Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — DEADLY RIOT IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

DEADLY RIOT IN ALABAMA.

Bat tie Between Farmer* and Town Offl. cer*«—Many Killed and Wounded. A dispatch from Dothen, Ala., Wednesday, says: “In a difficulty here yesterday seven men were shot. Two are dead and another is dying. The trouble arose between the town Council and the draymen of the farmers 1 warehouse, the latter refusing to pay the license demanded by tne town authorities. Both marshals were shot and one will die. wo draymen were shot. The facts were found on investigation to be as follows: The Farmers’ Alliance of Henry county had established a ware house at Dothen. The town authorities sought to collect license fees from the drays which they employed, as they have been doing from drays employed by other business houses. To test the law, George M. Stringer, manager of the warehouse, undertook to drive a dray himself, when he was arrested, and his trial set for yesterday. The alliance men attended the trial in force, and B. Stringer, a relative of the man to be tried, flourished 0. knife in the marshal’s face. This started the trouble. A fusilade of shots took place, during which George W. Stringer and Jeff Walker, of the Alliance force fell dead, and Peter Tew were seriously wounded. Marshal J. L. Domingos and Deputy Marshal ParkJPowell and a town man named W. B. Craddock were mortally wounded. The terror which reigned the remainder of the day was indescribable. A renewal of the attack was looked for during the night. The fanners claim that the towns people treated them wrongfully, and that the riot was inevitable under the .provocation given.