Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-09-08
BLOODY WORK
Labor Day Disgraced by Two
Cutting A Trays.
Hugh Houston Horribly sla~ d by a
Fellow stranger Named white
-Di.fgured for Life-J o.eph
Rosenfi ed stabbed
In Moline.

Hugh Houston, 10 year old led of
Iowa City, who works as newsboy on the
C. R. l. s. P. road, was badly cut with
knife by one White. claiming to hail
from Chicago, in u row at Drost's saloon.
on Fourth avenue and Twenty second
street, last night. Houston's story is
that he and a friend named Donovan, al
so from Iowa City, fell in with White and
another man, whose name he does not
know. ard drank and shook dice to-
eether in the saloon and later went into
back room to play cards. There they
became engaged in a quarrel, during
which White drew a huge knife. They then
went outside and in fight which ems led
Houston received terrible cut along the
side of the head. Still he was game and
with his companion succeeded in getting
White down on the pavement adminis-
tering him severe pounding battering
his face in such manner that the blood
flowed freely. Finally, however. they
were separated and Houston, with the
Gaping wound in his face. from which
the blood was squirting as if from a
fountain, was taken by a citizen to the
Fourth avenue drugstore to have his he ID
dressed. and while waiting for the door
to be opened, White who had done the
cutting ran mp behind the man who was
still bleeding profusely from the wounds
viii CHI he had received, aud struck him
with brick or rock. again knocking him
down. White was promptly knocked
down by the citizen in charge of Hous-
ton. who held him until the police arrived
with the patrol wagon, who TOOK the
pair to the Armcry, where Doctors Paul
and Kinyon attended Houston and stitched
up the cash on his head which was found
| to be about seven inches long. The knife
en- tered the neck just back of the left ear.
and passed under and ar Jund the ear, cut
ting little piece from the bottom Of the
latter aud extending up the side of
the face about three inches, and is an
ugly looking cash The cut on the back
of the head inflicted by the rock with
which he was hit. proved to be only a
scalp wound. and is not considered seri-
Gus. The doctors say that had the cut
under the ear varied the least, it would
have severed the carotid artery and
death would have resulted almost in
Simultaneously. The poctors dressed the
injuries and the sufferer was made
comfortable and rested we'll during the
night. and is considerably better today
Houston says he has an uncle living ia
the city, and that he had come down
from Iowa City to see the Labor day
celebration.
White is locked up in the city prison
JOSEPH RosENF1ELD STABBED.
| Joseph Rosenfield, plumber residing
with his parents at 223 Twenty first
street, was stabbed by q colored man
named Milton Colwell at the picnic
grounds Of the L ,bor day demonstration
in Moline late yesterday afternoon. He
was attic lded by Or. MerrYmsn, of Mo.
line, and afterward brought to his home
in this city where DR.. Truesdale attended
him. He was cut in four places, once in
the back, twice on the breast and re-
ceiyed one cash on his right arm. His
injuries, which were at first thought TO be
very serious, are not now considered so,
and he is resting easy today. The
trouble grew out of Rosenfield spiline
beer on Colwell to which the latter OBJ
Jected. and the cutting ARRAY was the
consequence. Colwell is locked up il
Moline.