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VOLUME XIII., No. 227
NEGRO QUARTER OF SPRINGFIELD RED WITH BLOOD
OWING TO ATTEMPTED ASSAULT ON WHITE WOMAN
FOILED B) AUTO
GBOI MIOOO
WHEN ASSAULTER WAS SPIR
ITED OUT OF TOWN MOB
TURNED ON THOSE WHO
SAVED HIM
AT LEAST TWELVE DEAD
Attempt Made to Harm
Mayor Negro Who
Fired on Mob Prompt
ly Ganged—Rioters
Use Firebrand.
SPRINGFIELD, 111.—4 a. m.—Riot,
arson and slaughter have possession
of the black belt and levee of Spring
field since 9 o'clock last night. One
man lias been lynched by the mob. two
are known to have been killed in
racial warfare, and it is thought per
haps a dozen other were slain and
their bodies hid away by friends.
At 2:30 this morning the militia or
dered out by Governor Deneen fired a
volley into the mob. which was put
ting the torch to negro houses in the
"bad lands."
The Bloomington. Decatur. Peoria
and Pekin companies of the Illinois
national guard arrived shortly after
the last clash between the local
militiamen and the rioters. They were
immediately sent to the "bad lands"
to aid in breaking up the crowds with
neking and firing the
houses.
After burning many houses the rem
nant of the mob, which became more
and more desperate as the night
passed, finally gratified its thirst for
biood this morning at three o'clock,
v hen Charles H. Hunter, a negro, was
<inched Rt the corner of Twelfth and
Madison streets, right in the heart of
tlie “bad lands."
Troops arrived at the scene too
late to prevent the shooting. Some
of the members of the mob declared
that the negro lynched had shot two
white men. They said that in a fight
with the whites the negro w>as forced
into a corner at the saloon and gro
cery on the corner of Twelfth and
Madison. When retreat was cut off,
(he uegro is said to have opened fire,
wounding two.
Then came the cry, “get the rope!”
All the members of the mob eagerly
took up the cry. The negro was
caught and dragged to the street.
Here he was beaten and shot five
times and then a rope was swung
around ills neck and the other end of
the rope thrown over the limb of a
tree right in front of the store. With
a ery of satisfaction the negro was
swung high off the ground. He was
dead in a few moments
MILITIA TIRED
OVER THEIR HEADS.
Just then the Decatur troops ar
rived. Two volleys were fired over
the heads of the lynchers. The or
der was given by Colonel Weils, fifth
infantry, In command, to “disperse.”
With reluctance some of the members
began to back away.
All this turmoil grows out of an
attempt to lynch a negro who had as
saulted a white woman. The negro
was spirited out of town, and the
mob. balked in its vengeance, imme
diately turned on the man who loaned
his automobile to the authorities to
enable them to convey the negro to
a place of safety.
This was the spark that started the
riot. Early in the stage of the riot all
the saloons and disorderly houses in
the city were closed by the mayor,
and the militiamen did their best to
prevent the collecting of crowds in
the streets.
Their efforts were futile, however.
They would disperse a crowd in one
neighborhood and immediately it as
sembled In another.
When, at 2 a. m., the burning of ne
gro houses commenced the negroes re
taliated by shooting, from the upper
stories of the houses in the neigh
borhood from which the torch was
Replied.
MANY WERE HIT
BUT SPIRITED AWAY.
A number of persons were hit dur
ing these fusilades and were carried
away by their friends before their
identity was discovered.
The inciting cause of trouble was
an assault made on Mrs. Earl Hal
lam, Friday night, wife of a street car
conductor.
The attack occurred In her home In
one of the moat thickly populated
reside-* districts of the north part
es *h"**c.lty.
Mrs Hallam, whose husband works
at night, was dragged from her bed
at midnight by a negro, who ther
dragged her into a garden In the reat
odf the bouse where he assaulted her.
This was the last straw on the
rnlnda of the whites of the city, the
hatred again*’ the blacks having been
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
KILLED AND INJURED.
►
’ SPRINGFIELD, Ills. —The corrected list of dead in last night's
> riot is as follows:
> LOUIS JOHNSON, dead, shot n the neck.
’ The negro who was lynched early this morning. He was at
> first thought to be Charlie Hunter, but Hunter has been seen and
>it Is now believed ne is a porter named Burton. identification Is
> not complete.
■ JOHN CALDWELL.
The injured: D. J. Scott, who was reported among the dead
■last night, is still alive at St. Johns hospital.
> Hayes, who was shot by the negro who was afterwards lynch
> ed, and Foley, a coal miner, are at the hospital and may die
> W. H. Bowe, who vas held up and shot by highwaymen, is
> dying at St. Johns hospital.
1 The other injured are not seriously hurt.
THREE SPRINGFIELDS HAVE HAD RACE RIOTS.
Race riots have shaken three cities named Springfield within tho
last few years.
At Springfield, Olijo, in 1905, a negro killed a woman and a police
man. He was hanged by a mob, and in the negro quarter several
houses were burned. Ft was necessary to call out the militia and
place the city under martial law.
At Springfield, Mo., in 190 G, a white woman claimed a negro as
saulted tier. Several suspects wore arrested. A mob stormed the jail,
took three negroes held on various charges, and hanged them in tho puo
lic squhre, destroying the bodies in a bonfire. The woman’s story was
afterward proven to be false.
At Springfield, Ills., the present trouble resulted from an assault
on a white man by a negro.
smoldering since a month ago, when
Clergy A Ballard was slain in his
home by a negro who, it is said, had
entered the Ballard home in an at
tempt to assault Mr. Ballard's young
daugh'er.
Early Friday morning George U>cli
ardson, a negro, was arrested for the
assault upon Mrs. Hallam and placed
in tho city jail with Joseph James,
who was accused of the Ballard mur
der.
Mutterings of mob violence began
soon after the Richardson identifica
tion by the woman and a great crowd
collected about the jail. After Rich
ardson had been identified by Mrs
Hallam, the crowds grew more vio
lent, and it w'as decided to take the
pair out of town.
Sheriff Charies Werner made ar
rangements to take the men to Bloom
ington, and yesterday afternoon the
attention of the crowd around the
jail was distracted by an alarm of fire
while the men were placed in Harry
T. Loper’s automobile and whisked
away to the railroad station near the
Fair Grounds, where a train was
stopped to let the sheriff's men and
their prisoners get aboard.
LOPER’S RESTAURANT
WAS DEMOLISHED.
as soon as this was known the mob
began to gather, howling for venge
ance against the man who had as
sisted In the escape of their prey.
The cry, "Come on to Loper’s" was
raised, and a few minutes later bricks
were crashing through the windows.
Loper met the mob with a rifle.
They paid no heed to him, and he
was forced into the back part of the
building where he, was compelled to
witness the complete destruction of
his property.
The restaurant was the largest in
the city and had a large trade. Within
an hour It was a complete wreck.
All of the furniture was taken out
and piled on top of the automobile
which had been turned over on l.h<
street, and Ihen a match was applied
to the gasoline tank. The bon fire
ranged until midnight.
The police were utterly powerless
to cope with the mob and the fire de
partment, which had been called out
was not allowed to extinguish the
flames.
Three members of the gatllng gun
squad were injured during the melee
and the rioters took several guns,
from the soldiers. These captured
guns were used to finish wrecking tin
restaurant.
ATTEMPT MADE
TO INJURE MAYOR.
During the attack an attempt was
made to do bodily harm to Mayor
Reece. In attempting to aid the
mayor in escaping this violence, I’hil
lip Pollack, of Chicago, was badly
injured by stones thrown by the
rioters
At times shots were fired and there
would be a momentary panic, but cu
riosity was stronger than fear.
At 10 o'clock Louis Johnson, a 19-
year-old boy, was found dead in a
rear stairway leading to the base
ment of the building. He had been -
shot through the groin.
While the mob was wrecking the ]
Loper restaurant, In the heart of the j
business district, there was trouble,
in other parts.
Shortly before midnight the mob
broke into Fishman's pawn shop and
secured a quantity of rifles, shot guns,
revolvers, and ammunition. With
these they armed themselves and
started to march (through the streets
In absolute control of the situation.
The mob soon began to give Its at- j
tentlon to the East Washington street
levee where the negro disorderly
houses are gathered, and at 2 o'clocs
this morning the fighting there was j
a' nost continuous. The rioters also
used the firebrand and soon half a
dozen houses were blazing, despite
the of the police and militia. |
Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity— Fair tonight and Sunday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGI A, SATURDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 15, 1908.
MOB DESTROYED
FIRE HOSE.
Every attempt of the firemen to
light the flumes was resisted, the hoso
being cut time and again when any
! trial was made to throw water on the
i Imbuing homes of the blacks.
When property belonging to white
persons was set on fire, however the
mob drew hack, allowing the depart
-1 ment to check the flames!
Most ot' the blacks, frightened at
tin- turn affairs had taken, sought
j refuge in Right, but those who re
i malued were beaten and roughly
treated.
Some of them were armed and
showed fight. In one of these me
lees Al Hyerline, George Stusse, and
Angelo Ailganlanl were shot. All of
them are seriously injured.
Several white persons were shot by
negroes firing from windows along
the street.
At the time the riot began Eugene
W. Chafin, the prohibition candidate
j for governor, was addressing a meet
ing in the court house yard. A negro
j pursued by a mob came dashing up
i the platform, and in ondavoring to
protect the man from his pursuers,
the orator was struck in the face
with a brick and slightly injured.
However the negro had gained timu
to make his escape. The mob then
proceeded to break up the meeting,
and in the fight that ensued a num
her of men were hurt.
The Rev. T. D. Logan, another per
son who was on the platform, was
struck on the head with a brick and
seriously Injured. He Was taken to
a hotel together with Mr. Ghofin,
where their wounds were dressed.
At. 9 o'clock last night the situa
tion was so serious that Mayor Reece
ordered all the saloons closed. Short
ly after 11 o’clock the mayor air
tempted to address the mob at Fifth
and Monroe streets. The shout was
raised “Throw him Into the fire!”
The mayor was seized and roughly
handled. He was rescued by friends
who came to ills assistance through
a shower of bricks and other missiles
and hustled him into a near-by ci
gar store.
The mob showed its animosity to
ward the mayor because of his ap
pointment of negroes on the police
force.
• As toon as Governor Deneen was
appealed to for aid he ordered out
the local militia forces, consisting of
company C, 58th infantry, troop !).,
first cavalry, and the galling battery.
Finding these were unable to cope
with the situation he ordered the fol
lowing troops to Springfield on spe
cial trains: Coifipanies G. and 1..,
fifth Infantry, Peoria, Company It.,
fifth Infantry, Bloomington; Company j
A., fifth Infantry, Pekin; Company F.i
fifth Infantry, Decatur; Company F.,|
third Infantry, Pontiac.
Orders w.-re also sent for other l
companies throughout the state.
OVER THOUSAND
SHEEP IN PEN
ARE BURNED
Fire in Stock Yards in
Buffalo Loss is One
Hundred and Seventy-
Five Thousand Dollars.
BUFFALO, N. Y At 2.05 o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the
hay sheds at the East. Buffalo stock
yards and before the fire was gotten
under Control the sheep pens, with
1,100 sheep, and the hay sheds, con
taining 1,000 ton* of hay, were con
sumed. The log* Is estimated at $175,.
000.
. .■? sheep pens destroyed were 1,-
800 feet long and 230 feet wide, with
a capacity of 80,000 sheep. The fact
that. Friday was a big market, dav
had almost emptied the pens, other
wise the loss would have been near
ly a million dollars.
The origin of the fire Is unknown.
By 4 o'clock the firemen had the
flames under control.
Countess of Ess :x
W SZffrw
The Countess of Essex who was Miss Grant of
New York is the latest victim of the new fase of
personal Journalism which is being exploited in the
London Weekly, ‘‘The Tattler.” This Journal is
publishing a scries of letters signed “Candida”
which are addressed to the leaders of British So
ciety and tells a story of their lives more or less.
NEGRO SUSPECT
CONFESSES TO
ASSAULT
NORFOLK, Va. —Oscar I’erry, th<
negro arrested an a suspect in the
assault on aged Mrs. Catherine Tow
ell, in Portsmouth, last. Tuesday, has
I made a complete written confession of
his crime. Previous to his confes
sion Perry was unmistakably Identi
fied as the criminal Wy Mrs. Powell
and Jas, Pope, the grocer’s delivery
boy, who saw him’ run from Mrs.
Powell’s home. Perry’s confession
tallies with the details of the crime.
The police are keeping Us Identl
flcatlon and confession secret for fear
that, the citizens of Portsmouth will
again become greatly excited and
make an effort to lynch the man. It
was (list determined to place Perry In
the Norfolk Jail, but that plan waH
changed, as it wus feared that the ap
pearance of I’erry on the streets of
Portsmouth would he the signal for
an outbreak against Mini. It was de
elded best to keep him in the Ports
mouth Jail and say. nothing about his
case.
The state mliltla, with headquar
ters In Portsmouth, Is in readiness for
enlling out to suppress any disorder.
BAILIFF CAUGHT MAN
AS HE LAY ASLEEP
rial I iff Walter Murphey returned to
the dty Haturday from llcphzlbah.
Mr. Murphey went to catch a negro
wanted In ilurke county for assault
with intent to murder. It seems that
the negro assaulted another In Burke
county several months ago, but h>
managed to dude the sheriff and late
ly It was learned that he was at
llcphzlbah. Bailiff Murphey went, to
the house and found the negro and
his wife In bed asleep, lie slipped
tne handcuffs on his wrists and the
negro did not. awaken until he was
a prisoner
Lewis will be turned oyer to the
Burke county authorities in the next
few days. ,
DYNAMITE BOMB
EXPLODES IN
TENEMENT
NEW YORK Hurling every oceu
[Hint in the house from their beds
and wrecking Hie lower Moor, a dvna
mite lionili was exploded early today
in the hallway of a tenement at No.
Ik<; Hamilton avenue, by “Black
Hand” agents.
Mori- Ilian a thouaand scantily clad
I Italians living In {lie house and tern-
I nients adjoining rushed to the street,
[and for more than an hour great, ex
eltemcnt prevailed.
The bomb, the police declare, was
Intended for Leopold I’accelll, a
wealthy glover living on the first
I Moor of the house and who laid re
fused tu give $.1,0(111 to the blackmail
; ers.
Mrs. Pitcelll and her four sons were
blown from their beds and burled
beneath the plaster from the celling,
which had fallen. They escaped with
only slight bruises.
THE GOVERNOR WILL VETO
THE SCHOOL BOOK BILL
ATLANTA, (Ju It 1h <onaidiTori
cam L&in that, th« Kov<*rnrn<*nt will hi>
prove Ihe reglHf ration bill, primary
bill, bill to alert the pennlon coni
tnlKHioner, hill to authorize Mm* pur
chase of land in ('hut ’anon) ;i und bill
to oKtahllHli a home guard. The hiil
to extend school book contract will
In* vetoed. It nifty he that the chief
executive nifty also turn down up*
oill authorJ/ln* the policemen and
firemen to ride free on at rent. earn.
AJJ of the bllla mentioned have been
transmitted to the governor and
await tils action.
STREET CAR HIT AUTOMOBILE.
Yeaterday afternoon Mr. Fred
Wolfe, when turning the earner of
Walker and Kolloel streeta, In pin
automobile, naw a afreet ear alrnoat
upon him Mi Wolfe fried y> ctomh
before the ear reached him hut the
car struck the right rear wheel and
HYiiAKhed It completely. Mr Wolfe
and a hoy who wiih wiUi him Jumped
i and did riot suffer any Injury.
DAILY AND SUN DAY, SO.OO PER YEAR.
CAROLINA, CLINCHFIELD AND
OHIO RAILWAY FRANCHISED
SOOT OUSOIID
TO SHE HER
HONOR
NEW YORK. Mrs. Rose Grazlano,
aged 21, a pretty bride of six months,
shot and instantly killed her hits
hand, Dominick, in their rooms at
No. fiS Adams street, Brooklyn, to
day, after he had demanded that slut
support them both at the cost of Iter
honor.
Then the girl, dazed at what she
had done, rushed from the house, the
revolver In her hand, and walked
half a mile t hrough Iho streets of
Brooklyn to the Biitler street court.
Tho court room was thronged and
there was almost a panto, when she
entered vvtthAthe pistol in her hand.
But she was calm now, readily gave
up the pistol and then toid her story
to a detective. She was taken to the
police headquarters.
From the slory, as the young wo
man told it to Detective Kerns, her
husband last night threatened to boat
her If site did not de his bidding. This
morning he repeated Ills demand. She
left the house mill bought a revolver.
When the girl returned, the hits
hand was dressed, hut was laying on
the bed In a rear room. Once mere
he told her wlmt she must do. He
deelared that he would not work, and
that she could easily get money
enough for both of them. The girl
became Infuriated and then, she do
Clares, he struck her she drew the
revolver from her waist and shot him
and lie fell back on the bed, dead.
HUH ACQUITTED OF
MURDER CHARGE
IT STH_TRIAL
ROANOKE, Va Five times tried
on a %’i.irge of murdering Ills rival In
love, John Richards n Floyd county
school teacher, has been acquitted by
a Jury at. Floyd court house, and was
yesterday afternoon released from
Jail. Richards has been in jail for
throe years.
Richards was accused of killing
Maurice K. Francis hh the latter was
going to visit Miss Grace I,ink, ills
fiancee, in Floyd county. He was
sliiil In the public road a short time
before he reached Ills home. Miss
Link, who reached the side of Francis
Just before ho died, dor lared he
whispered:
"Jealousy Is a had thing, John
Richards."
The first, sncoml and fourth trials
resulted In a disagreement of the
Jiirli-H. On the third, Richards w»s
convicted and sentenced to Is- hang
ed. He was granted a new trlni by
the supreme court After this trial
thru- members of the prisoner's fain
ily dleil from pneumonia, contracted
i-y exposure In attending It. Richards
waH not allowed to attend the fun
eral, fearing that he would lie lynch
ed. Both families are prominent.
ONE DEAD DONE
COSTSJIM ISO
Anthony Young Fined Sat
urday Morn i up, in City
Court for Game Law Vio
lation.
Anthony Young, colored, killed one
dove this summer, out of season, Unit
tost him sln, or six months' work
fur the county of Richmond. He
ptended guilty In the dly court this
morning to n violation of the gsng
law, and sen Knee whs passed. Mr
I). it. Lambert made the arrest,
CATCH 2'l-LB. LOBSTER,
DORN 200 YEARS AGO
Veteran Landed Off Mon
tank Point Twenty Inches
Long.
NEW YORK -".lack" Burgess of
Rlverhead, I. 1 , has on exhibition a
21 pound lobster, (might In » big
ocean trup net off Montauk Pole
lust Monday by Supervisor (J. Frank
Tut hill of Oreespoj t. * >1(1 lobster fish
ertoen say the monster must he two
hundred years old. It has huge eltiws
and measures more ihiin twenty Inch
es from nose to tall.
Burgess friends expect to be Invit
ed to a lobster suppci soon.
Are you making It “pay"—
this occupation of keeping
boarders? Perhaps a better way
to put the question would be;
"Are you advertising the fact
THAT YOU keep boarders?"
It is the New Railway
Project of the South anil
is Little Known to Wall
Street.
NEW YORK Financial plans of
the Carolina, Cllnchfleld and Ohio
railway, the new railway project of
the south, resembling In many re
spects H. H. Rogers’ tidewater rail
way, have been practically consum
mated. Blair & Co., will, it is under
stood buy $10,000,000 of the bonds
of the company, and announcement, to
tliiH effect will bo made soon
The new railway is but little known
to Wall street. It has been known
that the capitalists constructing tho
road were to a great extent interest
ed In the Seaboard Air Line. The
road was built to haul coal through
the mountains from Elkhorn, W. Va„
to Spartanburg, S. C„ a distance of
245 miles. II traverses and cuts
through a wild and mountainous ter
ritory.
t The Cumberland Synadlcate, com-
I prising Norman It. Ream, Thomas F.
Ryan, members of the firm of Blair
I it- Co., and other capitalists, acquir
led several years ago a largo tract
id coal land known as the Cllnchflold
Coal company property. To bring
this coal in the most dlroct route,
almost duo south, to the groat manu
facturing points of the cotton bolt in
Hie CarollnaH, Georgia and elsewhere,
the capitalists evolved the Idea of
building the Carolina, Cllnchfleld and
Ohio railroad.
THREE TIGERS
RAIDEDJf POLICE
Holtzclaw’s, Kid well’s anil
Kirsch anil Johannsen’s
Places Invaded and Pot
ables Seized.
i
Three of tho largest "ligor” raids
since prohibition became effective 'n
Augusta wen- pulled off Friday bv
squads of police officers, sent out a*.
(> o'clock roll-call.
The first detail went to Chuilio
Hollzclaw’s place, In West End. Six
barrels of beer were confiscated.
A visit to the near-beer establish
ment. of J. R. KlrlweU, at. Fifteenth
street and May avenue, netted an
other squad five barrels of bottled
whiskey and six barrels of beer.
The third raid was on the refresh
ment stand of Gas Klrscli and John
Johunnscn, In the territory, where
the officers found a barrel each of
beer and whiskey.
Ilolt/.claw, Kldwoll and Klrsch were
brought to police headquarters, and
gave bond for SI,OOO each, to appear
In the city court.
SMOKE OVERCOMES
IIIETfEMREMER
Were Fifth ting; Fire in
Philadelphia Depart
ment Store
PHILADELPHIA. Pa—Nineteen
firemen, eleven of whom had to be
taken to the hospital, were overcome
by smoke while lighting h fire which
taxed the capacity of the department
to the utmost in the great storage
plant nf Philip Dodley, at Front and
Queen streets, early this morning.
The three story building was filled
yesterday with cotton baiea, which
had lain In the hot sun until curly
evening, when they were transferred
to the storage rooms,
It Is the belief of the fireuaeti that
the hot sun of yesterday succeeded
In setting fire to the cotton, which
smouldered until the early hours of
today and then burst forth.
The damage to the building and to
the cotton has not yet, been fixed.
MRS. GUINNESS AND
CHILDREN POISONED
Coroner Had Examination
Made of Einbalmers fluid
Which Wan Used Con
tain no Poison.
I.APOHTE, Bid Horoner Muck to
ds \ received the report of the expert
who made the examination of fluids
| used by Undertaker Duller 111 pre
j paring the bodies of Mr«. (Julnnuss
I .uni her children for burial. The ex
| pert whon* name Coroner Mack re
lusi-d to disclose, says the embalming
fluid -ontslned no poison, thus clear
ly • stahllshlng the theory that tbe
poison found in the bodies of the vic
tims was administered before duatb.