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NINTH year
lunoke a “Bill Arp ’ waiters New Brand
loODT M WAR
H —.— ■■
l;g Negroes Hud a White
I Mao Killed.
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I BUTTLE in the dark
lasted Several Hours, And Re-
I sultad Disastrously.
| Meridian, Miss , Oct. 24.
I'he most bloody race war that
Eae occurred in Mississippi since
|he exciting days of the recon-
Itriiction period is raging in
fccott county, fifty miles west of
Meridian.
Is the result of an attempt to
Irrest a mean nogro near Har
leriTille, Scott county, in the
Eastern part of the state, one
liliite deputy is killed, three
■wounded, and according to the
■latest report, nine negroes have
■ been killed by the citizens of the
■Harpersville neighborhood and
■ the sheriff's posse combined.
■ The pursuit of about fifty ne-
I grots, who bad joined the oiig
linal offender with the avowed
I determination to prevent his ar-
I rest and capture and who am-
Ibuihed the party attempting the
■ arrest, continues and by morn
ling the number of fatalities will
I undoubtedly assumed larger
I proportions. The whole country
I ii terribly aroused and the sher-
I iff’s posse has been re enforced
I with men from all the neighbor-
I ing towns.
Gov. McLaurin has gone to
ths scene, which is about ten
miles north of Forest, the nsar
' est railroad point.
The trouble originated last
Friday, when a negro named
Bill Burke had an altercation
with bis employer, Charles Free
man, a white man, in which the
negro got the best es the difficul
ty-’
That night a crowd of white
roes went to Burke’s bouse to
arrist him, but he was not tnere.
The white men then decided to
go back the next night to cap
ture Burke, and the plan was
not csncealed from .the blacks.
Headed by Wallace Sibley, a
white man deputized to arrest
Hie man, the crowd went to
Burke’s house, which, which is
tuuaied about one mile from
Harpersville. When they arrived
upon the seane and called for
Burke they were greeted by a
fusilade from the negroes, who
Were concealed in the bushes
surrounding the house and in
ths house itself.
W allace Sibley, the leader,
fell dead at the first volley and
three more white members of the
er owd, James Johnson, James
Hamilton and James Wells,
Ker « wounded.
Ihe whites returned the firs,
hut were unable to de any exe
cution, as their assailants were
■U concealed. There were not
m °re than eight men in the
*rowd, and finding it impossible
to resist effectively, they retired
towards Harpersville.
It was not known at that time
that Sibley was injured, but
*hen the officers returned to th'
s cene this morning he was fount
dead in the yard.
Ihe wounded deputies wire
ft bls to get back to town
'bs assistance of the eomr-des.
TH E ROMEH USTLER-COMMERGIa l
This occurrence took placa oarly
in the night.
When the crowd returned to
Harpersville the news spread
like wildfire. During the night a
large crowd gathered from the
neighborhood. The men imme
diately went to Burke’s house
and got from Ins mother the
names of all parties in the crowd
which had ambushed the men
the night before. lu all there
were about forty negroes who
had gathered to prevent the ar
rest of Burke, and a list was
made up at her dictation. All of
them had fled before the crowd
made its appearance the next
morning. Then the pursuit and
search for each of the proscribed
darkies began.
According to the statement of
reliable citizens, six of the ne
groes were found and killed by
the crowd of armed and deter
mined citizens before the sheriff
arrived.
This morning the sheriff, J .
M. Stephenson, was wired from
Harpersville of the threatening
condition of affairs, and he has
asked to get together a posse
and come at once to Harpers
ville . The sheriff lives at Mor
ton, ten miles from the scene,
gathering together a posse of
twenty or thirty men, he start
ed at once for the place. When
he arrived in the afternoon he
was joined by crowds of citi
zens until a conservative esti
mate places the num' er in the
posse at over 300 men.
Immediately after leaving
the house where the first trage
dy was committed, the negroes
scattered through tLe surround
ing,country. The sheriffs pur
suit has resolved itself into a
chase of the negroes implicated
and not of a mob which is keep
ing together as was first report
ed. A reliable telephone mes
sage received a’ a late hour last
night states that three more ne
groes have been found and kill
ed, making a total of nine to
date with about forty more to
be head from.
Sheriff Stephenson, realizing
the danger to be apprehended,
immediately wired Governor
McLaurin at Brandon for aid in
quelling a probably widespread
disturbance. Upon receipt of
this telegram the governor wired
Adjutant General Henry, at
Jackson, to gather a company of
national guard and proceed to
the scene upon the first trnin
Gen. Henry immediately re
sponded that thero was no na
tional guard obtainable, but
that he would got together a
company of irmed men and
render all necessary assistance.
In the meantime the govern
or procured a special train con
sisting of an engine and caboose,
at Brandoi, and accompanied
by a poa>e of 30 men, armed
with she* guns, proceeded to
Forest. Arriving there early in
the evening and finding that
there was small danger of the
riot jflsuming proportions be
yon< the ability of the posse on
ha»d to keep in bounds, ne
wi'ed Gen. Henry that it would
b> unnecessary for him to bring
Jis volunteers from Jackson.
The posse is operating in the
swamps about a mile from Har
persville, where most of the fu
gitives are supposed to be con
cealed. There is a message here
to the effect that the citizens are
apprehensive of armed negroes
entering the town tonight, and
ROME GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, CCTOBR 24, 1898.
BUBONIC PLAGUE.
Dread Asiatic SsaJrije Shows
Up Io Vienna.
VIC’IM THE PHYSICIAN,
Who Attended Herr Barsich in
His Illness.
Vienna, Oet. 24. — Dr Mueller,
who attended Herr Barisch, the
surgical assistant of Professor
Nothnagle’s b-ctsriologieal estab
lishment, who died Tuesday from
bubonic plague, died this morn
ing.
The thren nurses who had de
veloped symptoms of the disease
are somewhat improved today.
All the animals at the Nothnagle
establishment whish had been
made the subject of experiment
with the plague bacillus, were
killed today and cremated,
Dr. Mueller had many Ameri
can pupils. He owes his death wto
his tearless devotion to Herr Bar
ijch. Not only did he assiduously
attend him, noting down a careful
description of the case from hour
to hour, but be even scraped the
walls of the sick room to prove
the presence of bacillus. When he
was attacked he wrote down a spe
cial diagnosis of his own Condition,
analyzing the changes from hour
to hour, end pasting them on the
window till pain and fever com
pelled him to stop.
t.■ -
guards will be set to prevent a
surprise.
The governor and Gen. Hen
ry are naturally counseling
moderation, but in the ex
cited state of the public mind, a
general fear is expressed that
the posse will not regard the
suggestion absolutely. The gov
ernor’s presence, however, will
undoubtedly have a good effect
in restraining the number of fa
talities after enough negroes
have been killed to satisfy the
outraged feelings of the whites
n that section,
SECRET DRAWER.
Os Defaulting Cashier Stone, of
The Oswego N. Y. Bank
Binghamton, N. Y., Oct. 24
ank Examiner Van Brocklen and
his force of clerks, who are inT«B
- the affairs of th® Tioga
Nati m«1 Bank in Oswego, discoV'
ered a tin box in a sscret drawer
used by Cashier Stone, which con
tained valuable documents. Tb«r«
were three policies of SSJOO each
on Stone’s life, cue of which was
made cut to Mrs. Stone. Ther*
were also papers beari g a face
value of 110,000, Ths money,
with the exception of the policy,
made out to Mrs. Stone, will go to
the bank.
In The Haram.
Constantinople, Oet, 24. — Be
fore the departure of the royal
German party laat night there was
a grand farewell banquet, in which
ths Sultan sat between tt* Em
peror and Empress.
Later the Empress pail the im
perial harem a visit.
Pattbb* Hats.—Mrs. A. O.
Garrard desires to state that she
as placed the most beautiful line
of pattern bats in the city, on the
market at greatly reduced prices.
She is determined to clove out the
entire stock and cordially invites
you to call and get prices before
buying,
HN & W
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wEp l Bleaching as low as
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