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The News and Observer. VOL. XLV. NO. 42. LEAPS ALL mm CAMUNA DADUEB 11 lEIS 111 OBiWUOm THE WOLE RIOT Negroes Inflamed by Repub licans’ Speeches. RINGLEADERS IN JAIL DETERMINATION OF WIIITF/S AVERTED * ARSON AND MURDER. “D-D DEMOCRATS OUGHT TO BE KILLED” Nfgro who Furnished Whiskey to Inflame the Rioters Passions Jailed. Events Lead ing to the Race Conflict. Ashpole Now Qui-t. Lumberton, N. C., Oct. 24.—(Special.) —The trouble at Ashpole, in this coun ty, iu which three white men were shot by a negro mob, as has been heretofore reported, has about subsided. The trouble originated from the failure of a negro to apply for registration on the day fixed and the consequent refusal of ti.e registrar to allow him to register oh the day on which he applied. It was followed up by serious threats and at- j tacks on white men by negroes, culmi nating in the burning on last Thursday night of the store of Stubb & Floyd iu the town of Ashpole. Threats by negroes after this com municated to the citizens of Ashpole to the effect that the whole town would Ik? burned and the citizens murdered, caused the white people to assemble in , the town Saturday night to provide against further offences. On Saturday night while the white men were guarding the town, a mob of negroes assembled in the town, and upoii making demonstrations were requested by the whites to withdraw. They at iirst refused, but on being addressed by the sheriff, did withdraw from the town a short distance. Arms and ammunition had been stored by the negroes in a house near the town. After the negroes withdrew the white men returned to a building for the night, leaving a few of their number to keep watch. About 1 o'clock, while the white | guards were standing around a tire, they , were fired upon by negroes in ambush, and three white men were wounded. ! The fire was returned by the whites, but the negroes fled. A special train was dispatched for blood hounds, a tele phone message was sent to Lumberton and other places for help. About 10 o’clock Sunday the blood hounds arrived, and the i>osse started in ?>urs"it. During the day a number of the negroes were caught and placed in a box car for safe keeping until the others could be captured. Up to this time ten negroes have been caught and are now in jail here. On the preliminary trial most of the negroes confessed to the shooting and burning and implicated others. Ashpole is now quiet and it is hoped that the trouble is about over. One of the threats made by the ne groes was that the “damned Democrats ought to be killed and (Slat the negroes were going to rule this country.” The leaders advised then7"ttr shoot all the white men they could and not go home to get justice, hut to "kill the white men and run. It is clear that by the prompt and de termined action of the white men great bloodshed was prevented and the lives of many prominent citizens saved. The whites displayed great coolness and moderation under the circumstances, and they saved the* county from a terri ble race riot. It is a fact that the ne groes of the county are greatly inflamed by recent speeches made by Republican and Populist speakers. News has just reached here that one of the leaders has been arrested and is now in jail at Whiteville. He is tin* man who furnished whiskey to the crowd and said the negroes would burn ! Ashpole with bullets. AN EARLIER ACCOUNT. A special from Lumberton, N. C., yes terday says: “The expected riot between the races at Ashpole, this county, Saturday night turned out differently from what was ex pected. About eight o’clock Saturday night, a telephone message from Ashpole stated that a crowd of mutinous negroes, (Continued on Second Page.) menace of black cap REIGN, i !► |j it Negro Chairman of Republican County | | Executive Committee Shews With | ! What Whites are Threatened. i ♦ ♦ ♦ Windsor, X. C., Oct. 24.—(Special.)—To *how the trend of the negro's ♦ ♦ thoughts; how eager he j* to commit outrages ugainst the whites, we call ♦ ♦ attention to the following signfieant words quoted from a speech at Ivel- ♦, ♦ ford, Bertie county. ♦ The speaker was Ben Askew, a negro jailer, under a fusion sheriff and ❖ ♦ chairman of the Republican County Executive ( ommittee. - ♦ In the course of his speech made on Thursday last, Askew said: ♦ “THE WHITE FOLKS, AFTER THE WAR HAD WHITE ♦ ♦ CAPS. AND NOW WE NEGROES HAVE Nt MBERS ENOUGH To ♦ ♦ HAVE BLACK CAPS.” ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦»♦!♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦HHO TTKIE EHECBIM) (SETTS ODD© ©[ME ®E IMOSIBEOTEo fmmowmmmim'mmivmmmmmmmu m i ■'« mi w a———' 1 Scene at the Jenkins Tubillee at Marshbourn’s Mill, Wake County. TO INVOKE BAYONET RULE I i - Russell and Pritchard Want Federal Troops to Control the Election in North Carolina. Matter Discussed in the Cabinet Yesterday. Hot Words of At torney-General Griggs. Washington, Oct. 24.—(Special.)—At an informal Cabinet meeting to-day at the White House, the President broached the subject of tin* possibility of hav ing to send Federal troops into North Carolina during the November election. The gravity of the situation in that State is felt by Administration officials here, and nobody knows what may be the outcome. IT lIAS LEAKED OUT THAT SENATOR PRITCHARD HAS WRITTEN A LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS, STATING HIS FEARS IN PLAIN LAN GUAGE. HE GOES SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT IT IS MORE THAN GOVERNOR RUSSELL WILL CALL ON PRESIDENT M’KINLEY FOR THE TROOPS IF THERE IS NOT A CHANGE IN THE SITUATION. Senator Prtehard states that the State troops are all in the Government service, and not many are available to quell prospective riots. THE VIEWS OF SENATOR PRITCHARD AND GOVERNOR RUSSELL. WHICH IIAD BEEN CONVEYED TO THE PRESIDENT, WERE FULLY EXPLAINED BY HIM TO THE CABINET OFFICERS. These members of the Cabinet were present: Attorney General Griggs, Secretaries Alger, Long and Hay. Os course the President has no power to send Federal troops into the State until the Governor has made requisition for them, and shows that he is unable to handle the situation with the forces at his command, and again Gov ernor Russell could not call for Federal troops until tin* supposed rioting had actually occurred and he was able to show that he had exhausted all the efforts of the State to suppress it. With these f acts well considered and understood, that while the President is said to he adverse to using Federal troops at election times, yet he will be prepared to act should tin* occasion demand, and comply with Governor Russell’s requisition. It is understood that Senator Pritchard's letter was written before the riot near Lumberton, N. C., and is based on the intense race prejudice and the reported wholesale purchase of arms. PRITCHARD WRITES THE PRESIDENT. (Special to the Morning Post.) WASHINGTON. I). OCTOBER 24. SENATOR PRITCHARD HAS SUGGESTED BRINGING UNITED STATES TROOPS INTO NORTH CAROLINA. OSTENSIBLY TO PRESERVE THE PEACE. BUT AS DEMOCRATS HERE BELIEVE, TO INFLUENCE THE COMING CON GRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN THE STATE. HE HAS WRITTEN TWO LETTERS HERE, ONE TO THE PRESI DENT, AND ONE TO CHAIRMAN BABCOCK. OF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. BOTH ARE OF SIMILAR TENOR. In his letter to the President, which formed the subject of a special Cabinet meeting to-day, and which was written last Friday and received this morning. Senator Pritchard says that Democrats have raised the race issue iu this cam paign. that most intense feeling exists; that Democrats have instituted a sys- j tern of intimidation of negroes that threatens the peace of tin* State; that ' whites are arming and that colored people are buying weapons wherever pur chaseable, although merchants, a majority of whom are Democrats, will not sell weapons to the colored people. The most serious trouble is looked for in coun ties where colored people predominate. It is charged that Democrats are buy ing weapons in tlia-se counties to intimidate colored voters to keep them away from the polls. A general discussion of Senator Pritchard’s letter followed its reading by the President, who handed it. to Attorney General Griggs. The gravity of the situation was admitted by members of the Cabinet after j the meeting adjourned. During the session of tin* Cabinet Chairman Babcock jralled, hut when in- I formed that the President had laid Senator Pritchard's letter before the Cab inet. he did not send his letter in, feeling, as lie said, that the letter would re- RAUEieH. N. C.. TUESDAY MOKNIKO, OCTOBER 25, 18»8. 'UNTIL JANUARY FIRST j SPANIARDS TIME FOR EVACUATING CUBA EXTENDED. We will not Hermit Removal of Ordnance to Spain. Evacuation of Porto Rico Completed. Washington, D. C., October 24—Attor ney General Griggs, and Secret a rys ‘ Long, Hay and Alger called at the White House to-day. A telegram from General Wade at Havana was read re commending that the limit of time allow ed the Spaniards to vacate Culm be ex tended from December Ist to January Ist. He said that it would be physically impossible for the 124,000 Spanish troops on the island to leave before the first ceive the consideration it demanded. He was fearful the Presdent might over look it in the accumulation of matters. Attorney General Griggs was seen by the Post correspondent this after noon. He produced Senator Pritchard’s letter—two type-written pages, begin ning: “My Dear Mr. President.” “This is a private political letter.” said Mr. Griggs, in response to a request for a copy, “and it would be manifestly improper for me to make it public.” He said it referred to the North Carolina situation which, he said, was repre sented as threatening. “Will you send deputy United States marshals to preserve the peace?” he was asked. “MARSHALS HAVE AUTHORITY TO APPOINT ADDITIONAL DEP UTIES IF NECESSITY ARISES AND I WILL APPROVE SUCH AP POINTMENTS WHEN MADE,” he replied. Mr. Griggs said that no United States troops would be sent into the State unless called for by Governor Russell, unless the United States mails were in terfered with. “In that case,” he said, “troops will be sent whether the Gov ernor calls for them or not.” Reflecting a moment, Mr. Griggs said: “THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAR OLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, CALIFORNIA OR NEW JERSEY MAY AS WELL UNDERSTAND, NOW AS AT AN V OTHER TIME. THAT WHEN RIOT OR VIOLENCE IS THREATENED AND GOVERNORS ASK FOR TROOPS OF THE GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL BE SENT. AND WHEN SENT THEY WILL PRESERVE THE PEACE IF THEY HAVE TO OVERRUN THE STATE Order m 'Z Attorney General Griggs has the entire matter in charge, and if Governor Rus sel! should deem-the situation to be so critical as, to demand, troops, hd will communicate with Mr. Griggs, upon whose advice the President will act. The object of Governor Russell's recent mysterious visit to Senator Pritch ard, in tin* light of Pritchard’s letter to the President, is now made clear. AS THERE ARE NO STATE TROOPS IN SERVICE, SHOULD ARMED FORCE BE NECESSARY NATIONAL TROOPS WILL HAVE TO BE SENT. Inquiry at the War Department develops that the Second Regiment will he mustered out bv October 29th. THERE IS NO PROBABILITY THAT EVEN IN AN EMERGENCY THIS REGIMENT WILL BE RETAINED FOR POS SIBLE SERVICE. AS IT IS BELIEVED TO BE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE WHITE MOVEMENT. Adjutant General Corbin said this evening that he had np official knowledge of contemplated trouble in North Carolina and had not been asked for troops. IN CASE TROOPS ARE ORDERED TO NORTH CAROLINA THEY WILL BE FROM ATLANTA. AND NORTHERN REGIMENTS WILL RESENT. Assistant Attorney General Boyd left here to-day for North Carolina, to remain until after tilt* election. He will keep Griggs posted. of time as reasonable and just. An agree ment was reached and General Wade was telegraphed that his recommenda tion was approved. In the meantime, however, tin* United States troops now in Cuba and others to be dispatched will take possession of the territory as fast as the Spaniards vacate it. In regard to the reported purpose of tin* Spaniards to dismount and remove to Spain the heavy ordnance of the forts and arsenals about Havana, it was stated in positive terms that nothing of the kind would be permitted, and if this movement had already begun it would bo stopped at once. Tin* instruction to our evacuation commissioners at Havana ex plicitly provided that only the arms in the hands of the troops and what is gen erally understood as impedimenta would be permitted to be taken away. It was again reiterated to-day that un der no circumstances would the United States assume any part of the so-called Cuban debt or the debt charged against the Philippine Islands. It might be possible that the United States would assume or guarantee tin* municipal obli gations of Havana or other Cuban cities, or at least would not permit them to be repudiated. Tin* same might he true of Manila, but as to the national debt which Spain had seen fit to charge against Cuba and tin* Philippines neither would be assumed or in any sense guar anteed. This policy, it was declared, our peace commissioners well findorstood, ami it would not be receded from in the slightest degree. EVACUATION COMPLETED. Last Regiment of Spanish Troops Sails From Porto Rico. Washington, D. C., October 24. The Navy Department to-day received the following: t li “San Juan, October 23rd. “Secretary of the Navy. “Evacuation Porto Rico completed by sailing of last detachment of Spanish troops to-day. (Signed) “SCHLEY.” TELEt IRAPII It ’ FLASIIES. General Correa, the Spanish Minister of War, has resigned. The President has approved the sen tence of tin* court martial dismissing Chaplain Mclntyre from the naval ser vice for his remarks reflecting on Admiral Sampson and others. Troops sailed yesterday to occupy Gib nra on the northern toast of Cuba. The bark Maria Libera was driven ashore in a gale off Cape Remain several days ago. The vessel is a total loss. Tht* rapid decline of yellow fever in the South is shown by the fact that not a sin gle new case has bt en reported in the last forty-eight hours. England continues her preparations for war, though M. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs professes to believe that the dispute admits of a pacific solution. In a riot precipitated by the blacks in Scott county, Mississippi, one white man and eleven negroes were killed. The whites have followed the negroes into the swamps, and more blood-shed may fol low. | A DRUNKEN NEGRO. j t Visited as School Committeeman a School t Taught by a Young White Lady. | ❖ ♦ ♦ Gibson, X. C.. October 22. 1898. ❖ ♦ State of North Carolina, ♦ ♦ Richmond County, Williamson Township. ♦ <> Miss Mamie Livingston, a young white lady of this county, says she ♦ taught a public school in Laurel Hill Township at Ridgeroad school house ♦ ♦ this year, and that a negro school committeeman by the name of Daniel ♦ O Monroe did visit my school, and while there he was so drunk he could ♦ <> hardly hold his head up. ♦ Subscribed and sworn to before me this, October 22m1, 1898, Simeon ♦ ♦ Gibson, J. P. MAMIE LIVINGSTON. ♦ ♦ ♦ «***♦ ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦❖♦♦ ♦♦ >♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ LAST EDITION) BRICE FIVE CENTS. BLOP;*ifTHE . )miIROAD trust Supreme Court on Joint Traf fic Association. AN ILLEGAL AGREEMENT SO DECIDES OCR HIGHEST JU DICIAL TRIBUNAL. COMBINATION TO STOP COMPETITION The Association Maintained the Legality of the Agreement on the Ground that the Vast Needs of Commerce Require Joint Action. Washington, D. C., October 24.—The United States Supreme Court to-day de cided thi* joint traffic association railroad ease* in favor of the United States and against tin* railroads. The case is con sidered one of the most important that lias ever come before the Supreme court, not only to railroads but to the general public, and because of the vast railway properties represented by the traffic as sociation. The association was formed on November 10th. 1805, by thirty-one railways representing the great trunk lines and their network of branches. The purpose of the association, as sta ted in the articles of agreement, was “to establish and maintain reasonable and just rates, rules and regulations in State and Inter-State traffic.” A similar as sociation on a smaller scale was estab lished among Southwestern roads, known as the Trans-Missouri Association. These associations were soon attacked by the courts on the ground that they were in violation of the Sherman anti trust law and also the inter-commerce law. The Trans-Missouri case first reached the United States Supreme Court, where in a notable opinion, the court held that the association was ille gal, being in effect a combination in re straint of trade and commerce and therefore violative of the anti-trust law. This opinion was by a divided bench, the division being very close, viz.; Chief Jus tice Fuller and Justices Ilarlan. Brewer. Brown and Peckham holding the traffic association illegal, while Justices Field, Gray, Shiras, and White filed a dissent ing opinion upholding the association. Soon after this decision Justice Field gave place to Justice McKenna. Although the Missouri case was con sidered somewhat of a test, yet the joint traffic association proposed to make a stubborn contest in support of its exis tence. The ease against it was begun on January 7th, 1!)!)(5, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern district of New York, the United States being complainant, and the Attorney General directing its case. The case went against the Government in the low er court, the Circuit Court dismissing the hill, and the court of appeals affirming the dismissal. The Govermnnt appealed to the United States Supreme Court. An exceptionally brilliant array of coun sel appeared for the association and the several railroads , including ex-Senator Edmunds. James C. Carter and E. J. Phelps. Solicitor General Richards filed the brief for the Government. The main contention of the Govern ment is a combination to prevent compe tition, thus constituting a contract in re strains! of trade or commerce. The answer of the association main tained the legality of the agreement, on the ground that vast needs of commerce require joint action and that such ac tion insures uniform and just rates and prevents secret and unjust discrimina tion. A SPANISH WHINE. Madrid, Oct. 24.—The Impartial today says; "No victor ever treated the vanquished as the United States is treating Spain. The government has received a grave dispatch from Porto Rico announcing that the American General there is act ing toward Spain as the European na tions have treated China. He ordered a Spanish steamer to embark the re mainder of the Spanish troops at Porto Rico, in spite of the protests of her cap tain, who had orders to go to Havana to embark sick soldiers. Our govern ment will probably protest against such action.” 1 A lire at pier 30, East river. Brooklyn, yesterday did damage to the amount of half a million dollars.
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