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HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, MONDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 17, 1908
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SPRINGFIELD NEGROES
SEEK SAFETY IN FLIGHT
. More Than 2,MO of Then Hass
' Vamoosed and Are Afraid
to Retaro.
GRAND JURY MEETS
TO INDICT LYNCHERS
-Number of Troops NOW on Guard Ag
gregate More Than 4,800—One fiol
dier for Each Fifteen Inhabitants Is
Now the Ratio.
Hearst Nows Service.
SrPlngfleld, 111., August 17—It is es
- tlmated at noon today that 2,000 ne
groes are fugitiyes from Springfield
and have been warned not to return
oftder penalty of forfeiting their lives.
The troops here now number 4,500
or one soldier for each fifteen inhabi
tants- The presence of these troops
lias overawed the disorderly element
for the time being, but the spirit of re
sentment and race antagonism has not
been changed and Governor Deneen re
j allr.es the fact that if the guardsmen
L were withdrawn rioting would be re
^ shewed with Increased fury.
A special grand jury was convened
today for the purpose of indicting the
-fifty men accused of being members of
the mob which lynched the negroes.
Some are said to t bave confessed, but
It is not believed that they will plead
guilty and it is doubtful If the charges
can be sustained. ■ The arrest of al
leged. participants in the mob has
aroused much resentment on the part
of their sympathizers and threats are
made that the jail will be broken down
In order to restore them to liberty.'
The drug stores of the city were
closed today by an order from the
mayor. It is said that the drug stores
were selling liquors and that they have
been doing a rushing business since
the closing of the saloons.
Following the closing of the drqg
stores, the fruit stands and soda foun
tains voluntarily closed theirdoors.
Business of all kinds Is practically
-suspended and Springfield has 1 the
appearance of a military post on a
dull Sunday rather than of a thriving
capital city.
TO MORE VICTIMS
OF SPRINGFIELD RIOTS
/ Heflrst News Service.
Springfield. 111., August 17.—Ap un
known negro was chased across the
fairgrounds, overtaken and his throat
oot by a mob of infuriated white clt
isens last night. It la said that the
only crime he had committed was to
refuse to halt' when the mob leader
demanded him to stop.
Frank Delmore, white, who was shot
through the lungs hy a negro in the
race riots of Friday night, succumbed
to his Injuries late last night,
makes the fifth victim.
Hundreds pf negrqps last night
sought refuge in, the public parks and
were guarded against harm from the
bowling mobs by the state militia.
Several riot calls were sent out dur
* tag the night, hut the mobs dispersed
■ when confronted by troops.
Early in the night an effort was
made to cut the electric iight feed
wires and throw the city Into total
'darkness, but the- police Intercepted
. the vandals and placed guards to pre-.
want the carrying oot of the plans of
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negroes were severely beat
were seriously m
f the night.
CHER
GROWS INCENDIARY.
vs Service.
17.—D. P. Roberta,
prominent in Oils
•ed members of his
Arm themselves,
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Three Springfields
Have Had Race Riots
Race riots hare shaken three cities named Springfield within the
last few years.
At Springfield, O., in 1905, a negro killed a woman add a policeman.
He was hanged by a mob, and in the negro quarter severhl houses were
burned., It was necessary to call out the militia and place the city un
der martial law. > %
. At Springfield, Mo., in 1906, a white woman claimed a negro
saulted her. Several suspects were arrested. A mob stormed the Jail,
took three negroes held qn various charges, and hanged them in the
public square, destroying the bodies in a bonfire,
story was afterward provenJo be false. _
At Springfield, HI., the present trouble resulted- from an assault on
a white woman b/ a negro. \
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The woman's
destroy your property steps across
the threshold, let him step across the
body of a dead man. Arm yourselves
and Be men."
TROUBLE IN ARKANSA3.
Hearst News Service.
Jonesboro Ark., August 17.—Govern
or Pindall has been asked to send
troops to Truman, a small town near
here, to protect negro employes of the
feprlngfleld Lumber and Cooperage
Company and prevent a clash between
the races.
LONG I8LAND EXCITED.
White Woman and Mob
Howls for Hie Bloid. .
Negro Attacks
Hearst News Servlde.
Huntington, L. I., August 17.—A ne
gro who late yesterday afternoon at
tacked a white woman resident of thiB
place is under heavy guard tonight,
after having been rescued by deputies
frdtn a crowd <$f angry citizens
Threats of violence were frequent as
the news of the assault spread, and a
mob of fifty men battered in the door
of the jail with a railroad tie and at
tempted to remove the prisoner.
Negro Preacher Changed His Mind.
Peoria, 111., August 17.—The Rev.
Henry W. Jameson, pastor of the Af
rican Methodist Episcopal Church, who
started for Springfield with a view to
setting the difficulties among his peo
ple, if such things were possible, re
turned today, because he was warned
by a policeman as soon as he alighted
from the train that it was unsafe for
him to remain in the city.
HARRIMAN PLACES
FOR STEEL RAILS
Hearst News Service.
Ensley, Ala., August 1 J .—It is re
ported this morning that the United
States Steel Corporation has been
awarded a contract'for 60,000 tons of
steel rails by p. H. Hardman to be
used in railroad construction in Mex
The local plant is already en
gaged in turning out orders aggregat
ing 157,000 tons of rails for the Harrl
ico.
man lines.
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AGED FARMER
ASSAULTS
GIRL
Says He Was Drunk and Dues Not
Remember—Child Will
Probably Die.
Hearst News Service.
Summerville, "(Sit, August 17.—R. T.
Williams, a white farmer aged 50 ac
cused of assaulting a 9-year-old white
girl, the daughter of Mrs. Hamson, a
neighbor. *
Williams has been carried to Rome
for safe keeping. r
SAYS HE WAS DRUNK.
Hearst News Service.
Rome, Ga., August 17.—R. T. Wil
liams, in jail here for assaulting a 9
year-old white girl at Summerville, de
nies all knowledge of the alleged
crime, claiming that he was drunk at
the time. A message from Summer
ville says that the child is in a critical
condition and little hope is entertained
for her recovery.
TRIAL POSTPONED.
Hearst* News Service.
New York, August 17.—The trial of
Captain Haines will not be held at the
forthcoming tqrm bf the criminal
court. The attorneys agreed this af
ternoon for a postponement. On his
way back to jail' Haines said that he
felt well, possessing a clear con
science.
Hearst News Service.
New York, August 17.—The suspen
sion of Fred Dorr, a Lqs Angeles, Cal.,
broker, announced on the stock ex
change here this morning.
YOUNG COUPLE
MARRY IN BILOXI
Mr. J. C. Jackson, a well known em
ploye of the Love Drug Company, went |
down to Biloxi yesterday and was;
united In marriage to MIbs Claude Hen-1
drlcka, who met him at that place.
, The bride is well known In Hatties. |
burg, having worked as cashier at the
drug store of Hays A Field and Bufktn
& Co. They have the best wishes of
a large number of friends.
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Is Not Surprised Over the Dis
graceful Outbreak at Spring
field, Illinois.
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RECALLS WORDS DF
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
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Sympathizes With Unfortunate Wo
man Whose Life Has Been Blighted
and With Innocent Negroes Who
Have Been Kilted.
Dally News Special.
Jackson, Miss., August 17.—In an
swer to a request from the New York
Herald for an. expression of opinion
regarding the race conflict in Spring
field, 111., ex-Gov. James K. Vardanian
said:
"I am sure it is not surprising to the
spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who is
doubtless cognizant of all that is tak
ing place in his former home. No man
reared north of the Mason and Dixon
line understood the negro better than
Lincoln. He sgid repe&tedly that the
two races could not live together in
the same country on terms of social
and political equality.
"These conflicts are the natural ouW
growth of abnormal conditions. The
negro has never been able to live in
the same country with the white man
on terms of social and political equal,
ity without a conflict. If he is to re
main In America without conflict such
as is disturbing the capital of out
sister state the dodr of hope of social
equality tnust be closed in his face
by denying him all political equality.
"These conflicts are profoundly re
grettable, but they are liable,to occur
In any_part of this republic where the
negroes live in as large numbers as |
they do in Springfield, 111., and where
the white man concedes to him the
rights of citizenship which he enjoys
there.
"I sympathize with the unfortunate
woman whose life has been blighted
by the black brute. I am sorry that
innocent negroes have been punished.
But it matters not what I may desire
or others may say, white men are
going to hang and kill negroes just so
long as negroes persist, in raping
white women, and I think they ought
on
on
to.
"Such sad experiences as Spring
field is undergoing will doubtless cause
the people of the north to look with
more toleration upon the methods em
ployed the southern people in deal
ing with this race problem.
"Knowledge obtained by such bitter
experience comes pretty hlght, but
some people will not learn In any other
school."
ARRANGING FOR
COUNTY PRIMARY
The ltet of election officers has al-j
ready been published in the Dally
News, and it Is hoped that all those;
AH qualified voters are entitled to !
Mr. R. E. Busby returned Friday af
ter a pleasant visit to his father in
Waynesboro.
Arrangements are being made to
send out the voting booths and the
official ballots for the congressional
election to be held Thursday, August
20 .
SenaFor D. M. Watkins, of this city,
is chairman of the committee to send
out the booths, ballots, etc., and it is
safe to say that if people do not vote
Jn the primaries Thursday it will be
their' own fault for everything is in
readiness-for the election. *
| who have been appointed will serve,
ca9 t a ballot and as this matter is now
up to the voters, the country and the
| town voters should both turn out.
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WIPE SA YS HUSBAND IS
GUIL TY OF FORGER Y AND
SHOULD BE HANGED
Hearst, News Service.
New York, August 17.—Captain Pe
ter C. Haines, Jr., U. S. A., and a
brother of Jenkins Haines, the novel
ist,, was arraigned in the police court
this morning at St. Mary's Lyceum
on Long Island, charged with the kill
ing of William E. Amis, advertising
manager of Burr-Mclntosh Magazine
on last Saturday evening.
The defense offers in extenuation
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DEVOUR FAMILY OF 4
Hearst News Service.
Mexico City, Mex., August 17.—Two
mountain lions entered the house of
Herculane Flores in the village of
Iezada de Cabello in the state of Jal
Killed Sleeping Husband
Then Tried to End Own Life
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Hearst News Service.
Chicago, August 17.—Mrs. Mary Cas-1
sidy this morning shot and killed her
husband as he was asleep, and then |
CAUGHT 26 POIND CAT FISH
WITH THE AID OF I EEL
The biggest fish that has been
caught this season in this section of
the state was landed out of Black
Creek Saturday night by a party who
went from this city for a -week's
outing. i
The party was composed of Messrs.
C. F. McNair, Tom Graham and Mack
Shuter.
The fish caught weighed 26 pounds
exactly <and was a catfish.
The manner of catching the catfish
was something decidedly out of the or
dlnary and if the gentlemen descrlb
ing the manner of the catch were not
thoroughly reliable, the story of this
! catch might be regarded as a little
"fishy" itseif. But they are uncontra
dicted and have a number of witnesses
who will bear them out. Mr. C. F. Mc
Nair, who has set a hook, found 'that
he had a bite and soon learned that It
was an eel on his hook. He also
learned that a catfish was after the
the fact that Haines' wife made a
written confession of undue intimacy
with Amis.
Mrs. P. C. Haines, Jr., testified on
the stand that the letter was a forgery
and expressed the hope that her hus
band would be hfcnged for his crime.
She denied that she ever made such
confession, writtten or otherwise.
Haines and his father were both
remanded to jail without benefit of
bail.
isco, yesterday and killed the entire,
consisting of Flores, his wife and two
children. The bodies of the children
had been almost entirely devoured
before neighbors secured arms and
kllVsd the lions.
turned the pistol on herself, inflicting
wounds the doctors say will prove fa
tal. The woman was only recently re
| leased from the Insane asylum.
eel, which had already been caught on
the hook. Eels are known to be slip
pery and when the big fish swallowed
the eel, the eel slipped out through
the fish's gilts, but the big fish made
another dive for the eel which was
still hitched to the hook, and when he
swallowed the eel this time the latter
again slipped through the gills of the
fish but in doing so managed to tie
the line around the fish's gills and
both the eel and fish were brought to
land.
The fish was sent to Mr. S'. F ||Ic
Nair yesterday morning and was seen
by a large number of "people.
The eel that - the fish swallowed was
about the same length as the fish—
three feet.
The party Is still on Black Creek,
a short distance from Okhola.
last Thursday they caught more than
100 fine perch and other varieties of
On
fish.
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TRAGEDY
Blind Tiger King Waited For His
Man to Pray and Lost
Own Life.
HAD MADE FORTUNE
DY SELLING BOOZE
Several Hotel Guests Witnessed the
Tragedy, Which Was One of the
Mott Unique in the History of Ala
bama.
Hearat News Service.
Borden Springs, Ala., August 17.—
William Smith, alleged proprietor of
the famous "Bell Tree" blind tiber and
hotel, was today shot and killed by
Will Chandler, a farmer.
Immediately after the killing, Chand
ler surrendered to Cleburne County
authorities and has been placed in
jail at Heflin.
Several guests of Borden Springs
Hotel witnessed the killing. It Is said
that the two men had quarreled over a
game of cards. They met on the hotel
lawn and the quarrel wa^ renewed.
Smith pulled his pistol and held it to
Chandler's head, forcing him to get
on his knees and pray, telling him all
the while that his end had come.
While Will Chandler was praying
his brother appeared on the scene and
slipped up behind Smith, dealing him
a blow over the head with a rock. Will
Chandler then arose from his knees
and drew his pistol. Smith staggered
to his feet, still stunned by the blow
on his head, when Chandler fired the
contents of his revolver into his body.
Either shot would have produced
death.
Smith Is reported to have amassed a
fortune of at least $50,000 from his
blind tiger. A large bell was hung
in a tree near the springs and pros
pective purchasers deposited their
money on a stump and rang the bell,
when Smith would proceed to the place
and deposit the whisky.
HIBERNIANS OF 1
CALIFORNIA IN I
STATE MEETING
Oakland, Cal., August 17.—California
Irishmen, with their,wives and fami
lies, to the number of several hun
dreds, are taking part in the state con
vention opened here today by the An
cient Order of Hlberians. Following
high mass, the transaction of routine
business occupied the opening ses
sion.
An exciting contest is expected when
the election of officers is held on Wed
nesday. as several candidates are in
the field for state president of the or
der.
TO HAVE CHARGE
OF TWO HOTELS
Mr. Fairfax Washington, manager of
the Hotel Hattiesburg has been made JM
manager of the Great Southern Hotq^H
at Gulfport, vice Barnard Chotard, a^Hf
signed. Mr. Washington will be
ager of both hotels and bis man^HHH
■'-long frietiils will be glaM^Br?V£|
that he will spend tt consiih'f^jH'-if-i' 1 ?.j|
lion of bis time here. £§
••red one of the best
in ilie South and he £■
"t two <>! tli" host hoieJd^W-'-i.
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