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ESTAELiSHEl) I?Sr ARSON AND LYNCHING MOB LYNCHES BLACK WHILE FIRE RAGES. Assault on White Woman Caused Mob to Seek Negro Who is Spirit ed Away. At Springfield, 111., two white men rarere killed, an unknown negro was lynched, more than a half-hundred yersons were injured an dtwo score ?of houses, mostly occupied by ne srroes, were burned Friday night, as the result of an attempt by a mob to lynch a negro who had assaulted a white woman. After a night of riot, arson and slaughter, the State droops called out by the Governor, succeeded early Saturday in restoring | ' a semblance of order and stopped the fire. One thousand militiamen sire patrolling the streets and it is believed that farther disorder will] *e prevented. The rioting were precipitated by the assault committed by a negro upon Mrs. Mabel Hallam, wife of a street railway conductor. While the woman slept alone in her home on a populous resdence street, awatlng the return of her husband, a man broke into, the house, drag-i ged her into the rear yard and as saulted her. Before noon, George Richardson, a young negro, was ar rested by the sheriff's force, charg-j ?d with the crime. The victim par-i tially identified the prisoner. Crowds] quickly gathered about the jail, but Sheriff Werner's force and the police were able to preserve order until nightfall without difficulty. Shortly after 5 o'clock a successful ruse was worked by the authorities and Richardson was spirited away to safety. Richardson was placed aboard a train and rushed to Poria. Along with him was taken Joe James, an other negro, accused of killing a State mine operator, after attempt ing an assault upon the inspector's daughter. The mob gathered at the jail after darkness to find the negroes gone. Loper's restaurant was de molished, some one having mention ed that Loper furnished an automo bile in which the negroes were tak en away. They burned his automo bile in the street. Efforts of the fire, dpartment to disperse the crowds were futile. Every line of hose was ?cut' h'fdre*-'tbl wafer could be "forced^ into it. The militia ordered out by the Governor was busy at the jail, and none could be spard at the scene of the Loper rioting. Finally, a troop was sent to the restaurant, when the rioting broke loose in serious form. Shots were Bred and the air was filled with missiles. Many fell in the melee, and it was here that Louis Johnson met his death in the rear of Loper's place. Leaving Loper's. the mob' made a rush for the levee, usually populat ed with negroes, but most of them had disappeared. Shortly befoie midnight the mob Stroke into a pawnshop and secured arms and ammunition and started to march the streets n absolute con trol. "Stand back, gentlemen, or I'll shoot every one of you who touches this man," were the words of Eu gene W. Cafin. Prohibition candi date for President, who faced the mob that had attacked the negro while Chafin was delivering a public ad vlress on the East side of the square. For this act Chafin was struck on the face with a briete, hurled by a ?member of the mob. but was not seriously injured. Chafin's threat ? had the desi-ed effect, although he "had no weapon he had priced his "hand on rte hip pocket as ho spoke. After burning many houses in the Twgro quarter the mob, which he vamo mere desrerate. as the night ?'*ssed finally gratified its thirst fori ?blood that morning when a n^gro I was lynched :a the heart of the so called "Pad Lands." j Troops arrived at the scene too j late to prevent the shooting. Some | of, the members of the mob declared | ?chat the negro lynched had shot two white men. The.- said that in a fight with the whites the negro was forc ed into a corner at the saloon and grocery, at Twelfth and Madison. When retreat was cut off. the negro is said to have opened fire, wound ing two. Then came the cry "get th erope:" All the members of the mob eagerly took up the cry. The negro was caught and dragged to the street. Here he was beaten and shot, five! times and then a rope w as swung around his neck and the other end of the ropa thrown over the limbs of, a tree right in front of the store.! Wth a cry of satisfaction the negro was swung high off the ground. He j was dead in a few minutes. Just then the Decatur troops arrived. Two volleys wer eiired over] the heads of the lyncLers. The or der was given by Col. Wells, Fifth infantry, in command, to "disperse." I With reluctance, some of the mem bers of the mb began to back away. The first volley fired by the troops was over the heads of the rioters. Then followed two volleys aimed low and a number of rioters were struck in the legs. The rioters then quickly dispersed and hung around in small groups. After riddling the body of the ne-j gro with bullets the mob strung him to the stump of a tree trunk. Then the mob danced around and went wild with glee. Their cries were fearful to hear. CLAIMS i>>. YORK FOR BRYAN. - I Chairman Connors Confident of Vic tory?Convention L>ate Fixed. ... The New York Democratic State committee, in a ten-minutes session Friday afternoon, voted to'issue a call for the State Democratic Convention to he held in Rochester September 15. The commttee also adopted unanimously a recolution endorsing the candidacy cf Yv\ J. Bryan and John W. Kern and expressing appro bation of the platform of the Denver Convention. ' Resolutions were adopted as fol lows: J "The State committee of the' De mocratic party of .the State, of New ' York, in meeing assembled, cordial ly ratifies, approves and endoses the action of the National Convention ! at Denver in selecting as th_ea.tand ard bearers of the party in the na tional campaign Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and John W. Kern, of In diana. We believe laat Mr. Bryan stands out among all tne public men of the country as the embodment of honesty, integrity, patriotism and the other qualties which go to make up an ideal American statesman, and that in Mr. Kern, he has a wor thy running mate who sizes up well to the great office of Vice-President. "We strongly commend the plat form adopted at Denver, and believe j that it will set forth the prniciplesi j of progressive Democraccy. I "In the face of th egreat extrav-l j agance of the present Republican ' Adminh3tration and its plain disre gard of the best interests of the peo ple we see on every side evidence of Democratic harmony, and we call upon the State of New York, regard less of party, to rally to the support of Bryan and Kern, and take part in carrying the ticket to victory this fall." State Chairman W. J. Conners, when asked about the situation throughout the State, replied: "Wm. J. Bryan will carry New York State by from 75,000 to 100, 000. Bryan is the strongest Demo crat in New York today. We will carry Erie, Niagara, Chenago and fifteen or sixteen other counties. Kings County will roll up a big ma jority, and other boroughs of Great er New York may be depended upon to add a sufficient Democratic plura lity to wipe out the Republican whoever is nominated by, the. Re publicans will not carry the State plurality up-State. In my opinion, above the Bronx by more than 50, ?00 or 73,000." ' i. Discussing the Gubernational situation, Mr. Connors said he had heard the names of Judge Alton B. Parker mentioned as a candidate. "There is plenty of good material to pick from," said Mr. Conners. "Martin W. Littleton would make a strong candidate. State Comptroller Glynn has made a good record, and would make a strong candidate for Governor. Lieutenant Governor Chandler is also strong up-State." * RUNS WITHOUT ENGINEER. j Passengers on Flyer Unaware of Ac cident?Man Scriiously Hurt. At Battle Creek, Mich., with En gineer Charles Strang lying injured alongside the track and the fireman busy on the back of the tender, the Grand Trunk Flyer, east bound, ran' four miles Thursday afternoon with j no guiding hand at the throttle and j with the 300 passengers in the coach !es calmly gazing out of the windows ignorant of the fact that they were riding on a runaway train. Finishing his work on th etender, the fireman returned the train to a stop and backed it up until the en gineer was found lying beside the track with his left arm and left leg I broken, one shoulder crushed and his skull fractured. It is supposed that the engineer lost his balance in leaning from the window or gangway to look for a hot box. He was taken to Nichol's Hos pital, where it was said there was a chance that he might recover. BALLOON ENVELOPE EXPLODES. 'Two Killed anxl Six Injured on the London Exposition Grounds. A dispatch from London, says( Two persons were killed and six in jured by an explosion Friday morn ing on the grounds of Franco-Brit ish Exposition, of the balloon en I velope, owned by Capt. Lovelace, of the New York Aero Club. Preparations for an ascent were being made when the accident oc-j curred. The'cause is supposed to have been the throwing down of a lighted match. Miss Hill, aged 18, secretary to Capt. Lovelace; was one; of the persons killed. She was bunt ed to a cinder. The other person killed, a, man, J and the six men who sustained in juries, also were employed by Capt. I Lovelace. ('apt. LoveIace"s clothes were burned, but otherwise he sus tained no injuries. * Outbreak Caused Insanity. Clayton N. Williams, a negro por ter of Chicago Sunday in a fit of temporary insanity, caused by brood ing over the Springfield outrages, locked Lucy Briggs, G7 years old. into a room at her house, 2312 Dearborn street, at noon, and bat tered her brains out with a rocking chair. Williams' insanity took form in the belief that he was the messiah. come to regenerate the fallen ones of his race, and that, the woman was possessed of devils which he must cast out. * HORRIBLE TRAGE?Y. ? BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLS GIRL COUSIN. Overcame With Remorse He Shoots j j Himself, Dying in Half an Hour J Afterwards. j One of the most horrible double tragedies ever heard of in Saluda County occurred two miles from that place at 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, when Ernest Rowe acci dently shot and instantly killed his cousin, Jessie Rowe, a girl of 18 years, and seon afterwards shot him self, inflicting a wound from which he died in thirty minutes. The young man and the girl were at the home of Miss Rowe. While j Ernest Rowe was playing with the gun, which he thought was not load ed., the weapon was fired, the entire load of shot entering the girl's mouth, killing her instantly. Horri fied at what had happened Ernest Rowe begged some one to kill him, saying that the horror of what he had done was more than he could bear, and that if none of those present would shoot him he would kill him self. Little attention was paid to what, he said, but soon a shot was heard outside the house and on rush ing out the crowd found Rowe wel tering in his own blood. He had placed the gun under his right jaw and the load had torn away the side of his jaw. He died in a half hour. Ernest Rowe was 1S years of age land was the son of P>ud Rowe. Jes I sie Rowe was the daughter of J. T. Rowe. There is no doubt that the killing of the girl was entirely an ac cidnt. * I_ POLISH PRIEST FLEES. Boards Steamer for Europe After Warning Police. Asserting that he has been driven from city to city by persons threat ening life life until he fears that he must leave the United States, the I Rev. Michael Seryetka, a Polish priest of Newark. N. J.. appealed to the police of that city for protection and fled aboard a steamer bound for Europe. Ho was recently assigned tempor arily to the Holy Trinity Catholic church in Newark and had hardly been established there when he re ceceived one of the letters that have been troubling him. Father Servetka turned over to the nolle three letters which he has re ceived during the last three weeks. The first came while he was station ed In Brooklyn, and lie then went to Elizabethport, N. J., where another letter reached nim. The last came to him when he went to Newark. The priest told the Newark police that while he was stationed in I Brooklyn a fw weeks ago he was at tacked by two met! who seized him ! by the throai ami demanded $1.000 from him. Since he h as been in I Newark a little iess than a week, lie) feels sure he has been followed con stantly. *) Daring Train Robbery. A dispatch from Spokane. Wash., says a daring hold-up of a Northern Pacific train, near the city, occurred after midnight. Masked highway men boarded and took charge of the engine, uncoupled the mail car. ran it down the road and robbed it. No passengers were molested. Forest Fires Still Rase. A dispatch from Winnipeg. Mani toba, says A special from Cranbrook says. The Candian Pacific railway fire ranger in from Kimberly. says that forest fires are still burning and will be worse than ever if the wind changes. ? RG, S. Gm TUESDAY. AU( / WATCH LITTLE YELLOW WILL KILLING AT'AUGUSTA. Former North Augusta Officer Shot Dead by a Policeman. At Augusta, Ga-., Edwin C. Tur ner, aged about forty-f-ur years, formerly employed as town marshal of North Augusta, was shot and in stantly killed Tuesday night on Up per Market street by Patrolman M. 0. Matthews. He claimed self-de fence and was exonerated by the coroner's jury, who rendered it as "their belief that he fired six shots in self-defence, four of which took effect." Turner was arrested several jmonrfls ago by Matthews on a dis orderly conduct charge, which the I officer subsequently withdrew. Since then he has "had it in for" the offi cer, having made public threats on numerous occassions that if Mat thews ever tried to arrest him again one or the other would die. Tuesday night he came to town and was soon drinkingly heavily. In company with two companions, who were with him when Matthews fired, but who ran when they saw Turner was killed. * NEAR MURDER AT AUGUSTA. Man Shoots Wife in Abdomen and Himself Through a Lung. A dispatch from Augusta. Ga.. says on Friday about 12.50 o'clock, N. S. Usher, a man of middle age, walked' into the Sibley Mill where his wife was at worked in the spool room, and shot her through the ab domen with a ,'52-calibre revolver. Then turning he fired a bullet through his right lung and exclaim ed: "I am glad it's all over. I've killed her and myself, too." Usher was arrested a few minutes latr, by a bicycle policeman and tak en to the City'Hospital, where an operation will-be performed. His wife is not seriously wound ed, but Usher's condition is regard ed as precarious. The man's motive is' thought to have been jealousy. He had not liv ed with his wife for several months. They had no children an dshe is said to have received company to soiup extent since thy separated. * NEGRO HORRIBLY BURNED. Rabbit's Foot Company, Negro The atrical Troupe, .Meets Disaster. A dispatch from Charlotte. N. C. says seven male members ?rf the Rabbit's Foot Company, a negro traveling theatrical organization were horribly burned Friday morn ing at Shelby, near there. Two of them will die. The special car in which the troupe travels caught fire from a gasoline explosion and was destroyed, all the company escaping uninjured save seven. Two horses carried by the company were burned in the car. There is no fire deparl ment at Shelby and nothing could be done to save the cur. The injured wore brought to a Charlotte hospi tal for treatment. A leaking gasoline itank w;;s said to have caused the1 explosion. *1 FOLLOWS RACK RIOTING. Negro is Stabbed in Evaii.sville By Whites. George Mondie, a negro of Evans ville. Ind., was probably fatally cut Sunday midnight by two unknown white men. who made their escape and for whom the police are search ing The two men were discussinp the race riot at Springfield. Tils., and oue of them had just remarked that "all negroes ought to be run into the river" when Mondie came along down the street. The men assaulted Mondie with bricks and one of them stabbed him n the back and they made a hurried retreat dowh the street. Mondie was removed to St. Mary's hospital, and is now in a cri tical condition. * ?Triggs in New York Press. WILL FORM CLUBS. GENERAL CALL ISSUED BY EX ECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Bryan Thinks They Will Do More Good Work For the Ticket Than Anything Else. A dispatch from Chicago, 111., says a call for the organization of Democratic clubs in every voting precinct in the United States to aid in Mr. Bryan's campaign was issued Friday by the Democratic national committee. Mr. Bryan, it is said, infornid Chairman Mack and other members of the committee that he believed that the Democratic cause would derive Its greatest ,'impetus from the formation of these clubs throughout the country. The appeal for club organization was signed by Chairman Mack and John W. Tom linson, head of the committee on club organizations. Asserting that the Republican party intends to rely on favor-seeking interests, the call for club organization says: "All patriotic citizens, irrespective of party, who stand for the rule of the people and who are against the corrupt or undue influence of money in elections and to that end favor publicity of the larger campaign contributions before the election as demanded by the Democratic plat form, are urged to organize themsel ves immediately into campaign clubs for the Presidential election. "All organizations in sympathy are expected to assist actively in this work. The chairman of the Demo cratic State committee in each State is requested to have each county and precinct committeeman ;organize & campaign club in each precinct on or before the 15th day of September, and to call meetings immediately for that purpose. ^ All existing or ganizations should meet at once and appoint campaign committees. "No special plan of organization' or bylaws is necessary." Former National Chairman Thom as Taggart called at Democratic headquarters and conferred with Mr. Mack and othr members of the com mittee regarding campaign plans. Speaking of the situation in Ohio and in Indiana, Mr. Taggart. said: "The situation in Indiana, so far as the Democrats are concerned, is better than it has been for twenty years and there is absolute harmony in the party ranks. Indiana is ip the Democratic column without a doubt. The reports thai I receive from Ohio are also encouraging, and I shall not be surprised to see the Democrats in that State elect their candidtae for Governor and give a majority for the Democratic national ticket." Chairman Mack has given up the plan of returning East the early part of next week ami the eastern head quarters in New York will not be opened, in all probability, until about !ii" Irs! of next month. ASSAULTS WHITE WOM AN. Terrible Reinitiation for Lynfching of Negro Kapist at Pensacola. Mrs. Ed Moclair. residing four miles from Pensacola, Fl;:., was as saulted by an unknown negro Friday afternoon. "This is how we pay back for lynching Ed Shaw." said the negro as he overpowered the wo man and choked her into insensibi-j lity. When Mrs. Mociair recovered enough to let the neighbors know her plight the county officials were notified and a sheriff's possee was started immediately upon the track of the assailant.. In Pensacola a crowd was gathered about the jail awaiting the r eturn of the officers. Meanwhile excitement 'is at white heat, following so closely upon the lynching of the negro Shaw, two weeks ago. ? BALDWIN MAKES ASCENT. His Dirigible Balloon Meets Speed Requirement of Government. A dispatch from Washington, says Capt. Baldwin Friday fulfilled the second requirement for the- acceptan ce of his military dirigible balloon making two successful speed trials at Fort Myer. A week ago the air ship was accepted so far as construction is concerned. Capt. Baldwin is allowed three flighs to fulfil the endurance specifi cations. At 6.3. Friday evening the dirigible shot across the starting line headed Jn a northerly direction. The course followed was a new one and lies in the direction of Cheresy dale, Va., two and a sixteenth miles from the starting point. On the home stretch the air ship pulled evenly, and at a greater rate of speed than it. had ever attained J before, crossing the finishing line at 6.48, fifteen minutes after start ling. It is expected the average speed for the flight will be found to be 16% miles. After replenishing the supply of [gasoline, Capt. Baldwin made an other official speed trial in order to get abonus on his contract price of $6,750. At 7.10 the air ship crossed the starting line the second time. The air ship turned for the return trip at 7.17, having made the two and one sixteenth miles in seven minutes. The actual time for the second flight was thirteen and three quarter minutes. It is believed that the ofiicial timers will figure Capt. Baldwiu i average time for the last test at nineteen miles an hour. The con tract with the Government requires that twenty miles an hour be made in order that the contract price be secured. For every mile less than twenty made by Capt. Baldwin, 15 per cent will be deductd from the contract price. * KILLED IN A MANHOLE. Gas From a Leaking Main too Much For Workmen. Two men were killed and nearly a dozen others were overcome in a manhole of the Empire City Subway Company of New York, Friday, by gas from a leaking main. The dead men, Michael Doom and Peter Collins, employees of the com pany, went to hunt for a leak, which for some time had filled the con ducts with gas, and they examined all the manholes from 23d streer. up to 45th before they descended into the fatal one at that point on 8th avenue. When they failed to send up word, after a reasonable time, Foreman Holinan started down the manhole to find out the reason. He was quickly driven back by the fum es and shouted for help. Police reserves, firemen and am bulances were summond and even tually a dozen or more persons, fel low workmen, policemen nad firemen tried to rescue the two men. But all efforts were unavailing. Each man in his turn was overcome and soon nad to be drawn by the rope to which he was attacked. A few of those overcome by the fumes were revived on the spot, but jthe majority had to be taken to a j hospital. The bodies of the two men I were recovered after the gas was shut off. * LOCKJAW FROM BLOW. Man Comes to Hospital And Can't Talk?Might Not Recover. Philip Tully, 24 years old, enter ed the receiving office of the Belle vue Hospital of New York. Friday night and by motions indicated that he was suffering severe pain about his head and jaws. He appeared unable to speak and his jaws were locked partly open. Dr. LcRoy Smith questioned the man with a pencil and paper, the latter answered questions. He said that he attended a dance at New Dorp, Stateh Island, about two weeks ago. He was attacked by two thugs, he wrote, and was struck over the eye with a blunt instrument that in flicted a lacerated wound, tie left the dance hall and went home with out medical treatment. Dr. Smith said the man was suffer ing from tetanus and that a germ of the disease had developed in the wound recived in the dance hall. The physicians succeeded in feeding Tully by an artificial process. Small hope is entertained for his recovery. The police are seeking his assailants. * AMBL'SHEI) AND MURDERED. Hotel Keeper Evidently Was Keeping Appointment as Letter Indicates. A dispatch from New York Thurs day says: Ambushed in a lonely spot known as the "murderer's field" on Lincoln road, in the Flatbush sec tion of Brooklyn, i'ietro Barilla, a well-to-do hotel keeper of Woodhav en. was attacked by a number of men. Barilla is thought to have gon.: to the place to keep an appointment as a letter was found on his person, .seemingly written in blood. Barilla rode to the scene on a bicycle and carried a magazine re volver, which he nearly emptied In his desperate defense. Persons nearby heard the shots, onri rushing to the place, saw the mer fleeing across the fields. Bari lla was found dead. ?1.50 PEfi ANNUMi KILLS HIS CHILDREN. RELIGIOUS MANIA CAUSES HOR RIBLE CRIME. Slays His Son and .Married Daughter, Tried to Kill His Divorced Wife I And Cuts His Own Throat. At Los Angeles, Cal., driven insane by religious mania, H. J. Dufty, six ty years of age, Friday attacked and killed his son and daughter with an axe and then cut.his own throat with a razor, inflicting fatal injuries. The i tragedy occurred in the extreme northwestern part of the city. Dufty lived at the home of his son, Fred Dufty. He had been on the verge of violent Instanity, it is said, for weeks as a result of religious enthu siast^. The night before he attend ed a religious meeting and worked himself into a 'renzy. When he arose ' that morning he was suddenly seized with a desire to kill! Securing a sharp-bladed axe he stealthily entered the bed room of his son while the latter lay asleep. He crept close to the side of the bed and, raising the axe aloft, brought it down with terrifie force across the neck of the son. The Wow was delivered with such tremendous force that the head of the victim was severed completely from the body. With a manleal shout Dufty rushed from the bouse and down I the street waving his bloody weapon. 'Reaching the house at 461 North west Lake avenue, where his wife land daughter resided, he opened the front door and entered. Mrs. Ada Lacom, the daughter, with her moth er, was in a rear room. Proceeding" cautiously to this room the murder er opened the connecting doors. Mrs. Lacom stood with her back to him. Without a word of warning he swung the axe high in the air and cleft head was crushed in from the blow. Mrs. Dufty fled through a rear door, closely pursued by the maniac, striking at her with the axe. The woman succeeded in eluding him, but not before she had received? a severe gash on the elbow from the axe swung by Dufty as he chased her. Mrs. Dufty's cries finally attract ed the attention of neighbors who came to her :aid. ? Dufty then walked to the street,, where he drew a razor from his pock et and slashed his own throat, in flicting frightful injuries-, - from which, however, he is likely to re cover. Several weeks ago Dufty went to the Evergreen Cemetery and pur chased a lot, explaining that he want ed it for himself, son and daughter. Three days ago he purchased a cof fin for himself. Fred Dufty, the son, was 24 years of age and unmarried. He vas an automobile machinist. The daughter lived with her hus> band. Ferdind Lacom, a painter, and their six-year-old daughter. Mrs. Dufty and her husband had been divorced, and she had gone to the hora*e of her daughter to nurse her through approaching confinement. Before entering the Lacom home Dufty concealed his axe in a sack which he carried. The old man sat nervously fingering the sack wh'l*i the woman proceded to prepare breakfast. Suddenly he got up, drew the axe from the sack and attacked them. Dufty not only purchased a lot in the cemetery for the burial of his victims, but had headstones erected for three graves. Thre plain tomb stones were put in place on the lot at his order, bearring th names "Henry J. Dufty," "Fred. A. Dufty" and "Zaidaih Lacom." The grave stones for his children were placed* on each side of the one erected for himself. Dufty paid $60 for the headstones and told the sales man that he was in no great hurry to have them erected. POUR CHICAGOAXS DROWNED. Pleasure Launch Overturned by the Waves of Passing Steamer. At Kilbourn, Wis.. by the capsiz ing of a pleasure launch on the Wis consin River Friday afternoon four Chicago ans were drowned as follows: Miss Mabel Ward, Mrs. W. G. Heath and son, E. G. Pfeiffer. The launch, containing nine per sons, was returning from a trip through the Dells. When near the wharf the boat got Into the waves of a passing steamor and capsized. The accident was seen by many people on the pier and rescue at once was attempted with boats and launches, but four had sunk before aid arriv CONVICTS GAIN LIBERTY. Prisoners at a Brick Camp i? Georgia Escape. Three life convicts, negroes escap ed Friday from the camp at the Must-ogee Brir-k Company in Colum bus county, Ca., although fired at several times by the guards. The convicts made their break at a point midway between the two guard stations and about fifty yards from each guard. They succeeded in springing into a ditch, dodged their way through some tall cotton and then lost themselves In the woods nearby. The negroes were chained, but not closely. M. A. Candler, a son of Ex Governor Cacdler, Is warden of the camp.