Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-08
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~ LOUISIANA.
august 29.--Six white State ofsicar
sau SIX coiored men were sho. at Con
snstta to make vacancies for whit,
league officers to fill. 'A'' - :
one OF the last victims at Coushatt,
was the postmaster, Andrew BosIer
Il Is reared that the twenty-five coloreC
i9h neid by the mob have also heer
Killed. Thus far twenty-one death,
are reported. A school teacher from
Compte, by the name of Vand,sen
mas disappeared at Alexandria and i.
doubtless murdered. His life had hoe,
threatened several times.
Septen 15-The whita laaoror,
OF New Orleans, assisted bv their daIu.
ued followers, massacred forty to fifty
citizens on the streets of New Orleans :
TOOK possession of the State Honse and
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TENNESSEE.
August 1-Burnine of the school.
mouse at Commerce, Smith county
August Cash Warren was shot in
Sommerville. -''
August Massacre of the Raaves
brothers at SommeryiIIe =
August I0-Barnfng of two cbnrc,,o.
near Cypress, West Tennessee. '>'
august ll-Burning of two churches
In Haywood county.
august l2--Mldnight murder of San
oy feeoies, an inoffensive old colored
InAn, ny masked men at Stewards
Greek, Rutherford county.
august 15-Unprovoked murder of
ROBERT Banks,a colored musician near
kingston Springs, by one Wm. KeI-
iah, VINO asked him if he didn't want
70 oshoot: Banks replied, no, sir, 70
winch kellam said, Then L will shoot
you, and shot him dead.
august 13-Burning of school bousei
~ 4arqner's Station, Weakly county.
bs D. Nelson was shot at Pulaski In.
tne Gay by unmasked men.
August l4-Burning of school ho,,se
near Grant, Smith county.
August 22-Ffendish murder of .TnIia
Hayden, colored school teacher. Al
6martsvlile, by midnight marruders.
one was shot dead i'm her bed at mid.
night by unknown (?) parties.
EAugust N-Cruel and unproyoked
murder OF Dick Mex inney. sn inofft n.
ana aged coiored man, by niaskers. AT
chestnut Mound, Smith county.
August 25-Wholesale butchery of
sixteen colored men, who were taken
from jail at Trenton, Gibson county. by
armed and masked men and shot down
like dogs.
August 20--The finding Of the Fdead
bodies OF three negroes fastened on a |
raft hoating down the Tennessee river.
with card attached TO their persons
with the following inscriptions: sThey
have ticket TO New Orleans; please |
let them pass.'
August 28-On the farm of Mrs. Nc
Kinley, near Carthage, highly re-
spectacle and harmless, but spatriutie
old negro was visited by six masked |
KukluX, who smashed down his cabin /
door ana hred promiscuously into the
family. The daughter was wounded \
not seriously, and the old man severe-4
~. he then seized an ak and sprang |
to the door, when three bullets were
sent through his body, after his head
was smashed with the ak he brought
out, after which the murderers sudden
ly disappeared. =e-s~zs= 4 s.lf
TEXAS.
June 22-G. W. Washburn, a school
teacher in colored settlement in Gau-
daloupe county, was taken from his
bed by masked white men, tied and
received 100 lashes and allowed six
days to leave the county.
June 23-J. F. Gesner, for teaching I
school in a colOred church.
near Sequin, was dragged from his |
house at night by eight white men
masked and armed. While they were
putting a rope around his neck he
murder, ,and aroused his neigh
bors. After beating Mr.. Gesner overi
the head with six-shooter the mob
Mr.. Gesner was obliged to |
leave the county, and his crop ungath-
cred.
Rev. J. Webster lynched by hang
Ing because be interposed i'm favor of
and Gesner. +
August 2S-Three colored men were
shot in Corsicana.
Over six hundred murders, it is said,
have been committed in TeXss since
Gov. Coke succeeded Gov. Davis, in
cluding preachers and teachers. This /
statement is made on the authority of
responsible official residing in the
Republic.