The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-05
YAHOOS.
When Missouri College Students
Have a Glass Riot
They Quite Outclass Anything
Anywhere Else.
BOYS AT COLUMBIA
Burn Down the College Gymna.
SUM and Fire Guns.
Seem to Have Been All GeDrunk
and Dressed Up"

Columbia, Mo, March 5-The faculty
of Missouri university has determined,
by severe punishment. to forever dis
courage class rioting, and Is or 20 stu
dents will be expelled.
The students, in addition to deIuging
the university building with water,
storming the city police station with
stones and clubs and severely beating
several officers, capped the climax by
burning building.
Late Monday afternoon the president
of the freshman class. R. F Miller. call
ed at the office of President r. H Jesse
and informed him that it was noised
abroad among the students that unruIy
spirits in the senior, junior and sOpho-
more classes had combined to break up
the entertainment, to kidnap the preSi-
dent of the class and to otherwise mo-
lest the freshmen.
Mr.. Miller asked, on behalf of the
young women of the class, for whom he
spoke, that President Jesse protect
them from molestation.
The protection had not been asked
earlier because not until then had inter
ference appeared certain.
Judge Alexander Martin, dean of the
law department President Jesse and all
other members of the faculty who
could be consulted in the brief time,
concluded that the young women must
be protected at all hazards. To this
end it was unanimously agreed that pO-
ncemen should be stationed within the
academy hall to eject or arrest anyone
who disturbed the entertainment. This
was done. President Jesse posted on
all the university bulletin boards no
tees asking that the good name of the
university students be preserved and
rioting refrained from. Judging from
later developments, the precautions ta-
ken were not unWarranted.
At p. m. a large crowd of students,
the ringIeaders skillfully masked and
discharging firearms, charged upon
Academic hall Finding the doors care
fully guarded by marshals, they went
to a remote side door, broke it in, and
rushed bowling into the building. The
mob was again met by the policemen at
the entrance to the ladies' rooms and
prevented from raiding the rooms. The
bOisterous students had, before enter
ing, cut the electric wires, turned OFT
the gas and plunged the building into
darkness. The freshmen, however,
brought il lamps and went on With
their reception.
The disturbing element then went to
the athletic grounds, south of the uni
versity and burned down a frame
building erected by the university for
gymnasium purposes. When the uni
VerSity hose was brought to put out
the flames they captured the hose and
turned it on the ladies' room in the uni
verSity.
Several windows were broken by the
water and many wraps and hats IN
the ladies' cloak rooms drenched. While
this attack was in progress the police
men captured the hose, arrested the
student who held it, a postgraduate
law student, and put him in the Gala
boose.
President Jesse, when apprised of the
disturbance made a vigorous speech to
the rioters, urging them to disperse,
and though there was much shouting,
the students soon afterWarG LETT the
campus Down town they stOrmed the
calaboose, stoned the police, broke out
windows and endeavOred to rescue their
companion.