The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-07
IN 4 WARFARE THAT is NOT MIMIC.
A Battle for tho Possession OF tho
College Flag Staff
ENDED IN SEVERAL BROKEN HEADS.
General St. clair's Conqueror Was
Among Those who wcro Laid low.
The Fight Continued In tho College.
Chapel Just After Divine Services.
The Junior Crowd has tho Better Of
tho Areulnent-Fears that Serious
Troublcw will Result.

There havo been lively times out ut
New Athens. whore tho franklin col.
lego is located, for several days past,
and 1t Is feared that tho troubles bo.
tween tho junior and senior classes will
end In something very serious before
long. Since last Thursday tho warning
classes have been engaged in tho Mt.
tempt 10 wipe out each othor. The
trouble started on tho evening OF last
Thursday, aud an oyo witness giveE m
interesting account OF the trouble.
The sonic, class. it seems. announced
last week that their class flag would be
hoisted on tho flag s,al OF tho college
building. There had been bad blood
between the seniors aud juniors boforo
this. and tho latter determined to toro.
atall tho senior flag raising by raising
their own flag. The seniors wero to
have unfolded their banner to tho
breeze at 0 p. M, but the Juniors had
theirs up two hours earlier. and when
the big follows arrived they found that
hated banner waving g%loriously in the
evening breeze. Then there were vows
OF vengeance galore. 10 get to the flag
staff it ia necessary to pass through an
attic 10 tho ROOT. aud access TO the attic
is only obtained by means oil q ladder.
The juniors were collected in the attic
TO the number OF thirty, with some OF
the sophomore class, and when the
-uArtnra tr1nl ~ cnp,A nm thar tvnrn w
pulled with many u cracked head and
arm.
Tho attic was filed with Congression-
al Records and old books, which the
juniors used with effect on the seniors
when they attempted to come up tho
ladder. Finally the seniors secured n
lot OF chairs, which they used as head
shields to protect them from the mis-.
siles from above. Then another assault
was made, but it also was repulsed.
Among those who wereinjured in this
encounter were ]. F. Fuller, OF War.
nock's Station. Ohio. who was struck on
the head with a chair and knocked
seuseless, and ]. Z. Brown, OF Mckees.
port, Pa, who was struck on the head
with a club, inilictlng a cash several
inches long. Fuller will be remembered
as a member OF the franklin foot ball
team that played here last fall. also as
the Columbian guard at the Worlds
Fair who conquered our own General
S.. Clair.
The fight was waged hot and heavy
until l n. M, when the seniors gave up
the attempt for the time. The juniors
finally quilted their position, with their
flag still flying triumphantly at tho flag
stat. However, it seems the seniors
had in their midst several able tacti-
clans, for no sooner had the Juniors left
than almost the entire senior class re-
turned to the scene, and after tearing
down the junior colors, hoisted their
own.
This 80 cnrared the juniors, who
seem to BIO in the majority, that on the
fo.lwing day they lowered the senior
emblem again hoisted their own, and
dragged the senior flag in the mud and
otherwise acted in a way to humilia;o
the defeated party.
The trouble continued and on Satur-
day morning. in the college chapel, just
at the conclusion OF services, the two
factions came together despite the fac
ultY who were entirely without power
over the studente. The quarrel is still
on and up to the present the juniors
have all the bettor OF the argument.
One OF the latest moves on tho part
OF the juniors was to hang an efigy
from one OF the college windows. dress.
cd in clothes stolen from members OF
the senior class and wrapped in the
aonior colors