Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-17
THE LATHROP WAR.
A Missouri Town on the Brink
of Turbulence.
RESULTS OF THE WOMAN CRUSADE.

Arrests of the Fair saloon wreekers
Threatened and Their Husband. Grind
ing Their knives-statements of the
Prosecuting Attorney and Those Who
Approve the Recent Doings-A Club
House Raided and Wrecked.
LArHRoP. No, Feb 1.-THE excitement
growing out II the woman's crusade against
the saloous here is still very high The on
Gals declare that the women involved viii
be arrested, but none Of them has been 50
tar, and some Of their husbands declare they
VIII xiii any one who attempts to arrest their
wives, THERE'S no telling what will be the
outcome, and the peace Of this town b in i'm
niinent peril and bloody fight is likely 10
break out At any moment
What the Prosecuting Attorney Saws
Saturday John A Cross, the prosecuting
attorney t0ii the following stsrr: The
mistaken impression has gone abroad that
this WAS q woman's crusade, when il was
really started and engineered by men, and
during ali the disturbance there was present
a man for every woman The names of these
men have never been made public, as they
have shielded themselves behind the won-
ems petticuats Yet they were really more
responsible than the ladies There were
present and actively engaged in the disturb
ance J. I. Carmichael, Baptist minister;
Jacob Bohart ST. /. DR. F. Mundy, who had an
AZ and wanted 10 smash the billiard tables
Editor Mckee of The Lathrop Monitor iB. F.
Cochran, an ex-saloonkeeper: E G. KINNEY,
former grand jurynan, who never sum
rNl.r ,aa1 4.
man, Charles P Jones. cashier of the La
throp tank, and twenty Others
- Charges IL on an Editor.
The editor Of The Monitor is responsible
for the outbreak. as he melted the outrases
BY attacks on the city officials in his paper
Il has been charged that the city officials
were Responsible for allowing all of these sa-
looms To run. when in fact there Is no law
that can prevent IL. as has been proven by q
case in the supreme court. the local option
law being declared null and void Then
again there Is no council 20 pass city ordi-
nances. The city OF Lathrop has heavy
Judgment hanging over it, a suit brought on
by the issuance Of railroad bonds having
b-sen decided against the town, and in order
TO evade the payment OF this debt the city
council resigns a. soon as elected"
Claims of the Other Side
The crusaders offer the following as hav-
ing formed the bssis for their actions The
immediate cause Of the outbreak was a stab
bing ARRAY Jan - last, when John L
Brooks, a resident Of LAthrop. was severely
cut by Abe Scruggs, farmer, while both
were intoxicated Mrs. Brooks. the wife Of
the man who was stabbed, Is perhaps more
directly responsible for the outbreak than
any one person. In discussing the affair one
day she remarked To neighbor that il she
had any Cne to help her she would break
into every saloon in town and pour the Iio-
uor into the street That neighbor re-
piled:
Il will go with you, and can get twenty
i've other women to go
1t was then that a public meeting was
called, ami it was decided to circulate a
paper asking the women of Lathrop to
pledge themselves to exterminate the hauo OF
traffic in their town