Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 December 1894 — Page 4
RACE WAR IN GEORGIA
Seven Negroes Have Already Been Lynched.
FURTHER BLOODSHED FEARED.
Tifo.^envily Armed ISodies of Men Ap-
JIJ'IWHLNG Kuch Other mid Conflict 1M Aluioat Sure to Follow The Uprising Caused by the Hiatal unlcr of a l'romincnt Citizen.
QUITMAN, Ga., Dec. 24.—The lives of novon negroes have been taken in MIL last 24 hours in revenge for that of one white man, sind unless nil signs £ail utterly, many lives more tire in jeopardy. Two bodies of determined men, between 400 and 000 men in all, every man being heavily armed and each xiy about equal in numerical strengt to the other, separated by less than a mile of country, are liable to clash at :&ny minute. That is the spectacle presented here iu Brooks county.
Uue body is made up of stern, deteraniued white men, beat on revenge for *hif brutal murder of one of the best citizens of this count/ the other is 2ii ad up of negroes, terror-stricken and fearful lest they or their families be .iua.de the objects of the same fate as lias ssi ready befallen seven of their number and ready to defend themselves from such fate as well as they may be able.
What the next 24 hours will bring forth, the good Lord alone knows. Tua,t there will be an open clash seems wry much more than probable at this, -writing. The authorities are powerless^, and practically no efforts have yet been* made to bring about peace, save by tho relatives of the man whose murder is the cause of it all.
On Thursday Mr. Joseph Isom, one of Brooks county's most prosperous farmerr. and best citizens, was murdered by a party of negroes, and it leaked out th:it the killing of Isom was a part of a jjiot to kil» all the whites who were iu the posse which a few weeks ago arrested Jesse Jeffreth for the killing of Mr. T. Mouldon. Isom was one of the most popular men in the county. He lived 10 miles north of here in a part of the county where the negroes outnumbered tli6 whites, and the killing created a great deal of excitement. "When it developed that the same gang negroes had sworn to kill other white a»eu, the whites gathered together as if by one accord, and the work of death and destruction began.
A reporter visited the scene late yesten .ay evei ing. Every crossroad was iotmd picketed with sentinels, and every man in the county is armed to the teeth. When one of these race excitements occur King Terror rules in tho humos of whites as well as blacks, and this ia such a case. There are probably SW) men under arms, covering an area of iibout live square miles. About a snile and a half from the home of the Junius were about 200 whites, all weli armed and breathing all sorts of vengeance. A mile further was a crowd of negroes of about the same size, armed with Winchester rifles, pistols, axes, dubs and every available weapon, waiting for the whites to attack them. They are entrenched in and around a lot of negro cabins in the midst of a thin grove, and the latest information is that the whites are advancing on them from two sides.
Sam Taylor, Eli Frazer, Sam Pike and Henry Sherard aro four negroes known to have boen killed. It is understood that Waverly Pike, Jim MeCali and a negro named Herring, wore probably the others. The county is comparatively sparely sottled, and tho
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facilities for securing information are meager. Pike is the negro who killed Isom. He has been in hiding near where the trouble has occurred, and the authorities here do not consider it probable that he had been caught.
When the reporter left the scene there seemed every liklihood of a pitched battle. Captain E. Tillman, father-in-law of Isom, was, however, doing everything in his power to restrain the whites. He had sent hurried messengers all over the county, summoning to his aifc conservative men in the hope that tiny would prevent further bloodshed. It is impossible to know at present how well they succeeded.
Details of the killing of the seven negroes are very meager. Taylor, Frazer, Pike and Sherard were together about sunset Saturday night. The}- are regarded as four of the ringleaders of the conspiracy to kill and burn, and were being especially sought- for. A half dozen whites, one of whom is said to have been Isom's brother-in-law, came upon tlieni suddenly and ordered them to submit to arrest, One of the negroes answered with a shot that struck one of the whites, and four blacks were shot down in their tracks. 7.. The other three were caught, one at a time.
Many of Isom's neighbors," who are in the crowd will not listen to any peaceful talk. They declare that for the sakes of their wives and children and for their own safety they must stamp out the gang that had sworn to murder and that spirit seems to be the predominant one. If the fight comes it will be a desperate one.
The killing of Isom occurred on the public road not far from his home, and the circumstances attending it seem to throw doubt on tho conspiracy theory, ir. Isom was here Thursday, and hile iu town had some words with
Waverly Pike, a negro living in his neighborhood. Apparently everthiug was smoothed over when ho left for home. After arriving there he started with Henry Tillman, his brother-in-law, for Captain Tillman's home about half a mile from Isom's. They met four negroes, two on horseback and two in wagons.
Pike aud West McCall were on horseback the two Herring boys were in the wagon. They came near riding over Isom who remonstrated. He said. "Look out don't run over me," and had stepped out of the way. Just then Pike drew a pistol and without a word fired, the bullet piercing Isom's heart. Pike and McCall fired three shots each at the prostrate body of Isom, and they broke for their horses. Pike made his escape but McCall and the Herrings were arrested and are in jail.
In this present excitement there is grave danger of these three being lynched.
Ifer llody Will Ho Drought Ibink.
LONDON, Dec. 24.—The body of Mrs. William Wi^dorf Astor, who died iturday at Ciieveden, will be taken to New York for burial.
Train Wreckers Frustrated.
PJ,ATTS.V.,C n, Neb., Dec. 24. —A plan to wr?i:: the Burlington fast mail was frustrated yesterday afternoon by accident, A trackwalker discover-:,', several lo/, lashed to tho track OP a kharpcurw just in time to prevent the llyer crasLiug into the obstruction.
Cholera in Ura/.il.
BUENOS AYHKS, Dec. 24. Several cases of cholera are reported in Rosario. Great precautions have boon taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
Indications.
Threatening weather warmer south tvinds. ara .-a.^-X
OCEAN VESSEL LOST.
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Captain and Crew of Fifteen Were 5 ^Rescued Just in Time.
POUT '.TOWN-SEND. Wash., Dec. 24.— The bark Southern Chief, from Tacoma for Adlaide, Australia, succumbed to the fury of the recent storm. She went to pieces and was abandoned 52 miles southeast of Cape Flattery. Her captain aud crew, 15 persons all told, were taken off the sinking vessel by the barkentme Skagit and brought to this port.
An unknown ship previously passed the Southern Chief and refused to heed her signals of distress. Only one seaman was injured, hiving his leg jammed by lumber. The Chief ran into the gale early Thursday morning, which, together with rough seas, opened up seams in vessel, and she quickly became waterlogged. Over 30,000 feet of lumber, jettisoned when her stern quarters were carried away. A heavy sea was sweeping her docks, fore and aft, when the Skagit came along and rescued the crew. The vessel was valued at £7,000 and her cargo cost $10,000, fully insured.
The revenue cutter Grant, which was ordered to go out in search of overdue vessels, sailed last night. She will probably be gone two weeks. The barken tine Skagit, which arrived yesterday, 00 days from San Pedro, reports making a big semi-circle on the voyage to Cape Flattery, and did not enter any unusually stormy weather, and neither did she sight any vessels in distress, which would seem to dispel the idea that the missing vessels had got out of the westward and were heading on toward shore.
TRAGEDY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
It May Kesult in the Death of Two if Not Three Persons.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 24.—The most horrible tragedy ever perpetrated in this city occurred here yesterday morning, resulting in the death of two if not three persons. George Frederick Ashford, a laborer in the employ of the Canadian Pacific railroad, has been a resident here for the past two years, living with hi.-, wife and five children in the East End of the city. For some time past he has been drinking heavily. He returned home late last night and going upstairs he woke his wife, telling her that her end had come, and before she was half awake he shot her in the head.
Then the little 3-year-old Violet was killed in a similar manner, 0-yoar-old Mildred, was also shot. The two boys were awakened by the shooting, and escaped, giving the alarm "^o the neighbors. The fiend made his escape in the direction of Westminster. Seeing a car approaching, he threw himself in front of it, but the motormau pulled up in time to rescue him, handing him over to the police.
Took a Tray of Sparkler^
HOUSTON, Dec. 24.—Some time during the afternoon on Thursday last a slick thief, who took advantage of the presence in the store of a crowd of holiday customers, quietly took a tray of diamonds to the value of $3,000 from the show window of Sweeney & Fredericks, jewelers. The matter has been kept very dark iu the hope of securing some clew which will lead to the detection of the thief. It has just leaked out and the police are at work on the case.
It Was Not Poisoning.
DAYTON, O., Dec. 24.—Alex Owens, a veteran of the military home, was placed ou the cars in this city by two unknown women and became so ill'before he reached his destination that the ambulance -was called and he died before he could get to the hospital. It was supposed to be a case of poisoning,
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at an autopsy by the coroner reveals the fact that death was from heart disease.
j. TIazar l.urned. STIUAVATKR, Minn., Dec. 24. The Bazar owned by A. G. Schuttinger, who carried a §50,000 stock of dry goods, toys, etc., AY as almost totally ruined by fire and water last night, and the Murphy and O'Shaughnessy block, in which it was located, is badly damaged. Air. Schuttinger carried an insurance of ?•(),000. The building is covered by insurance.
Train iJobber .Sentenced.
HELENA, Mon., Dec. 24.—Charles Jones, train robber, lias been sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. Jones and three other men held up a Northern Pacific train at Grey Cliffe, in east* eru Montana, in August, 1893. Tli other three were killed in the chase for their capture, and Jones was once sentenced to be hanged, but got a new trial in August, 18!J3.
Lord Kandolph Churchill III,
MARSEILLES, Dec. 24.—Lord Randolph Cliurehiil has become worse since his arrival here. Symptoms of locomotor ataxia have appeared. Nevertheless he was. determined to proceed to London and, accompanied by his wife and physicians, he started for Paris last "ifflit. ,~i\
Bringing Thompson's Remains Hack.
LONDON, Dec. 24.—The cruiser Blenheim, having on board the remains of John Thompson, prime minister of Canada, sailed from Portsmouth\t o'clock Sunday morniug for /Halifax. The gale which prevailed has subsidetL
Died Willi His Boots On.
DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24.—Micajah Rowsey, the desperatlo, was killed at Junction City last night by Town Marshal Ellis, whom he resisted. Rowsey was the last of a father and seven sons, all of whom died with their boots on.
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BATAVIA, O., Dec. 24.—Christmas day a big fox hunt will be started, to last about five days. Sixty hounds will be turned loose on the county and tho foxes will have to hustle to keep ahead of these cracks. ,•
Prominent. Italicr Dead.
DAYTON, ()., Dec. 24.—Adolph L. Bauman, aged SJ0, a well known baker and manager of one of the syndicate bakeries here, in ill health for two years, died yesterday afternoon from dropsy.
Hied of Cancer.
DAYTON, O., Dec. 24.—Harry C. Wight, lumber dealer and planing null operator, aged 43, who lias been suffering some time, died suddenly from cancer of tho stomach.
Double Drowning.
WINDOM, Minn., Dec. 24.—Paul Peterson and Andrew Iioss, while skating on tho lake yesterday, broke through the ice aud were drowned.
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IJittersweet.
A couple once that had lived in quiet, Quarreled and .split abuul their diet.
He 'Tis mutton!" she
said, 'Tis lamb. cried,
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good
:ide!
mutton, too, and naught- be:
And filially, as tilings grew worse, They appealed to law and got a divorce.
When seven long yearn had passed away, They chanced ill good humor to meet one day.
And then they agreed the hatchet to bury Again to love and again to marry.
They were married then, that very night, With hopes of happiness full and bright.
But at breakfast she said, with a sort of jeer, "That was mutton, you know, my dearest dear!" —New York Sun. ^4
Preposterous Proposition.
Traveler—You have a magnificent.farm for sheep raising, but I don't seo any sheep on the place.
Arkansas Farmer Sheep! No: My dogs would kill 'em off in no time. "Then why don't you k! 11 off your dogs?" '•Kill off my dogs! Say, don't lot any of my folks hoar you talkin that a-way. Why, great Scott, mister, them hounds of mine have brought me in more'n .$50 in clean cash in the last three years fur premiums at dog sho^sl"—Chicago Tribune.
She Didn't Know It AH. She read Sanskrit, And knew Pancrit Ancient Persian Was diversion,
But Bhe used to think that Maine Was a river in Lorraine That the Mississippi ran Through Vermont and Yucatan, Aud that ('hs'istopher Columbus was the king of Michigan.
All foreign nationalities And realms and principalities, With no trace of indecision She could name with great precision, But she used to think Nebraska Was a river in Alaska. And she searched for Philadelphia on a map of .: Madagascar. —Lewiston JournalPSfe
Not lie.
Gilbert Stewart, the celebrated portrait painter, onco met a lady in tho streets of Boston, who said to him: "Ah, Mr. Stewart, I have just seen J-our likeness and kissed it because it was so much like you." "And did it kiss you in return?" "Why, no." "Then," said Stewart, "it was not like me."—Tit-Bits.
A Glad Relief.
No more along the broad highway We seo the maiden lly. The tired machine is put away,
Tht* bloomers are put by, And she is in the ballroom gay Among the giddy throng, Iu gown cut en decollete,
With train fathom long. —New York Press.
In tiie Year 1915.
"You needn't tell me that Mary Parsay is not more than years old. She is nearer 43, and I can prove it." "But how?"
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"Jlist you watch her when she goes to cross a muddy street. Just notice liow she grabs at her trousers to hold them out of tho mud, the way women did 2(J years ago when they wore skirts."—Indianapolis Journal.
A Word of Caution.
"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows," He sang, when suddenly his hostess rose And whispered: "Doi.ot lut my husband hear. He has too many wild times now, I fear."
With the X?i:cUwiieats.
Now the boarding missis passes, With a smile their hearts to chirrup, To the boarders the molasses,
Telling them 'tis maple sirup. —New York Press.
In, Planxty? Planxty—It wor this way, Terence: Me woife 6ez to me, sez she, "Planxty, yez can't givo onp tho licker," sez she. I t'ought I could, but whin I thried an found I couldn't, begorra, I knew it wor toime for me to shtop, an so I did.—Life.
Regret.
One kiss was all I asked, I said. That speech I sadly rue. For now she's wedded to a man
Who did not stop at two. —Detroit Free Press.
ltargain Day.
Kitty—Good gracious, how did Fannie ever come to take such a man as that? John—I understood she met Jiini first at ft dry goods emporium on bargain day.
Kitty—What difference docs that make? John—Oli, a woman will take anything then!—Exchange.
Why, Indeed?
It was a very funny play, Designed l.lie hours to while, And why should men, then, all go out
Between the acts to smile? —Detroit Tribune.
Especially if lie Has Large Feet, I
"No," said Hustler, ''I don't like to see ft man rustling. 1 like to see him spread himself." '"It all depends on where ho is," said Manners. "I don't like to seo a man spread himself in a street car."—New York Press.
He Knew Hetter.
When Bobbin's drum came home, his gleo
At it was quite complete, 'Yet 'twould not do to say, "That it cannot be beat."
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GUN
GEMS IN VERSE.
The Plowman.
First In the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Lino after line, along the bursting sod, Mnrks the broad acres where his feet have trod. Still win-re he treads the stubborn clods diI vide,
The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and I wide, Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves.
Mellow and dark the ridgy cornfield cleaves. the steep hillside, where the laboring train I Plants the long track that scores the level plain, I Through the moist valley, clogged with oozing I clay,
The patient convoy breaks its destined way. At every turn the loosening chains resound, I' Tins swinging plowshare circles glistening round,
''John," whispered Mrs. Billus at the play, "somebody behind me is making ill natured remarks about my high bonnet. Shall I take it off?" "Not on your life, Maria," answered Mr. Uillus, with a ferocious grin. "That bonnet cost me $28.60, and I want you to These are tho hands whose sturdy labor brings get the full worth of tho money.":—Chi- The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings, eago Tribune. This is the page whose letters shall be seen
Till the wide: field one billowy waste appears, And wearied hands unbind the panting steers.
Changed by the sun to words of living green. This is the scholar whose immortal pen Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men. These are the lines that heaven commanded toil Shows on his deed—the charter of the soil!
O gracious mother, whose benignant breast Wakes us to-life and lulls us all to rest,
A Logical Conclusion. How thy s\v, et features, kind to every cli.no,
Terry—An phwat med yez quit dhrink- Mock with their smile the wrinkled front of
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they blossom o'er the
We stain thy flowersucad— We rend thy bosom, and it gives us bread. O'er the red field that trampling strife has torn Waves the green plumage of the tasseled corn. Our maddening conflicts scar thy fairest plain. Still thy soft answer is the growing grain. Yet, O our mother, while uncounted charms Steal round our hearts in thine embracing arms. Let not our virtues in thy love decay, And thy fond sweetness waste our strength away. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. /,:»
My Creed.
I do not question school nor creed Of Christian, Protest-ant or priest.• I only know that creeds to me Are lust new names lor mystery That God is good from east- to east, And more 1 do not know nor need To kisow to love my neighbor well. 1 lake their dogmas as they tell, Their pictures of (heir godly good, In garments thick with heathen blood Their heaven, with its harps of gold, Their horrid pictures of their hell, Take hell and heaven undenicd. Yet were the two placed side by side. Placed full before me for my choice, As they are pictured, best and worst, As they are peopled, tame and bold, .•-..The canonized, anil the accursed
Who dared to think, and thinking speak. And speaking act, bold cheek to cheek, I would transports choose the first And enter hell with lifted voice. —Joaquin Miller.
His Idol.
Matt-ie—She married that handsome man for love, didn't sho? Jane—Yes.
Mattie—And did she got it? Jane—Lots of it. He loves himself moro than any one he ever saw. Detroit Freo Press.
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