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Another Rose War

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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This refers to the colored rose, or neg-roes, and the occurrencesappertaining thereto, took place Saturday night. It seems that at the Fifth avenue colored restaurant, sometime during the evening, high words were heard by a young colored man, who called in to ascertain what was the cause of the row and was informed that it was none of his business. The visitor was persuaded that it was, until the restauranter drew a "cahving knife" about two feet long, when he altered his mind and concluded that it wasn't. The restaurant viceroy told the corner to get out "d - d quick." He got out in the time specified. As he had no "razzer" in his boot, nor other weapons of offense or defense he said he would go home and arm himself, as he had been callee by hitn of the "cahving knife" "the molasses colored progeny of a mother who was not a gentleman," or words of similar import. These facts coming to the mother's ears, she locked her son in the house and went herself to seek satisfaction. That she obtained some of it seems likely as she is reported to have knocked down the head waiter with a rolling pin and chased the proprietor out of the room. Others took sides in the affair and the fight was general. The restaurantkeeper now carries a cannon in each hip pocket, a musket in either hand and a bowiekmfe in his teeth and calis on his adversaries to "lay on McDuff, and I 7

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News