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r | THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ? ????? ? " " " ? JtepresestatipB Beurspaper. Savers Lexington and the Borders of t'ns Surromoiling Sounties Like a Blanket. VOL. XXXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1906. 47 .v (JLOBE BET BOOBS COMPANY, , Jm TaT. 23T. 2/?02TC22T02T. 22S... laao MAIN STREET, - -- -- -- - COLUMHIA, W. C. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October 13tf Will III I1XWI I IK I 1PM ? DETAILS OF TROUBLE Hi GEORGIA'S CAPITAL Thousands of Men and Soys Gathered on Streets Seeking Revenge for Various Outrages. Atlanta, Sept. 23.?A race war of alarming proportions began here last night. Through the night it raged with varying vigor, and when morn ing dawned today, it found the downtown streets in possession of eight ? companies of the Fifth Georgia infantry with a battery of light artillery in reserve. Through the day little of importance has occurred. The police claimed, with the aid of the military, to have the situation under control. This condition came as the result of numerous and repeated assaults or attempted assaults upon white women ! by negroes. The list of an even dozen I of such assaults, within the limits of | Fulton county within the last nine j weeks, came yesterday, when four at- j ' - - ' tempts at assault were reported. Flar- J ing headlines in the special editions of afternoon papers, wrought the pop' ulace to a high pitch of excitement. The usual Saturday night crowds wore largely increased by men and boys who thronged the downtown streets. J There was no leader and no overt act I until late in the evening. About 10 j o'clock a negro man shoved a white woman from the sidewalk on Whitehall street, in the center of town. Almost simultaneously a negro woman j made an insulting remark to a white j man on an adjoining street and he i administered what he considered due ! punishment. Work of Destruction. From this start the excited crowd, j which had become a mob, began its I work of destruction. Five thousand j men and boys thronged the downtown i ? streets looking for negroes. News that ; a riot had started brought thousands j more from their homes in the suburbs and residence districts, until fully 10.000 men thronged rhe downtown section. They made attacks on the incoming street cars. Each, car was scanned for negroes. The trolleys were pulled from the wires and in the semi-darkness of the unlighted cars negroes were beaten, cut and stamped upon in an unreasoning, mad frenzy. If a negro ventured resistance cr remonstrated, it meant practically sure death. One car, half filled with negroes, approached from an outside run. The mob dashed for the car. Resistance was made by the negroes, who had not been apprised of trouble. Three negroes lay dead on the floor of the car when it was permitted to move on, and two more were seriously beaten and unconscious. Mayor Woodward Appealed. When the crowd seemed to be getting beyond control, at about 10 o'clock Mayor Woodward mounted a car platform on Peachtree and Marietta streets and urged the crowd to disperse, declaring that the assailants of the white women would be adequately and promptly punished by due process of law. Mayor Woodward was given a respectful hearing, but when he finished, the work of destruction was resumed. He made another appeal a few moments later, but without result. Then he turned in a general fire alarm, calling the entire department to the scene. To Chief Joyner, he gave the laconic order: j 4'Clear the streets." The result was to stop the mob in i its work in that immediate section ] 6'MEET ME AT TAIP'S." w#> have a new and beautil and accessories that could be fc The prices Throughout the Mil! Every department in our bi patterns than ever brought her< pains this season in buying our ORDER BY MAID.?We prepay mai and to drive it to other streets. The situation became so threatening at 11, this time the call for every member of the militia to report forthwith at 12 o'clock that Gov. Terrell was appealed to, to order out the State troops. Although no request had come from the sheriff Gov. Terrell gave the order j mobilizing the eight local infantry j companies at" once. Previously a police riot call had been sounded summoning all police reserves to headquarters. Willi the decision to call out the troops, the big fire bell sounded once more, his armory. It was almost 2 o'clock this morning before the first squad appeared on the streets and at 5 o'clock- six companies were under arms. Attacks on Negroes. The attacks on negroes had the effect of clearing the streets of blacks. Street hacks were abandoned atcurbings; driver on baggage wagons vanished and their places were taken by white men. This fear of trouble has affected several public conveniences today. The postofiice officials had much difficulty in delivering special letters, ice deliveries have been scarce to private homes; in some restaurants service has been restricted by the absence of regular waiters. Throughout the day hundreds of negroes have been fleeing the city. By train and wagon and 011 foot, they have hurried from the city fearing the possibilities of trouble in the immediate future. Negro Women Most Warlike. In the fighting last night, negro women were the most warlike, urging resistance to the mob and themselves fighting like Amazons. It was a ; :-;h: of terror to hundreds. The lawless character of the mob last night was fully demonstrated during the latter part of the evening. When negroes had vanished from the streets, the aimless mob from pure wantonness broke windows, and damaged property. The crowd, after pulling the negro porters from the Pullmans of a Westen and Atlantic railroad train standing ready to start, proceeded to smash the windows in the day coaches and mail and baggage cars. They then crossed to the Kimball house, and continued the window smashing amusement. causing a loss of several hundred dollars. Numerous windows in stores on Peachtree street today shew the fact that the mob passed that way. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23.?Twentyfour hours have passed since a race war of no mean proportions began in Atlanta. In that period at least 10 lives have been sacrificed, and the number of injured will be at ieast 60, several of whom cannot recover. At 10 o'clock tonight the city is controlled by the police aided by nearly a thousand of the State militia. Every part of town is patrolled by the soldiers and the authorities seem to have the situation well in hand. Governor Terrell, who ordered sever, companies of the State military service from points outside of Atlanta to aid the eight local companies, stands ready tonight to declare the city under martial lav,*, if the scenes of last night are repeated. He has declared within an hour that he sees no necessity at present to take these extreme measures. Numerou# and persistent rumors are reaching the city of negroes attacking white persons and stoning street cars in the suburbs and outskirts of the city. Most of these reports doubtless ui line of Hats just opened, a seJ mnd in New York. OurTailoret linery and Suit Departments ar< ig store stands ready for you w: ? before. A Silk Department?tl stock than ever before. We kn< 1, express or freight to any place within <?(>i rjHLlYEJBS . are false, but several street cars, arriving from their runs show broken windows, while their crews are refusing to go out tonight. Atlanta, (fa.. Sept. 24.?Some white pupils of the State street school were stoned while on their way to school, hut a squad of police gave protection. Police have been stationed at each of the schools. Orders also were issued trvhiv r>rohibirinsr the sale of firearms WW J r O and ammunition without the written order of the military authorities. In the city police court today Judge Broyles indicted the extreme sentence of the law on six young white men charged with inciting to riot, giving each 30 days in jail and binding them over to the higher court under Si,COO bonds. The grand jury today brought in true bills against two negrocss charged with assault with intent to commit criminal assault on two young white women. Both assaults occurred within the last two weeks, one on Court-land street and the other at Ccpeland hill, near the city. A squad of Macon militiamen, as- | signed to guard duty in a negro set- j tlement last night, surprised and dis- J persed a company of negroes drilling on a back street. No arrests. A gang of negro boys, 15 to IS years old, beat a young white boy this afternoon who took refuge in the home of a prominent citizen on Piedmont avenue. An old negro woman, seeing the disturbance, remonstrated with the young negroes, who replied that the whites j had beaten and killed negroes and I they proposed to "get even." This j spirit manifested by younger negroes j is taken by some to reflect the semi- j meats ci the older members of the j race. Many citizens today have express; t! I the feeling that the trouble is not yet j passed. They have been arming them- ! selves and preparing for possible j emergencies. The reports have resolved them- j selves down to one light between a number of county policemen and do- i puties and an unknown number of negroes. In the fight, which toc-k place in South Atlanta, about three ! miles from the city's centre and in the vicinity of Clark university, a negro institution. County Policeman James L. Heard was killed, four other officers were wounded and three policemen were missing at last reports. The number of negroes dead is not known, possibly it never will be known, but the officers in the darkness claim to have counted from six to fifteen dead or dying negroes on tne ground. County Policeman Heard with ten other officers and ten citizens, sworn in as deputies, learning that negroes were gathering, went to disperse them. As they approached McDonough avenue, an unknown number of negroes, hidden behind fences and under houses, fired a volley. Policeman Heard fell dead. Policeman Frank Jordan, himself wounded in the head, using the dead body of Heard, emptied three rounds into the negroes, apparently avenging the cold blooded assasination. The other casualties were Policeman Odurn, woimded in hand; Policeman A. C. Eubunks, wounded in leg; Ernest Smith, citizen, shot in hip. Three of the party were reported missing. The boll weave! is not only reported J,, DO/iriAne /Af t)l?> 1A : 1 m suinc nunc vi , -. ?, worms of some kind have artuektd a id are destroying the late green corm TAPP'S GEHATSPw ection not heretofore seen in <J< i Suit Department has never sir 3 most moderate, ith the newest styles and the lo tie peer of any in the South. Ai iw we have what you want and 0 miles of Columbia 011 all purchases of >0 i Scr.c Lisslikcod cf the j Cuto Qusstica; Kabana, Sept. 23.?Ail classes are j ! now vairiiicr for the conditions under j 1 i j which tranquility will iiKely be re I stored in Cuba, and disappointment is : ! expressed on every side because of I the likelihood of peace beinu' brcu^ht : about without armed American inter- ! ! i ! vent ion. i That the differences of the opposing ! v ! factions could be reconciled was not j i e'C'uerallv believed to be nossible until " . V ...... i i louay, wncn u was announce;! mat i the Liberals and the insurgents ; < 1 ? > j had ompowcreu a committee to rep- j | resent them before the American | J mediators. j ^ It is evident the! the business in- ! t crest of the island have no confidence j ? in the abiiitv of the Cubans to rule j , i I K themselves arm now, when it appears too late, they are openly favoring for- j j cible intervention, and possibly an- I / j nexation. | Secretary of War Taft is cognizant j 1 of this general opinion that peace can- j . not last unless it is enforced by an j [ American army, but he considers that ! ( it hs the duty c? the United States to ; give the republic another chance and | believes that it would be bad policy ( [ for the United States to keep a force j in Cuba longer than was required to ^ ! supervise the laying down of arms. He said today that it the Liberals and ; Moderates harmonize their differences the United Stales ma^t regard the i - . . . .\ I j compact as made in goo a faith. That peace v*H: come as the result j | of the m"t.uie:i of the L~i.iteel States J j is now b< lie veil by Cubans, regardless j | of parr;, aiinliation, but whether it will j j ! b. on terms winch will insure perm an- j | i en: tranquiiitv is ouestioneci. I X\ hen the diplomatic represontaI lives of the t:reign powers visited i j today, Mr. Tuf: significantly staled j that he could give them no definite assurances of pence for the reason thai" terms had not been put forward. This statement was in response to an _ expression iron the Spanish minister, that the world expected the United State'-to settle the turmoil 011 such | generous but firm conditions as to , maintain the integrity of the republic. The members of the diplomatic ,, corns were also received bv Mr. ., * * cl Bacon, who sought their views on the r situation. All of them asserted that | their governments desired the conflict" to be ended with all possible dispatch ( in order to save commercial relations and credit between the island and their countries from ruin. Secretary Taft has been authorized to exercise his own judgment in all ( matters pertaining to the negotiations 1 and that the squadron with its entire force is under his immediate control. * He will not allow the soldiers to land 1 without his orders, and unless he sees J it actnaliv neco.-sary to do so thev ! j wii! remain or. the warships, Thus far i j the Liberals are victorious while ! President Paiina v. ill r. main and re- 1 | : organise the cabinet, new elections 1 j will be held for half of the senators ! j and re;resell.at Ives; which will displace iocs who were elected last year, by the Paiiua administration, with possibly some of the provincial t ! oflice:*-. Titis will be pleasing to the ( I ... "? .. I insurgents as u v.as *0? lnese t.'iea j j were mostly contending-. ; Since the above was put in type i Secretary Tafi has become disgusted \ j with the Cuban situation, and seems ] ! to have no hope of bringing about i i p 'ace and believes that force must- ] ' ue used to restore peace in < aba. ? DSrA?rME2TT STCB3. )lumbia, of the latest ana swellest own up before as at this season. 1 west prices. Tor instance, in Sill id the Dress Goods Department ai we know we can please you. YC .00 or over. Address all orders ro "The Jas. ss fi s a s pal) an?j ill ill & isMM ttikkik f? siasi t This season we a showing a more comple line than ever before bhe best fitting a smartly tailored clot!: obtainable. A complete line everything 1* e a d y-t wear for men and bo * n *t 3s.n always os round 3ur store. We will thank yon 3onie in and give us t ipportunity to "she TOP y \J U * ^ |H| | 1 fr 11 IJ If g H Lai ?^|l ^?iLI I OutfifsSiw In? \ UuiniSGid Siii i? LEXINGTON ^reparations are being made to land ; 5,000 soldiers on the island if noces- ' ary. The island is virtually suroundcd by United States warships md ere many days t'e.e blue jackets nay be expected to inhabit the isand. Eventually the United States, vill have to annex or control the Tiban government. | i I Whitecapper Silled. Greenwood, Sept. 24.?As the result ! )f an attempt to take the law into j heir own hands, a whiteeappingparty j est one of their members at the homo I i ): Mr. Frank C. V.'renn, where they j lad gone to "regulate*' Wrenn. He | shot and instantly killed John Ander- ! ;on, who had succeeded in getting ' nto the house and was grappling with j iYrenn to trv to take him out to horse- i j .viiip him. Wrer.n went to town tho text day and surrendered to the i iheriff. ' j County Boarders. The she-riff lias in jail eight prison- ! >rs, all colored. Dave Murray, murier; Paul Rowe, murder; Chapped ' simmons. Ed. Singleton and Coot " 1 # T . 1_1 ? Minis tor cnamgang; jot* rm*&ie\, \ riolating contract; Sol Henurix. chaining money under false pretense. ' Richard Lowman, assault andbatterv * J ivith intent to kill, was lodged in jail , as: niglit by Constable Crocker, from swansea. ; styles from Paris, and all the i Ne have all the new novelties ii ks, we have a greater variety id is more complete. We spen >UR MONEY BACK IF YOU V L. Tapp Co." Columbia. S. C. olumbis W&fi 1 i ftftfl ;'kh IHt'R?l9u7 iiiSi? & 4c'-& ?^?i i 'n \m m CO ! IesI ! Wk lee and lots, - s. c. Dslma? Locals. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Mr. J. 0. Eargle, of Leesvilie, spent Saturday night and Sunday in Delmar. Rev. J. D. Shealy spent last week in Kttingham county, Georgia. Mrs. J. Henry Snelgrove and sister, Miss Mai tie Moore, visited their sister, Mrs. T. Erastus Risinger, of near Leesvilie, Saturday night. Messrs. Calvin. H. Moore and A. Rufus Oxner entered Leesvilie college at the opening, Wednesday of last week. Mv .1 Kn?vilv_ of Gnvton. Ga., is visiting relatives and friends in this section. He will go to Newberry this week to enter Newberry college. Mr. Minnie L. Eargle returned to West Raleigh, N. C.. last week to resume his studies in the Agricultural and Mechanical college of North Carolina. Messrs. J. Willie Shcaly and Lethe C. Shealy will enter Newberry college this week. The Delniar ginnery is in successful operation. They have put in a self tramping press and made some other improvements, and now they have one of the best plants to be found in the country. Lloyd.. Sept. *24. Subscribe for the Dispatch. "MEET ME AT TAPPS." OT lewest novelties bo tn in Hats i Coats, Jackets and Raincoats. and finer assortment of swell t more time and took greater TANT IT.