Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — Morocco Vandals Broke Plate Glass While Drunk. [ARTICLE]

Morocco Vandals Broke Plate Glass While Drunk.

Moro'cco Courier—Some vandals, miscreants, and low browed hang-ers-on of the saloon proceeded to wreak out their vengeance early Sunday morning by pounding a Deer bottle through one of the plate glass windows of the Courier block. The room where the damage was done is occupied by Geo. Flowers as a bakery. Whether it was young fellows or the whiskey in them that s accountable for the lawless deed is a question. It probably is both. Of course punishment should be meted out to such but who shall apprehend them. In the city the police force under the mayor and the detectives work on such a case at once, but in a (country town there is seldom anything done by the authorities. Hence one, though payng taxes for protection, is at the mercy of the gang which every town :s infested with/