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mirles nesbo to riiu MOB IN DALLAS, TKXAS, WHKAKS FRIGHTFUL VENGEANCE. Crowd, Led bf A|ed Negro, Knatcbei Victim fmm Jnstiro Than Waalrs More Blood. Dallas, Texas, March 3.?From the very grasp of the law, Allen Brooks, an, aged negro, charged with criminally assaulting a 3-year-old white fihUd. was torn by 15 determined .members of an angry mob of 5,000 to-day and killed. Brooks was seised In the court room where he was to receive the law's justice, and tossed through a window to the main tody of the mob, which waited like a pack of ravenous wolves for their prey in the street below. His broken > tody was dragged through the streets aad he was hanged to the Elks* arch high above the heads of the citizens. V "The Mb was led by a old negro. With it all hardly a loud word was Mht, not a Shot was fired. After Brooks was hanged, for nearly three nou?s Dallas was la the haads of the mota. The Jail was stormed mad death was threatened to three other aegroea held on charges of murder. They had hens spirited away however, aad after ?arching for them la rain the . Brutal Crime. The crime for which Brooks to-day W? killed was one of the most broil tel Is the history of Dallas county. . Immediately after his arrest last week the negro was taken out of the ^ v cftty for sate keeping. He was returned early this morning and taken > Uo (he court house at daylight to await the calling of his case in the 'court A great crowd gathered early aad when attorneys for the defendant who had been appelated by the court began arguments in behalf of postponement of the trial until tomorrow, rumors started through the crowd that a change of venue had haen granted. Great Demonstration T!s statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations ever seen tn Dallas county and the court horse ^ ' ' was charged by the mob. Scores of oftccrt, hastily suntmonad, were ^overpowered, the locked doors of the -court room were' wrecked and the negro. Crouching In a corner in prayW^ was seised by the leaders of the ^ This was in the second story of W- v <-.,dhis building. Outside the angry . ^crowd was waiting. A rope was ready with a hangman's knot tied in it and when it was announced from the window that the negro had been tflitso, the rope was thrown into the 'room. The noose was placed about the prisoner's neck and he was pulled and thrown to the ground, fighting like f tiger for his life. He struck Mtt the pavement on his forehead and It* befteved fractured his skull . in the foil of about SO feet r=L ~ ~ iLui? Instantly doeens of men jumped on Mm with their feet and hie face was fetched Into a palp aad he was bruised an oder, probably dying within a few irtintee A score of men seised the ,fdjpe aad at the head of the mob, .dngved the negro's body IS blocks np Main street to the Elks' arch, where it was suspended to a supporttog tatapkoM pole. |^|/ p The police eat the body down In v afoot fire minutes. It was taken to ^the city hall and later turned over to an undertaker. Affsr the lynching there were cries . to the effect thfet other negro prisoners In the county jail, especially two who hare murder charges pending aialnm them. Bnrrell Oais and .''Blubber" Robbinson. should be hanged by the mob. The Jail Searched. ' A march was made to the county jail. The sheriff announced that the men wanted were not there and allowed committees selected by the mob to search the prison. The pegroes could not be found, but still tiie mob could not be satisfied. The leaders battered at the jail door with 9 steel rail until an officer fired a P blank shot into the ground in front of them. A committee announced the negroes were not not in the jail and finally the mob moved away. Deputy sheriffs had taken the two negroes out of the city in an to mobiles. A report by wire says they passed through Port Worth en route to Weatherford. Texas. The mob announced plans to board a train and pursue the automobiles and while they were at the station making such arrangements, reports were started that one of the negroes wanted was in the city hall locked op. Then the thousands of men went to that place but did not find the negro. By that time it was late In the afternoon and the mob dispersed. Extra precautions have been taken to prevent further rioting to-night. We understand that some more cement-sidewalks are to be pat down on Main street pretty soon. . ' t * * y . I CATTLEMAN SLAYS THREE. Alabama Man, Surrendering, Tell# 8 Story of Old Feud. Citronelle, Ala., March 3.?Joseph Stokes, Charles Goldman and David S Gortman. farmers, were late this af- e ternoon shot and killed by Laurence c Odom. a cattleman, at the latter's i; home, four miles from this place. Af- C 1 ter the shooting Odom surrendered e to a deputy sheriff at Citronelle. who. o itaring moo violence, telephoned ii Sheriff Drago at Mobile for assist- t ' lince. The Mobile officers arrived ii 1 here at 10 o'clock and no further S ' trouble is expected. Odom says the n ' killing was the result of an old feud, f He says all parties were armed. i The story as told by Odom is as o 1 follows: ii "The shooting was the result of an v old feud. Goldman. Gortman and t 8tokes came to my place northeast c of Citronelle, about sundown to- a night. Charles Goldman called and t asked me to come out saying 'we in- n tend to do you to-night.' I would t ' not come out, and the men outside 1 set lire to the grass. I saw I was in t 1 danger of being burned and killed, i i I mum nut tod vm mmimllml 1 shoot Goldman. I met Gortman and f Stokes later In the road. They mored towards me and I was compelled to f 1 shoot them." Odom was armed with g a double-barrelled shotgun and says a that all the men he killed were arm- s ed, one, Goldman, baring a shot-gun i . and the others pistols. p Odom killed a man at Citronelle p ; eight or ten years ago, cutting his p , victim's throat o Colored Beset tad in Toils. c Greenwood, March 3.?Sheriff 8. * O. Swan, of Greensboro, Ga.. came I . over last week and carried back with 1 i him the Rev. B. H. Hogan, colored. ? ! who is wanted In this county on three charges, larceny, larceny after trust * i and for cv ating and defrauding. The & Rev. Hogan is said to be one of the & slickest and smoothest propositions 1 they have had in jail here in a long 14 time. He it was who first conversed & ' with the Mexican who is being held ' there to be healed of his wounds, and 8 | he held extended conversations with c Him. Hogan also was a sort of a u 1 poet and all sorts of a fellow. It ap- * pears that be was denounced by the 1 ' Rer. G. T. Moore, colored, here in the * Morris Chapel Baptist Church, but as ' some of the leaders thought he would n get a pretty good collection, he was allowed to keep on until his arrest followed. ^ Denmark Hariri News. o e Denmark, March 5.?On Tuesday n 1 craning the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. a R. Martin was the scene of a recep- i tion given to a score of the home t! boys and girls. The guests included i Misses Martha Riley, Emma Owens, f Liry Ray, Edna Stead man, Willie f Ellzey, Edith Rice, 8ue Barton. Bee- d die Reed, Beulah Watson, Hattie u Wroton; Messrs. B. F. Allen, Hattie a Guess, Wesley Cram, Elbert Stead- ti man, Chas. Mil ho us, Oscar Still, Campbell Tyler, Cecil Cram, John * Tyler, and 8t Clair Guess. a i i Mrs. J. D. Milhous was the hostess g to the Embroidery club Friday after- j noon. p There was a large attendance at g the recital given at the high school p auditorium on Friday evening by the . pupils of the music department, in charge of Miss Sue Walker. t] Miss Doris Goolsby is spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Goolsby. jj Mrs. William Riley and children v have returned from a visit to her 8 mother, Mrs. Elwell, in Orangeburg. 8 b Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. McCartha, of Loesville were here several days ii last week, the guest of their sons, o Reuben and Robert McCartha. ? 8 Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Hailev, of Hart- * wen, ua., are visiting m?yr aaugnier. g\ Mrs. T. H. Turner. tl p Miss Hattie Lee Guess is in Edgefield, the guest of Miss Maxie Shep- d herd. {l Mrs. M. and Miss Lucile Smith, of ^ w Columbia are visiting relatives and friends here. ^ ne Mrs. D. T. Smith, of Greenville, is the guest of her daughter. Mrs. Raymond. Matheny. jU Ralph Goolsby is on an extended visit to Williston and other points in Florida. . a Julian Matthews, of Augusta. Ga.. c was the guest cf his brother. Dr. J. ^ S. Matthews, this week. ? Mrs. Annie Lee Storne. of Colum- c* bia. is visiting her brother. Dr. H. J. Faust. si p] Mrs. David May bank and daughter. a< Mamie, of Charleston, have returned, ? after a pleasant visit to Mrs. J. W. ai Wy man. h jii 'i r-sr- "ii nii I Mi SMITH'S FIRST SPRRCH. oath Carolina Senator Opposes Plan to Centralize Money. Washington. March 3.?Senator raith made his first speech in genral debate in the senate to-day in pposition to the Republican adtninstration's postal savings bank bill. Certain representatives of the Farmrs* union, led by "Charlie" Barrett, f Georgia, president, have been urgng Democratic members to vote for he postal savings bank bill, declartig that it is in tbe Denver platform. Senator Smith declared that no such leasure as this was in that platform, or one of the specified declarations n the platform was a denunciation f the Republican party for advocatng a postal savings system, which roc Id enable the federal government o take the savings of the people ont if the communities in which they re deposited. Mr. Taft advocates his very thing and Senator Smith nade reply to the president's contenlons. He said he did not propose to be aunted into voting for an iniquitous seasure by those who were too uperflcial to comprehend the platorm. The Denver platform reads: "We avor a postal savings bank if the uaranteea Dank cannot Do secured, nd believe that it should be so contituted as to keep the depositors' aoney in the communities where depositors live. But we condemn the policy of the Republican party in proposing savings banks under a plan pf conduct by which they would agregate the deposits of the rural ommuaitles and deposit the same rhile under government charge in he banks of Wall street, thus deleting the circulating medium of he producing regions and unjustly avoring the speculative markets." Senator Smith further pointed out hat the so-called unthrifty Southern ttates had increased their national anks from 596 in 1900, to 1,408 in 909, other b_nks similarly; that the Dan and trust companies of the touth had increased their deposits rom $823,081 in 1900, to $58,114,71 in 1909. So far as the South is oncerned. he declared, there is no irgent need for the Republican party o devise means of "encouraging brift," as was the declared object of UW UiCABUIC. The senator got a good hearing and aade a good impression. Tart and Cannon Lead "BalL" Washington. D. C. March 3.? Vhile more than fifty guests looked n laughingly and applauded, Speakr Cannon tempted President Taft toLight into a test of terpsichorean gility in the east room of the White louse. Both stopped panting, when he trial waj ended, hut the opinion ras unanimous that the honors on ancy steps were eren. The dancing allowed a dinner given hy the Presient to "Uncle Joe'*?said to be the rst formal affair ever accorded a peaker of the House of RepresentsIves by a President The dinner ended, the company rent to the east room, which boasts n ample and smooth dancing floor, m orchestra played a gentle waits nd the President led off with Mrs. oeephine H. Gaines, wife of the Representative from West Virginia, 'he Speaker with Mrs. Laughlin, a later of Mrs. Taft, glided out on the ollshed floor in the wake of his hief. Then the dance was on. In the intermission however, when be orchestra struck up a lively tune. Uncle Joe'* stepped briskly into be middle of the room and brought is heels together sharply. There ras a patting of gloved hands and oices called encouragingly to the uest of honor. In a moment the peaker's heels were twinkling in a rilliant Highland Fling. "Excellent, eh,** he called, exultigly to Mr. Taft, "I was something f a dancer when I was a youngster." For answer the President stepped milingly forward, and. those who ere present say, the two executed teps of an old fashioned "hoe-down" fiat delighted everyone. Both were uffing when they finished. Following the dancing the Presient led his men guests to the smoklg room on an upper floor of the fbite House; where an intimate talk as had in which partisan politics is lid to have had no place. The wolen remained in the east room. COOKK APPOINTKD (X)X8l'L. lember of Wofford Faculty Commissioned for Grfdan Post. Washington. March 2.?The Presient to-day named Prof. Arthur B. ooke, of Wofford" College, Spartanurg. to be a consui .at Patras. reece. About two years ago Prof. Cooke une to Washington and stood a i >mpetitive examination for a consul- I liip. He was successful and was laced on the eligible list To-day's ?tion means that he will probably ime to Washington immediately ad prepare himself for making his ome in Qrecee hereafter. . WANTS CANNON TO RKTIRK. (Gardner IMicves that to be Taft's Uppermost Wish. Beverley. .Mass. March 3.?"That Speaker Cannon would retire. I belive to be the uppermost wish of the i-rvrsiuvm, neprescniauve Augustus P. Gardner, one of the leaders of the "insurgents" in Congress told two hundred of his constituents at a dinner of the Beverley Republican Club last night. "Mr. Cannon has reached an age where his mind is not adapted to viewing correctly present-day conditions." said Mr. Gardner. "If a split in the party is to be avoided, the Speaker must retire. 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