Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — INITIATION WAS TOO SEVERE. [ARTICLE]

INITIATION WAS TOO SEVERE.

Candidate Receives Injuries While Entering the Royal League. Alexander Johnson of Chicago has hovered between life aud death for over a week as a result of his initiation into the fraternal order of the Royal League. Johnson's hurts were received white he was being imlnctetl into the mysteries of the order as demonstrated by Avondale Lodge. No. 123. The seriousness of the injury became apparent only on the doctor's examination. A bloo<| clot formed on the brain, where it is said he was struck, and Tor several days he was delirious and weak. The injured man observed the fraternal injunction of secrecy so closely that not even the firm he was emidoyed by knew what kept him away from his work.