Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-09-20
BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 60 1889
z BRUTAL PRIZE FIGHT.
One of the Participants Dies After Fight
ing Eleven Rounds.

ing Eleven Rounds.
ST. Louis. Sept. IA brutal prize fight
occurred at the saloon of DAILY Bros, local
bruisers Of considerable note, last night,
which resulted in the death Of one of the
participants. Thomas F. Jackson, aged 18
years, is the victim. He fought Ed
O'Hearn, q local lightweight champion,
eleven bloody rounds, and at the opening
of the twelfth fell fainting in his seconds
arms. The fight throughout was one Of
the most desperate battles ever witnessed
in the ring, science being lost sight of, and
give and take slugging marked the fight
Throughout. The first blood was brought
in the first round, more in the second, and
BY the time half dozen rOnnds had been
fought, the men and their seconds were
cOvered with blood, as was the sawdust on
the floor of the ring. while the water with
which the fighters were sponged was as
red as blood itself. When Jackson fell un-
rled to a room above Daly's saloon and
three physicians were called in. They
worked vigorously but without avail, and
at IL o'clock this morning Jackson died.
At o'clock his mother, Mrs. George Jack
son, was notified and sat at her sons bed
side completely overcome while the spark
of life slowly faded out. The affair
people will likely become involved. The
referee was the sporting editor of lead
ing morning paper. Bob Farrell and Char.
ley l!Oaly seconded O'Hearn, and Steve
Burns and Mike Mooney looked after jack
son. The fight started at midnight and
the eleven rounds can be described as
wholly without science. A crowd of sports
on Charley Daly's hands. Daily, who
fought some well known sluggers
amOrg them Meyers, the Streator, ILL.,,
pugiiist, did all he could for the dying boy,
bur without avail. The dead gfadiatOr's
body now lies in room over the saloon
where he fought, his face unrecognizable
and his mother and two brothers alone
with their dead, while Chief of Police
Huebler ordered the arrest of all parties
concerned in the affair. Jackson was we'll
known in fighting circles as Jack King, and
his parents were ignorant Of his pugilistic
ambition. O'Hearn is gas filter by occu-
patton and fighter by inclination.
Republican Legislative Nominations.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 17.-Jamestown special
to the Pioneer Press: The republican
convention Of the Twenty-third district
5(Stutsman county,, to-day nominated j. "A.
Frye for senator, and Clinton Wade and
John Nilsted for representatives. The
delegates to the judicial convention were
instructed for O. III. Hewitt. The conven-
tiOn was sharp but harmonious. The
judicial convention meets tomorrow here,
and Barnes county delegates are already
here in the interest of their candidate, G..
K. Andrews.
WEST MISSOURI.
DICKINSON, N. D., Sept. 1.-THE peoples
legislative convention for: Stark, Mercer
and Billings counties to-day nominated
William Ray for the state senate and A. w.
Merrifeld for the house of representatives.
Merrifield is manager for Theodore Roose-
welt.
APPEARS TO BE DISSATISFACTION.
ST. PAUL, Sept. Dickinson, OAK. J,
special to the Pioneer Press: The demo-
Gratis of this legislative district have COM
bined with the disaffected republicans and
to-day placed mugwump ticket in the
field, nominating William Ray (dem.) for
the senate and a. w. Merrifefd irep.} for
Representative. a number of leading
democrats threaten to nominate q straight
ticket s3efgisS f2 s ~ ~ Pm