The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-31

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MADRID, October 27,--Topete is sori-
ou,lV III.
BERLIN, October 27.-Ilcro Hansen,
editor Of the Nieuna Guzcltc, has been
summoned 70 the Won Arnim trial. lie
is to bring his paper with him.
RICHMOND, Va, October 27.-A col
lision occurred to-day between Scner,
republican, and Douglass, conserva-
tive, in the first district. Sener's arm
was broken and he was otherwise
damaged. Sencr said something about
Beck, Of Kentucky, which provoked
| Douglass.
MONROE, La, October 2S.-The in
vestigntiOn before Commission Jewett
of the case of Judge Scott Recorder
Ramsey and Mayor Richardson, OF
Homer, Claiborne parish, who were
brought here yesterday, closed to-day.
! The decision will he rendered to.mur-
row. The testimony of scott Rains
| ,colored), the principal witness for the
| prosecution, was that Il republican
meeting was broken up because of u
| pistol fred in the street about u square
of. No one was disturbed or threat
ened in the meeting, but he (Rains)
was subsequently personally abused by
white men, but did not leave town
until sunset. Young MoXey and other
government witnesses testified favor
ably to the accused. Sheriff Aycock,
summoned by the defense, testified
that himself Ramsey, Richardson and
Scott were active in keeping the peace,
which was threatened by the violent
action of the negroes, who demanded
the possession ola white man who had
Il difficulty with Il negro when pistol
was fired, and that he summoned sew
eral whites rs an armed posse to sup
press the mob; that he arrested the
white man, whose i0rcibc seizure the
blacks attempted, and that there We're
no politics in the case; that there were
only about fifty white men in the case
to three hundred blacks.
Rev. J. y. jordon, also for the de-
! tense, cOrrohCrated the testimony of
/ AycOck, and said that when he saw
| the blacks rushing 10 seize the white
man, he laid his hands on the shoulder
OF the foremost negro and told him to
await tie action of the authorities
Several in the rear said, "Knock the
id white man loose.n The negroes
halted, however, and finally quiet was
restored.
Here the evidence closed. and the
case was argued by John Ray, for the
prosecution, and Judge Richardson
and Captain Cobb FIR the defense.
The prisoners are confined under
guard in an old dilapidated residence.
The trial OF Huey, Muyfeld and
Phillips, of Lincoln, is fixed tor to-
morrow.
The telegraph company is taking
testimony relative to the cutting ofthe
wires by Lieutenant Hodgson and
Marshal .Seley, west of Vienna. Both
wires were cut in six different places
and forty to fifty feet taken OUt of each
wire, the ends wrapped around trees
and the insulators removed. The re-
pairer was several hours in repairing
! the damages. The atiidavits will show
that thU cutting was done by soldiers
under orders from Lieutenant Hodgson
and Marshal Seley.
LATER.
MONROE, La, October 2S.-Commis-
siQner JeHett, after reading n lengthy
opinion, quoting from the evidence of
Scott Rains (colored), prosecuting wit
ness, held Judge Scott, Recorder Ram
| sey and Mayor Richardson in bonds of
six thousand dollars each.
Nests. HHey, Mayield and Phil
lips, of Lincoln, were admitted by Jew
EFT to bail in the sum of five thousand
dollars each.
Huey, after his release, was rear
rested by Marshal Seley on II second
warrant for violation of the enforce
ment act. Huey asked for the mar
shal's authority, when the marshal
caught Huey by the arm and carried
him oil. Huey gave second bond.
The bands of Trenton and Monroe
are serenading the released prisoners,
and Il large number of citizens are i'm
attendance.
The cutting of the telegraph wires of
Vienna, mentioned last night, is con-
firmed. The United States soldiers
swear they heard the order given to
cut the wires. John Townsend and
two colored men witnessed the cutting.
Townsend swears he saw the cutting,
and was halted going along the high
way by armed men. He was told he
might be wanted. He swears that the
ends of the wire were wrapped around
stump and stuck under the fence.
Perfect quiet prevails all through this
section of country.
HOMER, La, October 2S.-Judge
TrimBle has Information that when
Sheriff Aycock reacRed Vienna, he
served the writs issued by him, and
that the sheriff and his deputy were
treated in most contemptuous man
ner. The writ of habeas corpus was
disregarded, and the most shameful
and abusive language was used by
Lieutenant HOdgsOn, in command, and
10y Seley. The prisoners (Scott, Ram
sey and Richardson), were surrounded
by soldiers and guns cooked and pre-
presented ut the law officers, and the
whites defied 10y the military officers.
Judge Trim ble is indignant that the
civil authority was disregarded, and
will take steps to punish the offenders.
Trimble is Il republican, and a supper
ter of the Kellogg administration.
LATER.
No additional arrests in Homer par
ish since yesterday. There are several |
bodies of troops in different parts of
the parish.
W. II. MaXey, republican, says
that warrants are out for overtwo hum
bred citizens. Not single individual
has left or will leave. There is diff
ference 81 opinion among the republic
cans here as to the effects of the arrests
of Saturday. Some of them repudiate
the whole affair, and all are endeavcr-
ing to shift the responsibility.
Rumors of arrests are frequent from
neighboring parishes.
HOMER, La, October 2S.--Evidence
sufficient has been found here and at
the district court i'm Lincoln The