Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — BANK PRESIDENT ASSAULTED. [ARTICLE]

BANK PRESIDENT ASSAULTED.

Charred with Fraud by Infuriated Laborers and Beaten into Insensibility. President Armstrong, of the Conway Savings Bank, Conway Springs, Kan., was assaulted by a mob of infuriated laborers Thursday, and beaten so severely that the attending physicians hold out only slight hopes of his recovery. President Armstrong is also the chief of the company operating a sugar manufacturing plant and employing about one hundred men, with whom a new agreement had recently been made. The employes insisted that under the new scale they were being defrauded of a portion of their wages, and Wednesday afternoon about seventy-five of them entered the office of President Armstrong, at the bank. Before the conference had proceeded very far, Mr. Armstrong grew furious, and ordered the men from the office and the bank. The maddened laborbore him to the street and beat him almost to insensibility. The Sheriff was a witness to the scene, but was powerless to in terfere. No arrests were made. Mr. Armstrong was taken to his home. The attending physicians report that he is very seriously hurt internally, and that his in juries will no doubt prof e fatal.