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BLCCDY WORK
OF
Mob Takes Nine Men
Jail and Shoots Them
t.o Death.
HORROR AT
Seven Negroes and Oie White Man
Victims- Most of Them Were
Under Charge of Hol¬
brook Murders.
A rnob entered the jail at
•Tille, Ga., at 2 o'clock Thursday morn¬
ing and took therefrom nine prison¬
ers, t ight of whom were shot to death
and the ninth escaped only by being
thought dead by the mob. The pris¬
oners taken out and lynched were;
Lon J. Ay cock, white, charged with
the murder of F. M. Holbrook and
wtfc, of Oconee county, and seven ne¬
groes—Rich Robinson, Lewis Robin
son, Claude Elder, charged with the
murder of the Holbrook couple; San¬
dy Price, a young negro, charged with
attempted assault upon the person
of Mrs. Weldon Dooly; Rich Allen,
a negro convicted and under death
sentence for the murder of Will Rob
orison, another negro; Gene Yerby,
another negro, charged with burglary
of a rifle from Mr. Marshal, and Bob
Harris, a negro charged with shooting
another negro.
1’he mob wont quietly into Watkins
ville !/• a Si Hi little I !a I before Wlf Al’A 2 *> o’clock . ,.l- In il. the
morning. There were about fifty or
seventy- live men in the crowd. All
were heavily masked and no one
know whence them came or to what
point they returned. They went nt
enee to the home of Town Marshal
L. li. Aiken and quietly called him
to the door. As lie put his head out
of the door he was seized and
tbnt lie must deliver the jail key. He
n fused, and the men put pistols Into
his face and overpowered him, ho be
lri K a mi her small man. Aiken
fused to dress, hut some of the party
dressed him and tarried him along.
The mob next seized Courtney Elder,
u and
and (o stamp the flames of
before they can spreaj _.&rm*
which of the
| WunPoland red with the spirit of
revolt, the Caucasus already almost
in a state of civil war, the whole
country profoundly stirred and the in¬
telligent classes solid! v arrayed
against the government, all conditions
seem ripe for the long-predicted revo
\ lution.
j The Mob's Action Condemned.
} people of Watkinsville stand
! in dumb horror at the mob’s action
' and «n all sides expressions
of con
; deiun-ff.on are heard, espeeia-ly rel
carding three of the negroes, who
i wore charged with offenses less than
the capital crime. Not a man in the
mob was recognized as they all wore
j masks, and it is believed very firmly
| that all were from other counties.
So quietly was the whole affair car
! ried out that very few people of Wat
j til kinsvillo it knew all anything alymt if un
. was over, and the few
J did know about it were powerless to
prevent it.
Sheriff Overby, who had been out
j in the country Thursday afternoon,
' and who did not come from his home
J to the jail during the night, did not
j know of the occurrence until day
light.
The immediate cause of Uie lynch¬
ing was undoubtedly the attempt by
Sandy Price (colored), to assault Mrs.
Weldon Dooley Tuesday afternoon, at
her home in the suburbs of Watkins¬
ville. There was some little doubt as !
to the — — negro’s c->• ~ .«vv»uwM, intention, but uuv many umut j I
believed that when he went into the
home of Mrs. Dooley he was bent on !
that kind ef mischief. |
He was shot at bv several of the 1
crowd that captured him. but was I
not hit. He was then brought to jail
and lodged in safe keeping.
Then the trouble began to brew.
The people of tho other nearby coun
ties evidently took the matter up,
tor Thursday afternoon A. N. Dost
wick of Morgan countv rode fourteen
miles to give notice of the danger of
a lynching occurring. He arrived at
Watkinsville at 5 o’clock in the after
noon, and wont to the store of J. ,
Tt. sheriff’s Poulnott. He did not go to the J
house, for tha- official was on
his farm, and the ordinary. Judge Cal- i
vin Johnson, n * was ... in Atlanta. So - j
many rumors of this kind had reached
WafiCnsvple that little attention was
paid to his warning.
tools along with him. On their
io the jail 1 hey were met by A.
Ashford, a pjvinipetu citizen of
-_
came
ITs he could dress.
A hford n 'gr l the men to desist
Io! the law take its course,
pleading for Aycoek, on tho
that the evidence had not been
na io warrant his conviction. Ho
bogged (hem not to lynch those
charged with capital crimes.
told him that they were cool,
and determined, and that lie
Rs well go back home and go
The jail was then opened by
town marshal under tho cover of
oral pistols, and inside the jail the
mob held up Jailer Crow and demand
ed the kevs to the cells. He refused
at first, but surrendered them after
being menaced with guns. Jailer
Crow begged hard for Aycoek on
sarar ground that Mr. Ashford did,
and also for the two negroes who
were not charged with capital crimes.
Members ef the attacking party told
him to shut his mouth. They knew
what to do. they said, and they wore
go ng to clear out the whole jail.
i lie mob got over\ prisoner in the
jaii, except Ed Thrasher, a negro,
charged with gambling, who was ou
the misdemeanor side of ihe prison,
and was not noticed. The prisoners
were carried to n point some hundred
yards from the jail and tied to the
fence posts by the i necks.
Aycoek Protested Innocence.
Aycoek protested IDs innocence to
the las;. He said they were killing
—
an .innocent man. While the general
he.iet :a Oconee county is that Ay
cot-,; was guilty, s;:!! there were
many "ho d'\ not believe so.
Rich Robinson said it was all right,
so far as he was concerned, but that
throe more negroes were in the Hol¬
brook murder. Eh' named Sidney Nor¬
ris. Jim Pay lor and Wiley Durham as
the three imp!mated. U t so negroes
had been ir. .in., be’ore on :h;s charge,
but were released on full inves- ga
lion. The other prisoners did no open
their months during their match t»
the.r doom.
After the prisoners had been
!o foaco the mo’o lined up
and tited foe vo e\> o i ;e:r hod
ics. AH died without a suutgUe.with
the i x, option of Joe Patterson, 1 1 „ v-.vv. who " 1)0
"as shot severa tunes in the body,
but was alive after the mob left and
■Will recover.
REVOLUTION IS RAMPANT;
More Russian Marines Mutiny and
Actual State of War Exists in
Town of Odessa.
Dispatches from Odessa, under date
of Thursday stated that the mutineers
of the battleship Kniaz Poteznkine still
held the ship. A great fire is de¬
stroying the shipping in the harbor,
and the buildings along along the the shore shore and and
in tho streets a continuous rattle of
small arms is heard. teard. The The military military
everywhere are shooting into the
crowds, which are panic-stricken and
madly rushing hither and thither for
shelter. The number of victims is
large. A state of siege has been de¬
clared in the city. The conflagration
is sweeping along the harbor, the sail
ors and strikers refusing to permit at
tempts to extinguish the flames. Three
unisured ships of the Pan-Russian
company have been destroyed.
A St. Petersburg special says; The
emperor has issued the following
ukase addressed to the ruling senate;
"In order to guarantee public safety
and to terminate the disorders at
Odessa and neighboring localities, we
i have found it necessary to declare
a
state of war In Odessa and district
and to invest, the commander of the
troops of the military district of
Odessa with the rights of military
authority and special rights of civil
administration for the defense of or¬
der and public tranquility .
The crew of government transport,
which arrived during the day from
NIcolicf, mutinied, seized the officers
and joined the crew of the Kniaz Po
Memkine, to whom they turned over
■ | the captain —------- and ----- other ------ officers of the |
j transport, li is reported that the for- j
°ign Dlfflt OAtiettlo consuls lvotrrv have applied o i. < v 1 L\ ,1 in to fk their nta
respective governments to send war
slli PS to Odessa,
R is reported that the volunteer
cruiser Saratoff has been burned at
Odessa. Admiral Kruger’s squadron
expected to arrive at Odessa every
hour. His orders are to summon the |
Kniaz Potemkine to surrender, and
"P«n her refusal to sink her, after'
which lie is to assist in restoring or
dor in the town,
The Hussion government, although
it has been almost paralyzed by the
terrible events at Odessa and the news
that tho sailors at. Lilian also have mu¬
tinied, is making desperate and even
A patient 'reacrl^tion. hospi¬
at S metropolitan
tal goes away ytst satisfied when ne
is given sometiV-3 diking, to drink out of a
bottle. The according to
ancient ritual, ni^t not be lees often
than three time a day, and the cere
! mony must have some reference to
meals. The draught, to be efficient,
must be colore 1 - It must have a
I marked odor, sf that he may invite
his friends to s nr Jl it. It should be
loathsome to tf e taste, so that the
taking of it ma call for some hero¬
ism. ism. Above Above alii all; it it needs needs to to possess possess
an evil-looking /sediment, which will
re^l13ir ‘ , a f&rma l shaking of tho viaI
-The Hospital.
Proof of 3ri<j : nality.
“Yes." remar Mrs. Upstartia,
“that picture is , original Raphael,
Husband had so much about
counterfeit Rap^ that he not only
' ordered this fr an artist upon
whom he could* end, but he wmt
' to far as to g| ! the studio every
j day while it peing painted; so
you can take ml rd for it that this
is a real origl| taphael.' ’—Boston
Transcript.
“Chlorahydrau 4t dimethylamino
benzoyl pentanol' I th»* name of the
latest anaesCiie! |Dr §A which great
things are claim name like that
should be suffic! to put any one
to sleep, thin ikJ jie Detroit Free
Press.
UNSIGHTLY! BALD spot
by Sores o» rk-MfrPilm« Itch*
i»K For Two Vi Made Him Wild
—Another t ,hy CUtieura.
“For two years I neck was covered
with sores, the h spreading to my
hair, which fell oi feness. ■aving an unsightly
bald spot, and the inflammation
and merciless ih made me wild,
Friends advised ( ira Soap and Oiry>
rnent, and after a ipplications the tot
ment subsided, to jrcat joy. The sores
S(y 0*1 ( i ! Set p p0ct 1’GCj y buy hair grew again,
as ............. thick and healfc as ever. I shall al¬
..
ways recommend umLura. (Signed) H.
J. Spalding, 104 \V. toRh St., N. Y. City.”
A Story* fpr Critics.
There Is a little e'tory of the Sultan
of Turkey, and it has a little moral
pinned niuuwu to to it which we commend to
the critics,
r Once '"“" upon ” T '‘- a tir-<e the Sultan wrote
a poem. “Read it.” he said to his
hired literary cri/c, j “and say what
you think of it”
"Magnificent,” exclaimed the critic.
“Glorious as the sun! Matchless as
the moon!” s
"You’re a liar," said the Sultan.
"It’s the worst tiff - I ever did. Ho,
there!"—cab*’- • guard
wjt h Lhi s L,
_ ‘’tffifafe #ier day a certain
man who had iu yi employ a fellow
of literary tendenc -s submitted to
him an artich wit these instruc¬
tions:
“I wrote this thii. ; myself, and I
think highly of it nevertheless, be
candid with me, an it you think it's
worth nothing say so. I want the
| truth.”
Thus urged the cu rie rendered this
! decision: “It is very weak—ill-writ*
j , ten, ... and ______ would _____ not ____ he considered ^ by
any person of literary taste and judg
ment.
. Whereupon the author and em¬
ployer, in great rage, kicked the can¬
did critic out of the front door, and
he lost his job and his dignity, and
! is now trying to get up a suit for
’ damages.—Atlanta Constitution.
■
1N COLONEL’S TOWN
Things Happen*
Freni the home of the famous “Koyh
do.wn~South,“comes nel Iveeyurtah, of Curtersville,” au‘ Pnthusiastie'lS away
ter about Postnm.
j “I was in very delicate health, suf
J feeing from indigestion and a nervous
i tumble so severe that I could hardly
s '°ep. The doctor ordered me to dis
continue the use of the old kind of cof¬
fee which was like poisoq to me, pro
during such extreme disturbance that
I could not control myself. But such
was niy love for it that l could not get
my own consent to give it up for some
time, and continued to suffer till my
father one day brought home a pack¬
age of Postuui Food Coffee
I had the new food drink carefully
prepared according to directions ‘ird
gave it a fair trial! It proved to have
a rich flavor and made a healthy,
wholesome and delightful drink. To
m - v taste the addition of cream greatly
proves it.
My health began to improve as soon
as the drug effect of the old offeo was
removed and tho Postum Coffee had
time to make its influence felt. My
nervous troubles were speedily relieved
and (tie steep which the old coffee
drove from my pillow always came to
soothe and strengthen me after I had
drunk Dostum—-in a very short time 1
began to sleep better than I had for
years before. I have now used Dostum
Coffee ................ for several years and like it bet
tor aud it more beneficial than
w * ,en 1 first began. It is an nnspeak
ab,p J°- v t0 *** relieved of the old dis
tr«Mss ttiul su*kno>s.** Name givcu by
Postum Company. Battle Creek. Mich.
There’s a reason.
Read the little book. "The IRad to
Wolivine,’’ iu each pkg.
Mariictinc Fol.ito Croj>'.
In line with the classic e. -e of the
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley of Yale University in his book,
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President Tuttle of the
Boston & Maine Itafiroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com¬
merce. 'Sotting could better -how ham
a railroad works for the interest cf
the localities -which it serves.
A main dependence of the farmers of
the Aroostook region is the potato
crop, aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find a mar¬
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thickly settled regions of New Eng¬
land. The competition of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all poinds
along the New England const keeps
railroad freight rates on these pota¬
toes always at a very low level.
Potatoes arc also a considerable out¬
put of the truck farms of Michigan,
their normal market being obtained in
and through Detroit and Chicago and
other communities of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun and
rains brought a tremendous yield of
potatoes from tho Michigan fields. At
norma! rates and prices there would
have been a glut of the customary mar¬
kets and the potatoes would have rot¬
ted on the farms. To help the potato
growers the railroads from Michigan
made unprecedentedly low rates o:i
potatoes to every reachable market,
even carrying them in large quantities
to a place so remote as Boston. The
Aroostook growers had to reduce Hie
price on their potatoes and even then
could not; dispose of them unless the
Boston & Maine Railroad reduced its
already low rate, which it did. By
means of these low rates, making pos¬
sible low prices, the potato crops of
both Michigan and Maine were finally
marketed. Everybody eats potatoes,
and that year everybody had r.ll the
potatoes lie wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at all
times, to ail places, they helped their
patrons to find markets for them. The
Boston & Maine Railroad suffered a de¬
crease in its revenue from potatoes,
but it enabled the Aroostook fanners
to market tlicir crop and thereby to
obtain money which they spent for
the varied supplies which iiic rail¬
roads brought to them. If the making
of rates were subject to Governmental
adjustment such radical and prompt
action could never have been taken,
because it is well established that if a
rate be once reduced by a railroad
company it cannot bo restored through
tlie red tape of Governmental proced¬
ure. If the Michigan railroads and the
Boston & Maine Railroad had been
subjected to Governmental limitation
.-thy r-i/MJkAJ.m.zii.J^-*<4iiLig.od to keep
up their rates as do the railroads of
France and England and Germany un¬
der Governmental .'imitation aud iet
The potatoes rot.—Exchange.
APPEAL OF FUGITIVES QUASHED.
Greene and Gaynor May Soon 3e Wending
Iheir Way to Georgia.
The Canadian supreme court Tues¬
day unanimously granted the motion
made in behalf of the government
of the United States to quash the
appeal of Gaynor and Greene from
the judgment of the court of Kings
bench, affirming the refusal of a writ
of prohibition by Judge Davidson
against the issue of a warrant for
extradition. The appeal was quashed
with costs.
The court of Kings bench of Que¬
bec gave, judgment in favor of hand¬
ing over Gaynor and Greene to the
United States government. Leave was
then given to appeal to the supreme
court of Ottawa against that decis¬
ion. The supreme court has decided
that there is no appeal and conse¬
quently the decision of the Quebec
court to hand these men over stands.
The ease now goes back to the court
of Kings bench.
mams at head or gdd d roads.
Prominent Floridian Will Manage Affairs of
the National Association.
The committee appointed to frame
a new constitution for the National
Good Roads Association settled the
election contest at the convention in
Portland. Oregon, reporting that Pres¬
ident Moore and Secretary Richard¬
son should both retire from office,
and that the affairs of the associa¬
tion should be managed by Vice Pres¬
ident .V. S. Mann of Florida, acting as
president until the association shall
convene in St. Lou's next spring to
elec; officers. The report was adopt¬
ed unanimously.
MORE DlSTIiiCFS UNDER MaRT.’AL LAW.
Russia is Making Desperate Efforts to
Forestall Rebellion.
A Sr. Petersburg special of Fri¬
day says: Martial law has been pro- :
claimed in the gov, rnments of Sebas¬
topol, Nicholaieff and Erivan.
An imperial order confers on the :
viceroy of the Caucasus the rights of
a military commander of the Black
sea fleet in the districts cf Sebasto- l
nol and Nicholaieff.
V
"My nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys. I
was suffering intensely from severe
pains rn the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal secre¬
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. I took Doan’s Kiilney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. Doan’s Kidney Pills will prove
a blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them a fair
trial.”
Foster-.Wilburn Co.. Buffalo, X. Y.,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price 50 cents per box.
“It is the saddest thought of all,
that what we are to others, that we
are much more to ourselves—avar¬
icious, mean, irascible, affected,—we
are the victims of these faults,” says
Thoreau’s Journal.” If our pride of¬
fends our humble neighbor, much
more does it offend ourselves, though
oar lives are never so private and soli*
tary.”
OTHERWISE OCCUPIED.
Johnny— Paw-, whata au auto da £e2
Father—Sakes alive, I dunno! I
ain’t got time to keep up with all
these new-tangled motor cars.—*
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The French government intends tf
make sxp-eriments in its Congo col
any in the cultivation of a wild coffef
tree discovered by the explorer, M
Chevalier
Bures Eczema, Itching; H-.tutors.
Botanic Especially for old, chronic cases take
Blood Bairn. It gives a healthy
blood supply to the affected parts, heals ad
the sores, eruption scabs, scales; stops the
awful itching and burning of eczema, swell¬
ings, suppurating, watery sores, etc. Drug¬
gie is 31 per large bottle, 3 bottles $2.50. G
bottles 5a.GO, --r press prepaid, r am pie tree
and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., At¬
lanta, Ga. Ees .-riba trouble and free medi¬
cal advice sent in sealed letter.
There are nearly £000 railway grade
crossings in the United States.
Caw Shot**
One size smaller after nslnr Allen’s Foot
Ease, a powder. Jt makes tight or newshoss
easv. Cures swollen, hot. .sweating, aching
feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At
nil druggists and 3hos stores, 25c. Don’t ac¬
cept anv substitute. Trial Package Fuze b.
mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, X.Y.
In 1870 England had S121 schools and
ii.5 priscm*: - - — .— —
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
t eething, soften the gums.reduces inflamma¬
tion, allays pain,cureswiad colic, 25c.abottle.
Colorado is to have another forest re¬
serve cf 1,014,926 acres.
Fiso’s Cure is the host medicine we ever use !
lorall affections of throat and lungs.—Wx.
O. ExMLiii-, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, l'JOO.
The cost of the world’s wars since the
Crimean war has been S12.26S.090,000.
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LASTING RELIEF.
.T. W. Walls. Super¬
intendent of Streets,
of Lebanon, Ky. f
says;