Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1902 — FINED FOR FIGHTING. [ARTICLE]

FINED FOR FIGHTING.

Glffordltes Make Lively Times In the Levee District. A number of Glffordltes oame to town last Thursday and ended their day’s jollifloation in a general fight down in the levee district. The parties engaging in the trouble were Omer Merrill, Allen Caldwell and son Diok and Julias Raska and son William. Young Caldwell and old man Raska started the row, and it ended In a general mixup between all the parties. The most vicious enoounter was between Merrill and young Raska. Merrill got a badly skinned nose and was fined 98 and costs, |l2 In all, by Squire Troxell for getting licked. Merrill then swore out a warrant for the arrest of Raska, who wasaoqnltted. One of the parties paid Merrill’s fine, flashing a |SO bill in tbe Court’s faoe, and as it was after banking hours It took considerable hustling on the part of the court to find enough change to break the bill.