Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — HOT TIME ON THE LEVEE. [ARTICLE]

HOT TIME ON THE LEVEE.

From ail reports there was a hot time on the levee again Saturday night and booze A great many drunks were the result, and two fines have thus far been recorded, with The drag net out after still more. Down at “Rosey’s Place” a fracas started in which Charles Campbell, a young colored man who worked for T. J. McCoy, was the central figure. The colored man thought lie was going to be eaten up by the “white trash,” it is said, and, to protect himself, pulled a knife. This had the effect of clearing the the room in less time than it takes to tell it, two young men not taking time to open the door in their haste to escape, but going bodily through a window, taking the glass with them. Campbell was arrested and fined $1 and costs, $8.20 in all, in Squire Irwin’s court, while a young boy considerably under the legal age to loaf about saloons is said to have paid for the broken glass. Campbell was scared half to death, it is alleged, over the demonstrations made toward him and felt that should he remain here he would be the victim of bodily harm, therefore he left town.