The bee., 1902-02-06
LOCAL UNION OFFICERS
FIGHT At HENDERSON.
Brassknucks, Knives and Weight:
Enter Discussion for DiStri-
button of Funds.
TWO MEN WERE BADLY HURT,
Several Idle Miners Threaten to Go ia
Work il Their Brothers Cannot Be
More Peaceable.

Henderson, KY, Feb. 2.-There
was a general fight in the fullest
sense of the word at Paff's gro.
Gerry, corner Washington and Ju.
liza streets, about 4:30 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. In the fight
it seems that brass knucks, scale
weights and knives played a
prominent part.
AS result Of the "scrap" John
Ramsey, president of the local
union, Nat Corbin, chairman OF
the relief committee, J. A. Cor
bin, recording secretary, and
Henry Ferguson, Dave Weekly,
Horace Ferguson, Ed Fugate and
Powy Sandefur are all under
bond to appear at police court to
answer to breach of the peace
charges.
According to statements of
men engaged in the melee, the
trouble arose over distribution of
funds sent here for the relief of
the striking, idle union miners.
Nat Corbin, who is chairman
Of the relief committee, and
whose duty it is to distribute the
money among those entitled to
1T, stated to a Journal reporter
that each week 1925 was sent
here by the district union No. %,
and the amount was not sufficient
for needs of the men-about thir-
ty-who are out of employment,
and because it was not sufficient
to foot all the bills was the indi-
rect cause of the trouble. The
men all got together at Patf's
grocery yesterday and the matter
was talked about and discussed
until the fight came on.
NIt seems that one of the miners
limited that the money was not
being distributed right, that
some of the favored ones were
getting the lions share. And
right there trouble began in ear
nest.
The first to lead Off, it is said,
were Powy Sandefur and Presi-
dent Ramsey. These two were
linking it up" lively when 9TH
ers, suddenly becoming imbued
with a war-like spirit, sailed in
and in a jiffy there was a gener-
al fight on.
Some one pulled a pair Of brass
knucks, some one grabbed a scale
weight from the counter and an
other got his knife and soon the
gore was spilling about the scene.
A scale weight was hurled
through the air and landed on
the eye of Sandefur, and he was
knocked out, falling unconscious
on the floor. Then some one
landed a solar plexus on Ed Flu
gdte and he went cyclone-likc
through a glass door. Meanwhile
Ramsey and Furguson, with bare
fists, were making punch bags
of each other, and each of their
faces had the appearance of a
raw beefsteak.
Somebody cut a cash in Ed
Fugate's head with Il knife,
which required several stitches
to mend.
Finally, all of them exhausted,
the fight ended.
Before the fighters had time to
get away from the scene of trou-
BILE officer Mike Abel reached the
battle ground and arrested four
of the men. He brought them
to the station and left them in
charge of Chief Henry while he
returned to arrest Ed Fugate and
Powy Sandefur. He found them
both IN the care of physicians,
and unable to go to headquarters.
He notified Chief Henry of their
condition; also told Chief Henry
to arrest Nat and j. A. Corbin.
These had followed the four ar
rested by officer Abel to the sta
ton and were sitting in the
building when officer Abel order
ed their arrest. The first four
Ramsey, Weekly and Henry and
Horace Furguson-had been
locked up, and the Corbins, who
are officers of the local union,
were trying to arrange bonds for