Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-10
LINK in Arkansas.
(. .or4espondeHt writeafrofn Little
Ark, to The Later 0aea'', un-
=, .,,.e If SEPT 1, as follows:

date 81 SEPT = % 49,
-. sISATtoN or COOK ROSS.
he meantime the work Of kill
INST 20 forward, and if Yank-
too dangerous 10 tackle, ne
though not so gamey, will do.
no doubt was what the outlaw
agbt who killed Cook Ross,
s!ng colored man in Lafayette
10 Ross was Methodist
.ssr who worked small farm
= his own hands during the week
nraarIed to the dumb Of bis own
!, m Sunday. He was a tall,
,ot angular featured man, q phil
.orbpr and christian. He could
ii and write, and took. neWspa-
o-s which he read to bis flock one
rbt in each week at their log
o,ch Ross was a Republican, Of
,urse. and when election time came
he was always ready to explain to
colored friends the great princi-
lac of that party. So Cook Ross
az a marked man, marked
4 keen, able, clear-headed back
E-oodsman; marked as an influential
tepublican among his own people
Land marked to kill.
He preached his last sermon the
s,ber day. After the evening SER
ices were over. and as the congrega-
Han were about leaving for home, a
R,uad of White Leaguers rode up to
he church and called for Ross. He
k,le out, and was induced to walk
hi with them few PAGES to the edge
n the brush. When one of them,
reaking so that the rest at the
khurch heard it, said:
81 havn't killed Cd d--n mig
Yer s--n-uf a b--h for some time;
ow take that"
He took it. Cook Ross was shot
cad on the spot, and the assassins
! deliberately rode away. No arrests;
10 attempt made to ascertain who
he murderers We're. It Was not
lyen mentioned in the county paper.
NEGRO BOY SHOT DOWN IN PERRY
COUNTY.
Maj. Gibbons told you his story in
by last letter; now we have the sec
Ind edition. There lives in one of
Ihe remote hooks of that county, in
tennessee township, a poor, widow
ID c0lOred woman, who had an only
hid, son Is years of age. She has
nephew, young man who lives in
his county, and who was on a short
,isit to his aunt. On last Saturday
light a party of White Leaguers Wis
ted the widows cabin about u
yclock, and called on the inmates to
ONE out. Not getting ready re-
pOnse they demanded that the two
'Oung men come out that they want
d to see them on business. The col
red boys still refusing, the League
RS burst open the door and seized
hem.
A DESPERATE STRUGGLE ENsUED,
mt the whites overpowered them at
act, and started off with them to-
ward the woods. While crossing an
I'D field, near the residence of Mar
in Burke, the Widows son, George,
roke from his captors and ran. He
vas fired upon by the party and
killed.
During the melee the other colored
nan, Holmes, fled to the woods. 1t
3 not known whether he escaped
II was afterwards caught and
as nothing has been
cen or heard of him since.
Ance. A letter from the scene of the
murder says that :" George was a
'ery harmless young man, industri-
Jus and upright, and there has never
'een breath of suspicion against
him"
THREE NEGROES WHIPPED IN JOHN
SION COUNTY.
The other day three leading color
n men were seized on a trumped up
'harge of petty larceny, and dragged
. Jail in GAINESVILLE by the city mar
NAL Of that place. They were given
10 trial or hearing, and the allega-
ION against them is believed to be
utterly without foundation. On the
same night, a gang of White
Leaguers, which it is said, includes
'h's city marshal and the editor of
'he Baxter Organ, went to the Jail,
'ook their victims out, hurried them
Ou' TO the woods about a mile from
own, and gave them 600 lashes each
WIN new knotted rope on the bare