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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
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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.
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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.
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Denmark Hariri News. o
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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
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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.
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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
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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. When this
takes place the rules will be
changed so as to prevent the present
misuse of the Speaker's power."
Mr. Gardner absolved the Payne
tariff from responsibility for the high
cost of living. =
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