The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-16
PRINCETON
STUDENTS
in A RIOT.
They Resent the Parade of Pawncc
Bilrs Wild West by Vigor.
ons Action.
IT VIOLATED TRADITIONS.
Show was Warned but Persisted
and as n Consequence was
Badly Disorganized.

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West employees indulged in Il pitched
battle to-day. and continuous and SER
lous riotins was prevented only by the
presence Of men with cool heads and
the action Of President Patton, OF
Princeton University, later in the day.
in calling n mass meeting OF all OF the
students.
For fifty years 1t has been an unwrlt-
ten law Of Princeton that no circus
, parade must pass through the streets.
Every show proprietor In making his
dates has always left Princeton from
the list. for 1t had been matter of
| common knowledge that the students
would enforce the unwrItten law. This
morning Pawnee Blll's Wild West COM
bination violated traditions and parad-
cd. The result was the Hercest battle
Princeton has seen In many years.
When posters were hung up few
days ago announcing the advent of
Pawnee Bill. 1t was at first considered
u joke. Finally when 1t became known
that the management of the show was
really In earnest the town authorities,
| fearing trouble, advised the circus men
not to attempt Il parade. This advice
was unhceded. As result Of to-day's
| fight one man Is unconscious and may
die, and n number Of students and en-
ploycs of the show are nursing wounds
received in the fray. That the show
would be upset at night seemed a cer-
tainty until late this afternoon. when
President Patton called a meeting of
all the under graduates and the faculty,
and the result of the meeting indicates
that the show will leave town unno-
Tested, but 1t will have lost money, for
word has been passed through the town
that no one is TO enter the tent, and
the townspeoplc, who are In sympathy
with the students, are unit In refus-
ing to attend.
Trouble Begins.
Things were proceeding In the usual
| course In the university when the
parade started. The procession reach
ed the college campus without trouble,
but passed down Nassau street at
bad moment, for just as the bands of
music was heard the students were In
the act OF passing from the first morn
ing lecture to the second. The towns
people were out in force and waiting for
the parade, and the great majority Of
them were massed near the campus.
Word passed all along the line. and
within few minutes six or seven hun
dred students had assembled on Mas
sau street. Cannon crackers left over
from previous celebrations, eggs pur-
chased at nearby stores and vegetables
bought or conilscated from the stores
We're assembled quickly. The men, un-
able TO obtain those missiles, armed
themselves with clods of turf hastily
torn from the lawns. The trouble start.
ed with the band wagon. Cannon
crackers We're thrown, and these. eX-
plodlnB under the six horses, made
them frantic. The musicians were on
top OF the wagons. a serious runaway
might have resulted had not one of the
leaders stumbled and fell, dragging
down the other horses with him. The
students meanwhile kept up q merciless
Dombardment with eggs and vege-
tables.
4 Bad Moment
thn l1n 10 ,,.lna
into John Lane. and the students made
n grand rush to head or the procession.
Again the employees OF the circus were
rottcn-egged. The cowboys and In
dams finally charged the students and
used their whips freely. That wns the
turning point Of the affair. Stung by
the whips and bruised by the riders
running into them, the students be-
came ugly. and in moment the
missiles that We're annoying but not
dangerous were replaced by stones and
the fight became serious. Revolvers
were drawn, but fortunately the owners
were wise enough to fire over the heads
of the enemy. Some Of the Mexican or
South American cowboys unslung their
bolas and used these with great effect.
the leather-covcred ends being exceed
ingly effective. The cowboys charged
the crowd several ;imes and rode down
those who could not get out Of the way,
III this manner Edward Dillon, q COL
orcd man. was knocked down and was
kicked in the head by pony and his
skull fractured. a student was inJur-
ed by pony tranpling upon him. An
other was wounded by bolu and an
other was struck by an Indian with one
OF the snake whips. Many students
were less severely hurt. The cowboys
and Indian. We're also badly bruised
ana hurt.
a mass meeting OF students was called
this afternoon, attended by the whole
under graduate body, at which Presi-
dent Patton spoke In condemnation of
the attack on the parade and positive
ly forbade any student TO go to the
show grounds Tonight. At the same
timc the college authorities arranged to
have the proctor and large force OF
assistants on duty there.
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Hard on Harden.
BERLIN. May l5.-Hcrr MaXimillIan
Harden, editor and publisher OF the
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