Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — HARD LINES FOR EDITORS. [ARTICLE]

HARD LINES FOR EDITORS.

An Ohio Editor Receives a Coat of Tar and Feathers. Norwalk (Ohio) special to Chicago Times: Ray S. Hathaway, a reporter for the Toledo Democrat, has been in the habit of coming to Norwalk and sending correspondence to his paper embodying any gossip floating on the surface of current talk. Having printed a lot of slush of this character, Hathaway would come to Norwalk on the noon train Sunday with a lot of his papers, which he would offer for sale. He came here as usual yesterday. This morning W. H. Peters, Henry E. Smith, and C. L. Merry, all merchants, who had been attacked in the Democrat, took matters into their own hands. Hathaway was lured out to the St. Charles Hotel barn to look at a horse. Peters then seized and Merry and Smith tied his hands and feet. A physician was also present. Hathaway was then taken into the barn, where a pail of tar, a brush, and a bag of feathers had bean previously placed. A coat of tar and feathers was quickly laid upon Hathaway, and he was left to his own reflections. A revolver and “billy,” taken from his pockets, were turned over to the Marshal. Hathaway was a sorry-looking sight after he was released, and it took over an hour’s work by a number of persons to clean him up so that he could take the noon train to Toledo. The men implicated in the affair say they did not care what stories were retailed about them personally, but when the characters of their wives were assailed they vowed vengeance. A Wisconsin Editor’s Spine Badly Hurt. Sparta (Wis.) telegram: An affray took place this morning at O. I. Newton’s paper-mills, between that person and B. W. Perrv, editor of the Democrat, in the course of which both fell off a stairway to the ground, twelve or fifteen feet, and sustained serious injuries. Newton’s hip was dislocated and Perry badly hurt in the spine. Big Libel Suit Against an Indiana Editor. Fort Wayne dispatch: Jerry Hilligass, County School Superintendent, has sued the Fort Wayne Daily Journal for $10,090 damages because the Journal recently charged him with drinking, incompetency, etc.