Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-01
A,,ti-Cifnese EkiOi in Denver.

CHlEAhEE BRUTAiLY BEATEN AND ONE KILLED.
An ASSocate0 Press dispatch ron Denver
Colorado. dated last night says: Denver has
been in the hands or mob for eight hours and
IneIe are now fully |, 500 rioters In the streets
me trouble has been growing for days. II was
discovered week ago that there were fully
5000 illegal names registered In this city and
immediately afterwards the streets were nlIed
with strangers or the worst character. Ever
since the publication OF the alleged Garfield
letter Violent larttsans have striven to make an
issue OF the Chinese question, and the demo-
cratic press has been Tiled With articles assers-
ing that as soon as Garfield was elected the
state would te flooded with Chinese aud all the
white labor driven out. Saturday night the
democrats had procession, carrying trans.
ing to excite animosity against the Chinese \
considerable portion became intoxicated and
remained out all night. Yesterday noon they
mace an assault upon the Chinese houses tear
Ing down tie houses and beating and driV-
ing out the Chinese. One was dragged from
Hop Lees place with rope about his neck ana
MS sk'.H crushed III with boots aud bricks.
The police were called out, blt were unable to
control the moo. The fire department was or
dered to throw water On the rioters, but the
mob attacked them and badly wounded two
beaten; one was rescued by the police ana taken
TO jail. which was Immediately surrounded By
mob OF about eco, who hurrahed and yelled
lyLGh TIE ieper.' Special police managed to
intact In the lower part OF the city. Aoout
dark they were entirely beyond control, aud
h naIcheo mom street to street, cutting Chinese
ing citizens. On Lawrence street. from an
Isolated tenement, a Chinaman was dragged
ms s , SIs were cut on and he was otherwise
ayihg condition, placed In a Carriage
ana driven towards the city jail At
i6 h street an unsuccessful effort was
made TO drag him from the wagon. Severn
are reported killed but the condition or The
streets is such that 1t IS impossible al this hour
TO get definite report. Many coiored men were
Z
rioters are still on The streets In full force
Special police have been sworn In to the mum
Der OF 800. There was great deal OF incen-
dlaTNm last night, and the fire department has
been called TO De ready at the slightest warn-
Ing. Reports OF pistols are heard all over TO Sn,
and the militia Will be called out. Threats have
been freely made that the Tribune Office would
be sacked. but, though the mob here mas been
bowling across the street from it, no attack has
been made as yet. Citizens, irrespective o.
dangerous night ahead. The Chinese popu!a-
ton here cannot exceed $50, al told ana ron
the beginning OF this dsgraceful riot not a
single Incident is reported OF any one of them
having resisted the onslaught.
THE MAINE AMENDMENTS Tile standing COM
mittee Oh election returns 10 which was r--
Tered the returns OF votes given the 18th day
OF September upon the proposed anne adment %
the constitution relating TO the election OF the
,ovt rror by plurality instead OF a inajo~ ity of
votes and the amendment changing Uh9 term
II Cf1ice OF senators and representatives, report
hal the NUMBER OF N0teS thrown LOT the anne ID
nent providing for the election OF the 90 zero 1r
BY plurality is: In favor, 51,0l5: opposed
IS 500. The number OF votes thrown Tor the
amendment changing the terms OF Office or SEN
itors and representatives is: In favor, 81 652;
oppose d, 12I4. The figures vary somewhat
rom the clerks figures already published, and
furnish eGt ittonal proof that an official count is
necessary To settle the question OF who is gov
eTnor. Ar present it Is the sheerest folly to
claim the state for either Piaisted Or Davis
augusta tAe.) 10 u'Rdi.
John Baptiste Nartonn has been arrested at
i.achu e. Canada, for killing his brother Alexis,
five yes rs ago. He confessed that he was urged
TO tie deed by his step-mother in order that
they light get his brothers money.
JACK RAFFERTY, made wager that ne could
drink Without paying in every saloon on Spring
street, JenersonVille, Ind. He got safely into
ana out CT seven places, but in the eighth, when
he said. "Hang IL up the bartender gave him q
dreadful whipping. There were six more bars
TO cover, and he struggled on; but hts appear
anee as now against him, and at the eleventh
his skull vas fractured with club; so he lost
The bet.