The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-04
THEY GOT EVEN.
A Kansas Cts Editor Enticed TO
St. Louis and Slugged.

For the past few days the met
down town who are collectively desig
mated the push have been nul sing
secret with considerable satisfaction
Their secret is one that will be en-
ioyed BY . good many of the uppe
air and solar walk people to whom tn
push and its practices are an abomi
nation.
For long time the younger mel
in politics and good many prominen
people we're the victims Of scandalou
attacks in the columns of the Kanss
City Sunday Sun. These articles die
not particularly worry the vic'lms un
til they were mailed by malicious
people to their friends and relatives
for whose god opinion they csreo,
The author of the articles wss I'm.
known for q long time until he Wa:
located in the Post Dispatch office and
was promptly dischsrs ed by the man
aging editor. The police then sup
pressed the sale of The paper in this
city and the vendors thereof are now
under indictment in the criminal
court. The men who had been as
sailed IN the paper were anxious for
revenge upon the editor and billed
their time. They got their revenge.
The editor is H. L. Preston, a
young man who wears speciacles and
has the reputation Of being the poses
or Of nerve. Last Monday he came
down from Ksnsas City to help his
agents out Of their difficulty in the
court. HIS presence here was made
known to those who thirsted for his
gore and it was arranged that he
should be brought to resort where
they were to meet and interview him.
Preston was found by a man who
knew him and was taken around os
tensibly to be shown the town. In
the course of Tuesday afternoon Pres.
ton and his friend arrived at the
Standard Theater saloon where his
gleeful enemies came in on him quite
accidentally and were introduced to
him with every manifestation of de-
light At making his acquaintance. Pres
ton was drinking beer. hut bis new &C.
quaintances were 80 glad to know him
that they insisted that he join them in
q bottle Of wine. He adjourned With
them to the wine room.
There the conversation turned upon
the Sun and newspapers in general.
Some one remarked that Preston had
"shot it into the gang pretty hot"
He seemed gratifi d at this apprecia.
tion of bis efforts as q rooster and he
remarked that be rather prided him
self upon the way he had stirred things
up. His friends however began to
grow FESTIVE under his selfgratulation
and soon from their remarks it b. gan
TO dawn on him that he was trapped
by the people he had 60 villainously
assailed.
"Well," said he, "You've got me
here in q tight pinch. What do you
want ?"
One of the men reached over and
relieved his nose Of the spectacles, re.
that it would be a little too
bad to blind him. Another felt his
rear pantaloons pocket for q revolver
and not finding one remarked that it
was all right.
Then Mr.. Preston was knocked up
from his chair against the wall and
he was tramped upon. He got up|
to show fight but be was Knocked
down again and sgain. He was "done
up" in style as artistic as he ever
had "done up q man in his paper. |
When he left the wine room he was
unable to see. Both eyes were clos
ed. His head was cut up pretty bad.
|y and his nose was swollen to enor-
nous proportions. He sought doc
tor, was bandaged up and went back
to Kansas City with a very poor op n
ion Of the hospitality of st. Louis.
This is the matter over which the
boys have gloated most joyiully for
The past week. The secret il, who in
alcted the punishment on the editor?
No one will tell who it was that entic.
ID him in the hands of the enemy nor
who it was that gave him such an
elegant drubbing. 1t is asserted that
but one man polished him of and that
he others simply sat around and ap-
plauded the transformation of his
read and face into chopping block.
Every one familiar with the tactics
by the Sun up to within a
month ago smokers over the revenge
AIKEN upon Preston by the men he
lbused in his paper.
SUDDEN DEATHS.