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A RIOT IN ATLANTA iVen Men Killed and a Number of fHfiarc Qhftt. JJLOODV FIGHT FOLLOWED BY FIRE 1 1 A Barricaded Negro nau a iuia -senal and Plied His Rifle With a Deadly Aim. Atlanta, Special. Four white men d three negroes dead, fivq white men d one negro wounded and -an entire ?!Vck of buildings "burned, is the re-; of a conflict which began here riv Saturday between the. blacks and lice will mcnarason, wuu is utjuev P tn have teen half-Indian and half- nero the owner or a store on mmiana street, in the suburb of Pittsburg, and four other negroes, brought on the trouble by resisting arrest and defying the officers of Fulton county and At lanta. ' - ' ' The dead are: Ed. Battle, a baliff of pulton county; H. G. Ozburn, a police man of Fulton county; Thomas Grant, Pitv Doliceman5; Edward Crabtree, a iftf noliceman: Will Richardson, tha negro desperado, who killed these Milton itosDy, a negro, v"i --. : ?Jasl ter there was an- men: tempted to escape from a sewer; un known negro-, killed in a near-by yard. Tne wounded are: S. A. Kerlin, beaten neffro, and W. A. Wright, a county policeman, wounded in the left shoul- trended in hip; Owen Heard, a county wounded in the thigh; Call Officer Spradlin, wounded in the arm Shepherd Fihzer, hackman, shot through the hand. -' ' . ' , Thp fight between the officers and nperoes occurred in Pittsburg, a negro settlement directly , south of the city limits dn McDaniel street. The offi cers attempted to arrest five negroes susDected of having . beaten former Policeman S. A. Kerlin nearly to death Friday afternoon. The negroes resisted arest by entrenching themselves in a . h.VISR ailll LUC ilnllU CUO UCU. iUC ivli-l- ity is shiekly settled with small negro cabins. There are out-buildings and , barns and shrubbery over the entire neighborhood, which provides .such shelter that it was possible fto escape fmtn house to house and dodge be tween fences without being detected As soon as information of the fight be tween the negroes.and the police reach ed the city wagon-loads of policemen, toridly armed, were rushed to the scene of. action, and Governor Gandler i ordered out a detachment of the State militia. The shooting was followed by a speecv from Sheriffs Nelms, of Ful fon county, advising calmness on the part of the crowd and.the efforts of of ficers thereafter were directed towards controlling the temper of the white men, who were walking the streets of the suburb with drawn weapons. While returning to his home on the McPherscn road Friday afternoon former Policeman S. A. Kerlin was waylaid by five negroes-with whom he had had trouble while a member of the force. But for the timely arrival of a t-olley car, which frightened his assail ants away, Kerlin' would have been killed. A sergeant stationed at Fort McPherson, who heard cries for help, ran to the place and found Kerlin un conscious. At midnight County Police men Golden heard that Kerlin's five assailants were located in a house on McDaniel street, j and he hastened tu the city and secured a warrant foi their arrest from Justice Orrv Police man finlrtpn waa Ininiprl hv Offfffirs Ozburn and Cheshire .and accompani ed by a number of Kerlin's neighbors., including Owen Heard, the party start ed for the hiding-place of the five ne groes, arriving at 1:30 Saturday morn The house was dark, but as the offi cers approached the inmates opened fire and Owen Heard fell to the ground. He was borne out of range by his Tel lows. The house was at once surround ed by. the posse and daylight was awaited before making another ad vance, the officers, howeverhaving de termined to make the arrests unaided. The house in which the negro Richard son was located; belonged to Annie Milburn, also colored. Richardson own ed the store adjoining the house. Here he kept ammunition and guns and was ' tnererore well prepared for a fight. At f o'clock this morning the group of of ficers who had. been watching the housa . all night approached the place and called upon those within to surrender . The answer was a volley of shots and County Officer Battle dropped dead. The attackers retreated some distance and from behind trees and Telegraph , and trolley poles commenced firing into the store. In a few minutes the door of the house was -thrown open : and Will King, a negro, ran out and gave him self up to the officers. Inside the house Richardson had an unobstructed vle"w m three directions. One block away Pc liceman Tom Grant stepped from his shelter to fire into the house. A shot from the besized house killed him be fore he could fire.. The attacking party sent word to Doliee headauarters and Chief of Police Ball dispatched the" re serves to the scene in several patrol ;agons. The officers to whom King Rad given himself up 'determined To raako use of the negro and at the point a rifle they forced him to walk up to the rear of the house and fire it. As soon as the flames started the facers,' eager to get the inmates of "ie nouse, stepped out' of, their she! " "1, scene carried a if e. rVot i75 mi tne liouse becir.te general, citizens and nffiQM 4 .J sether. Governor Candler- was advis- V1 Dl telephone, dt the rioting and or dered out The militia. .Captain W. W. Barker of i the Fifth Regiment, was ordered tq proceed with 50 men and a platoon r gun to the - scene of z the snooting and co-operate with the city authorities and ,the . sheriff of Fulton county. Chief of Police Ball hurried tn ' rsA scene on horseback and Was Iriinorl o few minutes later by Sheriff Nelms. t ne desperado, Richardson, had been lost sight of. The house burned rapidly and a number of inmates' were seen to run from the store to a wooasnea ana to a barn in the next lot. Orders were quickly given to fire these buildings and in a few minutes several of The buildings were burning W. T. Jackson, a street car rnn f n prv in uniform, was one of those at tracted to the scene by the shooting. as ne was nearing the house he was shot in the right hip, presumably' by mcnarason. a negro cabman, driving a spectator to the vicinity of the riot ing, was struck in the hand by .'a, bul let.- Call Officer Spradlin) speeding to the scene on his bicycle, received a wound in the arm. A main sewer which runs through this part; of the city was utilized by two of - the negroes as a possible means of escape, but to no avail. The crowd had increased until 3,000 peo ple, 2,000 of whom were armed, sur rounded the burning area. Milton Rosby, a negro, was seen to emerge from The mouth of a sewer. A shout went up and the fleeing negro was shot dead. His body was surrounded and was literally shot to pieces. The crowd of enraged citizens had scarce ly finished this work , when another negr.o was seen coming-out of the neighboring sewer. He made j run and managed to get to the back yard of one of the neighboring houses, where he was shot to death. The fire, which had been started by the attacking party, spread rapidly and soon the entire block of build ings, almost wholly composed of ne gro houses, was destroyed. The police were busy arresting the few negroes found in the vicinity. Two of them, Steve Nisbot and Jim Singleton, be: lieved to be members of Richardson's gang ,were arrested. The police had l x .1 1 m ix 3 i. . iV. great uiiucuity iu gciuug uut ui crowd of enraged people with the col ored men. A mob oi z,ouu surgea around the patrol wagan and clamor ed for the lives of the prisoners. The officers throwing Their men into the bottom; of The -wagon, drew their re ed the city in the morning that the rioting had recommenced and a sauad of 40 policemen were hurried, to the scene only to find that they had re sponded to a false alarm. Captain F. M. McCurdy, of . the central station. was fired on by a negro at 3 o'clock Sunday , morning, at the - corner of Fair and' Walker streets. The bullet passed near Captian: McCurdy 's head. The officer jumped from . his horse and although he gained t on. his as sailant enough to, see that he was a negro, Capt. McCurdy was unable to capture or wound 'the colored -men. FIELD OF BANNOCKBURN. GOOd CrODsi GrcWinci YVhr "Fnn. mam J fishers" Fell. Most of the historic spots in Great Britain and on the Continent are care fully prepared for the tourist Tablets' tell the facts in $he case,, and the ruins are an tagged. There is small chance for dreaming or giving the imagina tion5 play where guides show one just when to thrill. It is for its 'entire, ah Itr was nearly . daylight before the pings and stage setting that the field of Bannockburn is worth more than all the . labelled marvels" to be seen on a foreign tour. Ba w a& tU AW fortunate in having no facilities of transportation. It Is not too easy of approach. A tramcar from Stirling takes one the first two miles, to St.' Minians, but after, that there remains a half-mile walk to the battlefield: No elaborate description in large type tells that the, scene has finally . been reached. The only means of identifi cation is a flagstaff to mark the spot where Bruce planted his standard. But for the rest there are just rolling hills, covered over with barley and oats. It is all as productive an h un pretentious as some useful tract with out memories. A traveller, not so long ago, who had hoodlum element which made dis orderly demonstrations in the down town districts during the night, dis persed and ' the police went to their barracks after a hard night's work. At one time there were 3,000 people congregated at the corner of Marietta and Peachtree streets, but the pres ence of 50 policemen, mounted and on foot, doubtless restrained any serious demonstration. The crowd was addressed by several- prominent citizens, who counselled moderation; WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING. The House Busy Threshing Oyer Old Straw. The house spent Saturday in dis cussing the naval appropriation bill and the most Important feature of the expected to find barrenness, remarked aiscussion invoivea a revival vOi me tn a inhn nrncHn. v, v v - mmtmtr v w iMi w kJ M. X. 1.11 n 1 I VV Sampson-Schley , controversy. This arose over an amendment to the bill which-was presented by Mr. Mudd, of Maryland, and which was adopted, prohibiting the use of Macley's his tory of the navy as a text book at the naval academy. A number of minor amendments to the bill were adopted but the consideration of the measure of the hill that falls away to the Eng lish position, that the murderous work of six centuries ago had not cursed or blighted The region. . "On the contrary," returned the Scot, ; as he looked over the fertile fields, which had once been the grave yard for an army, "The Englishers, was not completed before the house they make good crops:" New York adjourned. Mr. Mudd, discussing his amend ment said- that the president of the United States had stated to him that this work should never be used. In reply to a question of Mr. Dayton why Ire wanted to put the amendment on the bill in view of the fact that the president would hold over the next fiscal year, Mr. Mudds said that while Mr. Roosevelt was a very live ly force at this time and promised to live out this term and be ready to take another, he wanted to guard against any contingencies. Mr. Pearer of Maryland ' said he wanted to join , his colleague in un- Tribune. Boulders, But Not Stone. The Falkland Islands, far off in the South Atlantic, between the lower end of South America and Africa, are not Very inviting spots to visit. They are swept by fierce winds blowing from the South Pole and carrying all ob structions before them. For this rea son there are no trees on the island at least not ! what we, who are accus- The report of the Remount Depart ment in South Africa, which was latelj published in. London, gives a curious picture of British "unpreparedness" at the beginning of the present warV Al though It had been fairly Certain foi some time that the , war was coming; when the outbreak occurred the Re, 1 mount Department had In South Af rica just two horses In reserve and the . personnel of the force comprised three officers, one: veterinary surgeon and about 300 men, including" native boys. "Within a few months this force was. swelled to 4,425 officers and men, w)io had received and distributed uj to last: December approximately, 300, 000 ' animals. But This increase was made in the most haphazard fashion.' There wa3 no machinery by which th department could be automatically de veloped. The home establishment could spare only two officers and the rest had to be drawn from various branches of the service. Ont of, tha thirty-five officers now in the depart' ment fifteen had not been In The mounted branch of the service when assigned to their present duty and hardly any of the Thirty-five had had technical training or experience. ' i A fashion note from Paris reports the introduction of mica veils ior "motoristes." ) Armor plate coats for 'pedestrians are more ; in favor In ' .America. ; f. ' :'.'.. A. P; TJOOWEY, Ton8orkl Artist, next door to Pod Office. Razor honing to perfection. I also repair sho'et and can gurnteo m'y work. Just try me. tbton. k. o. CrFER AGENTS or FIRUS InOExcluBlre Terrltorj. Our Fureand KSurglar proof Safes tell mt tlsbtCitJ or Country. . OUTFIT FREE. HO Seeded! Agents actually . getting rlclx bo can yon. One Agent, In one day, cleared 073.40, proofs and Catalogue free on application ALPINE SAFE & CYCLE CO. it all stood before the country as the real herd of Santiago. Mr Fnco cf Tllinnia rpmarVfid that t ' . . - i ii i 1 xi. vu)u. " " : voivers ana iorcea a passage luruugu u,a . af1 .c.innn th Samnson'Schlev the crowd, finally lodging tneir prison- pnT1trnVArav wfta dead which raised tomed to think of trees as things with qualified admiration for that splendid height, would call trees. - American and magnificent sea fighter, The visitor to the Falklands sees, Admiral Schley. Admiral Schley, he scattered here and there, singular said, had borne with fine patience tne shaped blocks of what appear to be onslaughts of his defamers, and with wea,ther-beaten and moss-covered ers in! safety in the Fulton county jail, on Butler street. In less than an hour the block of wooden houses was burned to the ground and a search of the ruins im mediately followed. In the woodshed In the rear of Richardson's store, was found a skull and .near to it the steel barrel of a rifle. It is believed that the skull represented all that is left of the negro who did the shooting. The police believe they have arrested all the negroes concerned in the shooting, but have been given orders a laugh on the Democratic side. He said the Controversy ought to have been closed when The court of In quiry "made its findings and when the President of the United States re viewed those findings; The honor of the Santiago cam paign is large enough for all, said Mr. Foss. "In this controversy I have never been for either Admiral Samp son or Admiral Schley. The American navy will live long after the Samp sons and The Schleys are gone, vynen fho smnVfi rf hattlft dies away, when by the chief to bring into custody all the tramp Qf men is gone by, the re boulders in various sizes. Attempt to to turn one -of these "boulders" over and you will meet with a surprise, be cause the stone is actually anchored by roots of great strength in fact, you will find that you are fooling with one of the native trees.- No other country in the world has such a pe culiar "forest" growth, and it is said to be next to impossible to work the odd shaped block into fuel, because It is perfectly devoid of grain, and ap- pears to be nothing but a twisted mass of woody fibers. ' I Educate B o ok-Ke t f 1 ng , Bus I n 2ss, PHONOGRAPH v. nuniinnn a nuu TOR A "-nw " rnunuannriu Situation. TypS-Wte Addre WILBUR R. SMITH, LliniNCTON, ICY For clnsjt&of his famous ojd respQcslble CQULIEOCUL COLLEGE OF KY, UIIlVERSITY Awarded fflfdal at'World'a SbrposttI0n Refers tcjthousaacfB of frradttafe8"'in pdfjfrfans. Cort of Full Boslneaa CouHkn tnfltKQT tion.Bj and Jiard fu fariUW abolit O awarded CTaduates.iJjlter&ty OoujBeJfje'lC'sired. tf No vacation. EntejrtftJW. Gtatoatfea'e'udrsjjit. J ordr'4o have y&ir-Mtten reSchMt, a4(Wp onlp VilLBUR RWITHXxTWGTON.Kv- suspicious characters found in the neighborhood. The rioting caused the utmost excitement not only in the lit tle suburb of Pittsburg, where it oc curred, but. all over the city. In the barricaded store were Three negroes. It is believed there were at first as many as five, and that two escaped before daylight. The store was a small arsenal in which were a number of Winchester rifles and a small Gatline gun. It was a ren cording anxel will record 'the names of the men who took part in the San tiago fight." . - Mr. Williams of Mississippi inter jected a great deal of humor into The debate by stating that he he made a mistake in the pronuncia tion of the name of Crowninshield, that he had mispronounced the prop er name of an improper person. 1 nat as Cholmondelay was in England pro nounced Chumley he understood that MM murderers. Within were sharpshooters crowninshield should be pronounced murders. Within were sharpshooters who picked off the men on the out side with precision and deadly cf feet. Every time a man showed him self he was shot to death. After the burned body of Richardson had, been found an angry crowd of white men seized it and bore it towards the Crunchem. He said it was a sname and a disgrace in a great country that a man who had made the brilliant re cord that Schley had should have been written down by a government employe. :. . . Mr. Schirm of Maryland m maKing hia m nirt on effort before - tne nouse city. Chief Ball threw a cordon of po- saIrt tnat tne unfortunate controversy Hfo nrrnssi a strpet. at t'ne oltv limits hptwppn Samnson and Schley had and took the body away from the not been forced by The friends or au nmwH nr cent it tn the T.it.v in a mirai Srhlfiv! that truth baa Deen While the nocession was pass- nerverted by Maclay. ing, Will Gregg, a negro, was heard Mr: Cannon of Illinois remarked remark that it was a shame to kiJi that he did not Deiieve tnat anyoouy negroes tnat way, ana ne nau mi sooner spoken the words than he was" riddled ,with bullets. He was taken tn the i county aail. where ne died tonight. Fifty men of the Fxftti Infantry did patrol duty in the dis turbed district all day, being relieved tonierht hv 1 the Gate City Guards. As a further precaution .Governor Cadlei ordered every militiaman in Atlanta under arms and to, remain at their mm nan v headauarters i until furthsi orders. 1 Perfect order' and peace prevailed Sunday in Pittsburg, the negro set tlement. where the desperate battle between officers of the law and ne gro outlaws occurred" Saturday. The only evidence of the terrible strug gle are the heaps of ashes which mark the spot where" the buildings formerly sheltering Will Richardson the negro desperado, and nis com panions, and, the detail of military patrolling the scene of the distur bance. Although good order prevailed all dav. the city and , county au in the house or the country bele that Schley was a coward. V-;" Notes. 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