Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-27
Criminal Record.

THE ARKANSAS TROUBLES.
CINCINNATI lDec ga Memphis special SAYS
that the latest from Chlcot county, Ark, states
the negroes have disbanded, and but fifty re-
turned home. The fifty mentioned have placed
themselves under the sheriff. No fears are en-
tertaned as to retaliation by the whites.
LITTLE Rock, Dec. 26.-Conway Barbour,
colored assessor of Chicot county, arrived here
to-day. He was at Lake Village when Wynne
and three others, charged with killing him. were
shot. He left there Friday, and says everything
was quiet. No excuses were committed and
the officers OF the law have complete control of
affairs. The governor has not yet heard from
his adjutant general
LYNCHING AFFAIR.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 26.-Further particulars have
been received of the lynching of two despera-
does near Seneca, KeOsho county, Mo- last
week. 1t appears that Louis Swimm and an
other desperate known as Texas Joe, alias Buck
skin, induced Il German named Henry SALESMAN
to go about two miles from Prairie City TO get
some whiskey they had secreted there. After
getting out of town they assaulted him with
clubs and left him for dead, after robbing him
of S25 and watch. Salsman recovered sutfi.
Gent 10 crawl back to town and reported the
affair." Swimm was arrested at Seneca by the
vigilance committee. Buckskin was subse.
quentlv captured after being shot three times
Both were hanged to tree. Before the execu-
ton Buckskn confessed 10 having murdered
eleven men during the past year. and the total
booty obtained was only 500.
ALMOST A LYNCHING AFFAIR
New YORK, Dec. ga Cincinnati special
saws the citizens OF Hamilton, Ohio, incensed at
the acquittal of Mcclellan, charged with the
murder of Thomas j. Myers, held public meet
ing last night and passed resolutions that he
seek a residence elsewhere. A small hut well
armed party quietly proceeded to his house
while the meeting was being held, but Mcclellan
had taken warning from an inhammatory
II oh fIa a.
an eastward bound train, thus escaping lynch
ing.
RUFFIANIsM AT CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 26.-At the Christmas fes-
tival of negroes at church in Florence, KY,
Sunday night, white man named Henry Sny-
der, who was intoxicated, took liberties with
the females, Peter Ryder demonstrated, which
so irntated Snyder that he shot him in the
head, and then shot three other negroes
FATAL SHOOTING ARRAY.
HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 26.-Capt Michael of
the Welsh brigantine Nina, shot the boatswain,
Daniel puggan, last night, fatally, He was ar.
rested,
SAN Francisco, Dec &c. ID. May, secre-
tary of state of Oregon, is supposed to be de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000. An officer has
been dispatched to Salt Lake City 10 arrest him,
CLERGYMAN MURDERED
LITTLE Rock, AK, Dec. 26.-Rey W. c.
Wallace was shot and killed, at Atlanta, Colum.
bia county, on the goth, by one Shilman, who
was drunk and used some insulting language to
Wallace's family, Tor which the clergyman re-
preached him. The murderer escaped.
FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE WHARTON TRIAL.
ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 26,-In the Wharton trial,
today &. p Toney, chemist, testified that the
result of the analysis of the liver OF Gen. Ketch-
UNI, since last Wednesday, showed that it con
tanned one-half to three-lourhs Of a grain of an
timony.
HIGHwAYAEN,
ALBANY, Dec, 90 "A drover, John Simmons,
was seized last night by two highwaymen near
this city, robbed of $40 in none, and a draft
for $1,000, received in payment of cattle.
CHRISTMAS OUTBREAK OF THE KUKLUX
ST. LOUIS, Dec. pa dispatch from Scdalia
says that Christmas day witnessed q prepons
certed outbreak of the kuklux at Marshall Sa-
line county, Mo-, and vicinity. A large number
OF armed men turned cut in pursuit OF negroes.
A patrol was placed near tho town, and every
traveller was halted and questioned, All husi
ness was suspended and mob violence regned
supreme,
II is not known how many negroes were
killed. bat man who left Marshall at eleven p.
NJ, saw the dead bodies OF five, two hanging
by the neck, and three lying in the road. He
also saw one terribly wounded, having his
shoulder shot away. At lhe latest accounts, a
crowd Gf armed men were starting out, swear
ing that they would clear out every negro in the
county,