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I POLICE AND NED ROES BA.T
TLE IN ATLANTA.
Negro Stronghold Fired ant
While Building Burned th<
Ringleader Killed More Men
Atlanta, May 17.?Four whit<
men and three negroes dead
W live white men and one negr<
w wounded and an entire block o
r buildings burned is the resul
of a conflict which began lien
early today between the black
and police. Will Richardson
who is believed to have beei
half Indian and half negro, th<
owner of a store on McDauie
street in the suburb of Pitts
burg and four other negroe
brought on the trouble by re
Isisting arrest and defying th
officers of Fulton county an<
Atlanta.
I The fight between the officer
\ m and the negroes occurred ii
Pittsburg, a negro settlemen
directly south of the city limit
on McDaniel street. The officer
attempted to arrest five negroe
= suspected of having beatei
former Policeman S. A. Kerlii
nearly to death yesterday after
'?noon. The negroes resiste*
arrest by entrenching them
i selves in a house and the figh
ensued. The vicinity is thick 1;
settled with small negro cabins
There are outbuildings an<
barns and shrubbery over th
entire neighborhood which pre
vides such shelter thai it wa
possible to escape from hous
to house and d.xlge betweei
fences without being detected
As soon as information of th
fight between the negroes am
police replied the city, wagoi
loads of policemen heavily arm
ed were hurried to the scene o
action and Gov. Candler orderet
I nut. ii -1-1
v?.v uWltVUlUCLlt U1 Lilt? sum
militia.
At midnight County Police
man Golden heard that Kerlin'i
five assailants were located in i
honse on McDaniel street anc
he hastened to the city and se
cured a warrant for their arres
from Justice Orr.
Policeman Colden was joine(
by Officers Ozburn and Cheshir*
and accompanied by a numbe
of Kerlin's neighbors, including
Owen Heard, the party startec
for the hiding place of the fiv<
negroes, arriving at 1.30 thii
morning.
The house was dark, but ai
the officers approached the in
I mates oDened fir? ?r?rl Hwor
! Heard fell to the ground. Th<
house was at once surroundet
by the police and daylight wai
awaited before making auothei
advance. The house in whicl
the negro Richardson was loca
ted belonged to Annie Milburn
also colored. Richardson ownec
0 the store adjoining the house
Here he kept ammunition anc
guns and was therefore wel
prepared for a tight.
^ At 6 o'clock this morning th<
group of officers who had beer
3 watching the house all nigh]
approached the place and caller
upon those within to surrender
The answer was a volley of shots
^ and County Officer Rattle drop
r?ed dfinrl- Tl-.n n f
j* ??v M.wn*vatu JHU
retreated some distance and
from behind trees and telegrapl:
* and trolley poles commenced
firing into the store. In a fe^
6 minutes the door of the hotisf
was thrown open and WillKing
a negro ran out and gave him
self up to the officers.
the house Richardson had/'
i unobstructed view in threi
I roctions. One block away ftp
1 man Tom Grant stepu/
his sh?Uer to fire into fjL\
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A shot from the besieged house
killed him before he could lire.
" At the point of a rifle the negro,
King, who gave himself up,
j was forced to set fire to the rear
of the house. When the flames
g started the officers stepped out
of their shelter. Again there
t was a shot from the house and
' Officer Crabtree met death.
Then another shot and Policeg
man Ozburn fell dead. The
shooting into the house became
general, citizens and officers
, firing together.
In less than an hour the block
was burned and a seatcli of the
. ruins followed. In a woodshed
in the rear of Richardson's store
j was found a skull and the steel
barrel of a riflo. It is believed
that the skull represents all that
is left of Richardson.
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1 Near-by Testimony.
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The denials of torture inflicted
by American soldiers in the Philippines
upon the natives have
s grown weaker and weaker until
j they have ceased entirely and
turned into defense. In the way
~ of further testimony, however,
an Anderson, S. C., correspondent
j of the Charleston News and Courier
reports that a young man of
that town, Mr. Loskoskie, who
y has been serving in the Philip|
pines, and has just returned home,
and who has always borne a good
^ reputation for truthfulness and
uprightness, says that ''the stories
of the cruelties practiced upon
the natives by the United States
troops have not been exaggerated."
He saw active service on
3
j several of the islands, witnessed
3 the administration of the water
cure "a number of times," and
^ "on one occasion saw 15 natives
hanged at one time, because they,
would not divulge certain inforj
mation."
It haa come to this, that one
[ who criticises the methods of warj
fare pursued by the American
troops in the Orient is denounced
as an enemy of the array and as
3 lacking the irit of patriotism.
1 This is an aspersion and we ret
sent it. It is because, not by
1 reason of, lack of pride in the
. American forces on land and sea,
j that well regulated Americans
. cry out their protests when their
t forces behave unworthily. And
I what well regulated citizens of
i this country can read of the com
I duct of our troops in tne Philipr
pines, as pictured by this young
* South Carolinian, not to refer to
; too many other witnesses, and
not reprobate it ? It is claimed
; tfcyh the Filipinos have tortured |
^tiean nrisonerm and if ia!
cruelty with cruelty.
ll suggestion, in that
tPV^unt of the differ^
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tian and the Filipinos are hall
barbarian ; we are therelore a?
Burned to uct betttr than they.
But in the particular cases con
earning which we have evidence,
and especially in one instance
which the South Carolinian re
cites, the barbarities upon the
natives were not inllicled for
capital crimes but because "they
would not divulge certain information."
The water cure, upon
the general run of testimony, was
administered because the victim
would not tell where his rifle was
or disclose the hiding place ot
some of his compatriots And f
here we have the evideuce ot an
eye-witness that he saw fifteen
natives hanged at one time?
why ? Because they had tortured
or killed anybody ? No ; but
because they withheld information
of which their executioners
desired to be possessed.
The record of the American
soldiery in the Orient is one ot
brutality and infamy ; it is a
duplicate in miniature of the
atrocities of the Duke of Alva in
the Low Country ; and no nam1
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uer ui ime wor(i9 can gloss it over
nor any appeals to the national
spirit cause it to appear less bar
barous than it is.?Charlotte Observer.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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Notice
Lancaster Graded School.
To all Whom it May Concern :
Take notice that pursuant to a petition
signed by ten voters and freeholders
resident in Lancaster School
District, we,the undersigned.Trusteee
of said District, do hereby call a public
meeting to be composed of all those
voters who are resident in and return
for taxation in said District real or
personal property of the value of not
less than one hundred dollars, to assemble
in the Court House at Lancaster,
S C., on Friday, the 30th day of
May, 1002, at 4 o'clock p. m , for the
purpose of electing a chairman and
secretary of said meeting, five trustees
of said school district, and ol
determining what special tax, if any,
not to exceed Ave mills, shall be levied,
as the majority present shall
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ucviuv, ?> ail icai auu prrsuil&l property
within said School District for
the maintenance of the public schools
of said District This May 18th, 1 nihil.
F. MiUer.
W T. Gregory.
W. J. Cunningham.
J. E. Taylor
C T. Connors.
Trustees T.ancaster School District.
Ths Duty of 1'arentM.
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remedy like Goocb's Mexican r>yrup tor
coughs, colds and consumption, It not used ??
prevent consumption by curing a cough o."
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No other remedy Is so nice to take, or r>o qui ok
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they may hare it always in the hons< . Oafj
2* cents at drug stores.
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