Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGEs IN INDIANA.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGES IN INDIANA.
Evansville, Ind, advices Of the 18th
say: On last Monday night seven ne
grOes entered house of ill-fame at
Mt. Vernon, Is miles distant, and by
threats and violence succeeded in raw
ishing five white women living there.
Four of the negroes were arrested night
before last. When Deputy Sheriffs
Thomas and Hayes went to the resi-
dence of Dan Harrison, father of one
of the three missing ones, to make the
arrest of the son. Dan Harrison resisted
the entrance to the house and shot
Deputy Thomas, killing him instantly.
Deputy Hayes shot the old man, shat
tering his arm. The news spread rap
idly, and soon a mob of several hundred
men surrounded the jail where old man
Harrison had been taken to keep COM
pany with the four previously incarcer-
ated. The jail is very insecure, and the
mob surrounded it in order to prevent
the prisoners being taken to this city
for safe keeping. Hearing that the mi
lltia had been ordered from Evansville,
the 9:20 A. NJ. train west was stopped by
the mob mile this side of Mt. Vernon
and searched. Finding no soldiers had
been sent the train was permitted to pass
on. The crowd around the jail increas-
ed In proportions toward night. The
telegraph operator was run out of the
Office at $50 P. NJ. One hundred men
in long, black masks proceeded to the
| jail at one o'clock, took the four pris-
Oners arrested Tuesday, and hung them
in the jail yard. The old man Harrison
was cut to pieces and thrown down a
privy vault After perpetrating the
horrible deed the mob dispersed and
the streets are now deserted.
| PANIC IN A LIVERPOOL THEATRE.
A Liverpool dispatch of the 18th inst.
says it is reported that there were be-
tween 1000 and 5000 persons in the
Coliseum theatre last night at the time
Of the fatal panic. 1t appears one of
| the performers was singing a comic
song, when a fight commenced in the
pit. The cry of fire was raised, and
there was a general stampede for the
| box office. entrance, though there are
said to have been five other doors open
| for egress of the audience. The police
inside and outside of the theatre vainly
endeavored to control the frantic crowd.
The structure OF the theatre at the
point where the crush occurred is in
| tricate. The exits converge into mar
row well, and it was in this we'll the
suffocation took place, and the dead
were piled six or seven bodies deep.
The upright partition in the centre of
the doorwry stopped the passage until
one Of the men attached to the theatre
cut it away to enable some imprisoned
people to escape. A scene Of the
! greatest excitement prevailed outside
the theatre. Fire engines and fire es-
capes arrived aI.d the firemen, joining
the police, entered the building to re-
assure the people. The manager In
the theatre, upon the first alarm, rush
ed into the pit from the entrance
shouting to the people to remain quiet
When the theatre had been cleared the
dead and injured We're carried to the
Royal infirmary. Two of the dead were
women, three boys, and 30 strong, able
bodied men of the laboring class.
NEW YORK BANKS.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says
by the bank statement loans, increased