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PUBLISHED THREE TU DEFIES ARREST lamberg County is Greatly Stirred Over a Sensational Case. FAIL TO MAKE ARREST Of J. J. Hughes, Who Had Been Convicted of Assault on His Wife, But Whose Sentence Was Com muted on His Promise of Good Behavior. '. 0n_ September 17, 1906, ( J. J. Hughes., of Bamberg county, pleaded guilty "to the charge of assault and battery and was sentenced by Judge G. W. Gage to serve six years in the | Penitentiary. The assault was upon Hughes's wife, and appeared a most unprovoked and aggravated one. On July 6, 1908, Governor Ansel commuted his sentence for the re mainder of the term on condition that he would not commit a like of fense again, and the Governor's ac tion was approved by a large major ity of the people of the county.' Hughes reached home of July 7, 1908, and up to a short time ago had been living peacably and appar ently happily with his wife and chil-j dren on their' farm, a few miles south of- the county seat. Sometime ago it was rumored that he had again commenced to drink and abuse his wife, who, by the way, is a most estimable lady. . It is reported that a. drunken spree on/last Sunday culminated in Hughes making "a savage attack upon his! wife ,wjth a .gun. It Is said he knocked /her down with it,- splitting j her forehead open for several in-;| caps and otherwise in^rlhg^her, sol that Che services of a' surgeqn were ] necessary. to duress her wounds. It is also said that he attempted to shoot, her, and would have succeed- j ed, . but for the interference of a negro.who knocked the gun up as he was about to pull the trigger, thus.) saving the lady's life. Mr. Hughes's brother, who was I largely, instrumental in securing the [ commutation, came to town and re ported the matter, and .Mrs. Hughes.j also wrote a note asking for pro tection and that her husband be ar rested: "*? Clerk of Court C, B.. Free swore | out a warrant and Deputy Sheriff T. J. Rente went down Sunday evening to arrest Hughes. When they got there, it is said, they found the Hughes home dark and no one ven-'j tured near the house. On Monday [ Deputy Sheriff Rentz,^ accompanied by W. M. McCue, constable for Mag-1 istrate H. D. Free, aga"ln went to the Hughes, home, when, they found him standing in his front door. Hughes spoke to them, and told them that he liked them pretty well, but that they must not get out of their buggy if they did not want to die; that .he had served two years in the penitentiary and he would rather die than go back there again The deputy sheriffs considered jdis . creticn the better part of valor and concluded not to alight from their vehicle, as it was evident that he was armed and meant what he said They reasoned and talked with Hughes, who finally proposed that fie would go to town with them if they would get his wife to accom pany him to town. Then they went to a neighbor's home to which Mrs. Hughes had fled, but by the time they got there Hughes had written a note and sent it there, saying he had left, so this plan was frustrated. The deputies spent the remainder of the day riding around and looking for Hughes, but they said they did not. get in sight of him again. It is said that Hughes is still at home, but defies arrest. ? Sheriff Hunter is a one-legged Confederate Veteran- and depends en tirely upon his deputies for making arrests. The facts have been com municated to the Governor and the people are awaiting with some anx iety the outcome of the matter. There are many who fear for the safety of Mrs. Hughes, but it is not generally thought that Hughes will do her harm unless he is under the influ ence of liquor. GOT FOR BOXING. Jim Jeffries Made ?117,000, While Johnson Secured .$120,600. Jack Johnson was $120,600 richer when Jim Jeffries went down for the j last tinie in Monday's fight. He took 60 per cent of the $101.U00 purse! which amounted to $60,000, a bon-J us of $10,000 and he sold his pic ture interests for $50,000. Jeffries took a fortune out of the defeat at Johnson's .hands. He re ceived 10 per cent, of the purse, amounting to $40,000, the bonus of $10,000 and he sold his picture in terests for $6C,6G6, making a total of $117,000. The owners of the! picture films are calculating on a million dollar's profit. Negro Killed by Train. Ed Rogers, a negro man, about 25 years old, was found dead Tues day night near the track of the At lantic Coast Line railway near Ben nettsville. A coroners jury render ed a verdict to the effect that Rogers was killed accidentally by the At lantic Coast Line train and that the railroad company was blameless. ' ?ES A WEEK. COMPELLED TO/FLEE FOREST FIRES COMPEL INHABI TANTS TO LEAVE. Cornucopia,.; ?//e """ior, Com pietely Surrouinkffitk >? 1$ J^*r V 4 Of. est Fires. . ^0 Cornucopia is a village of auo?? ' five miles west of Bayfield, WIs., on the south shore of Lake Superior, is surrounded by forest fires and there is no means of getting out of the town, except by boa t. A telephone call for help was received at Bay field Tuesday morning and the Steamer Barker left before noon to rescue the people of the villiage if it should be necessary. About seven o'clock the Barker returned having on board 155, women and children from the village. When the boat left the most of the town was cut off, the fernes being borne along by a strong wind. Cornucopia, a town about twenty four hundred inhabitants. Port Wing, a village of about 1,000 in habitants, twenty-five miles south west of Bayfield ok: Lake Superior, also was in danger all day, nearly being surrounded by fire, but it was possible to escape by road as well as by water. RACE RIOT IS GEORGIA. Negroes Fill Up on Whiskey and En raged Citizens Fight. Resulting in the killing of three negroes Uvaldia, & small town in South Georgia, was the scene Sun day afternoon of a race riot which may result in further fatalities as the white people of the. community are thoroughly aroused over the acts of negroes who caused the riot and are preparing to pursue them with bloodhounds. So far no whites have been injured. According to information received the white people or Uvaldiawere an noyed by the,, attitude of negroes stationed, at a.cross tie camp on the Georgia and Florida railroad. The negroes made matters worse Satur day afternoon and Sunday morning by appearing at Uvaldia in a drunk en condition and becoming unruly. Later a number of white men went to the. tie camp for the purpose of arresting a negro jwho_.appeared to be the ring leader of the gang. Upon approaching the camp they were met by volley after volley from the negroes ,but r.one of*the whites were struck. Returning the fire .how ever the whites killed three negroes and the others sought refuge in the neighboring woods. They have been under cover sinct. The whites are organizing to take up the pursuit of the negroes. STOPS ON TRACK. -t?? Automobile Smashed to Pieces but occupants Unhurt. The southbound train, No. S9. says a Latta dispatch, struck an automo bile at Bailey Ford Crossing, about a mile from that place, Tuesday af ternoon. The automobile was hurled from the. track a mass of debris. The corivchatcher of the engine was demolished and front trucks thronw from the track. The machine was owned by N. E. Berry of Dillon, who with his family and Mrs. L. A. Man ning, was returning from Marion. The country road at this point cross es the railroad diagonally and being much lower than the road bed, is considered a dangerous point. Mrs. Berry was driving the machine. The motor stalled as the front wheels! reached the middle of the track. They made every effort to remove the machine and sign down the train. Nobody was hurt. The train was de layed about an hour. , . ? - i CHILDREN DROWNED. A Property Baniage of Over Fifty Thousnud Dollars. A Lexington, Ky., dispatch says three negro children were drowned and aamage to the extent of $50,000 or more was done in Winchester and Clark counties by a cloudburst Mon day morning. Residences and busi ness structures were flooded in Win chester and br;ati> and rafts used to rescue families. In the country several farm houses were washed off their foundations by the sudden rise of the streams. Three negro children were drowned in Poyntertown, a su burb of Winchester. Negro Shoots Conductor. When Conductor Roberts of the Iron Mountain. Railroad demanded fare of Enos Stetson, a negro, near Tallalah. La., Monday afternoon, the latter, shot Roberts down. The con ductor is probably mortally wounded'" He was rushed to the r;:ilroad hospi tal at Magee, Ark. Stetson jumped from the train and he is being search ed by a large crowd of armed citizens. That he will .be. lynched if captured seems certain. Physician Accused of Bigamy. A warrant charging bigamy was sworn out at noon Tuesday against Dr. J. M. Sigman, a well known Sa vannah physician, at the instance of Rebecca Plgg, a trained" nurse, who alleges that having married her in Charleston, Dr. Sigman is guilty of bigamy because of his marriage to a woman in Blooniingdale. i i OBANGEBO EVIL SPREADING ONE NEGRO L\ EVERY FOUR | USES COCAINE. Efforts of Police to Stop the Illegal Sale of the Poison Have Had Lit ? tie Effect According to physicians in touch with the situation in Charleston, the cocaine habit among the negroes isj spreading to an alarming extent. The drug, from all accounts, made its apearance among the denizens of the under world in Charleston about! twelve years ago, but at that time was used only by a comparitively small number acquainted with the peculiar inbuence which the pow der exerts upon the human ? sys- J tern. The use of the drug, however, spread rapidly, first among the whites, then In Darktown, until now it is estimated that one negro in every four uses cocaine in one form or another. The police have at various times during the last two years attempted to stamp out the sale of cocaine, but apparently without success. Sev eral persons, charged with selling | the drug without a physician's ce tificate, were convicted in the Police Court and fined heavily for his \\o-. lation of the city ordinance. There is at present pending "in the Char-1 leston Police Court, the case of Chas. Jones, while, alias "Weatherhorn,' charged with selling a box of co I caine to a negro woman on Market [ j street. ! Very often the drug is used in the shape of a solution of the crys-1 talline form, mixed with other in jurious ingredients and injected into the system by means of a bypoder i mic syringe. Other habitual users take it in the form of pills. The devotee using the syringe method, in many cases upon examination is found to have his arms, legs or chest covered' with one mass of sores, resulting from the punc tures made by the needle of the syringe. These wounds as a usual thing heal up very quickly, but very often fester and break out, owing j to the unsanitary surroundings in which the cocaine fiend lives as a general rule. Cases are known in which cocaine fiends died of lockjaw and other forms of poisoning, as a ] direct result of festering of the hypo dermic syringe pricks covering the persons of the unfortunate users of) the drug. The most "popular" and simple method in vogue of taking the drug into the system is by snuffing it through the nose. The pure i co caine flakes are crushed to a powder in a mortar, and retained in this form. A small quantity of the stuff is shaken on the back of the hand and then inhaled through the nose. Another method consists of dissolv ing a smail quantity of cocaine in a teaspoonsful of water, and then heat- J ing it over a match. The is swal lowed. It has been pretty firmly establish ed that indulgence in cocaine leads to physical wreckage. The users of the drug claim that a dose gives them "courage," .'sweet dreams, and a sort of exuberance of spirit. This state lasts from two to four .hours, as a rule, but after that wears Off quickly, leaving the victim with an insatiable craving for more of the deadly drug. Negroes especially are very susceptible to the influence of cocaine and under its sway will commit acts from which they would shrink under normal conditions. The illegal cocaine trade is car ried on by three different sets of individuals. First, those who pro cure it from the-large drug centers of the country in wholesale quanti ties; those who sell to agents; and finally the latter themselves who dispose of it to the friends. The profits of the peddler are known to be considerable. A vial of cocaine which sells at $1, is made up into) as many as three dozen boxes, each containing enough of the drug fur two or three small doses. The boxes sell at 25 cents each. Not content with this profit, a majority of the j agents adulterate the pure cocaine flakes with other drugs and various harmless powders. Baroric acid is principally use;! for this purpose, as it is snow white and therefore in visible unless detected by the eye of an expert chemist. Very small boxes have recently made their appearance on the mar ket, which are offered for sale at a price of 15 cents. It has leaked out. however, that the fiends refuse to buy them because of the fact that the contents are mostly ingredients other than cocaine, thereby giving the buyer none of that sensation which he craves with might and soul. Nineteen Persons Killed. Nineteen persons were killed out-! ?i.^ht, three probably fatally hurt, and half a dozen were seriously in-J jured in a headon collision between a freight and passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Daylon railroad at Middletown, 0., Monday evening. Of the killed 18 were pas-J sengers, the other victim being a member of the train crew. Chair Caused Death of Negro. A row on July 4th at Columbia over a broken chair resulted fatally for Austin Townyell, a negro boy, whose skull was fractured by a blow with a bat in the hands of Alexander Brooks, an 18-year-old-negro. KG-, S. C.; THURSDAY, J CAUSE RIOTS ? | From Every Section Come Reports of Clashes Between Races -o?t OVER THE PRIZE FIGHT Negroes in Many Places Become In sulting Wien It Became Known I That Johnson Had Knocked Jef | fries Out in the Great Fist Fight at .Reno, Nev., Monday. There were clashes between whites and blacks in several sections of Philadelphia Monday night follow ing the announcement of Johnson's victory over Jeffries. At Kansas City, Mo., negroes in boasting of fight result, pulled from streets cars and riots threatened in down town streets were on Monday midnight. Extra police were on duty to prevent mobbing. One dead and one mortally wound ed is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up Moundo, 111., in honor of Jack Johnson's vic tory at Reno. A negro constable was killed when he attempted to arrest them. At Little Rock, Ark., two negroes are reported killed by white men, one by a Rock Island conducto" on his way into the city Monday night, and the other by a white man at Second and Scott streets. At Washington several pmull race riots broke out at various points on Pennsylvania avenue Monday nig.ht following announcement of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. There were a number of arrests. ,No one was seriously hurt. Rioting between whites and blacks broke out in seven different points in New York City Monday night follow ing the announcement of the result of the Jeffries-John son fight. One negro was dragged from a street car and badly .beaten before rescued. A .gang of. white men in the "black and tan belt" set fire late Monday night to a negro tenement on the middle West-Side. The police and fire department were ordered out on the jump. The race feeling is very bitter against the negroes. Seventy, negroes, >half the. number women, were arfested Monday night in the "black belt" of Baltimore for disorderly celebration of Johnson's victory. One negro was badly cut by another and two other negroes were assaulted and severely injured by whites in arguments over the big fight. Rioting in a negro quarter of St. Louis at .Market street and Jefferson avenue followed the announcement that Jack Johnson was the victor in the Reno prize fight. The police fin ally clubbed back the negroes, who were .blocking trafic and making threats. Minor disturbances between whites and blacks broke out at Fort Worth following the announcement of John son's victory over Jeffries Monday afternoon. The most serious was an attack by two negresses on a white woman, the latter- being seriously hurt by blows on the head with beer bottles. I Six negroes with broken heads, six white men locked up and one white man, Joe Cbockley, with a bul I let through his skull and probably fatally wounded, is the net result of clashes at Roanoke. Va., Monday night following t.he announcement that Jack Johnson had defeated Jim Jeffries. The trouble started when a negro, who had just heard the news from Reno, said: "Now 1 guess the white folks will let the negroes alone." A white man replied "no" and the two clas-hed. Police had difficulty landing the negro in jail, being compelled to draw their re ? volvers. Later a negro shot Chock I ley and escaped. i In Atlanta trouble between the blacks and whites as an outgrowth of the Jeffries-Johnson fight was j narrowly averted Monday night when I the police arrested half a dozen whites and one negro. The black I yelled "hurrah for Johnson" on a crowded downtown street. He held i a knife in bis hand and in an in stant several white men had struck him The police uscrl their clubs freely after the whiles had chased the negro into an alley. The streets were thronged with men of both races in a nasty humor, but the po lice were vigilant and say they can prevent trouble. The first disorder arose at the Grand opera house where a mixed audience heard the fight bulletins read. Later some negroes started a parade to celebrate the victory of their fellow black. This the police stopped at once. On the order of the police commission the mounted men, the reserves and the detective force were called out and the downtown streets pairoled. At Houston, Texas, disturbances broke out immediately Monday night on the announcement of the John son victory at Reno. Three negroes were badly hurt by white men in side of an hour after the flash of the result and the police were call ed to quell the several minor dis turbances and to break up fist fights. Charles Williams, a negro, was a lit tle too vociferous in announcing the outcome on a street car and a white man slashed his throat from ear to ear. The negro almost bled to deatn before he reached the hospital to ?which he was hurried. ULY 7. 1910. KILLED IN WRECK NINETEEN PERSONS MET- DEATH ON AN OHIO RAILWAY. The Twentieth Century Limited Pa.s .senger While Rounding Curve Crashes- Into Freight. Nineteen persons were killed out right probably fatally hurt, and half a dozen were seriously injured in a head on collision between a frieght and prassenger train on the Cincin nati-Hamilton and Dayton railroad at Middleton, Ohio, Monday. Of the killed, eighteen were passengers, the other victims being a member of the passenger train crew. The trains were che Cincinnati section of the Twentieth Century limited on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, (Big Four) and the second section of a freight train on the Cincinnati, Ham ilton and Dayton railway. The latter was attempting to make a sidinp; to give the passenger train a clear track, when the flyer, trav eling at a rate of fifty miles an hour, flashed around a curve and crashed into it. A misunderstanding of orders caused the disaster, which was one of the worst that that section of the country had ever experienced. Pilot engineer George Wald had received oredrs to wait at Post Town three miles north of Middleton, and a siding station, according to rail road officials. The freight train was to have passed him there, but was late in pulling out of Middle*own. Instead of the seven minutes margin which Wald thought he had to reach Middletown, the time was less than five minutes. The first section of the freight had taken the siding at Middleton and Conductor John Wea ver, in charge of the second section, tried to reach the north end of the same siding. Before his train had cleared the switch points the passenger train rounded a curve screened by the thickly wooded lots on each side of the track. The engine crews had time to jump and all escaped ser ious injury. The crash when the trains met was terrific, the freight train was made up of gondola coal cars, flat cars and box cars loaded with lum ber. Directly behind the passenger lo comotive and the tender was a com bination basgage and smoking car followed by a day coach and a chair car. All the dead and injured were in the first two cars, there being six passengers in the smoker and twen ty-one in the day coach. Every seat in this coach was torn from its fastenings, the roof was thrown to one side and the heavy weight of massive timbers hurled with awful force struck among the men and women in the coach. Even before the crash came rescuers were running to the wreck from the Mid dleton station, some three hundred yards south of the .accident. Calls for assistance were sent to Dayton and Hamilton. Relief trains were made up at each of these places and the injured were placed upon them and sent to hospitals in those cities, there being no such Institution in Middletown. TWO EXGINEMEX KILLED. Locomotive Struck Cow and Pinned Them Under Engine. The Seaboard Air Line passenger train number 55, from Jacksonville to Cedar Key, was wrecked at Mar ietta, Fla.. Monday afternoon and as a result engineer George L. Granger and fireman Will Johnson are dead. The accident was caused by the en gine hitting a cow. The engine turned over, pinning the engineer and fireman underneath. One pas senger was hurled over the seat and injured internally. He is at the hospital, but will recover. The fact that there were no more injured is accounted for by the fact that the train had slowed down when it was seen that it would strike the cow. BRUTAL ASSAULT. Janitor Fired Five Shots into Kody of Patrol Wagon Driver. [ I Stealthily approaching lu.s victim from the rear. J. 15. Allison, aged 45. a former janitor at the city hall, fired five shots in the body of F, M. McGhee, driver of the city patrol wagon Tuesday afternoon at Ashe I ville, every bullet taking effect. After Iiis victim had lallen. Alli son beat out the former's brains with a 10-pound hammer. Allison sur rendered and is now in jail. Indig nation runs high almng the citizen ship, and there is some talk of lyn 'chlng. The killing according to the prisoner's statement, is the oiitcoinc of an old quarrel concerning a wo man. Kills Two Negroes. Two negroes were killed and a third wounded by M. Y. Evans, a white man at Enoka. about 19 miles from Lake Providence. La., Monday. It is reported that Evans" brother was being beaten by a negro bar tender when Evans opened fire, kill ing the negro. A second negro, who interferred, met a like fate, and a negress was struck by a stray bul DISPATCHER BLAMED __^_ FOR THE WRECK OF THE BIG FOUR PASSENGER. Revoked Order to Passenger Train, but Failed to Resend Same One to Freight, Causing the Accident. Interest in Monday's disastrous wreck of the Big Four's New York Flyer at Middletown, Ohio, in which more than a.score of lives were sac rificed, was transferred to Cincin nati Tuesday. A statement from J. W. Hall, pilot engineer of the Big Four passenger train which crashed into a freight train of the Cincin nati, Hamilton and Dayton railway, placed blame for the wreck on train dispatcher Smith, of the latter sys tem, at Dayton. In this he was partly confirmed by E. A. Gould, general superintendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day ton. Mr. Gould was unwilling to go further than to say that, "some such reason was responsible for the ac cident," but railroad men about the headquarters of the two systems as cepted the explanation of Wall as contained the gist of the case. , ?Wall's statement follows: The engineer of the freight train showed me order No. 60 supposed to have been used after our train (the Big Four limited) left Dayton, and to have been handed to us at Car lisle between Dayton and Middle town. This order gave the freight till 1.07 to make the siding at Poast town, north of Middletown. "Smith revoked that order so that it was not delivered to us at Car lisle, but failed to revoke the same order issued to the freight. Our train made up some time after leav ing Dayton and this brought us to the Poasttown siding earlier than 1.07. "We had no warning of anything in the way and supposed we had a clear line.'' Wall also exhibited four train or ders, not one of w.hich gave any in dication that the flying passenger train was to meet any other train at Poasttown or any other siding be tween Dayton and Cincinnati. These orders, he said, were all, he had to guide him the day of the wreck. Local officers of the Big Four are not yet willing to account officially for the wreck. "A misunderstand ing of orders" was mentioned by some, but whose misunderstanding it was, they were not prepared to state. , < With the definite identification of the four unnamed bodies in Middle town, all the nineteen unidentified are acsounted for. Two more died Tuesday, one at Dayton and one at Hamilton. These were John Pain kin, Springfield, Ohio., and Evelyn Lloyd, Round Point, Maine, and their passing made the death list 21. Four'j others are scarcely expected to sur vive their hurts. PRISON FOR LIFE. Dr. Hyde Sentenced for Swope Mud der Tuesday; Dr. B. C. Hyde, convicted of hav ing poisoned Col. TJiomas H. Swope, the millionaire philanthropist, was sentenced to life imprisonment at j hard labor by Judge Ralph Latshaw, in the criminal court at Kansas City Tuesday morning. I The doctor and his wife, who had I stood by him faithfully, sat side by I side and held each other's hands. Judge Latshaw promptly overruled the motion for arrest of judgment and commanded Dr. Hyde to stand up. Before passing sentence he asked the prisoner if he had anything to say. An appeal to the state supreme court was filed by Hyde's attorney's, and until it is taken up by the high j er court the prisoner will remain in the county jail. CRACKER CAUSES PIKE. Exploded Among Straw in Barn With Serious Results. A fire which will amount to ap proximately $:JOO,000 destroyed BO buildings, made 3 0 families home less and wiped out the business and residential section of Ben ton, Col umbia county, Pa., occurred Monday. An exploding firecracker thrown in among the straw in the barn of Geo. Cross!ey was the cause of the fire. The fire broke out at about three o'clock in the afternoon and it was not until late that night that after aid had arrived, that the flames were got under control. Shot All Dogs in Sight. A. C. El more, while celebrating the Fourth of July at Pacolet Mon-I day, decided that he had to shoot all the dogs in siyht. One of the dogs, tlcung from the shots tired at him. I ran into an old gentleman named Tiffenwer and upset him with the result that his leg was broken. El more was arrested and placed in jail. Killed in Storm. One person was killed and several injured by a terrific wind and elec-| trical storm which swept over Hills-1 boro. Texas, late Monday night. Con siderable damage was done to build ings and growing crops. A child of Henry Mitchell was killed when his home near Massey was destroyed by the storm. 1 "WO CENTS PEB COrY In Missouri For Robbing and Murdering William Fox, a Farmer. NEGROES ARE LEAVING Charleston, Where the Mob Took the Prisoners from the Jail and Lynched Them in the Presence of a large. Croud Including Many Women and Children. An exodus in the' negro popula tion of Charleston, Missouri, is re ported to be in progress, following the double lynching on Monday when Robert Coleman and Sam Fields were hanged by an infuriated mob for the murder of William' Fox, a Mississippi countv farmer. iNo shots were fired on either side. In the crowd which packed the court house yard in front of the jail were ti&lin-ttgy, W0V..P0 UCHBWOMT many women and children, and the officers feared on that account to re sort to shooting. On "the outskirts of the crowd were several automo biles, their occupants standing on the seats to better watch the attack on the jail. Seemingly the mob waited only for a leader. About 4 o'clock in the afternps a man seemed to take charge and the crowd rushed for-, ward. A concerted rush was made at the jail and in a moment the front fence of the yard was tram pled down. The sheriff and his men were brushed aside. There was no turn ing back then, even had the leaders been so inclined, for the hundreds In the rear were pushing forward shouting for the lives of the ne groes. A railroad tie was shoved forward, as a battering ram. The mob shouted with increasing rage as |the door went down and the crowd pushed into the building. Another door was in the way. This was smashed in a second and the crowd surged upstairs to the second floor where the two negroes were confined. Those in the yard?-the women and children?could hear the sounds oi a sledge hammer as the lock was knocked off the cell door. In a few- . moments a shout announced that the lock had been broken. Coleman was dragged forth and lynched in the jail yard, while the crowd cheered. A man climbed up a tree and put one end of the rope over a limb. The negro was jerked up and soon swung clear of the crowd. While Coleinan dangled, another body of men rushed from the jail, dragging and pulling the other ne gro, Sam Fields. A rope was plac ed around his neck and the mob, shouting, started west along Court street. The negro said he would show the men where he and Coleman had hidden the revolver they had used in shooting William Fox. whose death ?the crowd avenged. The men in charge after a short parley decided to take the negro to find the revol ver. The rope still about his neck and drawn tightly by his captors, Fields was thrown into a carriage. Followed by the mob on foot, in carriages and automobiles, the vehi cle containing Fields started to the scene of the shooting, half a mile south of town. ATter going part of the'way the negro told, the captors he "guessed" after all he could not find the pis tol'. A stop was then made and Fields was jerked out of the carriage with out any preliminaries, the rope was tossed over the limb of a tree and Fields was strung up. Xext morning his body was still swinging. The body of the other ne gro was cut down by several persons who wanted pieces of the rope as souvenirs. The crime which a moo avenged by lynch law was committed about ten o'clock Saturday night. The mo tive was robbery. Fl,IKS OVER THIS OCEAN*. Curtiss Takes Flight of Eight Minu tes Above Atlantic. 'Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight minute fight over the ocean at Atlan tic City. X.J., at 15.36 Tuesday night. The trip Included a (light along the entire rront. of the city about a mile off shore, and 1,500 feet above the ocean. jThe successful flight was the second one attempted, the first resulting in a mishap thai nearly sent Curtiss into the ocean. While he was attempting to make a turn from the beach to go to sea an air current caught the plane and drop ped it within ten feet of breakers. Curtiss made a quick turn and drove his machine on the beach with such force that a wood standard along his scat was snapped. Bluejackets Mix In. Race riots broke out all over Nor folk Monday night and many negroes were injured. The trouble was caused mostly by enlisted men from the various battleships who attacked negroes wherever they met them. A detatchraent of marines from the navy yard are aiding the police to quell the riot.