Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — ANOTHER SCRIMMAGE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER SCRIMMAGE.

A bitter personal altercation, in which blows were exchanged, occurred at the con venEßm Iniild ing, Thursday nightHrr which Hon. J. S. Clarkson and General Fitzsimmons, who is the Sergeant-at-Arms, were the participants. Congressman George K. Davis had issued a number of personal passes, simply written in pencil over his signature, admitting the bearers to the contention, and a large number of them were accepted. The

circumstance was reported to Mr. Clark son, who went at once to General Fitzsimmons, whom he ordered to stop such proceedings. Hot words passed, and the lie was given, whereupon Mr. Clarkson knocked Fitzsimmons down. The police rushed in, and it is stated that but for the personal interference of Powell Clayton he would have been roughly handled bv them.