Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — “HUNKIES ATTACK SECTION FOREMAN [ARTICLE]

“HUNKIES ATTACK SECTION FOREMAN

Tom Stephenson Assailed by Half Dosen Roumanians at Laura is Badly Beaten Up.

“Hunkies” working on the Giftord branch of the Monon railroad at Laura severely thrashed their foreman, Tom Stephenson, of MeCoysburg, Wednesday evening, according to a story which The Republican received today. The foreigners are Roumanians and they have been causing more or less trouble during the summer, l it is stated. They keep a supply of liquor on hand and indulge in drinking after the working hours. Wednesday evening it is reported that they took the handcar and made a trip to Gifford. They had not asked Mr, Stephenson for the privilege and he told -them not to take the car again. He boards at the home of Henry Doan, a half mile from the’station, and when he reurned from there in the evening he found several of the “Hunkies” ready to start the ear to Gifford again. He stopped them and they took after him. He tried to run into Wallace’s store, but one of them locked the door. He then started for the Doan home and a half doze? of the laborers after him. They -.vertook him and gave him a terrible beating, leaving him badly bruised and scarcely able to get to the home of the Doan’s. He got into communication with Sheriff Hoover and asked to come there and arrest the men who had beaten him up, but the sheriff informed him that he could not make the arrests without a warrant. Work on the road suspended today. Stephenson was able to take the train to McCoysburg and there was no foreman to manage the obstreperous foreigners. Whether arrests will be made or not is not known. Most of the foreigners are married and their wives live in Roumania. Notwithstanding the fact that they drink considerable booze they are said to send almost all of their earnings back to their families.