republican
~loafers, " George Hall is q game little man.
He fought like o regular game cock.
He kicked a six-footer in the stomach and
sent him low an araSway and knocked an
other one under the wheels of a truck. Hall
was not to blame. II gang assaulted him."
The ex-Alderman did not care to talk about
the row when seen by an EVENING World re-
porter to day. His nasal organ is consider
ably swelled.
~ claim" said he, /" to have shed the hrss
blood for Cleveland in this campaign"