Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — KNOX IN CAFE QUARREL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KNOX IN CAFE QUARREL.

Attorney General Punishes Philadelphia Millionaires. Attorney General Knox admits that he was a participant in an unpleasantness in a case at Atlantic City, hut he claims

that published accounts of the affair have been greatly exaggerated Friends of the Attorney General who were present at the “scene” at Atlantic City state that, so far from being struck by three infuriated capitalists who disapproved of his course regarding the trusts, Mr. Knox

was the means of inflicting condign punishment upon ope of the party. According to Mr. Long, private secretary to the Attorney General, who was present, a party of men, including several Philadelphia miliionaihes, among whom were said to have been Charles T. Schhen, Theodore Cramp and Mr. Stevenson, entered an Atlantic City case and took a table near that at which the Attorney General, his family and several friends were seated. Some of the newcomers became boisterous, Mr. Long says, and used excited language and such that it became unpleasant to Mr. Knox and his friends to remain near them. Knox accordingly asked a waiter to step over and request that the loud language cease. The waiter did so, and the men, becoming enraged, grew more violent than before. “Well,” Mr. Long concluded, “the result was a slight encounter. It is not true that Mr. Knox was struck. One of the other men got it good and hard, however. He was struck by one of our party. I don’t care to say who struck him. Then order was restored. That’s ail there was to it.” This is the story according to a New York correspondent.

ATTY.-GEN. KNOX.