Wanted to Lynch Sun Wah

Drunken Man in Fond du Lac Shoots at a Chinaman.

Fond du Lac, Wis., July 25.—The Chinese Boxer trouble almost precipitated a riot today. As it was, Chauncey Richards took a shot at a Chinese laundryman named Sun Wah, and the crowd that gathered came near lynching Sun Wah. Richards was intoxicated, and, meeting Sun Wah in front of his laundry, began to abuse him. They argued the Boxer trouble for some time and finally got into a hand-to-hand fight, during which Richards drew a revolver and fired at the laundryman’s head. The bullet missed him, but the powder burned his face. A large crowd of men and boys gathered and shouts of “Lynch the Chinaman” and “Avenge Pekin” were soon heard on all sides. Sun Wah ran for his laundry, with the crowd at his heels. The mob followed and was storming the laundry when the police and Sheriff Force arrived and quelled the trouble. Richards was arrested and held in $1,000 bonds, while the Chinaman was taken to the police station for safekeeping. Sun Wah is one of the best known Chinese in the northwest. He has a number of laundries in Wisconsin and at one time made special application for citizenship papers. He is prominent in the Chinese Masons of this country.