The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 25, 1909, Image 3
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i RACE RIOT OUT VEST
MOB IN OTTUMWA, IA.t SEEKS
SUMMARY VENGEANCE.
Crowd, Deficient in Initiative, Contents
Itself With Noise After Starting
to Lynch Alleged Assailant.
Ottumwa, la., Feb. 21.?Lack of a
leader was all that saved Ottumwa
to-night from adding another bloody
chapter to the history of race riots in
the United States. A mob of men and
boys, which increased from 100 to
1,000, gathered around the city jail,
thirsty for vengeance on the negro
who committed a criminal assault on
a white woman early to-day. While
three negroes have been placed in the
city jail and one in the county jail,
and several threatening demonstraA
- ? ? ^ tw o n Ttro a
UUU9 XUIVe UCCU luauc, UV lllau naa
daring enough to lead the mob in the
work they wanted to do and it seemed
likely that peace might be preserved.
John Junkin, a negro, suspected of
the murder of Clara Rosen, who was
slain two weeks ago, was taken out
of town secretly by the police, following
the early manifestation of mob
spirit. A recently organized vigilance
committee is aiding the police, who
declare they have the situation in
control.
Company G, Fifty-fourth regiment
of the National Guard, is held in the
barracks ready for any call to action.
Mrs. Charles M. Johnston, invalid
wife of an Ottumwa traveling salesman,
was in bed with her 5-year-old
child at 3 o'clock this morning, when
she awoke to find a negro bending
over her. Before she could scream
for help the black brute seized her
by the throat and began to choke her.
Despite her weakness as the result
of a recent operation, Mrs. Johnston
fought desperately. She tore herself
loose from the assailant's hands and
cried for help. At the same time the
child screamed. The negro became
alarmeg, and seizing a curtain pole,
beat the woman until she became unconscious.
How long the negro remained
in the room is not known.
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1UO (/HVB Ul LUC L'UUU liuaiij atuuovu
V. neighbors, who found Mrs. Johnson
lying on the floor unconscious. By
her side was the bloody curtain pole.
Search for Criminal.
News of the assault spread rapidly
and before daylight armed men were
searching for the negro. The homes
of negroes were placed under watch.
The city jail became the point of atr
traction for the excited men who
formed the nucleus of the mob.
The trail of the assailant was fol- *
lowed by bloodhounds to a deep
ravine three miles from Ottumwa,
where it was lost. Other armed men
searched other parts of the country
all day and far into the night.
While this work was going on the
crowd around the city jail continued
to grow. Threats being made against
the negro Junkin, the police toward
night took him to Chillicothe, ten
miles west, where he was put on
board a Burlington train and taken to
Albia.
Trouble started again when search- .
otki Hocmn hrincr in snSDectS caught
in the surrounding country.
The mob contented itself with yelling
its hate as the first, second and
third suspects were taken into the
city jail.
The police had been provided with
a good description of the guilty negro
by Mrs. Johnston.
When the fourth man was hustled
into the county jail the mob again became
restive. *
"Come on, boys, let's get some one;
the police are fooling us," cried a
man in the crowd. It was the moment
for a leader, but the leader was
not there. The onslaught never got
beyond words.
Violent One Soon Calmed.
There were many ,of sober minds in
the crowds and these argued with the
more violent to give the police a
chance. As darkness came the less
vengeful went home and apparently
the danger of lynching was over for
the time.
Although the slaying of Clara
Rosen, whose dead body was found in
an abandoned excavation of a house,
was what first roused the mob spirit
to-day, there have been a number of
assaults on white women by negroes
within the last two years that contributed
to arouse Ottumwa people.
The first was an assault on Mrs.
* George McBride. Sherman Phillips,
colored, was acquitted of this crime.
Mary Mahoney, the next victim, died
in a hospital. Oscar Hogan, colored,
is serving a life term for this crime.
Agnes Yates, a telephone operator,
was going home from work and was
attacked. Williams Stevens, a negro,
was acquitted of this assault. Mrs.
John Irwin, was assaulted by Leroy
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Edwards, a negro, who was senienceu
for life.
John Junkin, colored, is the only
* suspect now held for the murder of
Clara Rosen. There is little evidence
to connect him with the murder, and
many believe the Rosen murder and
the Johnston assault were perpetrated
by the same man.
At 9 o'clock to-night two more negroes
were brought to the city jail.
Physicians attending Mrs. Johnston
say she will probably recover. They
say the fiendish attack with the curtain
pole did not injure her internally,
although there is danger of blood
poison from lacerated wounds.
Commercial travelers to-night subscribed
a purse of $1,200 as a reward
for the arrest and conviction of her
assailant.
In addition to the reward offered
by traveling men, $300 was subscribed
as a nucleus of a fund to employ
detectives to work on the case. News
of this action and the spreading of
the announcement of a mass meeting
to-morrow night, when it is expected
to raise a large sum to employ a sufficient
force of detectives to work on
all recent Ottumwa crimes, resulted
in quieting the mob. It is believed
the danger of trouble to-night is passed,
as only a few persons remain on
the streets.
The Bar Sinister. ,
"Was your father college bred?''
"Yes, but we never mention it.
The college he went to had a rotten
football team."?Chicago RecordHerald.
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i AMERICAN
TEL. & TEL. CO.
Bell Statistics Outnumber Independents*
Nearly Two to One.
Boston?To the national government,
working through the department
of commerce and labor, belongs
the credit for having finally
determined the official facts in the
long disputed question as to the relative
size of the Bell and independent
telephone interests of the United
States.
The government figures for 1907
show 3,132,063 Bell stations and 2,986,5-15
independent stations or telephones.
The independents have all
along claimed over 4,000,000 stations,
or fully 33 per cent, more than
they actually have.
The government figures do not
make any attempt to classify the independents
as between "independ-.
ent" and "opposition" companies. As
a matter of fact, of tie so-called "independents"
fully 900,000, or 30
per cent, of the entire number form
through sub-license or service arrangements
part of the comprehensive
Bell system, but in all other respects
are independent, self-controlling
organizations. At present over
1,100,000 independents or about 40
per cent, of the total are thus affiliated
with Bell lines.
With this very important adjustment
which the government statistics
obviously could not make, it will
be found that instead of the Bell
companies having but 145,000 more
stations than the independents, the
real figures are something like 4,000,000
for the Bell, against 2,150,000
for the independents, a ratio of .
nearly 2 to 1. The preponderance of
Bell over independent stations may
be better illustrated by the following
comparison: i
1907 1902
Bell system.. ..4,000,000 1,350,000
Independents ..2,150,000 1,000,000
Bell excess 1,850,000 350,000 c
P. C. I
Increase. inc. d
Bell system 2,650,000 196 f
Independents 1,150,000 . 115 v
Bell excess 1,500,000 I
In considering these figures, it d
should be borne in mind that the y
station statistics of the Bell and ?
connecting systems are all a matter h
of record at a central point, due to I
the fact that the instruments used b
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Dy tne joen system tue luimcucu uj u
the American Telephone Co. Statis- e
tics kept by the Bell companies are r
as precise as figures of railroad r
earnings. Instruments used by the t!
Bell companies are all given out E
from one source and are identical
in type of construction. Therefore,
the statistics of Bell telephone stations
are as reliable as balance n
sheets or any other financial records, p
The relative public utility of the a
Bell and independent telephone in- o
terests is not measured by number b
of stations so much as by the fact o
that the Bell lines are one compre- c
hensive and inter-communicating o
system operated under one general
policy and connected with toll and v
long-distance lines aggregating near- b
ly 2,000,000 miles in length. The in- n
dependents on the other hand are c
scattered companies and for the s
most part small associations or co- ?
operative groups, having with a few e
conspicuous exceptions no relation i]
with each other and only limited s
connection by local toll lines. The in- d
atiMimAnts and aDDaratus come from
30 or 40 different manufacturers, b
There is no uniform accounting sys- v
tern a"hd there is no temptation to p
make the figures any smaller than c
they actually are. Furthermore, h
some independents report telephones j,
(a single instrument) while others e
conform to the Bell custom and re- c
port stations (two instruments), v
To this extent the independent fig- \
ures are unduly swelled, but there is t
no way of knowing how material h
this factor is.
The significant feature of the a
rapid telephone development of the \?
United States during the last five g
years has been this quiet, steady af- h
filiation with the American telephone c
system of 900,000 independent sta- s
tions. As a result, thousands of sub- p
scribers in the West have to-day d
what they have never before enjoyed g
?the advantage of connection with t
the only national telephone service t
in the country. t
Law Against Cigarettes. t
Following is the law prohibiting 1
the sale of cigarettes to minors. Why !
is this law not enforced in South
Carolina and Bamberg? J
Sec. 329. .It shall not be lawful J
for any person or persons, either by
himself or themselves, to sell, fur- s
nish, give or "provide any minor or J
minors, under the age of eighteen ;
years with cigarettes, tobacco, or .
cigarette paper, or any substitute
therefor. ' -
Any person or persons violating
the provisions of the preceding section,
either in person, by agent, or
in any other way, shall be held and
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon indictment and conviction
therefor shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars,
nor less than twenty-five dollars, or
by imprisonment for a term of not
more than one year, nor less than
two months, or both, in the discretion
of the court; one-half of the
fine imposed to be paid to the informer
of the offense, and the other
half to tye paid to the treasurer of
the county in which such conviction
shall be had.
Washington Once Gave Up
to three doctors; was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from a
spider's bite caused large, deep sores
to cover his leg. The doctors failed,
then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely
cured me," writes John
Washington, of Bosqueville, Tex. For
eczema, boils, burns and piles its supreme.
25c. at Peoples Drug Co.,
Bamberg, S. C.
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Deadly.
"Lady," said the tall tramp solemnly,
"have you any more of that
T. R. pie you gave me yesterday?"
"T. R. pie?" asked the housewife
in surprise. "What does that stand i
for?Teddy Roosevelt?"
"No'm, third rail. I want to give i
it to a brakeman down at de water
tank. It's bound to knock him out." 1
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THE OLDEST HORSE,
tarnwpll Conntr Eauine Dies at Aee
of 29 Years.
Bunyan, the noted gray horse
iwned by Mr. C. B. Anderson, of
)unbarton, died on Sunday and was
lecently buried. He had been feeble
or a long time, but worked to the
ragon a few days before his death,
le was faithful to the end. Mr. Anlerson
had owned him twenty nine
ears and two months. He thinks
tunyan was over 8 years old when
ie traded for him. He got him from
leggie Brothers, of Augusta. In all
is life Bunyan never had a chisel on
is feet, nor was a dose of medicine
ver given him. Mr. Anderson has
aised four sons, and they all had
idden, ploughed and driven him in :
heir boyhood and manhood days.?
larnwell People.
Love Incomparable.
There is no love so great as the
aother-love; no devotion that will
rillingly make such heroic sacrifices.
l recent terrible fire, in which scores
f school children lost their lives,
rought forth an excellent example
f the calm sacrifice of a mother to
heer her daughter at the moment
f death.
Calling the name of her little girl
rho she knew was in the burning
uilding, the mother rushed to the
earest window and, with the flames
ircling about her, tried to climb in.
ihe was restrained by force, and
hen, as a sudden gust of wind cleard
away the smoke, she saw outlined
a the window at which she had
ought entrance the figure of her '
aughter.
The window was near the ground,
ut two hundred frenzied children
rho pushed from behind made it ira ossible
for the little girl to climb
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UL. dUt? W iXO piuiuucu ij j vuv ?v0w
a the crush of bodies that were
ammed against the wall. The mothr
called to her to climb out. The
hild's lips moved, but her words
re re lost in the roar of the flames.
Vhen she saw she could not make
terself heard, she smiled and shook
ier head.
The mother pressed her body
gainst the wall and by reaching up
ras able to lay her hand on the
irl's head. She seized her by the
tair and pulled, but to no avail. The
hild's garments were on fire. When
he saw that it was useless to try to
lull her daughter through the winow,
and realize that hope was
;one, the mother laid her hand on
he child's face and stroked it while
he fire ate upward through the litle
tot's garments.
The scorching flames enveloped :
he child from head to foot, but the
aother continued to console her
yhile the fire burned on. When the
loor fell in, and took the dead girl
dth it, the mother withdrew her
land. It was burnt to a crisp to the
ilbow. Calmly she walked across the
treet to the house of a physician,
?here she refused to be attended un*"
J nKa/iaiLoH
il t&ree cniiareu, wuu uau. pi^uvu
ier, were cared for.?The March I)eineator.
ioldier Came to Confederate Home*
Columbia, Feb. 18.?Francis
Douglas Walker, a member of Com>any
A, Hampton's Legion, has arived
in the city from New York, beng
sent here by the New York
Daughters of the Confederacy to ener
the Confederate Home, which is
ion est and may continue so.
'The attention of the New York
Daughters of Confederacy was called
o the need of this veteran by a
itory in the New York papers that a
Confederate soldier had appeared
>efore a magistrate and asked to be
:ommitted to the alms house as he
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I0U1Q IlOt WUift. auu iiau UV UAVM?f^ ? |
tt one time Mr. Walker was an inluential
and well to do business
nan of Brooklyn, but has had rererses
and had to apply to the magstrate
as aforesaid.
The New York ladies are now at;empting
to arrange a place for him
md will probably succeed in placing
lim in another home. A benefit at
;he Waldorf Astoria, New York,
aised a small sum of money that
will care for him until some arrangements
can be made. He is a
Dharlestonian and was educated at
;he Kings Mountain Military Academy,
Yorkvil'ie under Col. Asbury
toward and Col. Micah Jenkins.
How Long Blind?
Judge?What is your age,
nadam?
Aged Witness?I've seen 32 summers.
Judge?How long have you been
Mind??Exchange.
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