Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — AT WAYCROSS, GA. [ARTICLE]

AT WAYCROSS, GA.

Riot and Dentrueiion of Property—The Militia Called For. A special from Waycross, Ga., on the 21th, says that the riot , which cost two lives, a day or two ago, broke out afresh on tho night of the 25th, when 150 men armed with Winchester rifles, went to Yarn and fired the turpentine still of L. B. Yarn. They also ridd.ed his commiss: iy with bullets, some of which narrowly missed the clerk, who w r as sleeping inside. The party said they intended to return the next night and finish their work of < e struction. Mr, Varn wired Governor G< r don for protection to his property, a d notified Postmastar General Wannauiaacr that be had abandoned the postoffice’ at Yarn in consequence of threats against h.s life. Governor Gordon wired Sheriff Henderson, of Ware county, to hold the militia in readiness to proceed to Varn. No one could furnish any.names.