Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — “HELD UP.” [ARTICLE]

“HELD UP.”

The Commonweal Army Sarrondera to a Lone Woman Toll-Gala Kwper. It develops that the Coxey army met Ignominious defeat at the hands of Mrs. Clabaugh, a toll-gate keeper on the pik* two miles east of Brownsville, while en route to Unlontown, Monday. As tba army approached the gate Mrs. Clabaugh appeared and demanded that toll be paid. Marshal Brown proceeded to deliver one of his theosophical harangues. Mr*. Clabaugh said she did not know anything about re-incarnation, but wanted the toll for the entire aggregation at once. Coxey and Brown argued the matter, claiming first that the Commonweal was a funeral procession going to the obsequies of all the old parties, then claimed to be a church, but the obdurate woman demand'd “one dollar and eighty-seven cents and be quick about it.” Coxey paid the amount in nickels and pennies under protest, and his army proceeded on lM way. G. W. Teagarden, near Orleans, aided by his hired man. uncovered a nest of snakes hibernating under an eld stusspv and they killed fifty-six. ranging in length from eighteen Inches to three feet two. The same day they uncovered another bunch, killing eighteen, making a total at seventy-ini.r in the day.