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NEGROES HOLD TOWN IN REIGN OF TERROR Two Mulatto Boys Kill Eight Persons and Wound 20 Others?Both Desperadoes are Finally Lynched ?Walter and Will Jones, Crazed by Drugs, Go Through Streets of Mississippi Town Firing on Every One in Sight. HARRISTOWN, MISS, Sept. 28.? Two drug-crazed mulatto boys, brothers, began a reign of murder here this morning that ended only after three white men, three negro men and a negro woman had been shot to death, several vmnnrliwl and the two boys lynched. A serious clash between the races was prevented by the arrival on a special train, of a company of national guardsmen from Natchez. The trouble started at about 2 o'clock Sunday morning and continued intermittently until 10 o'clock today, when Walter Jones, the elder of the two boys who started the firing, was lynched just after the soldiers arrived. His brother, Will, had been shot by citizens early in the day. Soon afterwards persons who had barricaded themselves in their homes, began to emerge cautiously from their hiding places and by noon the town was quiet. No more trouble is feared. After it was assumed the death list was nine, the body of Teller j warren, a negro, was found in a hut in the negro quarter where Walter Jones first began firing. Evidently 1 Warren was one of the first victims but just when he was shot is not known. Twenty persons were injured, 16 of 1 them negroes. None of the negroes were dangerously hurt. Killed and Wounded. The dead: ' Sheriff G. B. Hammett, Jefferson county, shot as he was leading a 1 posse to where the negroes were hid- ' ing. ' Former Constable Frank Keinsly, 1 shot at his home after beihg called to a door. ! Claude Freeman, white, of Fayette shot at railway station while waiting for a train. Tnl^onno A ilrori TVv?%* T-?? vviiwtitm ^4*iv^u, xviu t? cciva, ucaat' Thomson and Thad Grayson, negroes killed during promiscous shooting. Walter and Will- Jones, negroes lynched. Teller Warren, a negro. Wounded: Orrin Gillis, former sheriff, shot in shoulder and may die; E. B. Appleby, conductor of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad, shot in breast, leg and arm, dangerous; William McCaleb, shot in leg and thigh; William Keinstly, son of Frank, shot in hand; William Dennis, shot in leg; W. C. Bond, shot in leg. The shooting was started by Walter Jones in the negro quarter where the negro woman and Thad Grayson were shot and killed. Walter then went to the home of his mother and aroused his brother, a boy of 18 years of age. Together they went through the main street of the little town firing at everyone in sight. Citizens aroused from their slumbers by the shots peered out of the windows and then hastened to cover. Fire on Train, i The two boys, soon after leaving \ their home, went to the home of former Constable Frank Keinstly who when he replied to their call, was shot through the head by Walter Jones. Death was instantaneous. Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for a gun, when he saw his father fall. Before he could fire he received a ' bullet in one of his hands. The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley depot is near the Keinstly's home and the two negroes walked in that direction. A train had arrived from Natchez just a few minutes before and E. B. Appleby, the conductor was standing at the station talking to W. C. Bond, the flagman. Without warning the two negroes fired on them and both fell. The boys then directed their fire at Claude Freeman who was waiting for a train to take him to his home at Fayette, Miss. He was killed. The negroes turned to the train firing into the cars. Pasengers became panic-stricken. A sleeping car from Natchez left standing at iL _ .1 ii? * ine station until me inrougn train from Memphis to New Orleans arrived was a target for the fire of the negroes. Many windows were broken but no one in the car was hurt. 'The two slayers made their way to a cottonseed house nearby. It is be- j lieved they then realized the wholesale killing could not long continue without opposition and determined to make their last stand at the seed house. Sheriff is Killed. Frightened citizens at this time telephoned for Sheriff Hammett at Fayette. Summoning Former Sheriff Gillis to accompany him, Ham- 1 met started for Harriston on horseback, arriving about 5 o'clock. A small crowd of men were firing into the seed house, but no one had ven 1? In your han< five-cent piec Right at the , is a moistur< age of Uneedf hands you tl you hand h A trifling tra No! A remarka have spent the s will buy a packs and the grocer . | most nutritious flour?as clean delicious as it w from the oven. NATIONAL BIS< tured to lead the posse to the place. Taking a few men with him, Sheriff Hammet started toward the building. Seeing this move, it is believed Walter Jones crept to the tall grass nearby and as Hammett approached the negro fired, killinsr him instantlv. A shot from the seed house brought down Gillis. By this time the countryside had been aroused and farmers came pouring in from every direction. Everyone opened fire on the seed house A call was sent to Gov. Brewer for troops. Finding his hiding place too pre-' carious, Will Jones started to run towards a coal chute nearby, but had ?one only a few steps when a bullet ended his life. A rope was placed around the body, it was strung up to a telegraph pole near the station and became a target for everyone not rrrr?wiiTnnr.i "OUT AT HOME!" IN TH Slde-8pllttlng Finish of tho Pschyden Bailey "Hold your horses?the elephants are coming!"' The giddiest, gayest, grandest, gyrating, glamorous and glittering galaxy of the whole wide, wonderful world Is trekking this way. If one doesn't infer from this that reference is made to the Barnum A Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, the publicity man will regard the case as hopeless. Of course, all this Isn't news to this community, for every blessed one of us has kept tabs on the flaming boards and already the leading topic of nonvAraitilnn In thn nvprncA home is the coming of the circus and Its street parade. The time-honored custom has always been to refer to each sucoesslve year's circus as "bigger and better than ever." But the phrase has become so hackneyed that this year's Barnum & Bailey Circus hesitates to use It, despite the fact that It adequately describes this season's entertainment. More cars are required to transfer the show, more tentage is used, more area required to accommodate the show than ever before. In fact, the circus has reached a point where it is the despair of many of the smaller railroads and taxes their facilities to the limit, for 85 cars are needed to transport the gigantic canvas vagrant from town to town. There's material enough la this THE BARNII CIR< Exhibits in ! 'fi Oct ] I 1 1 you .hold a ;e. < nr4*A?A?>'n 1 glUVCl O A&OliU t 5-proof pack- J i Biscuit. He te package? j im the coin, nsaction? \ ble one?for you mallest sum that 1 ige of good food; t has sold you the ^ food made from | and crisp and r as when it came ? c 1 CULT COMPANY ; c I shooting at the seed house. i Soon after Will was killed Walter c with deadly aim picked Tom Weeks, 1 a negro, off the coal chute. Either ? the bullet wound or the fall would $ have killed him. i Negro is Lynched. 1 Not long after Weeks was killed e the special train bearing the Natchez Guardsmen arrived and this seemed to have cowed the desperado. As f they were detraining the crowd rush- | ed the seed house. Not a shot greet- j the place with drawn weapons they ] ed them and as the leaders went into c the place with drawn weapons they 8 saw Jones completely unnerved but J not injured. They quicklyl placed a rope around his neck and rushed him to the coal chute. The rope was too { small and as the negro was drawn j up the rope broke and he fell heavily ^ to the ground. Not a word or act x t E ELEPHANT BALL GAME. nic Contest Under the Barnum & Tente. year's circus to make half a doxen circuses of the old school. In place : of the stereotyped "grand entree," ; with which circuses have been content i to open their program for many years, the Barnum & Bailey entertainment is J Inaugurated by the splendid spectacle J entitled, "Cleopatra," a wordless play based upon the story of Egypt's ancient queen. The story is effectively pantomimed and there Is a cast of , 1,200 persons, including a ballet of 1 dancing girls trained by Ottakar Bartik, of tha Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The costumes and properties are i historically correct and the entire in- j novation is the most stupendous thing , ever attempted under canvas. Eu? , genie Silbon portrays the "Sorceress \ of the Nile," while Camilla Fortune, , a pan torn lm 1st of merit, enacts the ] role of Antony. , Johannes Joeefseon's company of Icelandic gladiators are conspicuous newcomers to the Barnum & Bailey tents. baseball game between ele- 1 phant players is another surprise. A troupe of Jlu Jltsu experts perform amaelng feats. The menagerie has been enlarged and the exhibit of human frea.be. ?iimi. Inated & few years ago, baa been restored, to the Joy of every true circus 1 lover. A street parade will inaugurate ] the gala day. ? laaaMB?? II & BAILEY cus Spartanburg: . 14 of protest came from Jones as a arger rope was thrown around his leek and again he was pulled up? md the crowd looked on as the drugsaturated body swung until life was extinct The crowd then went to the home of the negroes, where they found two iegro men and were about to lynch .hem, but were dissuaded by oficers. It seems certain that the Tones negroes had planned details of their murderous night, as they were well armed and had plenty of ammulition. Their mother said one of Kom Ko/1 a.1?t. ? ..? iiou LcumiM'u vnuv ne was gong to "shoot up'' the town, but she ;hought he was joking- Whether the wo negroes found there, who were irrested, knew of any plans the Fones negroes might have had is not Known. As there was no evidence that ;here would be more trouble after iValter Jones was lynched, the Nat:hez Guardsmen returned home. Gen;rally the negro population was as nuch incensed at the Jones brothers is were the whites. 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