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RIOT Ifl A GEORGIA TOWN.
A. Conflict of Races Results in
Many Casualties.
The Governor Orders Troops to
the Scene of the Trouble.
Some excitement was caused in Savannah
Ga.. by reports that a "race riot' was ir pro
gress at Jessup, a village of about 10O) in
habitants, fifty-seven miles southwest of
there on the Savannah, Florida and Western
Paiilroad.
The trouble started about two o'clock in
the afternoon, and was caused by the Marshal
of the town. D. Leggett, who attempted to
arrest a drunken colored man. who resisted
and drew a revolver on the Marshal. He
was immediately clubbed for his pains,
and several other colored men who
were standing bv drew their weapons
and legan firing at the officer, who
was seriouslv wounded in two place?. The
Assistant Marshal, Matthew Barnhill. hea?
ing the firing, came running, but was shot
dead before he could do anything. Seeing
other whites coming, the colored men fled
i toward the Ogeechee Swamp, which lies near
the town, and thre rallied, and with several
: newcomers charged the town. They were
j met bv resident whites armed with Win-
i Chester rifles and revolvers and driven back
to the swamp.
As their number was constantly aug
mented by new arrivals, the Mayor of the
town telegraphed for troops. A platoon of
the Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, was sent
to Jessup on the 3 o'clock train, armed with
revolvers, sabres and carbines. Meanwhile
the colored men made another charge, which
resulted in the death of W. H. Woods, a cy
press lumberman, and in the serious wound
ing of W. J. Woods, assistant station agent,
the uncle of W. H. Woods. One colored
man was also killed and several wounded.
Three were captured and locked in the local
jail. The colored men retreated to the
swamp and only made one sortie, nothing
coming of it.
When this report was written several well
disposed colored men were scouting for
the whites, and the information gained
by them, it was hoped, would result
in the capture of a large part of
the rioters. The list of casualties so
far as known is as follows: Dead:
Matthew Barnhill, Deputy Marshal, shot
through the heart; W. H. Woods, cypress
lumberman, shot in the heart. Wounded
D. Leggett, Marshal, shot in the face and
through the legs; M. J. Woods, assistant
station arent. shot through both
anent. shot through
thighs,
could
hurt,
killed
Several others, whose names
not be learned, were slightly
Among the colored men one was
outright and several wounded.
A second platoon of the G eorgia Hussars was
sent to Jessup at night to assist in patroling
the town, and the Savannah Volunteer
(Tiiards, Third Battalion of Georgia, held
themselves in readiness to march at
short notice. It was thought, how
ever, that the troops already there,
with the townsmen and men from the sur
rounding country, who were pouring in
rapidly, would be strong enough to quell the
disturbance. Captain W. W. Gordon, of the
Georgia Hussars, who is a veteran of the late
war and a fine officer, was in charge of the
white forces.
Liatcr Details.
A party of unknown men attacked tha
jail at Jessup at 3 a. M., driving away the
guards. In a few minutes the doors were
battered in, and four men, entering the jail,
shot and killed Peter Johnson and Bill Hopps,
two of the colored men captured while riot
ing the day previous. The former had been
wounded in the fight. The military were
stationed about a half mile from the jail, but
by the time a detachment arrived there
everything was quiet. The commander of
the military had suggested to the Mayor
that a detail of soldiers should be put on
duty at the jail, but the latter thought that
the Sheriff and his deputies could protect
the prisoners.
The most trustworthy information is that
ten people were killed, namely, Barnhill and
Woods (white), by Brewer; Anderson, (white),
accidentally; Johnson and Hopps (colored),
iu jail; Fluett (colored), in the street; and two
whites and two colored men whose "names
were not given.
A posse of twenty men, under command
of S. White, left Jessup on the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad mail train
for Lumber City, to intercept Brewer and
his gang, who, it was rumored, had gone
there for reinforcements. Brewer's mother
lives at Lumber City, and it was suspected
that, if he got out of McMillan Swamp, he
would go to his mother s. A crowd of armed
men, who returned from a trip to the swamp,
reported that four colored men, strangers to
them, were found there dead. Another col
ored man was found at home shot through
the heart, and on- with a flesh wound in the
shoulder. It. was reported that others had
been killed, but officers had not found them.
THE LABOB WOELD.
Thirty thousand tons of coa
U per uay is
displaced by natural gas.
Machinery makers are crowded with
order- in all of the New England and Middle
States.
Ik Chicago horses are curried bv steam.
In tw - hours 150 horses can be curried bv
this means.
In jorgia cotton mill operatives do eleven
hours :-. :. as it requires one hour per day
longer to do a day?s work there than it does
in Northern ;:n.:r .
Edward ?f. 7 L proprietor of the old
et cotto i
States, est
the 1
in I-.'1, died a few driv.s
a Rti road Ov-vnr has
Bine u
The Pennsvlv
ordered fifty-five more heaw freitrht engines
worksat Philadelphia. The
i,: is increasing rr,oidiv.
ri
The propri tors al Philadelphia leading
newspap rs have refused to grant the d"
mandsof the rint rs for an advance from
forty toforiy-iive cents per 1000 ems compo
sition. Forr. thousand gla? workers throughout
South Jersey have either b?en on strike or
locked out since September, and there seems
little prospect of an iinmediate settlement of
the trouble.
Tin-: technical schools w?re never as well
patronized as in lSSD. Young men. instead
of seeking honor in the law. medicine or
theology-, seek dollars und work in scientific
employment,
Thk 3000 employes at the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal Company's mills and furnaces
in Scranton, Penn.. have had their wajres in
creased ten per cent, on account cf the in
crease in the price of rails.
Gold miners in Western mines have had
their wages advanced. Lead mines are not
payinc: well. English investors are trying to
buy up some of the richest mines. Large coal
bedsare- being discover cU
.m THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
While crossing the railroad track to the
station at Jvinzers. Perm., Mrs. Annie McD
vaney and her eleven-months-old child were
struck by a fast freight train. The child was
instantly killed and the mother was fatally
injured.
Burglars who were surprised in Paul
Hubert's jewelry store at Tarentum. Penn.,
by his wife shot her dead. At 2 o'clock next
morning a man named Clark, a basket mak
er, was arrested as one of the murderers.
Christmas Day in New York citv and all
over the country was characterized by ex
ceedingly warm, pleasant weather, and sum
mer sports were generally indulged in.
Mrs David Edwards, of Stepney. Conn.,
was thrown from her carriage and received
injuries from which she has died.
Two young men, John P. Jones and
William H. Palmer, of Bangor. Penn.. were
found dead in a room at the Pacifie Hotel at
Bethlehem, Penn. They had blown out the
ga.
A sevkrk storm and gale which prevailed
over a larg territory in New York. New
Jerev and Connecticut caused two deaths
and injured five persons. The highest velo
city of the wind was fifty-eight miles an
l.our. A cold wave followed.
The announcement was made that the
F.rie Railroad mines, near Scran ton, Penn.,
would close flown; also fifteen of the Dela
ware and Hudson and other mines, causing
idleness for 14,000 men.
Two old ladies, who lived by themselves
near Syracuse, N. Y.,were found asphyxiated
by coal gas. One of them was dead and the
other in a dying condition.
A thin and withered man named Simon
Spohn, aged sixty years, poorly clad and
hungry-looking, stooped to pick coal on the
railroad track at Reading, Penn.. when a
train came along and cut off both h legs,
and he died in a few hours later.
At McGarvey's Station on the Pennsyl
vania road sixteen freight cars and four
engines were wrecked. Fireman Charles
English, of Altoona, Penn.. was so badly in
jured that he died in the hospital.
The Russian influenza is said to have ap
peared in Boston, Rochester, Baltimore and
other cities. In Boston the Hollis Street
Theatre was closed because of the illness of
two actresses.
South and West.
J. T. Fountain, of the Union Cattle Com
pany, Omaha. Neb., was found dead in his
room in the Coleman House, New York city.
Thomas Emery & Son's extensive candle
works at Ivorydale, six miles from Cincin
nati, Ohio, have been burned. Loss estima
ted at $100,000; no insurance.
Factions for and against the minister of
a colored Baptist church at Kansas City,
Mo., quarreled during services. Razors
were drawn, and three men were fatally
wounded. Forty arrests were made.
Ex-Editor West, of the Chicago Times,
has been sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary for an illegal over-issue of stock of
that pa -er
Jonas Trambos. a spiritualist preacher,
killed himself at Wichita, Elan., while suf
fering from emotional insanity.
A BANK of earth caved in on three men at
Memphis, Tenn. Walter Bodkia and an un
known man were killed, and Frank Mc
Laughlin was seriouslv injured.
The funeral of Henry W. Grady, editor of;
the Constitution, took place at At lanta, G-a.
A great crowd attended, and it was resolved
to raise a monument to the dead editor's
memory.
Albert Reinold chose poison and Will
iam Turner a pistol with which to commit
suicide at Salt Lake City.
Fire among business houses at Vicksburg,
Miss., destroyed property valued at 1175,000.
Dr. Munroe, of Larch wood. Ia.. in a fir of
jealousy shot and seriously wounded his wife
and cut his own. throat.
In a fight between whites and colored men
at Nashville. Tenn., one man was killed and
two others were fatally injured.
Leo Connors, aged twenty, belonging t
one of the wealthiest families in Paris. Tex.,
was shot and killed by Chris Hoit. Connors,
who was drinking freely, was aggressive.
A house in Omaha, Neb., occupied by
Mrs. Lena Schip, caught fire, and her three
little children perished in the flames.
Deputy Sheriff Martin, of White Coun
ty, Ark., was assassinated while on the prin
cipal street of Beebe.
The main building of the Western Col
lege, at Toledo, Ohio, was burned. Loss,
$150,000.
A boiler in Neff Brothers' mill, at Ed
more, Mich., burst, killing Engineer John
Welsh and Foreman Stedman. Charles
Saunders and Charles Bo wen were fatally
injured.
A petition, circulated through Oklahoma
and signed by 30,000 persons, asks Congress
for the speedy esta blishment of a Territorial
Government.
A farmer, Barney Failis, was killed at
Albany, Mo., bv Silas Harrad and li is two
sons m a cusp at;
murderers were
A public m
Henry W. Grs
H.,ue at Atla
and Governor C
eulogistic addr
over tne sale or a larm. the
arreste 1.
eting .n honor of the lata
iy was held in the Opera
aa. Mayor Glenn preside !.
ordon and others delivere I
At 1 o
Pacific stean
JL 1 l L1SI1 5E 1 p
on the Colun
Ick in the morning the Union
r Oregon ran into and sunk the
Han McKenzio at Coffin Rock,
hia Five!-. r . Charlea Austin
R 'id, two colored sailors, were
m
iNAHDIEZAZ. t
Here I Lieut na.
C avalry,ou G ila
Arizona.
pache Indian, wlin mur
vard Mott. of the Tenth
v as hanged a
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Mks. Ren.
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SE( mSTAKT
VixiKM has invited proposals
or tne right to take iur seals on the islands
f St. Paul and Sr. George, Alaska.
The State Department is informed of the
!eatb of Robert J. Stevens, United States
'onsul at Victoria, British Columbia.
DuaiNG the eleven months eu ie 1 Ndvem
:: 30, 3SS' tii3 number of immigrants t
his country was 4r,7.!:;7, against 498,S1 in
be same period in 188S.
fRESXDSK7
ower Bran'
FLabjiison an 1 pa
Vi-
t. James River,
estors.
Foreign.
The Grand Duke Ernest of 8axe Coborg
Gotha will Ih asked to arbitrate tue Kngitah
Portuguese dispute.
Cxpbeb dispatdMB from Rio Janeiro, Bra
zil, say that serious lighting has occurred in
that city. It took two days to suppress a
revolt of Monarchists.
At L'Ange Gardien, Quebec, William Ford
killed his wife and then attacked his daugh
ter and sister-iu-lavr. Failing in his attemc"
to kill them he set fire l- the house and cut
his own throat. The murderer and his sister-in-law
perished in the burning house.
The Provisional (iovernmeot of Brazil
b? r',Repubhc ,hiU
The United States Steamer Enterprise
arrived at Gibraltar. She had several cases
of inflii'-uza on board and was tjuarantineii.
She did not wait to enter, therefore, but
proceeded westward.
Despite the orders issued by the Govern
ment prohibiting the hol linz of metings by
the Salvation Army in Switzerland, mem
lers of that organization OOttttone to hold
open-air ni -ctins in Gessevm. The authori
ties have decided to adopt rigocjus measures
to suppress these gatherings.
The town of Aoi RaIo, in Sicilv, has
been shaken by an earthquake. Several
houses collas(i and many persons were
buried under the ruins
The University at Odessa, Russia, has
been closed owing to the discovery of the
fact that a number of the students were
Nihilists and were actively engaged in
spreading their propaganda.
The members of an entire family have
been suffocated in Waldan, Silesia, by the
fumes of coal gas from a stove in their bed
room. Vv'hii.e six young men were sleighing along
the Frazer River road in British. Columbia a
tree fell across the sleigh, killing four of the
occupants and the horses.
The Chicago, flagship of the American
squadron at Lisbon, Portugal, was visited
and inspected by Senhor Frederico Ressano
Gsrcia Secretary of the Portuguese Navv. j
CHAPLAINS OF CONGRESS.
The Two Men Who Open the Daily
Proceedings With Prayer.
Two ministers open the daily proceedings
of Congress with a prayer Rev. J. ('.
Butler in the Senate and Rev. William H.
Milburn in the House of Representatives.
The following sketch of then career is of
timely interest:
P.F.V. .T. C. BUTLER, SENATE CHAPLAIN".
Mr. Butler was Chaplain of the House
of Representatives in the Forty-first,
Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses,
previous to his appointment to Ids pres
ent office. He i-; a native of Cumber
land, Md., but has been a resident of
Washington ever since Lis appointment
to his first past rate, winch was in that -i!y.
Mr. Butler is a Lutheran in denomination,
and a prominent writer and preacher of thai
faith. He was in April, 1861, appointed
Chaplain of the Fifth Pennsylvania Volun
teers. Tins position he held until the close
of the war. Me was afterward made Chaplain
of Union Hospital. Later he filled the
same office in the Ciiffburn and Lincoln Hos
pitals. When he resumed the duties of the
regular pastorate it was as minister in the
Luther Place Memorial Church, at Washing
ton, of which he was the founder, lie still
' tiuues to preach in that edifice.
MILTJCRJC, CHAPL
or thi: house.
William Henry Miiburn, who is known
as "the blind man eloquent," was born
in Philadelphia, September 29, lS!.
lie was five years old when he lost
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pieieiy me bignt
tially of the othe
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No1 witlislan-'ing
ileprivation under which he sulfered ho
aTi'i- 1 himself to
itudy with the intent ion
oi omaiuiug a inorouprii
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man, and a succi saful author.
TFfiTTRT V TT" v -tr" A 1
Scores of Citizen in South Bead and
it ic I; i oead I mjMfiaoneal.
About si sty of fite leading citizens of
South Bend. Tera . are in jail, a late United
i States Lt;-.!'-..! ,7;ir- tkt Thn
place Laving in-
I i
j dieted them under tiie Civil Risrhts act
; k.i,-.-, .tV . ?. w
Jitr'riV!am,'ain:iUna:?e,erson
; nn-lsix otner c dorei men ou: o? the county.
iweuty-s; citizens of Richmond are ako
r.oie. ine
?-Si fwnf I ?S amounted to
. lvventv of tne wph'n
w-w - v . i ra. i
r.ver $l,XX).00o.
meum Fort Bend County came down with
he prisoners, and the bonds wr- also signed
, by capitalists from all over the Btata
A WHOLESALE LYNCHING.
-EiSt C olored Men Taken From
Jail aud Shot.
They Had Been Imprisoned on th
Charge of Murder.
A crowd of masked men early bit
ing broke into Ram well (S. C.) Ja.
miles from Charleston, and lynrhel eight
colored prisoner, all charged wit a tnur
The crowd numlH'rt.l several hu-ii'.r- !
The prisoners were taken out of w -:
shot. Th jailor was til and forced I
company trie lyacut'i. Th wh thi
conaucted in a skillful manner, th
of th ' town not knowing anything ab
After the lynching tlu jailor w;; i
The citizens of the town erere ign ra
any attempt on the jail. A lar'i
colored men speedily eoagregal 1 ..
scene of the lynching and tsars were
turned of more trouble. Th- Govern
appealed to for troops to pre sen e tl
The eight colored men srere charg
committing and leiag accessor .
crimes described below: m the aft
October 80, John J. Hefferman was
instantly killed in a restaurant in t
of Barnwell, by Ripley Johnson, i. 1
was one of the principal merchants
town, and Johnson w;is employed
time in running a cotton-gin. Then- I
some trouble between the White man
1
colored man the day before, and .
there were conflicting accounts a
difficulty, it is probable that lb
threatened the colored man. for I
been summoned to Sppcir bel
town council th morning following
had leen put under bonds. The killing 1
place in a colored restaurant, when '
man hail followed Johnson. Five
men, charged with leing accessor:- - to th
murder, who were in th- restaurant
time, fled to a swamp, but were shortly
terward captured. A large rewar I
offered for Johnson, and he w as ca
two weeks later.
The other night Rolert Martin, a
white man of great promise, Was - .
lail and shot to ileath, while riuiii,
his father's house. It was altoi.'
o'clock in the evening. The young a
was within seventy-live yards
duster of colored people's houses on the -
of the road, when he was fired up n ; r 'in
hind. The occupants of the houses heard tl
gun and heard the exclamation "Oh,
Oh, me! you have killed me?" but thev
not go to the help of the wound'-i rnai
Martin was not missed that night i
!)arents, as he was in tiie habit, on :
tome late, of going to hi- own r
which were separated from the res!
house. In the morning a servant noti
riderless horse at the gate, and finding hi
on the saddle gave the alarm, and a - i
was begun. The body of the young in
was found on the side of the public roa lw i
iu a hundred yards of th" house al
mentioned. li- had evidently
only a few minutes. Five bullets bad e ,
his back. The young man had no1 an ienn
in the county so far as any of iii trie
knew-, and. the community was
excited over hismurder.
it was subse , uti
uiscovereu xaai .iarun "s snoi
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party of colored men who v. rked
father's place, and whom the y un
pretty close to their work, allowing tl
little license. It was also believe i
people in the houses near wh them inter
was committed knew all ah ; it, ai I that
was the reason ti,rv woul i n t goto the as
sistance of the dying man.
Th: names of tiie men lynch i are
Ripley Johnson, Michel! Adams, Peter
Bell, "Rafe" MbrreU, Hugh I'-.iv.-. Hudson
Johnson, Robert Phoenixan 1 Ju Ig Jone.
They were shot to pieces. The firing was the
first intimation th peoole of the t wn b t 1
the trouble. It seemed t then as it t!.
colored people would rise up and avi nge tlir
lynching. in response t a rejuest, the
Governor ordered a company of in1 mtry
one of cavalry to prepare lr service. Thi
whites were armed and pretty well organ
ized.
The leading men in Barnwell in the i
sent out a circular stating in substance thai
the people of that community had baen
greatly mcensed by the repeated murder.i oi
whites by colored men. three v.
men of prominence having re u
been killed, that the trial nf
of these colored men had le"ii put off, t tl
seemed as it' just ice would not be done. Th
could not explain th-'ir feelings, nor- c ul i
they hope for the outside world to under
stand how they felt at the repeat i itl
but they were confident any other
inanity in the country would have a . i
the sa:ne manner.
THE S0UTH?(S INDUSTEIES,
Annual Review of t!o- v.
prises Establi died.
The annual review of the South' in
progress as published in the Uab imore
factttreis Record shos that 5135 n
facturing and mining enterprise w r
IhUc
izeu auric;: a"n'n
188 aud i-V, ") hi js m-,. The am mul
f,7(j:.500 in 1889 an 1 : ...
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two Chin
n ': i i
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Pmnefsco.
Two"hine-h.--.- been i : : China
San Francisoo, I s hig'ibii.d. ra i n ;
was waylaid an 1 ita it by thre men
h was ent rin? the ChinMa fti ..;
, ,. .
I"?? nve jtietitilii t .r - Lemasoo'
; assailants, and ,; . Lbo atta wan in
ce:,ta..-a.:!?on iai, in which Bf,
. plicated. Lem cscaited injury but hi ,
j Were full of bullet L n, oth
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him money, and the debtor refusal to
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the work was done m
I bdnzst&bb d L . r"
of which &"Sl