The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-19
LIKE ONE INSANE.
Mrs. Myra McHenry Uses HOrri-
bly, Vicious Language
In a Street Harangue to a
Hutchinson Audience.
CROWD JEERED HER.
In Her Anger She Began Plying
a Buggy Whip.
Threw CObble Stones, Seriously
Injuring u Man.
CROWD JEERED HER.
ssDefenders'' Hit Her With Eggs
Intended for Audience.

Hutchinson, Kan, Aug. 19.-After ex-
hausting her vocabulary of epithets and
finding even a horsewhip Intellectual as
a weapon of offenses Mrs. Myra Nc
Henry of Wichita, first lieutenant in
Carrie Nations staff of Joint smash
ers," attacked a street audience with
broken paving stones here last night.
Three persons were struck and one H.
w. Cox of Plevna. was dangerously in
jured. Women supporters of Mrs. Nc
Henry emptied market baskets of eggs
at the crowd. but their aim was poor,
nearly all of these missiles striking the
orator. Unable, finally, to resist the on
slaught of jeers and shelled bullets, Mrs.
McHenry jumped into a buggy and
drove rapidly away, eluding both the
police and the now thoroughly angered
congregation
Veterans Not Pleased.
Mrs. McHenry came here a self-invi-
ted guest, to address the representatives
of the Kansas Grand Army in their an
nual reunion. She made repeated visits
to Camp Abraham Lincoln, but the vet
Grams expressed no pleasure at her pres
ence and every effort to gain the speak,
erS' platform met with defeat. Failing
in the attempt to enlist the blue
against rum Mrs. McHenry returned on
each occasion to a downtown street cor
ner and harangued as large a crowd of
civilians as cared to listen.
Fun for the Crowd.
Denied even the privilege of speaking
at the campfire which closed the reun-
ion last night. Mrs. McHenry selected a
point of vantage on Main street and in
dulged in a particularly vehement har-
angue. AT some points in her speech
she used language that is unprintable
and her epithets were distributed with
reckless generosity. Finally the audi
ence decided the limit of endurance had
been passed and united in a chorus of
jeers, which drowned the peroration.
Mrs. McHenry, already angered, was
now almost at the point of frenzy.
Seeing that she could not quiet the
crowd with words, she grasped a whip
and struck at the persons nearest her.
| This move served only to increase the
volume of sound directed against the
women with the result that the tenn
perance warrior waxed even more
violent. Finally her eye found the
pile of broken paving stones and lift
| ing piece after piece she flung them
at the constantly increasing assem-
blage in front of her.
Stone Hits a Man.
On the sidewalk on the edge of the
crowd walked H. w. Cox, leading a
child. A stone which had whizzed
over the heads of many persons missed
/ the child but struck the man with
such force as to fell him. Cox is in
poor health, and the injury aggravated
his ailment. He was given treatment
! in a store to which he was carried and
was removed to his home later. The
two other persons who were struck
suffered only slight injuries.
Evidently fearing such an outbreak
4 women recruits had grouped them
selves near Mrs. McHenry, armed with
eggs. About the time Cox was hit they
began throwing these missiles. to the
discontinue of the woman they
sought to defend. Seeing that her own
friends had become unwilling partici-
pants in the attack, Mrs. McHenry now
| jumped into convenient buggy and
fed.