The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-26
ANACONDA NEWS.
VIOLENCE IS HESORTED TO
Some of the Strikers Show On as
Thugs and Desperadoes.
INNOCENT MEN ATTACKED
One Hit Over the Head With a Coupling
Pin-Another Overpowered. Thrown
Down n Kicked in the Eye.
Ample Protection Hereafter.

Several assault cases were recorded
yesterday in this city and its suburbs.
The first occurred near the street car
round house on East Commercial ave-
nue.; the second a little further east on
the same street. and the third put an
ugly finish on Christmas day festivities
in Carroll. The last affair of the day
was the most serious, and Rade Dragi-
cevich is lying in his home at East
Third street suffering from "a severe
scalp wound.
Yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock
~"Frenchy" Mascotte. who boards at
the California house md lodges In a
room In the rear OF Laundrsville's board
ing house. was assaulted by half "a dozen
men. He was standing but a short dis
lance from the Shovlin row. unch
bucket in hand. waiting for the Carroll
car to take him to work.
Out Of the darkness came q man and
greeted him with: Say, Teller, where
are we workin'?"
I'm working at the converter re-
INN1 ~ sOOit wiz Nht
words out of his mouth than the stran-
ger struck Frenchy a powerful blow in
the face, which felled him. Frenchy
resisted the attack and made for his ad.
versary, and just when things were
mixing up In telling style five men
rushed to the assistance of the agrees
SCR, n then frenchy had TO yield TO
superior force. The six men pummeled
him to their satisfaction and left him
lying on the ground. As soon as his
assailants disappeared he staggered to
his feet and went to st. AIMS hospital,
where DIR. Snyder dressed an ugly
wound over his eye. The right eye was
badly laceiated and the sight may be
permanently destroyed. Frenchy did
not recognize any of his assailants. and
said that as far as he could size up the
situation he believed no guns were dis
played. He thinks he was kicked in tn.
eye.
The second assault occurred about the
same time, Judge" Sudac being the
victim. He was waiting, no doubt for
the same car, at a point directly south
of the old Montana Union round house,
when six men attacked him, after he
had told their spokesman that he was
working at the converter. He got of
easier h Frenchy did. receiving only
a black eye and a few scratches about
the face.
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