Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 August 1900 — Page 2

m m kid. Fearful Results of the Rioting on the Streets of New Orleans. CHARLES KILLED, BUT AT FEARFUL COST 111 Attempted Arrest Hm Cost Twelve Lives ud the WusudluR of TwentjrEl|ht Persons, »ud the Inflamed Mob Is, to All Appearanoes, Still Hungrj for Blood. i New Orleans, July 27.—Twelve persons killed, including: one woman, and 88 wounded, including a woman and a girl, some so seriously that death is possible, is the casualty list of the troubles in New Orleans, which began with the attempt of Policeman Day and Lamb to arrest the negroes Charles and Pierce. 1 After a desperate battle lasting for hours, in which he succeeded in killing Sergeants Gabriel Porteus, Andy Van Kurem, keeper of the police jail, and Alfred J. Bloomfield, a young boy, and festally wounding Corporal John F. Rally, John Banoille, ex-Policeman ^Frank H. Evans and A. S. Leclerc, one of the leading confectioners of the city, and more or less seriously wounding several other persons, Charles was smoked out of his hiding place in the heart of the residence section of the city, this afternoon," and literally shot to pieces. Iwvsty Thousand Asnlnat One. » The tragedy was one of the most remarkable in the history of the city, and 20,000 people, soldiers, policemen and citizens, were gathered around the square in which Charles was finally put to death.

Tremendous excitement reigned in New Orleans as the battle went on between the police and citizens and the negro with his Winchester. Wan it Charles Who Was Killed f After the tragedy Was over and Charles was dragged out from the mud and slush in which he had fallen, with the mob howling for the burning of his body, statements were made that the man killed was not really the desperado who had killed Day and Lamb, but papers were found on his person and the fact that he fought so desperately for his life and shot so accurately seem to leave little doubt that the right man was killed Leoraed ot the Xctcro'iWherealioutR. Sergeant Gabe Porteus, one of the test-known odicers, on the force, and Sergeant Johr F. I.a’ly, who has a record for bravery, were informed during the day by a negro that Charles was in hiding in a house on Clio, near Saratoga street. The Deadly Wlacheater Talks. Determining to take him alive, if possible, the officers summoned a number of patrolmen to accompany then and went to the house. The negro informant of the policemen accompanied the officers. They entered the side al^ey of the house and were surprised in practically the same way as were Day and Lamb. Before the officers* were aware of their danger, Charles, who was hidden behind a screen on the second floor of the .»unu:i*g. raised,his Winchester add began a furious but accurate fire. Lally fell with a bullet in the right side of the abdomen. Porteus was shot through the head and dropped across the body of Lally. The other officers and the negro fled from the scene. Reinforcements Summoned. The reports of Charles’ Winchester and the fact that two officers lay bleeding in the yard raised tremendous excitement. Hnrry-cal's were sent to the mayor, the ehief-oT-pclice and Col. Wood in command of the several police \ squads, and armed help was rushed to the scene. In a little while there was •n immense armed crowd circling the square in which,Charles was located. A Young Boy the Next Victim. In the meantime Father Fitzgei-aul, of St. John’s church, was summoued to f administer extreme unction to the police officers who were lying in the alley. The priest responded promptly.

anu ne was annotating tne oouy oi Porteus, with Alfred G. Bloomfield, a ! young boy, standing by his side, when Charles again appeared at the windown. The lad saw him. at once, and begged the desperado not to shoot him. The negro, however, fired his Winchester again, and Bloomfield fell dead. The priest, unhurt, left the scene afi ter pluckily performing the last offices for the dead officers. Kneed Death for Mercy's Sake. "When the ambulance arrived two men volunteered to go into the alley and bring out the body of Lally. They entered, and while they were attempting to take tfie body of the dead officer from that of his colleague, Charles fired again. The men, nevertheless, got Lally’s body out, and afterward took Porteus’ body out also. Three More Men 'Wounded. In the meantime an immense crowd had gathered in the vicinity and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out of the building. Charles, however, did not propose to be captured without selling his life, dearly. Time after time he came to the window, and as men, one bf one entered the alley, he biased away at them. Iu this manner Confectioner Leelerc, who was oi^ of the special police squad*, ex-Policemun Evans, John Danville and George H. Lyons, son of the head of a big drug establishment, were wounded. The Slaughter Continues. At this time the extra police began to fire at the negro, npd he returned their fire. Andy Van Kureman, keeper of the police jail, got a bullet i» the body and fell dead. Just afterward H. H. Batt, aged 63, working for the Mutual Benevolent as«p>’- "

c.iation, which does business in tbit yicinity, was hit and mortally wounded. About the same time Frank Bei* tucci received a shot in the left shoulder, and J. VV. Bofil, one in the right hand. Decided to Bern the RbIMImr. Ultimately, it was decided that the only way to get Charles was to burn the building in which he was entrenched. Some one went to a neighboring grocery, purchased a can of oil, and pouring it over the rear steps of the building, applied a match and soon had the building in flames. - Could Not Remit la and Live. So fiercely did the fire burn that it became evident that no human being could live in the building, and picked men from the police special squad and soldiers stationed themselves about the building in order to shoot down the desperado as he attempted to leave the house. The Desperado Shot and Killed. A young soldier named Adolph Anderson, a member of the Thirteenth company, of state militia, was one of the first to see Charles as he ran down the steps leading to the second story. Charles ran across the yard and entered the seeond room. He fired several times at Anderson, and the latter, who was armed with a Winchester rifle, shot the negro in the breast and he fell and died soon afterward. ^ The Falitalti and the Dend I'erejr, As soon as the negro fell numbers of persons, armed with Winchesters and revolvers rushed in and fired into tlie body. Charles was literally shot to pieces. After it w’as certain that he was dead a mob entered the yard and dragged the body into the. street. There the police and the mob emptied their revolvers into it, while a son of V>ne of the murdered men, rushed up and stamped the face beyond recognition. , Boxers 'Want to Burn the Body. There were then loud howls that the body should be taken to a vacant square in the vicinity and publicly burned. At this instant, however, a big squad of police dashed up in a patrol wagon. There were thousands of persons.congregated in the vicinity, and it seemed as if there would be a clash between the officers and the mob. late la the Morsne.

Thejpolice seemed, however, to have re grained their courage, and they promptly pushed the crowd aside, picked- up the body and threw it into the patrol wagon. The driver whipped up his horses, and the wagon started off with 5,000 people running after it and clamoring for the cremation of the body of the desperado. ' | The wagon was faster than the mob and it ultimately made its way in safety to police headquarters. There an immense crowd had gathered, and great difficulty was experienced in taking the corpse of the negro from the wagon into the morgue. The Dead Body a Shot Pouch. When Charles’ body was stripped it was found to have been literally lacerated from head to foot by the bullets fired into it. More Kearroei Found. Shortly after the body of Charges had been taken avtay, a report was circulated that there were still some negroes in the burning building. The square was quickly surrounded by a guard of men with Winchesters, and a special squad made its way into the building. In a room which the fire had not yet reached three negroes were found dressed in women’s clothes. They were hustled out, and immediately sent to prison in a patrol wagon. Replated and Waa Killed. Subsequently, a fourth negro, a mulatto, was discovered in the building. He made a desperate resistance against being arrested, and while in the hands of the police, was killed by a shot fired from a pistol in the hands of one of the disorderly mob that had congregated in the vicinity. lnufl>u*lve Man Killed l»y n Molt. Just about the time that Charles’ body reached the morgue the body of an unknown negro who had been shot and stabbed to death on Gallatin street was carried in. This negro was passing through the Freneh market when he was seen by a crowd of whites. The latter were intensely excited by the news of the killing of Porteus and other officers, and they immediately mobbed him. The unknown negro ran for his life, and the angry mob kept at his heels, the crowd increasing every minute. The negro finally succeeded in Entering a house qn Gallatiu street. He. ran up stairs and jumped from the gallery to the ground. Before he could rise the mob shot and stabbed him to death.

A LETTER FROM GOODNOW, Our Consul General at Shautcbal Tells of Conditions In s Letter to Hla Brother. Minneapolis, Minn., July 28.—Charles Goodnow has just received a letter from his brother, Consul General John Goodnow, at Shanghai, in whieh the latter intimates that the conditions are even worse than has been indicated in h|s official cablegrams. He writes: “Chinese are leaving this city at the rate of 2,000 or 3,000 a day. The purpose of their going or their destination is not known.” While he does not say so, Mr. Goodnow evidently believes that they are being mobilised somewhere. Many of those leaving, he says, have had close relations with the Europeans, and if their departure had been on accout of war by the allies, some of them, he thinks, would certainly have made their fears known to their white friends. The Europeans, therefore, have organized a body of volunteers, and have refused to admit any natives to it, although several offered their services. This illustrates the suspicion with which all natives are regarded.

Latest Intelligence Upon Metiers of National Interest at the Capital. _ t UNDERHAND WORK OF ADMINISTRATION. The Chinese Situation and the State ' of Affair* la the Philippines—Ae« publican Campaign Managers lae Government Employes for CanoI . palga Parpoaea. {Special Correspondence.] The administration gets out a new bulletin on the Chinese situation every day. * This does not obscure the fact that it has failed to do the only effective thing that ought to have lain within its power. It ought to have been able to throw a big force luto China and rescue our citizens at the first intimation of serious danger. If it had done that and then withdrawn from the country and sent every. Chinaman packing home from these shores it would have won the admiration of the civilized world. In such an action the president of the United States need not have wasted time cooperating with foreign powers and getting entangled in their jealous bickerings. Everybody knows now that the administration has deceived the people about the condition of the Philippines. Its boastful illusion in the speech accepting the nomination, about Manila being an advantageous base of operations in case of Asiatic war, has proved a boomerang. Our troops might as well have been at home as in Manila for all the use they have been in this crisis. They were so enfeebled by disease that they were unfit to fight the Chinese even if the administration had decision enough to pull them out of the Philippines and leave the settlement of that trouble until some time when our own citizens were in less danger. The Conger Message.

The administration now claims that it is pinning its faith to the alleged message from Minister Conger, received through Chinese sources, stating that our citizens were alive but sorely besieged by the Chinese. The dispatch was not dated, but the administration claims to have supplied that information from unknown sources and makes it July 18. - Even if the minister were alive at that date, it is difficult to see how it improves the situation for the administration. It is admitted that no troops will start for Peking until after August 1, and the date of starting depends on the whim of the commanders of the allied forces. The continental powers do not credit the Conger tnessage in the least. They believe that the foreign inhabitants were massacred early in July and that i this i.s a message which! Conger tried to send out but which the Chinese intercepted. They sent it later to defer the outburst of wrath at the news of the massacre. An Administration Trick. It is difficult to discuss the Chinese question intelligently because the administration is up to its usual trick of censoring all dispatches. It gives\ out its own version or nothing at all, just as it sees fit. The experience in the Philippine situation gives good ground to believe that subsequently the public will find that the administration has all along known facts which it did not choose to divulge. * It' is now said that the imperial government of China has asked McKinley to use his good of^oes to extricate it from the difficim and dangerous position in which it has been placed*by the Boxer uprising. This looks like the entering wedge of an attempt to disclaim all responsibility for ahy atrocities which may have been committed and to so wind . up the administration in a net of diplomacy that nothing will ever be done either to punish outrages which have been committed or prevent their repetition in the future. France peremptorily declined a similar requeat from China. McKinley is drifting along and will get in the midst of various unpleasant complications. The 15.000 troops to be sent from this country will not reach China before September. They can involve this country in plenty of trouble, but it is difficult to discover what good they can do.

Democrat* oa Record. Bryan and the other democratic leaders have put themselves on record as earnestly favoring protection to our citizens, but no participation Itt any scheme of grabbing territory. Conccaltaa the Fact*. News comes from thfe Philippines that 200 of them were killed by our troops last week. It requires the killing of a large number Of these alien people in order to prepare them for the beauties of the McKinley carpetbag regime. A report has also escaped the censor that from five to ten of our soldiers are dying daily with the bubonic plague. This is the rainy season and our troops suffer untold hardships. Senator Pettigrew publishes a letter which he received from the Filipino who conducted negotiations with Admiral Dewey, in which the Filipinos were promised independence if they would help Dewey defeat the Spaniards on land. Of course the administration press sneers at this, but it should not do so, for tons of extracts from the Congressional Record are daily being

sent out by the republican campaign managers, and these statements in the Record were palpably written to order by officers of our army in the Philippines in order to bolster up the administration'a position. Senator Pettigrew's letter looks much more authentic than tbs matter which the republicans ask voters to believe just because it has a Philippine postmark. RcssMIch Cr*«krdaeii. Now it is the bureau of education In Washington which is being utilized for republican campaign purposes. This bureau haft been discovered using the government clerical force to send out pamphlets printed in England giving the English “explanation” of the Boer war. The literature is being sent to school-teachers in states where republican success seems doubtful. It is rather an insult to the intelligence of educators to assume that they know so little of current events as to swallow campaign yarns' of English manufacture. 1 The bureau of statistics still grinds out republican matter with great regularity. Its latest bulletin tries to make it appear that the English occupation of Pretoria has opened a great market for American-made agricultural implements. The bald fact is that the Boer inhabitants of the Transvaal are still using swords instead of pruning hooks and machine guns instead of reapers. ADOLPH PATTERSON.

BRYAN TO THE PEOPLE, A Foist Is the Democratic Platform That Shoald Be Carefully Considered. “The Kansas City platform.*’ says Mr. Bryan, to the Nebraska democratic convention, “declared one issue to be paramount. I want you to go homa and present this truth, that when a government once abandons the doctrine that it exists only by consent of the governed' it can continue to live only by brute force.” Every true friend and supporter of the democratic candidate will do as Mr. Bryan wishes in the matter. Nobody but the republicans, assistant republicans, or those who for some reason desire to divide and defeat the democratic party, will take the emphasis from the paramount issue, to place it on a secondary issue of little real consequence or vitality in the present campaign. ] The place for every true and loyal democrat at this crisis is to stand1 on the democratic platform; accepting as paramount the issue made paramount by the march of events, and' accepted as such by the democratic platform and the democratic candidates; and declining to ce diverted or ambushed by republican bushwhackers anxious to prevent an attack on the real weakness of the McKinley citadel. Republic or empire, which? Where do the American people stand on th« real issue?—Albany Argus.

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. -McKinley and Roosevelt are the candidates of the youngest party in American politics—the imperial party, now less than a year old.—N. Y. Journal. -“Moneyed interests” are said to have backed Platt in forcing Roosevelt on the ticket. Moneyed iiilerests, it seems, take a hand in everything the republican party does.—Indianapolis News. -If McKinley’s nomination be followed by his election there is going to be another period of backing and filling. of sophomore statesmanship and of bowing to the will of party leaders. —N. Y. Herald (lnd.). -It now becomes the first duty of every American to protect the republic from the plotters for empire and to remove the conspirators from posts where they have power dangerous to the republic.—St. Louis Republic,. -On the paramount issue—republic or empire—all patriotic Americans can touch elbows and.fight side by side. And if they do all the money in the treasure chests of the kings of the world can’t elect William McKinley president of the United State®.—Toledo Bee. -The impression seems to prevail throughout the country that the trans>fer of Perry Heath from the post office department to the position of secretary of the national committee is another move to “keep Cuba out of the campaign.*’ We really cannot blame Mark Hanna for wanting it .out.—Indianapolis Sentinel. ”

——.Kepubhcan newspapers and republican speeches in congress during the past year have contained not a little scoffing talk about the Declaration of Independence and American principles—not & little in defense of the policy of governing people as subjects, without regard to their own rights or wishes, but for the glory and profit of the governing power.—Hartford (Conn.) Times. -The 10,000,000 of the human family whom, the president says, his party liberated from imperialism would like very well to know where the liberation comes in. With a standing army over them and hundreds of them being slaughtered every month in the year they ace certainly entitled, ip an explanation of Mr. McKinley’s little speech on the porch at Canton.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -The republican “aders, on their own party authority, ere described as being fearful that they are going to lose congress, whatever else they may gain. They need not trouble themselves. If the signs of the times mean anything this is to be a neck or nothing campaign. It will be a distinct triumph for the trusts all along the line or their defeat and burial under a popular landslide.—Washington Timeax

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