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People who live In furnished rooms come to “know the town” better than other people. They move when they see chances to better themselves* The ads. are IMPORTANT to THEM. 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.