Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — TWO RACE RIOTS; FOUR LIVES LOST [ARTICLE]

TWO RACE RIOTS; FOUR LIVES LOST

Troops Are Called Upoo In Alabama and Louisiana. NE6RO IS BURNED IN HIS FORT White* Are Shot While Trying to Dislodge Alleged Murderer—One of the Wounded Men Not Expected to Survive—Quarrel Following the Charge That Hog* Had Been Stolen Results In a Clash During Which Three Die and Bix Are Hurt. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 21. —Governor Comer ordered Colonel Carter of the Second regiment with fifty men to hurry by special train to Wilcox county where it was reported a race riot was raging. The trouble grew, out of the killing of Algernon Lewis, a white farmer. Later the governor recalled the order, the report coming that all was quiet Ernest Slade, M. E. Carlton and Tom Shields were shot while trying to dislodge Clint Montgomery from a house where he had fled from arrest. The house was fired and the negro burned to death in it. Montgomery had been accused of killing Lewis. Slade is not expected to live. BATTLE OVER STOLEN HOGS Three Men Killed and Six Are Hurt In Louisiana Clash. Grand Cane, La,, Dec. 21. —Three men are dead, following a battle between whites and blacks. Six others were wounded and the whole parish is greatly excited, many of the negroes fleeing to other sections. John Allen, a farmer, accused Will Bower, a negro, of stealing hogs. Bower and his brother-in-law resented the accusation by opening fire on the farmer. Other negroes joined in the fight as did other white men, and soon a battle was in progress. Bower and his kinsmen were killed and Allen died a few hours after being shot The other wounded are all negroes. An appeal for troops has been sent to Baton Rouge. NEGROES ATTACK OLD COUPLE Bind Husband and Force Wife to Tell Where Money Was Kept. Darlington, Pa., Dec. 21. Two negroes attacked Mrs. Annie Lltzen* berg, sixty years old, choked her and forced her to tell where the money in her house was kept. They took $202 after having tied the woman’s husband, Edward S. Litzenberg, a farmer, seventy years old and left him in a barn.