The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-16
A Circus Which Violated Traditions
of the College City
MerclIessIy Bomharded by Hundreds Of
Students Of The University.
Results in a Fierce Battle In
Fatally Injured and a Number
of Students and Employees of the
Show Are Nursing Wounds Re-
ceived in the Fray.

PRINCETON On. j., May 10
Princeton students and Pawnee Bilrs
| Wild West employees INDUCED in al
pitched battle to-day, and serious riot
| ing was prevented only by the pres
ence of men with cool heads and the
action of President Patton of Princeton
University later in the day in calling
a mass meeting of all the students.
| For fifty years it has been an un-
written 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 it has been a matter OF
common knowledge that the students
would enforce the unwritten law THIS
morning Pawnee Bills Wild West COM
bination violated traditions and par
AIDED. The result was the fiercest bat
tie Princeton has seen in many years.
| When posters were hung up a few
days ago announcing the advent OF
Pawnee Bill, it was at first consid-
cred joke. Finally when it became
known that the management of the
show was really in earnest, the town
authorities, fearing trouble. advised
the circus men not to attempt a par
ade. This advice was unheeded.
As result of to-day's fight one man
is unconscious and may die. and a
number of students and employees of
the show are nursing wounds received
in the fray.
That the show would be upset at
night seemed a certainty until late
this forenoon, when President Patton
called a mass meeting of all the under
graduates and the faculty and the re-
suit of the meeting indicates that the
show will leave town unmolested, but
1t Will have lost money, for word has
been passed through the town that
no one is to enter the tent, and the
toWnspeople, who are in sympathy with
the Students, are a unit in refusing to
attend.
Things We're proceeding in the usual
course at the university when the par
AIDE started The procession reached
the college campus without trouble,
but passed down Nassau street at a.
bad moment, for just as the bands
music was heard the students were
IN the act of passing from the first
morning lecture to the second. Two
townspeople were out in force and
waiting for the parade, and a great
majority of them We're maSsed near thes
campus. Word was passed all along,
the line, and within a few minutes
6OO or 100 students had assembled on,
Nassau street. Cannon crackers left
over from previous occasions, eggs pur-
chased at nearby stores, and vegeta-
bleS bought or confiscated from the.
stores We're assembled quickly. The
men unable to obtain these missiles
armed themselves with clods of turf
hastily torn from the lawns
The trouble started with the band
wagon. Cannon crackers We're thrown.
and these, exploding under the six
horses, made them frantic The musf-
clans were on top of the wagon Al
serious runaway might have resulted.
had not one of the leaders stumbled
and fell, dragging down the other.
horses with him. The students mean
while kept up a merciless bombard-
ment with eggs and vegetables.
On the return the parade wheeled.
into John lane and the students made
a grand rush to head off the process
sion. Again the employees of the circus
were rotten-egged. The cowboys and
Indians finally charged the students.
and used their whips freely
That was the turning point of the
affair. Stung by the whips and bruised
by the riders running into them. the
students became ugly, and in a mo-
ment missiles that were annoying but
not dangerous were replaced by stones.
and the fight became serious. Re-
volVers were drawn, but fortunately
their owners were wise enough to, fire
over the heads of the enemy. Some
OF the Mexicans or South American
cowboys unslung their belts and used
these with great effect, the leaden ends,
being exceedingly effective, and the
cowboys charged the crowd several
times, and rode down. those who could
not get out of the way. In this man.
ner Edward Dimon, a colored man. was
Knocked down and kicked in the head
by pony, and his skull fractured. =
student was injured by a pony tramp
ling upon him. Another was Injured
by bola, and another was struck by
an Indian with one of the snake whit,s.
Many students were less severely hurt
The cowboys and Indians were also
badly bruised and hurt
A mass meeting of students was
called this afternoon, attended by the
whole undergraduate body, at which
President Patton spoke in condemna-
ton of the attack on the parade. and
positively forbidding any student to go
to the show grounds tonight. AT the
same time the college authorities ar
ranged to have the proctor and a large
fierce of assistants ON duty there.
Spanish Indemnity Paid.