Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — HAD LIVELY SCRAP IN REMINGTON FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

HAD LIVELY SCRAP IN REMINGTON FRIDAY

Ed and Tone Kanne Engaged in Fisticuffs JVith Man Named Alexander —Unadvertised Event. While attending the street fair at Remington Friday night Ed and Tone Kanne became involved in trouble with a man named Alexander. According to Tone Kanne, whose story is vouched for by others who saw the trouble, Alexander threw .some confetti on Eld Kanne, who retaliated by clapping him on the back with a carnival contraption sold for the purpose. Alexander then called him a foul

name and Kanne invited him to fight. They started for an alley but did not get there and the fight began on Ohio street, just north of the railroad. Alexander was throwh or knocked down and some reports were to the effect that he was severely beaten up. The bnjy injury Kanne received was on his left breast, where a chunk of flesh was almost severed and Kanne thinks Alexander bit him. Tone Kanne says that Alexander struck at him after getting up and that some one else struck him. Stewart Moore had taken a load of the band boys to Remington in Kanne’s auto bus and as they were leaving town some one heaved a brick at them and it struck Don Wright on the arm. Stewart was making a hasty exit, it seems, and upset a baby rack in turning the bus around and it is presumed the brick was heaved by the irate owner of the rack, although some think that it was thrown by some friend of Alexander’s who presumed that Kanne was in the bus. It is understood that liquor was dispensed at Remington in blind tiger fashion and it is said that this was at the bottom of the trouble. Some report that Alexander was considerable under the influence.