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™ OF FRENZY.
Death and Destruction is Wrought
by Akron Mob-
BAYONETS OF THE MILITARY.
Overawe Lawless Element— City
Hall Destroyed. One Life Taken,
Many Persons Wounded.
Akron, 0., Aug. 23. —In this
city, the heart of the boasted wes
tern reserve, a mob tonight sought
the life of a negro prisonei uuu ill
a conflict with the authorities shed
blood. Louis Peck, a negro, was
put in jail today on the charge of
criminally assaulting the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dore Maas. The report that he
had confessed spread rapidly and
tonight a mob gathered. Not be
lieving the statement of the sheriff
that Peck had been sent out of the
city the crowd sent committees
through the city prison and the
county jail to search tor the negro.
This proving fruitless, the mob
gathered in front of the city prison,
where the mayor tried to induce
them to disperse. Some one fired
a shot at the prison. Other shots
followed and for a few minutes
there were terrible scenes. Two
persons are dead from bullet wounds
and several are badly wounded,
one of the latter fatally.
Shortly after midnight the mob
broke into a hardware store and
stole all the firearms and ammuni
tion they could find, including
guns, rifles and revolvers, and pro
ceeded to the city building and
opened fire on the defenders and
finally set fire to the Columbia
hall, which adjoins the city build
ing. They will no doubt set fire
to the city building before morn
ing, as the flames are spreading
rapidly.
CHAOS AND ANARCHY.
When day dawned in Akron
Tuesday it revealed a scene of
desolation and the evidence of vio
lation and lawlessness unparalleled
in the history of this city. The
rioters had done their awful work
and dispersed. One child was lv
in£ cola in death and nearly a score
of people were suffering from the
wounds of pistol balls, buckshot
and other missiles.
'1 lie city building was a heap of
smouldering ruins and beside it
steamed the water-soaked ashes of
Columbia hall.
The police force of the city was
disorganized and scnjttered. The
chief was fleeing in desperation
from the scene of bloodshed, riot
and burning, almost crazed by what
his men had done.
Live electric wires lay across
the streets in the vicinity of the
burned buildings and debris of all
kinds was scattered far and near.
The down town streets were just
as the mob left them and, although
nothing was being done by the
rioters, crowds of spectators, hun
dreds in number, hung around,
wait : for something to turn up.
At o o\ lock the crowds began to
increase ; s'the curious spectators
hun ed the scene of the trouble.
A pv ic,i appeared and then
anon .tin and at first, but \v ch in
crea;... an ance as no violence
wa.
II ' RY COMPANY ARRIYKS.
Ti ( . C. of Canton, a de
tac nr-; . o he Sth Ohio regiment
marched down the street, and halt
ing bei'o: ■ the ruins of the city
building was at once set to work
patrolling the fire lines. There
was no evidence of ill-will or dis
quiet on the part of the crowds at
the lines. There was no talk of
violence. The turbulent element
had slunk away with the coming
of daylight and order was once
more fully restored after an awful
night of terror and anarchy.
MOKE MILITIA ON THE SCENE.
At 9 o’clock this morning nine
companies of the 4th regiment ar
rived in the city and marched to
the scene of last night’s rioting.
Shortly before 10 o’clock Mayor
E. W. Young issued a proclama
tion closing every saloon in Akron
until further orders. The mayor
I ALWAYS KEEP ON HAND
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L There is no kind of pain
for ache, internal or exter
nal, that Pain-Killer will
Pnot relieve.
j LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SUB
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v BEARS THE NAME,
i PERRY DAVIS A. SON.
is taking every precaution possible
Ito prevent a renewal of the out
| break. If the situation demands
; more drastic measures the mayor
I states that the city will be put un
der martial law. ,
i In the Akron riot history again
J repeated itself—the innocent ones
were those to suffer, while the
guilty ones weTe practically unin
jured.
THE VICTIMS.
Glenn Wade was shot and al
most instantly killed. He was in
the mob, and a bullet from a re
volver pierced his heart. The lad
was only 11 years of age.
Another innocent one who will
die is Rhoda Davidson, the 4-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
j Davidson, of No. 111 Allyn street.
| Sitting in a carriage with her tnoth
-ler and father on the outskirts of
( the mob, a bullet found lodgment
lin her skull. No hope is held out
I for her recovery.
THE RESISTANCE SHOWN
by the police officers and city offi
cials in the city hall only served to
lash the mob into greater frenzy.
Failing in its effort to force an en
trance into tue city hall, a portion
of the mob ran to the store of the
Standard Hardware company, on
Main street, about one and a half
blocks from the scene of the riot
ing In a twinkling a large plate
glass window in the front of the
store was smashed to atoms, and
the mob ran into and looted the
store. Revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
razors and thousands of rounds of
ammunition were taken, and with
these weapons the mob returned to
the city hall. Standing in the
front window of the building,
Mayor Young, Chief of Police Har
rison and other police officials were
haranguing the mob, endeavoring
to convince the rioters that Louis
Peck, the colored mail charged
with assaulting little Christina
Maas had been quietly removed
from the jail during the afternoon
and taken to Cleveland for safe
keeping.
The remarks of the mayor only
increased the
ANGER OF THE MOB.
In his first attempt to quiet the
mob he said that the prisoner had
been taken out of the city about 4
o’clock. In another speech he gave
6 o’clock as the time of the pris
oner’s departure, and in speaking
again he said 8 o’clock. They be
lieved that the mayor was not tell
ing the truth, and that the prisoner
was still in the city jail, notwith
standing that two different commit
tees had searched the building from
cellar to roof without finding any
trace of the prisoner.
John Wintrode, one of the
searching committee, stood on the
roof of the building and told the
mob that Peck was not to be found
The rioters refused to be satisfied,
and with the cry, “To the court
house,” “To the county jail,” they
started up the hill to the court
house and jail. First they attack
ed the jail and were met by Dep
uty Sheriff Stone. 011 his request
a committee was hurriedly appoint
ed and every nook and corner of
the jaii was searched.
“To the court house” the cry
was again taken up, and a dash
was made for the court house across
the street.
DOORS WERE BATTERED IN
land the rioters surged through t’'e
I different halls and rooms, but with
| out result A dash was then made
1 tor the feature; 's office, but the
! lieavv iron aoorschecked tn. mob..
Lea v; lg ine con; * i ouse e
| mob re‘urued to the vicinity of L e
; ei ; y hall.
“Burn them out” was the cry
j from several people, and the echo
of the cry was an affirmative roar
| of the tnob.
Adjoining the eitv hall, which
was constructed almost entirely of
brick, was an immense building,
for many years the principal pub
lic hall of Akron. This budding—
a veritable tinder box —caught the
eye of the mob as a likely place to
set fire iii the hope that the flames
would soon spread to the city build
ing. The large frame building
was presently a mass of flames.
The various companies respond
ed, but the mob refused to permit
them to work. Several shots were
fired at the firemen, and L. Man
chester was the first to receive an
injury. The lines of hose were
cut and slashed until there was not
a single stream of water playing on
the flames. Columbia hall was
soon a ruin, but the city hall was
yet standing. While the adjoining
hall was burning the inn a esof the
city hall escaped through a back
doorway. Resistance withdrawn
the mob made a rush for th,e hall.
FLAMING EMBERS WERE THROWN
into the different rooms and ihe
building was soon burned Some
of the more thoughtful ones in the
mob liberated the prisoners from
‘he cells. A stick of dynamite
was thrown into the front of the
burning building. A terrific crash
followed and portions of the wall *
A neh man died the other day. He died
In the very midsummer of life, and he left
his family $1,000,000. Toe doctor's certifi*
asHM, cate showed that
vV rf death resulted from
ziyfv typhoid fever. The
Z' doctor himself said
j 1000 000 to a friend : “That
f \ ) man was a suicide
He had a splendid
iu4P*r co^ t \ tutr ° n „ i
ST J could have pulled
I 5 rf him through if his
I l * H p stomach had been
J H sound. But he
—-jr ruined his stomach
&*** by hasty meals,
snatched in inter
vals of business and
by neglect of symptoms which have been
warning him a year past, that his stomach
was failing in its duties.”
The symptoms of a disordered condition
of the stomach and the organs of digestion
and nutrition are. among others, variable
appetite, sour risings, heartburn, undue
fullness after eating, dull headache, dingy
complexion, discolored eye, fluctuatibns in
physical strength, nervousness, sleepless
ness, despondency. No one person will
have all these symptoms at once, but any
one of them calls for prompt aid for the
suffering stomach.
The restoraiion of the stomach, digestive
and nutritive organs to a condition of sound
health, begins with the first dose of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The
cure progresses from that dose until the
function* of the stomach and its related
organs are in healthy operation. Then the
nerves are quiet, the appetite healthful, the
sleep restful, the eye bright, the complex
ion clear. In one word the body is in a
condition of perfect health.
“I was troubled with indigestion about two
years," writes Win. Bowker, Esq., of Juliaetta,
Latah Cos., Idaho. “ I tried different doctors and
remedies but to no avail, until I wrote to vou
and you told me what to do. I suffered with a
pain in ray stomach and left side and thought
that it would kill me. Now I am glad to write
this and let you know that lam all right. I can
do my work now without pain and I don’t have
that tired feeling that I used to have. Five
bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery and two vials of his ' Pleasant Pellets 1
cured rue."
Don’t let the dealer sell you a substitute,
if you want a cure. Insist on having
“Golden Medical Discovery.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets surpass all
complexion powders. They make the skin
healthy and the complexion clear.
crumbled away like dust before a
breeze. Another charge was ex
ploded and the work of
DEVASTATION WAS COMPLETE.
JJJjWhile this work was in progress
members of the mob pulled the au
tomobile patrol from the station.
One rioter with a large knife in
his hand occupied the operator’s
seat, and amid the cheers of thou
sands the wagon was run up and
down the street, bumping into
telephone poles and curb stones
and finally rushing down a steep
incline into the canal. It was
rescued this morning and taken to
a place of safety. The physicians
of the city were on the move while
the rioting was in progress. At 4
o’clock this morning the rioting
had practically ceased.
Today the scene of the rioting
w'as
VISITED BY THOUSANDS.
The people of Akron were rest
less. Everyone appeared to be
waiting for trouble, buc none oc
curred. During the day wild ru
mors were current that mobs were
being .formed to go to Cleveland!
and lynen Peck, but there was no
good ground for the rumor. The
arrival of the troops distracted the
attention of those lawlessly in
clined and had a salutary effect
on those who would have delighted
in a recurrence of the rioting. The
city officials seamed the postoffice
building for temporary quarters.
The saloons have been closed since
noon. At a conference in the af
ternoon at the Buchtel hotel be
tween Mayor Young and the mili
tia officials dead lines were estab
lished and soldiers were placed in
different places in the downtown
section of the cltv.
“Do you mean to sav,” demand
ed tue purist, “that his nude statue
Yetiu • s not imp/op-nY ’ "Wed,”
K,j.ica the O’. her m. “it can . t
lea-; be said :a : = •,“ . vo >* -i'll, t she
ri. ver wbiea .an a o.iao.e bat ..g
suit.”
Whilst we are cons' it 'ng where
w; are to beg n : t u o u.i c-o fi. t e
to act. —Quintilian.
A Letter to Mrs. Pinkham Brough*
Health to Mrs. Archambo.
[LETTER TO MRS. PINKHA.M JJO. 42,39j]
“ Dear Mm. Pinkham — For tvo
years I felt tired and so weak and dizzy
that some days I could hardly go
around the house. Backache and head
ache all the tune and my food would
not digest and had such pains in the
womb and troubled with leucorrhoea
and kidneys were affected.
‘• After birth of each child I grew
weaker, and hearing so much of the
good you had done, I wrote U> you and
have Liken six bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkharu's Vegetable Compound, one
box of Lozenges, one box of Liver Pills,
one package of Sanative Wash, and to
day I am feeling as well as I ever did.
>\ hen I get up in the morning I feel as
fresh as I did when a girl and eat and
sleep well and do all of my work. If
ever I feel weak again shall know
where to get my strength. I know
yourmedicinacured me.”— Mrs. Salixa
Archambo, Charlemont. Mass.
The present Mrs. Pinkham’s experi
ence in treating female ills is unparal
leled; for years she worked side by
side with Mrs. Lvdia E. Pinkham. and
for sometime past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department of
her great business, treating by letter
as many as a hundred thousand ailing
women a year. All women who suffer
are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham
at Lynn, Mass., for advice, which will
be promptly given without charge.
CAPT. FRANK A- CRENSHAW.
Crosses the Continent and is Now
at Sanitarium in Atlanta.
Atlanta Constitution.
Capt. Frank Crenshaw, the
Georgia boy who was dangerously
wounded in the head while leading
his men in an engagement a few
miles from Manila, arrived in At
lanta yesterday afternoon from San
Francisco, accompanied by his un
cle, W. C. Crenshaw, of Carters
ville.
Capt. Crenshaw reached San
Francisco few days since in an
almost precarious condition after
the long and tedious trip across
the Pacific from Manila. After
coming the greater part of the dis
tance he decided to risk the jour
ney across the continent to his
Georgia home and arriving yester
day morning from New Orleans,
was met at the depot by his father,
Chairman T. C. Crenshaw, of the
railroad commission.
Captain Crenshaw, instad of go
ing to Cartersville at once, remain
ed in Atlanta as it was deeme 1
best for him to receive surgical a
- without more delay. At the
Elkin-Cook sanitarium, where he
is now located, an operation of a
very serious character will proba
bly be perforced today or tomor
row. Owing to the out of the way
hospital to which Captain Cren
shaw was taken upon being
wounded he received very slight
attention. After a few weeks he
was removed to Manila, but while
he improved there, sufficient to
permit his departure for America,
his wound was not thoroughly at
tended to. It will probably be
several weeks before his strength
is entirely regained.
Capt. Crenshaw was seen yester
day by a representative of The
Constitution, but he was too weak
to tell in detail of the engagement
in which he was shot. Briefly, he
and his men were called out early
one morning to disperse a band of
Filipinos prowling in the neign
borhood, and were led by a Filipino
who professed to be friendly. The
result was that Capt. Crenshaw
and the detachment under him
were led into an ambush, and be
fore the Americans could get their
bearing a sharp rifle fire from the
natives brought down Capt. Cren
shaw and one of his men. The
troops rallied and charged the na
tives in their position, leaving sev
eral of them dead on the field.
Capt. Crenshaw was conveyed
back to camp with difficulty, and it
looked for a time as if the wound
in the head would prove fatal.
For several days he was delirious,
but finally a change for the better
came about and his recovery at
least to partial strength began up
on his removal to Manila.
Of all the young Georgians serv
ing in the Phillippines, or for that
matter of any who have been con
nected with any campaign since
the Spanish American war began,
none have distinguished themselves
more for gallant service than has
Captain Frank Crenshaw. 111 a
recent report from the commandel
of his regiment, Captain Creti
shaw, with another comrade, is re
commended to the secretary of war
for conspicious gallantry in action
The confidence ini; osed in him by
his superior officers was illustrated
in th.-ea;ly spring, when he was
placed ’ con 1 nand of a sen... t
po-1 ;;d left largely to Ids own
. discretion.
Cap 51 Crenshaw stated vester
jd .v,. •he was very anxious -o
ig< r -k k ■ nee 11:o e.O h" ■
;m 1 < ; ,-d iuac lie pro o e t .
iin ... CO.; it V j-uv. as Ong a ue
jus wan necc.^a.y.i'o- 1i •■ .r fu.iy
! recow r Ida . - :id ixe
I H-‘ ms ..- statenu- t .1 expla -i
--i g ..e present conchuon in the
Pii.d p; i .f* . !ha; there v .is l.'de
actual figlring going on anJ that
the American troops were faced
more with guerrilla warfare than
any other kind.
DEATH OFCAPT. REILLY-
Gal ant Officer Falls Beside his Bat
tery on Walls of Pekin.
Pekin, Aug. 15. —(ViaCheeFoo
Aug. 22.) —The Americans breach
ed three gates before the imperial
palace and occupied the approaches
to the last wall. Capt. Henry J.
Reilly, Battery F. sth U. S. Art.,
and five privates were killed and
sixteen wounded. During the
afternoon the Americans returned
.to camp, pending a conference be
! tween the generals. Thereupon
the Russians occupied the ap
proaches to the palace.
Capt. Reilly was standing on the
wall directly beside his battery
when a bullet struck him in the
mouth, killing him instantly. The
battery hammered at the gates un ;
til they fell. In the meantime the
infantry cleared the streets and
walls where the Chinese soldiers
with a fine cover -stubbornly re
sisted. The fighting was close and
sharp. A Frefich battery, while
shelling the approaches to the pal
ace, narrowly missed the Ameri
cans.
mM
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r y Chattanooga, Tenn. #
Want Gordon to Stay Away
In view of recent occurences in
Atlanta and the utterances there of
the commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic the Confederate As
sociation of the Army of Tennessee
has lodged an objection to all such
so called “reunions” in future and
protests against Gen. Gordon’s ac
cepting an invitation to be present
at the reunion of the G. A. R. in
Chicago in his capacity of Comman
der of the United Confederate Vet
erans.
The Army of Tennessee sees
nothing but hypocrisy and the com
mercial spirit in such “reunions,”
which are called to set off fall fairs
ortoaddtothe dullness of sum
mer barbecues. It realizes that oil
and water cannot mix. The men
comprising these organizations can,
and do, mingle every day in busi
ness life and in social meeting. But
when they light their campfires
and assemble to fight their battles
over again they should have separ
ate reunions. They are friends
now, but neither side has changed
his view of the civil struggle and,
least of all, has the southern man
any idea of altering his school his
tories for the children to suit the
dominant spirit of the hour. Every
suggestion to this effect has been
repudiated with scorn in the south
Gen. Gordon, who is pretty liberal
and magnanimous, found it neces
sary to aissent from such suggest
ion of Gen. Shaw, in Atlama. Gen.
Gordon is a striking figure in an
army reunion, but many of his old
comrades think he should stay
away from Chicago, where he
might be compelled to protest and
dissent every few hours.—Savan
nah Press.
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The other day I heard of a man
of the name of George Gould br
ing at New Rochel, N. Y., whose
wife has lived in the same house
and sat at the same table with him
W’ithout speaking to him for more
than 20 years. They were mar
ried in 1863 and have four chil
dren who are grown and three of
them are married. About twenty
years ago husband and wife quar
reled and the latter becoming angry
at one of the remarks, declared
that she would never speak to him
again until he apologized. He is
too stubborn to apologize and she
has become accustomed to silence.
They sleep and sit and eat together
like other husbands and wives.
Theydiive to town in the same
buggy, occupy the same pew at
church, she meuds his stockings,
the buttons on his shirts and
fulfills all the other wifely duties
in the ordinary common place way
except that of conversation, and
the husl a id had been accustom* and
so the situation by long txperiei c
He talks to her without reserve,
but when it is necessary for her to
communicate with him she does so
through her daughter, who lives
with them and plays the part of
telephone for the old ladv.
And yet people say that a wo
man can’t hold her tongue.
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