Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1919 — WETS ARE HAVING RIOTOUS TIME AT WEST HAMMOND. [ARTICLE]

WETS ARE HAVING RIOTOUS TIME AT WEST HAMMOND.

Hammond, Ind., July 25.—Two West Hammond, 111., policemen were nearly beaten to death last midnight by riotous Indianians, whom they had arrested. The authorities there have asked the Cook county sheriff for deputies to aid in subduing Hammond, Gary and East Chicago denizens, who have invaded the wet territory to get liquor until the country grows dry. Some of the saloons were stormed by mobs of men who have quit work in the Calumet district factories to celebrate in a wild seven-day orgie. While attempting' to arrest three disorderly Hoosiers, John O’Donnell, a Gary workman, as said to have headed a crowd of millmen who tore clubs from Officers Kulcyk arid Wojowski, beat them into insensibility j and stabbed them with knives. The |milhrnen then escaped.