Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — WHITES AND NEGROES FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

WHITES AND NEGROES FIGHT.

Take Possession of Traction Car in Which Many Are Hurt. Princeton, Ind., Nov. 24—Drunks, both white and colored, took complete possession of an E. & S. I. traction car between Haubstadt and this city last night, and fought all the way from Haubstadt here. A negro local talent company had been giving a minstrel performance in Haubstadt, and while there it is said white men from Ft. Branch and Princeton tried to get the negro women drunk. This was the cause of the trouble which broke out on the car. Several were severely beaten and cut, windows were broken out, and it was not until the police met the car here that the trouble was stopped: A number of arrests were made.