Holiness Men Choked

Urbana Courier-Herald January 23, 1905

Preachers "Mix" With Young Men, Getting Worst of Encounter

LIVELY RUMPUS WHILE SUNDAY MEETING IS ON

No Arrests or Complaints Are Made—How the Trouble Started.

Preachers Moore and Clark, expounders of the Holiness faith, were choked and otherwise assailed Sunday night during services at the Holiness church on Market street. The preachers and several young men of Urbana "mixed" in a general melee and the fur flew for quite a little while.

Clark, it is stated, was delivering a tirade against masonry and churches from the platform while his co-worker was standing in the rear when one of the party which became involved in the fracas made a remark in which he consigned the speaker to the same place he was sending other people. Moore is said to have ordered the young man out and to have taken him by the ear. Whereupon the dogs of war were let loose. Friends of the young man who "mixed" took a hand and there was a lively time. Clark it is said was badly choked but not seriously injured. When the melee ceased the party filed out.

No arrests wre made and no complaint was made at the police station today. A report from Officer McKinney to Chief Hawley stated that there was "rough house" at the Holiness meeting This was all the information the police had.