The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-08-06
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The serenity of reform received
q sudden awakening Saturday night
and Sunday morning. 1t was, IN
deed. return to the palmy days of
the ssboom7 period and pandemon-
Jun was rampant. 1t was a wild
and woolIy time. 1t bordered on
rioting with from three to five
hundred participating.
Mayor Harmcr got busy early in
the evening and set the ball IN
motion. He had the police yank
out a lot of fellows from one saloon.
who looked like they might not have
been of age
Following this Charles Hill, col
ored, was forcibly elected from Z.
e. AIcDonnell's saloon -For making
II vulgar demand of a white man IN
HE saloon. Shortly afterward Hill
Is arrested for using vile language
on the street and being disorderly
He resisted arrest and by his loud
talk attracted perhaps three hun
bred people. Going up Third street
he resisted so that a scuifie ensued
and the mace .fas used. a little
farther on John EpPerson, colored
i1lterfered and got a tap over the
head. BY that time the street was
crowded with people and several
threatening demonstrations were
made by HIPS friends. At the in
5tersection of Traders alley and Third
three policemen joined Officers
White and Lewis ans headed by
Mayor Harmer, Hill was rapidly es-
Lcorted to police headquarters, not
however. until demonstration so
great had been made as TO cause one
officer to step aside and command
the crowd to stand back, and as he
did so he placed his hand on his hip
as if to draw gun. That, how
ever, did not deter the crowd and it
9sureed forward, until the Merchants
corner was reached, when Mayor
Hamer jumped into the middle of
the street and with the admonition
that any and all who proceeded to
police headquarters would be
arrested commanded the crowd
to stop! The mayors words
acted like magic and he held the
surging mob completely at bay and
further trouble on that score was
thus averted.
Hill was later bailed out and go
ing back to Pike street got on the
war path again. He first wanted t.
beat up the officers who arrested him
and he also hurled epithets at Mr..
Mcdonnell, who had elected him
from the saloon. The latter pro-
.ceeded to shut Hill's mouth with
his fist and later, about 2 o'clock
Hill landed in Jail for the remain
der of the night. Mcdonnell was al
so required to put up forfeit for
his appearance, too.
In the meantime, however, Mayor
Harmer had planned raid, and
with half a dozen officers, proceeds
shortly after ii 80 o'clock to exc
cute it. Officers were first station
ed in front of the hallway along the
ease side of the Elk saloon and
Mayor Harmer and Policeman Joyce
turned the Deison hotel corner and
made a run for the rear of the Siers
building, where there is alleged -
be gambling joint, and, which Is
alleged to have been running ever
since Mr.. Harmer assumed the Of
ffcec. Sayor. After a short wait
thT Scr came through Burke''
MKT Shop and went to the hallway.
Mr.. Council had closed his saloon
and was checking up his cash regis
ter, preparatory to gong home for
the night. Mayor Harmer saw him
S and called to him to open the hal
door. He replied that he had moth
ing to do with that door and declin
ed to open it. The chief raider
then told Council he had issued a
warrant for the place upstairs and
he would break the door in if it was
not opened. He : then directed
policeman Harry Brooks TO do the
Carrie Nation act. Harry started
in a slzillful man6era but soon desist-
ed but not until zifn had broken the
glass in the doofs After a shor
wait the door opened upon slight
effort and the officers rushed up
STAIRS, except Mayor Harmer, who
remained IN the neighbo rhood. The