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DOUBLE ILLINOIS LYNCHING
NEGRO AND WHITE MAN TAKEN
FROM JAIL AND HANGED.
Negro Assaulted and Killed a White
Girl.?White Man Killed
His Wife.
Cairo, III., Nov. 11.?Will James,
the negro suspected of being the
murderer of Miss Annie Pelley, was
killed here tonight by a mob. As
James was strung up to the public
arch, the rope broke and and at least
500 shots were poured into his body.
He made a partial confession and
implicated another negro, Arthur
Alexander, whom the mob is now
searching for.
James was lynched in the most
prominent square of the city and
hanged to the arch at Eighth and
Commercial streets.
Women present were the first to
pull the rope. When it Droae, tne
frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable
and they fired volley after volley into
James' body, shooting him to pieces.
The mob then dragged the body over
the streets for more than a mile, to
Twenty-sixth and Elm streets, in an
alley, and burned it where the murder
was committed.
At least 10,000 people witnessed
the lynching.
James was found with Sheriff Davis
between Karnak, 111., and Belknay,
by the Cairo crowd which went
up this afternoon. The crowd overpowered
the officers and took the negro
away from them, and after a conference
it was decided to bring their
prisoner back to this city and lynch
him.
Twenty-four Hour r iignt.
Sheriff Davis had been fleeing from
the mob for 24 hours with the prisoner.
Driven from town to town by
menacing crowds the sheriff had
taken to the woods with James, but
the persistent search of the summary
avengers proved effective at
last.
Fully 10,000 persons went out to
find the negro, and when the pursuers
arrived in Cairo with their
quarry they were met by a howling
mob of 5,000 others bent on slaying
the negro.
They marched the negro direct to
the public arch, sweeping the street
like a flock of sheep might tread a
narrow lane.
Many women were in the crowd,
[anxious to help do the work.
Sheriff Davis, having been foiled
in his attempt to hide the negro,
pleaded for the life of the prisoner
but without avail. When Cairo was
reached, Sheriff Davis was taken in
charge by a part of the mob, while
the rest rushed the negro rapidly to
his funeral pyre.
The mob that chased the sheriff
and the negro was so large that it
scoured the entire country from Karnak
to Vienna, 111., a distance of
about 16 miles.
Made Little Resistance.
When found by the mob the negro
was handcuffed between two officers
and all three were lying on the bank
l'r- of a creek. All three were sick from
* hanger, exposure and cold and wearied
by the futile attempt to avoid
the mob, so that they were unable to
^ make much resistance. Sheriff Davis
tonight said that he deplored the
lynching. He had made every possible
resistance, in his power, but the
fj. crowd was so large that he could do
, absolutely nothing. He said that
V after taking James from Cairo he
had to leave the train at Dongola last
night to elude a mob waiting for him
at a town ahead. He made an effort
to get a rig at Dongola, but found it
impossible, as the news had been
spread over the country and every
one knowing the crime the negro had
committed, refused to give assistance
in eluding the pursuers. They even
^refused food in many cases.
|w; . At every point where he tried to
|| /board a train he was blocked by a
menacing crowd. After a long, ex^
hausting walk, the sheriff and his
deputies lay down with the prisoner
to rest.
Crowd Finds Fugitive.
At dusk scouts of the sarchers
found the three and news was sent
along the line to the scattered mob to
board a Big Four train at Belknap.
This order was obeyed and a numeric
ous crowd was on the train when it
p reached here about 8 o'clock. ,
The negro was marched right ;
|C through the principal streets to the
most public place under the city arch
tat Eighth and Commercial streets.
While in custody of the mob coming
here the negro would not talk
about the crime, but when he stood
under the arch he weakened and
I confessed that he slew Miss Pelley.
He said that Arthur Alexander was
| implicated in the crime. .
The attempt at hanging followed
! quickly. The growling of the mob,
[ the grinding of the rope and the
> struggles of the negro were stopped
a moment only by the snapping of
the rope. The 10,000 persons who
| / had looked on and danced in glee,
shot forth armed men almost magically
and they filled the negro with
bullets.
Then, not satisfied with vengeance,
the mob dragged the body to the
place where Miss Pelley's body,
bound, gagged and bruised had been
found. A roaring fire was built and
the body was incinerated.
James, who came from the South,
said Miss Pelley had been assaulted
and murdered after a terrific fight
Sheriff Davis tonight sent to Springfield
for State troops.
Cairo, 111., Nov. 11.?Henry Salzner,
white, a photographer, who
killed his wife last July with an axe,
was taken from jail at 11.40 o'clock
tonight by a mob and hanged to a
telegraph pole and his body riddled
with bullets. This lynching followed
closely on the lynching of Will
James, a negro, who earlier in the
evening had been hanged for the
murder of Miss Annie Pelley.
The governor, who is in Chicago,
ordered 11 companies of the State
guard to Cairo at once.
The mob gave Salzner a chance to
confess after the rope was around his
neck, but he was so frightened that
he could only mumble that his sister
had killed his wife.
The mob became furious at this
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ana 11 was uaru wura tu a'strp tucm
off Salzner long enough to give him a
chance to pray. The mob finally subsided
and a short religious service
was held, after which he was strung
up, the rope being placed over a telegraph
pole at Twenty-first and Washington
streets.
The mob found some difficulty in
breaking the cage, as it was an all
steel structure, but after a half-hour
of telling blows upon the door, it
gave way and Salzner was secured.
The mob rushed him out of the back
door of the jail, which is in the basement
of the court house, around the
building, through the yard and out
into Washington avenue and up to
Twenty-first street, which is a prominent
corner and has a public square.
He cried and begged piteously for
his life but was met by cries and
blows from the mob.
WThen Salzner was asked for his
last statement, a stranger in the
crowd stepped forward and said he
believed Salzner was innocent, whereupon
the mob fell upon him, kicked
him and finally knocked him down
and it was only the pleas of cooler
heads that saved his life. He was
compelled to beg mercy of the mob,
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ana announcea in a iuuu vuiue mai
Salzzner should be lynched, after
which he was driven from the mob
and all attention was given to Salzner.
After Salzner was hanged and
while the body was being riddled
with bullets the rope broke and the
body fell to the ground, where it now
lies, the mob going away and leaving
it.
Salzner was born and reared here.
He had been married about two
years last July when his wife was
found at her home with her skull
fractured. A bloody axe was found
under the bed. Two babies were
playing in the mother's blood. Salzner
was found at the home of his
mother, where he often slept at night.
Before Mrs. Salzner died, she recov-i
ered enough to accuse her husband of 1
attacking her.
Feeling against him had been bit-1
ter, and tonight after the lynching of
James, when some one suggested
Salzner, the mob rushed for the
county jail, got Salzner and lynched
him.
Search for the negro, Alexander,
supposed accomplice of James in
the Pelley murder, continues.
GRUESOME SETTLEMENT.
Condemned Man Gives Property to
His Wife and Man She is
to Marry.
A dramatic episode occurred to-day
in the last hours on eafth of Stanley
Nazarko, who is to be hanged here tomorrow
morning. At 5 o'clock this
afternoon Nazarko, in the presence of
Rev. Joseph Sergaliski, presented to
his wife and Michael Masroski, whom
she is to marry a few days after his
death, a dowry of some $1,200, the
small fortune which he leaves. Nazarko
deserted his wife several years
ago and is to hang for the murder of
another woman with whom he lived.
For some time Mrs. Nazarko has been
ready to marry Masroski and has
waited only for Nazarko's execution.
The condemned man wished them
happiness.
Nazarko asked permission for his
wife and Masroski to witness his
hanging tomorrow, but Sheriff Rhodda
refused to grant this, so this evening
he bid them farewell and told
Masroski to be a good husband to
Mrs. Nazarko.?Wilkes-Barre special
to Baltimore Auk rican.
LION CLAWED LITTLE GIRL.
Exciting Incident on the Carnival
Grounds at Florence.
Florence, Nov. 10.?An incident
that created more excitement than
damage occurred on utrmvai
grounds last night about 10 o'clock.
While the animal trainer was
bringing one of their baby lions to
the front of the stage for the purpose
of exhibiting it free, the beast
attacked a little girl and fastened its
claws into the child's clothing. Fortunately
the trainer managed to
break the lion's hold before it had
time to hurt the child. The child's
dress was torn a little by the flesh
wound.
The incident gave the large crowd
of onlookers a terrible fright, especially
the mothers, but the management
apologized very promptly and
they will be more careful with their
baby lion hereafter.
Don't Want Negro Church.
Rome, Ga., Nov. 11.?A petition
for injunction has been filed by white
residents of upper Broad street to restrain
the completion of a building
for a negro church on the corner of
Broad street and Seventh avenue. It
is set forth in the petition for injunction,
which is signed by some
forty white property owners of upper
Broad street, alleging that the noise
and carryings on of the negroes while
engaged in their services is a nuisance
that ought to be suppressed.
The injunction will be heard by
Judge Wright .soon, and the fate of
the new building of the negro Methodist
church decided.
BOY KILLED IN GIN HOUSE.
Son of Prosperous Anderson Farmer
Meets Horrible Death.
Anderson, November 13.?Calvin
Bowden, the 15-year-old son of Mr.
Joe Bowden, a prosperous farmer of
this county, met a horrible death today
while working in his father's gin
house. His clothing was caught in
the shafting, his left arm was torn
from the body, the right arm and
both legs were broken, and his body
otherwise horribly mangled. His
clothing, with the exception of his
shoes and socks, were torn from his
body in threads. He was found a
few seconds after the accident and
died in a short time. His father was
in Anderson when the accident occurred,
and when he returned home
and was apprised of it he was prostrated
with grief.
TRIED TO ROB TRAIN.
Two Lads Arrested for Attempting
to Loot Express Car.
Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 10.?An attempt
to rob New York Central train
No. 24, the American Express between
Lyons and this city tonight
was frustrated and two men were
arrested at the point of guns. A
third is believed to have fallen under
the train and been killed.
The two men arrested are now
locked up in this city, charged with
attempted express robbery. They
said they were George Williams, aged
18, and Frank Brown, aged 16, and
that they resided in Buffalo.
Trie American mxpress generally :s
laden with silks and other valuable
goods consigned by shippers in New
Orleans and other cities to New England
merchants. Tonight there were
10 cars.
A car on the train was looted of
several hundred dollars worth of
silks four weeks ago and two weeks
ago New York Central detectives,
William Hennessy and Frank Bouquard,
were ordered to ride the train
between Buffalo and this city. Both
were well armed.
When the train stopped at Lyons
at 9 o'clock this evening the detectives
and Express Messenger Beard
noticed three men with a large electric
hash lamp walking along the
tracks examining the cars. When
they reached the car in which were
the officials they mounted the steps
and waited for the train to pull out.
The locomotive was soon speeding a
mile a minute and then the men with <
a skeleton key turned the lock. A
large chain still held the door and
this was soon pulled from the woodwork
by a claw hammer.
Two men entered the car and were
quickly covered by the officers' guns
and ordered to throw up their hands.
No trace of the third man could be
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LUUUU.
Antipathies.
There are things that do not please
me,
Do not gladden me a bit;
From their thrall should fate release
me
She would make a three base hit
Monthly statements, curt and snappy,
Bills for steaks, exceeding high,
Make me frighfully unhappy, 1
For my cash is always shy.
There's the man who comes a prowl- ;
ing,
In his sullen way and slow,
I Always looking back and scowling, j
Saying, "Humph, I told you so!"
Him I'd pass so blithely, gaily,
Without sorrow or regret;
He's annoyed me nightly, daily?
Him I gladly would forget.
.
Girls who sing or vainly try to,
Men who always talk baseball,
These I'd rather not get nigh to?
I would gladly miss them all. 1
Foolish talk concerning Peary 1
Greatly worries me, but then <
Cook is not a subject cheery?
Let him find the pole again.
Still I have a faint suspicion
To shed sunshine on the .throng
Is not now my daily mission;
Crowds do not burst forth in song
When they see me mumping, mumb- ling,
1
Dodging bores and looking glum, '<
The confession's rather humbling, 1
But, my liver's out of plumb.
?Chicago News.
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j USED GUN ON WATERSPOUTS.
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Captain's Accurate Shooting Saved ,
Ship from Disaster. 1
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Boston, Mass., November 14.?A <
shotgun in the hands of Captain
Cooper, of the steamer Hannah M. ]
Bull, which arrived to-day from Pro- ]
greso, Mexico, proved successful in ]
breaking waterspouts, which threat- j
ened his vessel.
When fifty miles off Cape Hatteras l
last Wednesday the steamer en- i
countered the westerly hurricane in ]
a mild form. Six great waterspouts i
reared themselves out of the sea, ;
dangerously near the steamer, but l
were disintegrated by the captain's ;
well aimed shots. ]
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Forced Into Exile. 1
Wm. Upchurch, of Glen Oak, Okla.,
was an exile from home. Mountain
air, he thought, would cure a fright- i
ful lung racking cough that had de- j
fled all remedies for two years. Af- i
ter six months he returned, death j
dogging his steps. "Then I began to 1
use Dr. King's New Discovery," he j
writes, "and after taking six bottles .
I am as well as ever." It saves j
thousands yearly from desperate lung
diseases. Infallible for coughs and 1
colds, it dispels hoarseness and sore i
throat; cures grip, bronchitis hemor- <
rhages, asthma, croup, whooping ;
cough. 50c and $1, trial bottle free, j
guaranteed by Peoples Drug Co.,
Bamberg, S. C.
More Money Returned.
The dispensary commission has re- '
covered $9,500 more in conscience
money from two whiskey concerns
doing business with the State, one
nine thousand and the other five {
hundred. The money is in bank, but {
the names of the firms are not given 1
pending some final adjustments.
This makes $47,000 altogether re
covered in this way and Attorney 1
Felder said to-day there would be ;
between $100,000 and $150,000 !
more coming. This is in addition to 1
the amounts disallowed on the $630,- ]
worth of claims, which will be slash- i
ed radically.?Columbia Record.
Policeman Kills Neeress.
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Monroe, La., November 14.?S. D. i
Newman, a member of"the Monroe 1
police force, was arrested and placed '
in jail late last night, charged with i
the killing of Kitty A. Watson, a ne- (
gro woman.
According to the police, Newman, i
who was off duty last night, went to ,
the woman's house, and finding a man
there, who made his escape, fired
four shots into the woman's body,
each shot taking effect.
This makes the fourth negro who
has died as a result of pistol wounds
inflicted by Newman since he has
been a police officer.
MISSOURI'S BEST COW.
Princess Carlotta Alone Could Supply
a Hotel with Milk.
Princess Carlotta, a Holstein cow
in the dairy herd of the Missouri College
o? Agriculture, gives more milk
than any other cow in Missouri, in
the last year she gave 18,405 pounds
of milk, or 1,300 gallons. From this
727 pounds of butter was made.
"This cow shows the advantage of
using good stock in a dairy," C. H.
Eckles, professor of dairy husbandry
at the University of Missouri, said.
"At the present price of milk in
Columbia, 7 % cents a quart, she
would have brought her owner $690
for this year. A cow like that is
worth about $1,500. Her feed cost
$80, leaving a profit of $610. This
is more than 40 per cent, income,
looking at it as an investment.
Princess Carlotta produced as much
milk as five ordinary farm cows. The
five cows probably would cost $200 tc
foorl TVio camo advantncp is cained
as by using an efficient machine instead
of an ordinary one. The upkeep
is greater, but the results are
worth it.
"A person's average daily consumption
of milk is one-third of a
quart. On this basis Princess Carlotta
could have supplied the milk
for a hotel with seventy-five guests.
?Kansas City Star.
Sure to Win.
Justice is, of course, loudly demanded
by every litigant in a court
of law, but it is a frequent infirmity of
the human own cause, says Law
Notes. The late Thomas B. Reed
used to tell an amusing story to illustrate
this tendency.
He was once retained by an enterprising
client to prosecute an action.
On talking with the plaintiff's witnesses
Mr. Reed found that their
stories were far from consistent, so
he reported the fact to his client and
advised that the suit be dropped. The
client was somewhat perturbed, but
told the attorney he would have a
talk with the witnesses and let him
know the next morning what he had
decided.
True to his word, he dropped in
bright and early, wearing the cheer
ful look of one who has fought the
good fight.
"I've seen those witnesses," he explained,
"and they say they must
have been mistaken when they talked
with you. They all see it alike now.
I've also seen some of the jurymen
and they think I'll win. Now, if
there's such a thing as justice in law,
we can't lose."
Lynching Threatened.
Cairo, 111., Nov. 10.?Because of
reports that an organized effort
would be made tonight to lynch Will
James, a negro suspected of murdering
Miss Annie Pelley, a shop girl,
:he prisoner tonight was placed in the
3teel cage in the county jail, surrounded
by a strong guard of policemen
and deputy sheriffs. Many persons
arrived to-day from nearby
Illinois and Kentucky towns and the
police feared that many of these
wanted to lynch the negro. Later
James was secretly taken out of
Cairo in a train tonight. It is probable
he will be put in the Murphressboro
jail.
Before daylight to-day Chief of
Police Egan twice dispersed crowds
of men and boys who had started towards
the city jail. In one case he
tore a mask from the face of a man
who seemed to be leader of the
gathering and then prevailed upon
the others to disperse, pleading that
the evidence against James was only
circumstantial.
Most citizens, after an outburst of
Indignation, tonight were ready to
let the law take its course. For this
reason it was thought that the situation
would be controlled.
James, who is known as "Froggy"
because of his facial resemblance to
that animal, was "sweated" by the
police to-day. While all the circumstances
point to him as the slayer of
Miss Pelley, including the action of
bloodhounds, which went from the
alley where Miss Pelley's body was
found to several places where James
bad been on the night of the murder,
the prisoner refused to confess.
Cairo, 111., Nov. 10.?A long distance
telephone message from Don?ola,
111., said that after James was
taken off the train there by the sherifl
he was rushed into the woods by
the sheriff, his deputy and one other
man. Dongola is 10 miles from
A.nna, where a mob was waiting the
arrival of the train.
As time passed and the people
learned that the negro had been
spirited away they became more exsited.
The crowd around the jail
relied in derision and open threats
igainst James were made.
MOB MENACES MOTORMAN.
Greenville Street Car Strikes Little
Girl and Spectators Utter Threats.
Greenville, Nov. 14.?A smallmob
3f nearly a hundred people held a
street car this afternoon just outside
the city limits, and some threats were
made against the motorman, who
bad run over a girl about 16 years
old. The girl was not seriously injured,
but mob spirit seemed rising,
and county officers were sent for to
quiet the crowd. There were no arrests
made. The little girl was walking
along by the track and, just before
the car reached her, started
across to the opposite side. Though
brakes were immediately applied, the
car struck the girl when she was in
the middle of the track and knocked
her down. The car then passed partly
over the girl and when it stopped
she was taken out from under the
motive machinery and carried home,
where a physician examined her and
stated that she was not seriously injured,
unless there were some internal
injuries.
A large crowd gathered and would
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there were threats made against the
motorman. The officers, however,
quickly quieted the gathering. The
accident seems not to have been the
fault of the motorman.
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