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LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE
Courts. Business solioited. One
member of the firm will always be at office
> Lexington, S. C.
June 17?6m.
Albert M. Boozer,
Attorney at Law.
COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Especial attention given to business en
trusted to him by his fellow citizens o
Lexington county.
Office: 1609 Main Street, over T. B
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Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday.
June 10th and llt.h to accommodate
patients who find it inconvenient to call at
his Columbia office.
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EIGHT KILLED.
Police and Negroes Battle in
Atlanta Suburb.
Negro Stronghold Fired. Even Whiie
Building Burned the Ringleader
Killed More Men-Blacks Barricaded
in a Regular Arsenal?Desperado,
Who Defied Arrest, Summoned
Friends Into a Store Where Stock of
Rifles and Ammunition Was Kept.
Negro Houses Burned-Tremendous
Excitement in Atlanta.
Atlanta, May 17 ?Four white men
and three negroes dead, five white
men and one negro wounded and an
entire block'of buildings burned is
the result of a conflict which began
here early today between the blacks
and police. Will Richardson, who is
believed to have been half Indian
and half negro, the owner of a store
| on McDaniel street, in the subu, bs
of Pittsburg, brought on the trouble
by resisting arrest and defying the
I authorities of Fulton county and Ati
lanta.
! The fight between the officers and
' negroes occurred in Pittsburg, a neI
cm settlement directly south of the
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city limits on McDaniel street. The
' .officers attempted to arrest five negroes
suspected of having beaten
former policeman S. A. Kerlin nearly
to death yesterday afternoon. The
negroes resisted arrest by entrench!
ing themselves in a house and the
fight ensued. The vicinity is thickly
settled with small negro cabins.
There are outbuildings and barns
and shrubbery over the entire neighborhood
which provides such shelter
that it was possible to escape from
house and dodge between fences
without being detected. As soon
as information of the fight between
the negroes and the police
reached the city, wagon loads of policemen
heavily armed were hurried
to the scene of action and Governor
Chandler ordered out a detachment
of the State militia.
The shooting was followed by a
speech from Sheriff Nelms of Fulton
county, advisiDg calmness on the
pert of the crowd, and the efforts of
officers thereafter were directed toward
controlling the temper of the
white men who were walking the
streets of the suburb with drawn
weapons.
BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
While returning to his home on
the MePhersoa road yesterday afternoon
former policeman S. A. Kerlin
was waylaid by five negroes with
whom he had had trouble while a
member of the force. But for the
timely arrival of a trolley car which
frightened hia assailents away, Kerlin
would have been killed. A sergeant.stationed
at Fort McPherson
who heard cries for help, ran to the
place and found Kerlin unconscious.
At midnight County Policeman
Colden heard that Kerlims five assailants
were located in a house on
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the city and secured a warrant for
their arrest from Justice Orr.
The house was dark, but as the
officers approached the inmates opened
fire and Owen Heard fell to the
ground. He was borne out of range
by his companions. The house was
at once surrounded by the police and
daylight was awaited before making
another advance. The officers, however,
having determined to make the
! arrest unaided. The house in which
? the negro Richardson was located
belonged to Annie Milburn, also colored.
Richardson owned the store
adjoining the house. Here he kept
ammunition and guns and was therefore
well prepared for a fight.
OFFICER BATTLE KILLED.
At 6 o'clock this morning the
group of officers who had been
watching the house all night approached
the place and called upon
those within to surrender. The an
swer was a volley of shots and County
Officer Battle dropped dead. The
attacked party retreated some distance
and from behind trees and telegraph
and trolley poles commenced
firing into the store. In a few minutes
the door of tbe house was thrown
open and Will King,, a negro, ran
out and gave himself up to the officers.
Inside the house Richardson
had an unobstructive view in three
directions. One block away Policeman
Tom Grant stepped from his
shelter to fire into the house. A shot
from the besieged house killed him
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Detore ne couia nre.
The attacking party sent word to
police headquarters and Chief of Police
Bail dispatched the reserves to
the scene in several patrol wagons.
SnOT STRAIGHT DESPITE THE FIRE.
The officers to whom King had
given himself up determined to
make use of the negro and at point
of a rifle they forced him to walk up
to the rear of the house and fire it.
As soon as the flames started the
officers, eager to get the inmates of
the house, stepped out of their shelter
in every direction. Again there
was a shot from the house and this
time Officer Crabtree met death.
An instant later there was another
shot and County Policeman Ozburn
fell dead.
The shooting had by this time attracted
hundreds of people and nearly
every man who came to the scene carried
a rifle. The shooting into the
house became general, citizens and
officers firing together.
MILITIA ORDERED OUT.
Governor Chandler was advised by
telephone of the rioting and ordered
out the militia. Captain W. W. Barker
of the Fifth regiment was ordered
to proceed with 50 men and a
platoon gun to the scene of the shooting
and cooperate with the city authorities
and the Sheriff of Fulton
county. Chief of Police Ball hur
ried to the scene on horseback ana
was joined a few minutes later by
Sheriff Nelms.
. The deperado, Bicbard6on, had
been lost sight of. The house burned
rapidly and a number of inmates
were seen to run to the store, to a
woodshed and to a barn in the next
lot. Orders were quickly given to
fire these buildings and in a few minutes
several of the buildings were
burning.
W. T. Jackson, a street car conductor
in uniform, was one of those
attracted to the scene by the shooting.
As he was nearing the bouse
he was shot in the right hip pre
sumably by Richardson.
A negro cabman driving a spectator
to the vicinity of the rioting, was
struck in the hand by a bullet.
Call Officer Spradlin, speeding to
the scene on his bicycle, received a
wound in the arm.
SHOT LIKE RABBITS.
A main sewer which runs through
this part of the city was utilized by
two of tbe negroes as a possible |
means of escape, but to no avail. The
crowd had increased until at least !
3,000 people, 2,000 of whom were ;
armed, surrounded the burning are?. i
Milton Rosby, a negro was seen to
emerge from the mouth of the sewer.
A shout went up and the fleeing ne- j
gro was shot dead. His body was
surrounded and was literally shot to
pieces*
The crowd of enraged citizens hod ;
scarcely finished this work when an- I
other negro was seen coming out of
the sewer. He, too, made a run for j
i life and managed to get into the back j
yard of one of the neighboring I
homes, where he was shot to death. |
DIFFICULT TO SAVE PRISONERS.
The fire which had been started by
the attacking party spread rapidly
and soon the entire block of buildings,
almost wholly composed of negro
houses, was destroyed". The police
were busy arresting the few negroes
found in the vicinity. Two of
them, supposed to be members of
Richardson's gang, were arrested.
The police had great difficulty in
getting out of the crowd of enraged
people with the colored men. A mob
of 2,000 surged around the patrol
wagon and clamored for the lives of
the prisoners. The officers throwing
their men into the bottom of the
wagon, drew their revolvers and
forced a passage through the crowd,
finally lodging their prisoners in
safety in the Fulton county jail oil
Butler street.
THE DESPERADO BURNED.
In less than a hour the block of
wooden houses was burned to the
ground and a search of the ruins immediately
followed. In a woodshed
in rear of Richardson's store was
found a skull and near to it the steel
barrel of a rifle. It is believed that
the skull represents all that is left of
the negro who did the shooting.
Tho police believe they have arrested
ail the negroes directly concerned
in the shooting, but have given
orders by the chief to bring into
custody of ail suspicious characters
found in the neighborhood.
The rioting caused the utmost excitement
net only in the little suburb
of Pittsburg where it occurred but
all over the city. <
This is the first affair of the kind
that has ever occurred in Atlanta. It
was not in any sense a race riot, but
was the result of a negro defying the
law. The negroes who set upon Former
Policeman Kerlin last night as
well as those concerned in today's
shooting were members of that deplorable
majority of the race known
alike to black and white as "no
account negro" and who evidently
cherished a grudge against Kerlin for
something he had done while on the
police force.
THE CITY REMARKABLY QUIET.
"Nntwithfltandinor that the entire
city was much wrought up over the
killing of the officers, order was restored
with wonderful promptness
and the passions of an enraged people
were remarkably restrained.
Fifty enlisted ' men of the State
militia will do patrol duty tonight in
the disturbed neighborhood and the
police doing duty in that part of the
city have been reinforced. There
was some talk of closing all saloons
at 6 o'clock tonight but Mayor Mims
said that after a consultation with the
chief of police it was not thought
necessary. If any suoh precaution
is deemed necessary before the regu
lar closing hour?10 p. in.?\Iayor
Mims instructed Caief Bill to issue
the order and enforce it.
As a precaution the companies of
State militia located io the city were
ordered under arms by the Governor
tonight. In a statement issued late
today, Governor Chandler declared
that all innocent negroes and their
bouses would be protected at every
cos-, and ail riotous conduct on the
part of anybody, white or black, will
be met with whatever force is neces
sarv to preset ve order
One of the wounded negroes died
tonight, making eight deaths in all.
Twenty arrest of negroes charged
wiih various misdemeanors were reported
b.7 the police as late as midnight.
Ia some instances the officers
experienced considerable difficulty in
protecting the prisoners from the excited
crowds One negro was severely
iniired.
Perfect order wes restored sfter
midnight
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Commencement.
The annual commencement of the
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held on next Sunday and Monday.
| These exercises are very interesting
| and will bring a large crowd of visitors
to Lexington.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
; delivered Sunday morning at 11
j o'clock in the Lutheran church by
j Rev. R S. Truesdale, an eloquent
young minister of Columbia.
The exercises of the Primary ^and
Intermediate Departments will take
place in the court house, Monday,
at 3:30 p. lu. These consist of drills,
1 recitations, dialogues, songs and
music.
At 8 p. m , in the court house, the
Graduating Class will have their
exercises. There are Dine members
of the class and the different ones
will recite, speak and read essays.
All these exercises will be varied
with songs and instrumental music.
The presentation of diplomas, awarding
honors and making announcements
will complete the programme.
Ice cream will be served at both
the afternoon and evening entertainments.
So come prepared to enjoy
yourselves. Everybody is cordially
invited to attend these exercises.
A Gentle Hint.
In our style of climate, with its
sudden changes of temperature,?
rain, wind aDd sunshine ofcen intermingled
in a single day,?it is no
wonder that our children, friends and
relatives are so frequently taken from
us by neglected colds, half the deaths
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A bottle of Bcschee's German S;?rup
kept about your home for immediate
use will prevent serious sickness, a
large doctor's bill, aDd perhaps death,
by the use of three or four doses.
For'curing Consumption, Hemorrhages,
Pneumonia, Severe Coughs,
Croup, or nnv disease of the Throat
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Echoes from Lorena.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
The bad health of the community
keeps our doctor Drafts riding.
Everybody are striving hard to
win the almighty dollar.
CottoD has been thinned in a double
rusk for the last week.
^ Early corn is up and growing
briskly and the late will now be
planted.
Miss Lilla Lindler, who taught the
Ridge Road school, is spending the
present time at her paternal home.
The Sunday school at Mt. Pleasant
has been re-organized and is doing
its part in the Master's vineyard.
Mr. J. L. Sease, who has been confined
to his bed, is now regaining his
usual health.
Miss Lula Roof has returned home
after a few weeks visit with relatives
aDd friends around here.
Mr. James Taylor has killed fifteen
crows this spring. He is a regular
home and farm protector.
The free rural mail inspector was
through here last week seeking a
place to establish a route.
Mr. Cepbus Sease has a good prospect
for artichokes this year.
The Irish potato bugs have come
around. Hunt the Paris green and
kill them.
Rev. S. P. Shumpert is preaching
his farewell sermons to the patrons
of Mt. Pleasant, Union and Mt.
Hebron. After the last of this
month he will leave the charge for
the regular pastor, Y Y. A Riser,
who has be6Q in college taking a
post graduate course. The charge
will regret very much to lose Rev.
Shumpert, who has been serving
them through the winter and spring.
The charge will welcome the arrival
of Rev. Riser and will gladly hear
him proclaim the message from on
high. He will follow the one who
said "I am the good shepherd, and
the good shepherd gave his life for
the sheep."' We Deed no ether
shepherd but the ones that will follow
the foot prints of Jesus, where
ere they go.
May 17, 1902. Loyalty.
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