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CHICAGO SWEPT i t| LAWLESS] ..2^ .Net ? i . _ Ail Night Battle Between Whit* I h Excitement Prevails r nineteen Killed Biota Renewed This Morning -. , to Cope Wit f V"'._ ...;-?. =? - \- >.' ? ? ?^<3hfcagi>,^jQly 29.?The race rioting which broke out last night was re . newe? this ^morning. . One identified negro was killed and &wo - negroes wounded in the down town district. . ??? : -The .disorders spread to the north side - of the city today, where a num bj?p/?f; negroes, were chased and threatened. Very few negroes live , in that'section of the city. \ ; TSfeo: nights of terror in the "black b?lt?. cost the lives of at least twen ty ,\2neh,- including one negro police man: and the injury of hundreds of olfc?rs,many seriously, and probably a, dozen-fatally.- ' Four.of .the-, injured aite soldiers. ? ^Tlae 3anthOTities are unable to make complete- cheek of the casualties, ^>ut. wqpsorts showed nineteen ' killed la?t\3"?f?t: Of this humber twelve are whites' and seven negroes. BK>t spreads though chicago ' Chicago, -July 2S.?Race, ?riottag j^read outside the southaide negro dfs .trict. today. There was serious fight ing and shooting during the - early forenoon. , H^The*" exclusive northside residential district received a touch of the. disor der/ The killings continued after day Jfcareak, 'hringing the number of dead in; th,e. police . reports up. to twenty t^oThy midforenoon and more than a-hundred injured. mcagostreet &?lways tied-up - ^Chicago, July 29.?Fifteen thousandJ '&&sft-railway employes , went on. a strike for higher wages this morning. This action completely - ties up thej s^rfece^ahd elevated systems of. the; ?ity>'. :x ' J 1^ riot in jail C Chicago,, July 29.?A vicious race fi^^"^D?ke*-Oirt^in : the county jail. 'T^StC whites out numbered" the blacks, ^0o?? race riot *^Qhica^o, 'July " 28.?Seven persons j ^^e ^known ' tovhaye beei?: killed - and j frjj&teJ than v two * scbre*-wounded,-?many j ??f fhem seriously, is a renewal of race! --r^f^in.^the. Chicago "black belt" to-j -night. ? For more than five hours the ? five | >*^ax?e: area on the South Side was a ? fcaitlegroynd" of scattered fights be .-. tween^white men and negroes and be tween, policemen and negroes who i .^ if^d from* house tops, from dark al-j .rlep-s' and other points of vantage. : f -iSThe^ call for troops to quell the out- j .>/ bfVaks resulted in four regiments of j ; (National Guardsmen being mobilized j JtArt at a late hour tonight they had i not. been dispatched to the disturbed J district and Chief of Police Garritty expressed the belief that the worst of the disorder has passed. '*fcrv]e. of the dead are negroes and I rtw?.are whites. " ; j.The wounded in most cases were ^^nirfied* to hospitals, after which thpv as and Blacks Raged in Streets, rhroughout City IN NIGHT FIGHTING and Authorities Seem Unable h Situation were removed. to their homes when conditions permitted. There was no concerted battle by the blacks, the outbreaks dotting a large area. Every police station in the South Side was flooded with re ports of deaths and injuries. Chief of Police. Garritty, r at a late hour said that it was impossible to make an accurate estimate of the casualties because - of the . contradic tory reports., The riots which started yesterday on the South Side beaches were re newed when negro laborers began leaving their big industrial plants and by dusk more than a score of sepa rate outbreaks had occurred. Whites began dragging negroes from street cars, the negroes retaliated with stones and knives. Street cars in the heart of the "black belt" -were tied up and the windows smashed. - A "flying squadron" of blacks mounted a touring car and riding at full speed through the section sent a volley, of-shots, at a group of whites., .dne wjhite rwoman was injured, but I not." fatally. The negroes were over ! taken after a. long chase and placed under arrest Shortly- afterwards a mob of sev eral hundred' negroes formed at Thirty-fifth street and began stoning a policeman. Gunfire was opened and four of the negroes fell, aii mortaliy wounded. ? A white man in the same neighbor j hood was dragged from a truck and stabbed to death. A negro .chauffeur was killed by whites a few minutes later in the same block/ Scores of arrests were made but where the rioters were found to be unarmed they were released. Negroes began looting stores of whites in one district shortly after the flring of revolvers by a squad of police and in- an effort to. break ..up ? fight . over, a , small- -purchase ?. cf groceries. The. police soon1 emptied their guns, but the looting continued until a special so.uad of police, armed with rifles,.^arrived. They fired low, failing a dozen blacks. ' ..." A white woman was pulled from a street car by a negro. He "was soon lying unconscious, against the curb, where angry white men left him for dead- V * Groups of blacks formed in foot ball -fashion and charged against white men with razors and clubs. On one corner the scene was like a min ature battle ground. Unconscious ne groes and whites dotted the ?Street. "While the main battles were in progress women, blacks and whites, .battled away in front yards with brooms and missiles. In one of the fights a white "woman was1: knocked unconscious'and taken to a hospital. In the fracas on Thirty-fourth Street negroes knocked two police men unconscious and were drawing pistols when a group of discharged negro soldiers came to the rescue of the police. In another battle three policemen we?e shot. One may die. In an effort to prevent quick dis patch of rifle bearing policemen from one section to ancther the-negroes be gan cutting telephone and telegraph wires. The~hegroes began firing on street car conductors and motormen when they refused to allow negro passeng 'ers to board their cars because of; threats made by white passengers. Ope conductor was reported shot in the leg. Ambulances and police wagons threaded their way through the "black belt'.' 'throughout the early hours of the night. A number of wounded negroes crept into alleys and other dark places. When found they were hurried to a negro hospital which for several hours received a virtual procession of injured. The, more seriously woundec negroes received at the hospital had participated in a battle with whites near Thirty:fifth and State Streets. Several thousand of the blacks con gregated at this point within a pe riod of ten minutes. It was an order ly gathering for a time but suddenly four maddened negroes raced up the street and surrounded the home of a white man. In a twinkling shots be gan to fiy in all directions. Perhaps more than a score of negroes felL Some were carried off by compan ions. For more than two blocks along the street negro snipers fired from house tops and windows. After threats had been made by whites to "clean up" the stock yard district a small army of negroes formed ready to meet the charge. An automobile, load of negroes started over the district to estimate the num-r ber of whites .present. When they were stoned they drew pistols and , ,racing at top speed fired at whites along the road. A white mail was shot in the shoulder and a bullet graz ed the head ?of-a white woman. The negroes were overtaken and rescued from the mob by policemen. Police wires were busy all night with pleadings from frightened wo men for protection. Many of them feared to leave the zone of action. They were terrified by the dramatic battles and feared their homes would be wrecked before piorning. Street .lights along some- streets! were smashed and the streets darken ed. Then the bright flashes from pis tols wouid signalize a hew battle and soon the immediate vicinity would be! a surging mass cf whites and blacks, j When they came together in large crowds, fists, knives and clubs were used. While the "bla?k belt" was seeth ing with strife,'negro workers and churchmen sent 'out appeals. that the negroes go to their homes and keep peace. They charged that in most outbreaks the '-negroes {had . ? been heckled. After a mctorman had been dragged I from his car and killed by a group of [ maddened blacks shortly before mid i night and a dozen street cars wrecks j ed/ ' .the - street .car; company.- ordere"* .that, no- mere" cars be taken into '.the[ troubled area. - - The- eieyated. trains also .quit -running in dangerous ter ritory . >>?' ? , Troops.continuaB tp move to a ceo_ ?t.rAlized ;point on the South Side throughout the night, but up to midv night-they had "not. been ordered to begin patrolling, the strets nor ha.l they . helped * in ' quelling Outbreaks.. This was explained, the statement said, that the outbreaks had slacken ed to such, an extent that the police could afford protection. Wherever negroes congregated at II p. m. they were clubbed by police men and scattered. Hundreds of stenographers, clerks and other downtown employees who must pass through the black belt to reach their homes remained in the business district at hotels and at north side lodging places. Moving picture houses and oth?r I gathering places in the black belt [were ordered closed and the coroner i began an investigation of the riots, j London, July 29.?A Bolshevik ris ing in Bulgaria is reported in a wire less dispatch from Moscow today. The outbreak is-declared to have occurred in a garrison town, the garrison join ine the revolutionists.,._ To My Friends and Patrons I take this means to inform my friends and patrons as well as the people of Sumter generally, that after August 1st, I will be associated with Mr. S. L. Krasnoff, at j ^ THF RATTFRY 33 South Main Street, Sumter, S. C. ?? y.' I'.""' V ? - ? ?:- < I earnestly hope it will be my pleasure and privilegaagain to greet and meet my friends at the new post, as I have done since / I was associated in business at Sumter, and I can assure you of my very best service. -> I especially invite the ladies of Sumter and vicinity to visit THE BATTERY this season, where I will be able to serve better than ever before in Dry Goods, Shoes, Dresses, Waists, Coat suits, Coats, Hosiery and general line of ready-to-wear goods of every description, which will be on display in season. Thanking you one and all for your past favors and soliciting a continuation of your patronage/1 am, . Very Respectfully yours, II John D. Lemmon, I Sumter, July 28, 1919 Four Officers and Three Petty Officers Convicted By \ 1 Court Martial ACCEPTED BRIBES FOR PROMOTIONS Navy Department Announces Result of Trials in New. York District Washington, Juiy 29.?Four officers and thre> petty officers of the navy have been convicted by courtmartial of charges in connection with the en rollment, promotion and assignment to duty of reservists in the Third naval district kt New York, the navy de partment announced today. CROP DAMAGE" BY POTASH Harris Says Evidence Since Rains Conclusive?Prepa . ration Should be Made. Columbia, July 25.?Later investi gations made by the State depart ment of agriculture into the Crop conditions where it was supected that trona potash had injured the tobac co and cotton are more convincing, says Commissioner Harris. 'T have every confidence in the reports, made by Dr. Summers and ethers acting for me," said Commissioner Harris yes terday. "It is up to each locality to collect data about the destruction of the. crops, and to have the facts corrobor ated and attested for we do not know what may, come up in the future in regard to it and if the visible * evi dences, have passed away there -may be no way to substantiate. "It is not my nature to encourage litigation, and I do not now propose to do.- so, but if it is true that crops have t been ruined by the application of . Potash containing harmful sub stances, then the farmers who1'have suffered loss are. entitled to reparation.. ; -*>Tn some counties the farmers*are already -'organizing/among' themselves; to.collect the evidence and to have/'it; ready ?whenever'"- it may be needed. I counsel that this should be done in every, couhty.' - It is a matter of sur prise to . some . farmers when -: the?. learn.? that their cotton has not'^been k'iiled.' by too' much moisture, root: lfce. wilt and other such pests/When they learn / that other farmers Have - had; ? eroj>s destroyed: by the borax. Inl 'the. potash,: then they begin to -myestigate and'find-'that this might'- have'been the cause of 'destruction of their* owr. crops. This is not the only State In which the fa.nut:4m have found harm ful ingredients, in the domestic -pot ash. ' r ? / "I have been c?utioned not to say anything about this potash for fear that it will give our farmers a dread of the use of any kind of 'fertilizers. But I take the position that our farm ers are not fools. They know what kinds of fertilizers^ are helpful and when and how to use them. This was something' new and they have not all suffered from its. use, but some have. "One of the most convincing evi dences that potash has ruined these crippled crops, is the way in which they have reacted since the rains. I am informed by inspectors that where the rains have leeched the potash into the soil, the dying cotton has taken on new life and has sprouted from the lower stalk. Of couj&ge' this will not fruit in-time to do any good, but it shows conclusively what was " the* matter with the cotton?the potash ; was too close to the roots and was burning them up. The rain has saved the life of the plants but has not sfff* ed the crops." THE FRENCH TREATY READY President Will Send Second Document to Senate in Few Days Washington. July 28.?The special defensive treaty with France, which Republican senators have declared President Wilson is holding from the senate in violation of its own terms, probably will be submitted for rati fication Within a few days. To a group of Democratic senators with whom he talked at the capitol i late today the president indicated that the treaty which promises American aid to France in case of an unpro voked attack from Germany would be laid before the senate possibly tomor row and certainiy before Mr. Wilson ] begins his countrywide speaking tour. It was said he would probably not i present it in person but would send ; with it a written message urging its \ ratification. < The. development followed, a re newal of senate criticism of the pres- ; tdent's delay and headed off a plan ? \ discussed among Republican leaders \ to drop consideration of the treaty of ( Versailles until the French treaty had been submitted. A provision of the; ?< latter.as made public stipulates that!] it must be laid before the senate "at j < tKe same time" as the Versailles treaty! which was submitted more than two,T| weeks ago. * El Paso, July 29.?Gov. O Ortez of ? the State of Chihuahua, has offered < a reward of twenty-five thousand dol- 1 lars in gold for the capture, dead or : alive, of Francisco Villa, according to i1 a. Mexican merchant from that State, j i The offer appeared in an advertise- J1 ment in one of the Chihuahua papers, i PROMPTNESS ACCURACY BEAVER BOARD I For the whole 'house Let us tell you: about it. Booth & McLeod. INCORPORATED kJip. ? ..? ? Building Material of Every Kind. COURTESY .QUALITY A DEBT OF HONOR ?-''*-''. ? . , .rr<. -v.r. Senate Committee Makes Fa vorable Report on Colom bia Treaty TWENTY-FIVE MILLION TO BE PAID Commission - Appointed to Con the Amount Named In Treaty Washington, July 29.?-A favorable report on the treaty with Colombia was ordered today by the senate for eign relations committee without a dissenting vote. A motion to reduce I to twenty-five million dollars the amount payable to Colombia for par tition of Panama was defeated. VACANCY IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT Florence, July 27.?Politics is on the move in the sixth congressional district and the topic of conversation in this city at present Is as to the successor of the Hon. J. Willard Rags dale.' It might be "stated that the Wt>dds is full - of candidates. Among Those "who have been mentioned to day are. the following: Col. Holmes B.-Springs of Georgetown; Col. Philip H. Stoll of Kingstree, Col. D. D. Mc Coir of Bennettsville, i>r. Olin Sawyer of Georgetown, Hal T, B?ck of Horry, ;J. A.. Mclnness of Darlington, C?l.' J. "Monroe Johnson of Marion, and from Florence the names of Col. D. Gordon "Baker, now State Senator from Flor ence county, the. Hon. R. Maxcy. Mc Cown, former secretary of State; Jas. . M. Lynch, Esq., William R. Barringer, Dr. A. C. Ellerbe, iFred L. Wilcox, Esq., and others. It is hoped that some , good man will announce himself, or his friends j will announce for him. in order- that i the district may be represented as' ef-.i ficiently as it has been for the past | six years by Congressman Ragsdale. ] SPEAKING TOUR IS POSTPONED Washington, July 29.?President j Wilson may not leave Washington on j his speaking tour of the country until1 August 15th, owing to the excessive j heat. ? " He will confer with Secretary Dan iels concerning the advisability of hav ing the Pacific fleet await his arrival, before entering San Francisco har-! bo.r. ! ' President Wilson . is acting on the j -suggestion of his personal physician j and Secretary Tumulty. TRAIN STRIKES j MOTOR! Vernon O'Cain of Orangeburg j Seriously Hurt on Railroad Orangeburg, July * 28.?Vernon O'Cain was seriously and perhaps fa tally hurt early this afternoon when a Coast Line train bound from Preg nalls to Orange burg struck the auto mobile he was driving, throwing him 20 feet and cutting the car in half. Mr. O'Cain suffered a broken leg, a broken arm and was seriously injur ed, internally, it is feared. He was driving toward Orangeburg and had attempted to cross the railway track in a deep cut about seven miles east of here when the accident happenend. The wounded man was rushed, to Orangeburg where railway surgeons j, rendered medical aid. . His condition! <vas seen to be serious and a special jj train carried him to Sumter to a , hospital. Physicians stated tonight that Mr. O'Cain had a slight chance * for recovery, but would lose a leg,-an ? firm and, one eye. He is- suffering Crom internal injuries and physicians say his condition is precarious. ? v. From what could be learned here ' it seems that the road crosses the i J railway in a cut and it is impossible j' :o see an approaching train. The ma mine was totally wrecked. Mr. O'Cain is a prosperous farmer, of the East Orange, section and is \ j married. He is the son of J. W.' O'Cain of Orangeburg. 5LEASE ANNOUNCES!. - |1 Columbia, July 28?Former Gov. j i Cole L. Blease today announced that,? tie would be a candidate for congress j i it the general election, but that he-1 would not be a candidate in the pri- i nary. Blease is preparing the plat- z form on which he will enter the race J ind will announce it in a few days. < 8000 TROOPS GUARD CHICAGO Governor Lowden Hesitates to Take. Charge of .City - ; REGIMENTS REST ON ARMS Situation Stiff Serious^-T^tf ty-seven Killed and ?: T&?a and Injure? Chicago, July 30.?Governor Low den hesitated to order soldiers to I take charge of the city, although with I the arrival today of two ritore regi^i I ments, eight thousand men were rest-. jing on their arms ready to quell-'dis-.. ?turbances instantly. The list, of dead I today had reached twenty-seven -atfdv I the number cf injured nearly a thou??* sand since the beginning of the riots; Sunday. . ?' ?. ^ ~ The Ninth regiment fronr theJSoutk ern part of the State and the jTenth from Central Illinois, were rushed' to-, ward Chicago today , to.. add v : their, rifles and machine guns to the po?, tential army already here.," Coroner Heffman announced' tha't he had impanelled, a jury, to ^investi gate the deaths resulting 'from .the 'riots.. ?? . ..' ' " 1 '. v' . '. SPEED IJP WEEK - People of South Carolina Galled On to Pay Pleflges " Columbia, July .27.?South Caro linians will be' asked this week jto pay up the $230,000 Which they still owe on their pledges made during the United War Work campaign last .fall. From July 2jjj to August 4' will be ob served in South Carolina and through out the/South;as "Spee?-up Week" and it is hoped in. that time to collect the nearly two millions of dollars pledged 'in the whole" South that has not yet been paid in. ., It is. necessary th^ iiuk money be paid in at . once or the work of seven welfare organizations, '.in-, eluding the Young Men's Christi^ii^^ sociation, the" Young Women's.Chris:-J tian Association, the National Catholic War Council (K. of CD, Jewish'.Wel fare' Board.. War Camp Community Service and American Library -Assa ciation, will have to be seriously cur tailed and thousands of soldiers and sailors will suffer therefor. Officials of. the campaign say that the- South- has not been worse "than. ether sections of the coxratry^ in: its percentage of collections.. .TJiey^.hope that it will not fall below other? Ts?c-.>" tions in making good Iis pledges and enabling the work of the welfare^ta--. ganiza tions to continue. The officials say that it should brfiig a touch of shame to those who have not paid their pledges to note that next to the State of-Mississippi, which., shows the highest percentage of col lections in the Southeast, it .was the. z army and navy division composed of f soldier and sailor subscribers, in the United War Work campaign which did the best work in making good en its promises. Pledging $123,496, the soldiers and sailors who had to win the war while other folks stayed at home, paid $104,968.66 of their pledge, a record of 88 per cent col lected. RUSSIAN CONDI TIONS IMPROVE Omsk, July 29.?Good progress to ward increased production and- im proved labor conditions was reported today by the Miister of La'cor, Schumitovsky in Admiral Kolchaks ill-Russian government at the clos ng session of the State economic coun cil congress. PRANCE WAITING ON AMERICA Paris, July 30.?A disposition ? to lelay action on the ratification of the German peace^' treaty until the United >tates senate aacts on the Franco American military treaty was ind: lated today by those in touch with he situtaion. This is said to repre ient the majority view of the.'cham >er of deputies peace treaty com.mit ee. . - Paris, July 29.?The commission of nterallied powers named to consider he revision of the treaty of 1839 in-* solving territorial and other questions effecting Belgium and Holland held its nitial meeting here today. Represen- ~ atives of the Dutch government, ar ived in Paris to. attend the sessions, it which, they with representatives of 3elgium will be heard on various Luestions to be brought up.