The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1901 Page: 2 of 8
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DECATUR.
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WASHINGTON PARISH THE SCENE
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foremost, on the ground.
Beverly, both blacks, fell
Joseph Seal and Charles
Edward Thompson, the
10-year-old
disappeared.
Ohio town,
possessed in
while the negroes fled.
Cornerly was ehot in his
daughter fell just Inside
The other negroes around
over the
Mr. Wohl
New Orleans, La., Oct. >0.—A spe-
cial to the Picayune from Balltown.
American Sugar Refining company
announces a five-point advance.
The IseWeat Predpitattap the Trouble Said
to Nava esulted Proa as Effort to
I be made at Crowninahiel<Ts request.
Desired.
SO.—Gov. Ay-
State fair in
urged the ne-
among them-
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for the DMoIkdl Taklag •< the
Late PresMeat's Life
Jk TerrUMe Condition of Affairs Seem* to
Have Been Prevalent’
Richard Gorman, residing at Ibex,
Cota., who, it is alleged, has made it
a practice to whip his wife twice a
week, was taken by some of the people
of that place to a trestle. Ho was tied
to It, and whipped. ,
Just after alighting from a street
New Orleans, La., Oct. 29.—The Pic-
ayune’s Amite City. La, special says:
Three white men and eleven negroes
killed was the startling and terrible
news from Washington parish Mon-
day night The trouble occurred at
a negro campmeeting and the origin,
as near as can be ascertained, was as
/oliowe: Creer Lott, a negro, was run-
ning a refreshment stand and the con-
stable, a white man, name not given,
went to him and asked for his license;
he had none, and became impudent
and cursed the constable and defied
him. The constable withdrew and ob-
tained assistance. He returned with
several white men, when the negro,
Lott, rushed out and fired pointblank
into the crowd, killing Joe Seals and
Charles Elliott. The whites returned
the fire and killed Lott. Then a ne-
gro preacher named Connolly rushed
out of the house with his gun in
hand, attempting to shoot, when he
was killed, and his daughter was kill-
ed, it is said, accidentally. In the
shooting which followed another white
man was killed and E. H. Thompson
wounded, and seven or eight negroes
killed. The shooting had no direct
connection with the burning of the ne-
gro, Morris,, in that section last week,
but it is undoubtedly a sequel to that
tragic event. Since that time it is re-
ported that the negroes have been hold-
ing nightly meetings preparing to at-
tack the whites. Balltown is about
twenty miles from Franklinton, in a
sparsely settled section. It is isolated
and almost entirely cut off from the
outside world. Franklinton is twenty-
seven miles east of this place, and
there are no telegraph or telephone
lines.
Austin, Tex., Oct 29.—Attorney
General Bell has filed a suit in the Dis-
trlst court here against Teagarden A
Shumate et al., a firm engaged in the
plumbing business of this city. The
suit is in the nature of an Injunction
against the Texas Association of Mas-
ter Plumbers to restrain them from
combining to control trade in the pur-
chase of plumbing supplies. A num-
ber of defendants are named in the pe
tition.
The petition alleges that on Jan.
1,1901, each of the defendants entered
into an agreement, pool, trust or com-
bine, which combination waa known as
the Texas Asaocistlon of Master plum-
bers, and that said association was to
control and limit the trade in plumb*
Ing material and to limit competition.
That defendant A. H. Shafer is presi-
dent, 8. C. Carroll vice president, J«
B. Collins secretary, Joseph Netzer
treasurer, J. M. Shumate and W. L.
Ratlsseau executive committee.
That each and all of the defendants
agreed with each other to boycott and
to threaten any person or corporation
from buying or selling plumbing ma-
terial. That a boycott was declared
on Rumsey A Sikemeir Co. and N. O.
Nelson Manufacturing company of St'
Louis for selling material to the Tyler
Water company, because said Tyler
company was not a member of the as-
sociation.
That each of said defendants has
forfeited and become liable to the
State of Texas in the sum of $5000
per day for each and every day from
Jan. 1, 1901, to the present time, or an
aggregate penalty of $1,500,000 against
each defendant. That the aforesaid
combination, designated and known as
the Texas Association of Master
Plumbers, is an Illegal, unlawful and
injurious combination, which is indi-
rect violation of the laws of Texas.
Ten More.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 29.—A dis-
patch from Columbia. Miss., says six
negroes were shot to death at Live Oak
church, about three miles from Ball-
ton, La., one white man killed and’
another believed to be fatally wouncL
ed, and two negro women and a child
were burned almost to cinders in Tell's
restaurant, which had been fired by
the whites to dislodge Tell and others,
who were firing at the white from be-
hind the counters.
Cadet Slain.
Washington, Oct 29.—Secretary
Long has received the following cable-
gram from Rear Admiral Rogers,
which Is confirmatory of the Associa-
ted Press dispatch from Manila:
“Catabolgan, Oct. 27.—Naval Cadet
Loveman Noa, while on shore near
Terrible Race Riot Is Reported as
Happening la Louisiana.
A race war between the blacks and
whites, started at a negro campmeet-
ing at Duncan chapel Sunday after-
noon at 4 o’clock, has left a carnival
of blood up the Pearl river valley un-
equaled in the history of that country.
One white man is dead, another is
now dying with a bullet hole through
his stomach and a third white man is
badly wounded.
Nine negroes were killed in the
bloody affray—five men. three women
and one small child. A dosen, or per-
haps more, nogroes escaped to the
woods and swamps with wounds that
are believed to be certain death.
The quarterly meeting was turned
into a campmeeting. Negroes came
from 200 miles up and down the valley.
Elder Stephen Duncan of New Or-
leans, for whom the chapel waa named,
was present. Last Sunday the meet-
ing opened with several hundred ne-
groes encamped around the church in
tents and in rudely constructed shan-
ties around the place. It was to con-
tinue one week. There they ate and
slept and had services in the chapel.
One day previous to the campmeet-
ing Bill Morris, the negro, had been
burned at the stake near Balltown
for an assault upon Mrs. J. J. Ball. Pub-
lic sentiment was at a high pitch.
Under these conditions the negroes
gathered at Liveoak. There was
trouble over a license, and Crear Lott
became the center of contention. Some
trouble occurred Saturday evening,
but no bloodshed. Then he came up
again Sunday afternoon, when Consta-
ble Boon and a posse rode up to Lott’s
tent with a warrant.
The negro came out, and Is reported
to have shouted:
“By God, one nigger has been burn-
ed, but------white will be the next!"
Wade Walker, one of the constable’s
posse, was struck with a Winchester
rifle over the head, and then the awful
carnage began. The blacks fled from
the frail wooden church, for it was no
shelter from the rain of bullets. Lott
retired into his tent, shooting and
fighting. Joe Seal received his death
wound. A torrent of lead was sent
whizzing through the tent and through
the church
Preacher
yard. His
the house.
Lott's place kept up a steady pour of
shots. It was death and blood, and
the wounded and dying were on every
side. Washington parish has never
witnessed such terror and bloodshed.
Lott's old mother-in-law, his two
daughters and the little boy fell In a
heap inside the shelter. Sophia Lott
saved her life by concealing herself
behind the stove. Then she escaped
and the men did not harm her. They
were after Crear Lott.
He was barricaded, and the next
move was to fire the house, which
they did. When the Are forced him
from under cover he appeared In the
doorway and twenty rifle balls went
crashing through him. He fell tn a
heap, head
Parker and
with him.
Elliott and
wounded whites, were carried away to
the home of the Jones, abont a third
of a mile, through the pine woods.
Daly Explained.
Washington, Oct. 29.—The earning
transfer of Admiral Crowninshield
from the bureau of navigation to the
command of the Eurouean squadron
has been duly explained at the Navy
Department, but public opinion ac-
cepts the statement of Secretary Long
Social Equality Not
Raleigh, N. C„ Oct.
cock opened the Negro
an address in which he
gro to build up society
selves, founded on culture, intelli-
gence and virtue. In the course of his
address he referred to President Roos-
eevelt and Booker T. Washington, and
said to the negroes that their beat
friends Rved in the south. He told
them they did not need recognition by
the president.
In reply. Rev. C. H. King, a promi-
nent negro minister of the Methodist
church, said that the negroes did not
want social eqsiaHty, and neither he
nor bis people wonted to sit down to
the dinner table of the whites, and
that they were not in sympathy with
any such Idea.
Coiiinfreous Crabtree,
Denison, Tex., Oct. 29.—A farmer
name Crabtree had a peculiar experi-
ence with would-be footpads. Mr.
Crabtree bad been in the city with a
load of produce, and started home in
his wagon, and when about a mile
and a half west of town, on the Pres-
ton Bend road, two men, one white
and the other a negro, ordered him to
stop. The both had guns, but they
could not stop Mr. Crabtree. He didn’t
have any pressing business in that
part of the country just then, and in-
stead of stopping, he whipped up hia
horses and started at a faster gait.
The white man attempted to get in
the wagon, but Mr. Crabtree took his
driving whip, the end of which was
loaded with lead, and struck the man
on the head. He fell off the wagon,
and the negro struck Mr. Crabtree on
the head with a pistol; then the white
man came back at Mr. Crabtree and
the two men assaulted him, striking
him over the head with ttieir pistols,
but made no attempt to shoot him till
Mr. Crabtree knocked the white man
off the wagon the second time, when
he fired two shots at the old gentle-
man, neither of which took effect. The
negro attempted to get at the farmer.
He placed his pistol very near Mr.
Crabtree’s side and fired. The bullet
entered his coat and passed through
his shirt and vest, blistering the skin
on his abdomen, but doing no further
damage. With a final heavy blow on
the head, the negro fell off the wagon
and did not renew the attack. , 1
Auburn. N. Y., Oct 30.—At 7:12:40
Tuesday morning Leon F. Czolgoss, the
murderer of President McKinley, paid
the life penalty for his crime in the
electric chair at the Auburn state pris-
on.
Warden Meade gave the signal to
have the prisoner brought in and at
7:101-2 o’clock Chief Keeper Tupper
swung open the Mg steel door leading
to the condemned cells. As the steel
bars behind which Crolgoss had been
kept were swung aside, two guards
marched the prisoner out into the cor-
ridor, two others followed, the chief
keeper walking in front The guards
on either side of Czolgosz had hold of
bis arms, as if either to support him
or to keep him from making a dem-
onstration. As he stepped over the
threshold he stumbled, but they held
him up, and as they urged him for-
ward toward the chair he stumbled
again on the little rubber covered plat-
form upon which the chair rests.
His head was erect and with his
gray flannel shirt turned back at the
neck he looked quite boyish. He was
intensely pale, and as he tried to throw
his head back to carry himself erect
his chin quivered very perceptibly. As
he was being seated he looked about
the assembled witnesses with quite a
steady stare and said: "I killed the
president because he was an enemy of
the good people—of the working peo-
ple."
His voice trembled slightly at first,
but gained strength with each word,
and he spoke perfect English.
•II am not sorry for my crime,’’ he
.said loudly, just as the guard pushed
his head back on the rubber head rest,
iand drew the straps across his forehead
and chin. As the pressure on the straps
tightened and bound the jaw slightly,
ho mumbled: “I am awfully sorry I
could not see my father.’*
It was Just exactly 7:11 o’clock when
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~ Denison, Tex., Oct. 20.—Allen G.
be state do- Wlddlcks was shot twice with a shot-
sod by its gun and died Instantly, Charley Al-
ad Sofia that len surrendered to the officers soon aft-
eetatflished «r the shooting and was placed in jail
tils are fur- at Salisaw. The shooting took plaoe
near Webbers Falla.
the last statement when the strapping
was completed and as the guards step-
ped backward Mr. Meade raised his
hand, and at 7:12:30 Electrician Davis
turned the switch that threw 1700 volts
of electricity Into the living body.
The rush of the current threw the
body so hard against the straps that
they creaked .perceptibly. The hands
clinched suddenly and the whole at-
titude was one of extreme rigidity.
For forty-five seconds the full current
was kept on and then slowly the elec-
trician threw the switch back, reducing
the current volt by volt until it was
cut off entirely. Then just , as it had
reached that point he threw the lever
hack again for two or three seconds.
When it was turned off again Dr. Mc-
Donald stepped to the chair, and put
his hand over the heart. He said he
felt no pulsation, but suggested that
the current be .turned for a .few sec-
onds again. Once more the current
'was turned off .for good.
From the time Csolgosz had left his
ceffi '.until the lull .penalty was paid,
Isas .than four minutes had elapsed.
Tha physicians present used atethe-
aeoye and other tests to determine if
any Me remained, and at 7:17 the
warden raised hia band and announc-
ed : “Gentlemen, the prisoner Is dead.'’
Was Careful! Secluded.
Auburn. N. Y., Oct 30.—Caolgons
was a carefully secluded prisoner to
Auburn penitentiary, and his confine-
ment and execution ware devoid of
sensattonaltam. State Superintendent
of Prisons Collins was determined that
the prisoner, despite the enormity of
bis crime, should gain no undne noto-
riety. and issued strict orders for hia
complete seclusion. These orders
were carefully carried out from the
time the prisoner entered the prison
New Orleans, La., Oct. 29.—Thirty
persons, whites and negroes, were
killed in a race war at Balltown, Wash-
ington parish. La.
This is the latest news from the seat
of war by Sheriff H. N. Simmons of
Washington parish, who telegraphed
to Gov. Heard that he was unable to pre-
serve the peace-there. Gov. Heard at
once took action and called Gen. Glynn
of the First brigade to forward troops
to Balltown at once. A train left New
Orleans with a company of military.
On Wednesday last Bill Morris, a
negro, was burned at the stake at
Balltown for assaulting a white wom-
an, Mrs. John Ball, whom he also at-
tempted to murder, and who Is still in
a precarious condition. The burning
was a most brutal one. The Are was
touched off by a negro whom the mob
compelled to perform the service for
them.
At a meeting held at Balltown at 4
p. m., Sunday, the action of this negro
was denounced, and it was resolved to
mete out to him the same fate as Mor-
ris had met with. A party of negroes
was formed for that purpose sad went
to the house with the Intention to lynch
him. When this news reached the
whites, that the negro who had simply
carried out their will was to suffer
death, several of them went to his res-
idence. The fight then began, details
of which are coming in slowly, because
of the remoteness of the region.
The flrot news was received when a
party of men rode into Columbus.
Miss., from Louisiana, and bought up
all the guns and ammunition they could
Japan has a political crisis.
Lipton baa sailed for home.
In conversation with Superintends
Ecuador's now cabinet has been
formed.
Pan-American exposition closes No-
vember 2.
Colombian rebels lost heavily in a
battle near Panama.
Pontiac, Ill, Is to ha '6 a $40,000 pub-
lic steam heating plane.
Admiral Rodgers arrived at Cabalog,
Samar island, on Thursday.
The New England building at Pan-
American exposition burned.
The new sanitary sewerage system
of Delaware, 0., will cost $40,000.
A promising flow of oil has been
struck near Colorado Springs, Colo.
Commander Seth M. Ackley of the
navy has been placed on the retired
list
The transport Sheridan arrived at
Nagasaki, Japan, in a disabled condi-
tion.
Riley Fox. 18 years old, and Miss
Maude Brown, 15, married at Harris-
burg, Ills.
The late ex-Gov. Pillsbury of Minne-
sota left no will. His estate is valued
at $5,000,000.
An increase of 2 1-2 cents on domes-
tic and 1 cent on export business has
gone Into effect
Lieut Gov. Northcott of Illinois an-
nounced that he has resigned as head
consul of-the Modern Woodmen.
Steamer-Leonard was disabled by an
explosion-off the coast of Dover, Eng-
land, and eighty persons injured.
Fire damaged the French Lick
Springs hotel at the Indiana watering
place of that name $10,000 worth.
Several hogs that were bitten by a
dog at Sarepta, N. Y., were taken with
hydrophobia and promptly dispatched.
The death of Charles F. Smalley, a
well known manufacturer of agricul-
tural machinery at Manitowoc, Wis.,
is announced.
Gen. WUter S. Payne, for a number
of years commander-in-chief of the
Sons of Veterans, died at Chicago from
the effects of an operation. i
The four-story leather goods factory
of Keating, Smith A Shoemaker at Chi- | he crossed the threshold, but a minute
cago burned. While working on the | had eiapaed and he had just finished
fire live firemen were badly hurt
The carriage builders held their an-
nual convention at Cincinnati with
about 600 delegates present The In-
dustry was reported in a flourishing
condition. <
Joseph Glllig, who recently died at
Tiffin, O., was 95 years old, had been
twice married and was the father of
nineteen children, thirteen of which
number survive him.
Augusta de Forest, the well known
actress, who played leading roles with
Alexander Savlnl, John McCullough
and Edwin Booth, died at her home in
the city of New York.
In the case of James H. Edwards
against the city of Richmond, Ind., la
which plaintiff sought to recover wages
as a laborer by the scale fixed by state
law, 20 cents per hour, Judge Fox held
that the statute waa valid.
William Hogan.a window glass work-
er of Hartford City, Ind., while on a
spree went home, and in the presence
of his family cut open hia bowels with
a razor and pitched his entrails on the
floor. He died almost instantly.
Nine years ago the
daughter of Peter Bell
He lived in a small
After spending all he
search of her, the father found her
with a band of gypsies near Carthage,
* is bed.
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Tyler, L. W. The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1901, newspaper, November 1, 1901; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1193918/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .