Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-10-08

600 lashes, with instructions to leave
the country before daylight or they
would be killed at sight. They were
found next day with parts of their
bodies pounded to a jelly and blood
trickling from hundred wounds.
! KENTUCKY.
| We find the following in the Licking
/ ton (Mo) Caucasian, leading Demo
cratic paper:
"Kentucky's criminal record rivals
Missouri's- and human language can
award it no more appalling Pre-emi-
nence. Hell seems to have been upset
and spilled all over the State. Its
very sod is reeking with the blood OF
slaughter. Eleven murders, twenty
two shooting and stabbing ARRAYS, and
the wholesale killings and burnings at
Manchester, all in four weeks and not
one legal hanging in four times as long.
is enough to blast, for a generation, the
fame of any ordinary half dozen com
monwealths, even though the bones of
Clay and Crittenden reposed in each OF
them. It's horrid blot upon Southern
civilization. 1t gives a tingle of justice
to the Yankee howl about our rutfian-
ism, heathenism. The true men OF
Kentucky should rise in the resistless
might and majesty Of right crush out
this lawlessness at once and forever;
rescue their State from reproach; and
render the beauteous Blue Grass Realm,
what nature designed it to be, para
disc instead of Pandemonium.
LOUISIANA.
August 2G. Six white State officers
and six colored men were shot at Cous-
hatta to make vacancies for White
League officers to ELL.
One of the last victims at Coushatta
was the postmaster, Andrew Boslcr 1t
is feared that the twenty-five colored
men held by the mob have also been
killed. Thus far twenty-one deaths are
reported A school teacher from Comp
te, by the name Of Vandusen. has
disappeared at Alexandria, and is doubt
less murdered. His life had been
threatened several times.
September Is. The White Leaguers
Of New Orleans, assisted by their de-
luded followers, massacred forty to
fifty citizens on the streets Of New Or
leans, took possession of the State
House, and drove out the Governor
and State officers.
TENNESSEE.
Aug. 7. Massacre of the Reeys
brothers at SomeryiIle.
Aug. 10. Burning of two churches,
near Cypress, West Tenn
Aug. IA, Burning Of two churches
Haywood county.
Aug. Is. Midnight murder ofSandy
PEBBLES, an inofensive old colored man,
by masked men, at Stewards Creek,
Rutherford county.
Aug. Is Unproyoked murder of
Robert Banks, co'ored musician,
near Kingston Springs, by one Vim.
Kellam.
Aug. -. Burning Of school house
at GARDENERS Station, Weakly county.
Aug. "a Burning Of school house
near Grant. Smith county
Aug. u Fiendish murder of Julia
Hayden, colored school teacher at
Hartville, by midnight marauders.
Aug. IS. Cruel and unprovokcd
murder Of Dick Mckinney, an inoffens-
i've and aged colord man, by maskcrs,
at Chestnut Mound, Smith county.
Aug, y. Wholesale butchery Of
sixteen colored men, who were taken
from the Jail at Trenton, Gibson coun-
ty, by armed and masked men and shot
down like dogs.
August 20. The finding of the
dead bodies Of three negroes fastened
on a raft floating down the Tennessee
river, with card attached to their per-
son with the following inscription
.'TAey haor a ticket to Neg O1ieans
please let them pass.
August q. On the farm Of Mrs
Mckinley, near Carthage, a highly re-
spocted and harmless, but patriotic old
negro was visited by six masked Ku-
klux, who smashed down his cabin door
and fred promiscuously into the family.
The daughter was wounded, rot seri-
ously, and the old man severely. lie
then seized an ak and sprang to the
door, when three bullets were sent
through his body, after his head was
smashe q with al Ak he brought out,
after which the muruerers suddenly
disappeared.
TEXAS
June -. G. W. Washburn. a.
school teacher in colored settlement
in Gaudadoupe county, was taken from
his bed by masked white men, tied and
received 100 lashes and allowed six
days to leave the country.
June %. J. T. Gesner, for teach
ing a sabbath school in colored church,
near Sequln, was dragged from his
house at night by eight white men
masked and armed. While they were
putting rope round his neck he shout
ed murder, and aroused his neighbors.
After beating Mr. Gesner over the
head with Il six-shooter the mob es-
capped Mr.. Gcsner was obliged so
leave the country, and his crop I'M
gathered
Rev. J. Webster lynchcd by hanging
because he interposedin favor Of Wash
burn and Gesner.
August % Three colored men