Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-16

and maid, Honolulu; Henry S. Smith,
Grand Rapids. Mich; William Bell, Marys-
vile. CAL; FL. L. Graves and wife, James
w. Burnham and wife, San Francisco i.
NJ. T. Patton and wife, Salem, Oregon; J.
W. Davis. Thomas Bailey and G. w. Nc
Pherson, Wisconsin; T. S. Mcpherson, Ari-
IONA; William Breslsford. Philadelphia ;
w. Il. Chapman, London, England J. d.
Rosse, New Orleans; L. P Nichols, Fair
bault, Minnesota.
Seventy-seyen through emigrants left on
! last nights train, to arrive in Sacramento
September 22d
Wholesale Lynciiing of Negroes.
NASHVILLE, September 18th. "A letter
from the adjoining county OF Robertson says /:
Seven negroes have been arrested as impli-
Gated in the murder of one Lee Laprade
One of the negroes was taken to Sadiersyille
Sunday, and it is reported has confessed,
naming his accomplices.
| a Springfield special to the American says {:
At u O'Clock Tuesday night mob of 100
armed men came into town and began to
batter in the doors If the jail containing two
negroes charged with the murder of cid man
| Laprade. Four suspected negroes were in
! the hands of the mob and two others in Jail !;
also negro named Joe Ramsey, who muir
dered Miss Holt
The following are specials to the american
| this morning
GUTHRIE (ky), September l5th-2:so A. NJ.
Jim Higgins, one of the Lsprade murderers, was
captured at Padueah flew days ago and brought
10 Sadlersville for trial. He made full confession
| yesterday. There were seven more negroes impli-
| Gated IN the murder. The trial net being finished
the parties were put under guard at Sadersye last
! night. This morning at O'Clock q masked party
| of fifty men were seen half mile from Sadersvie
armed with shot guns and holding consultation.
Twenty men were passing here at o'clock,
| going towards Sadlersvile. No doubt they will
| lynch the seven negroes before morning.
SPRINGFIELD, August l5th-S 4 NJ
Arch Jamison and Jack Bell were taken by the
/ mob, and will be hanged. Ramsey was left dead
the jail floor rddled with bullets. The mob left
! quietly. They broke open several blacksmith
shops and got tools, then broke down the doors of
the Jail and went into the cells took out the
and lift town with them securely tied and riding in
| front Of the mob. Everything was done quietly.
Citizens went to the Jail after the mob left and found
Ramsey lying on the floor dead, perfectly riddled
! with bullets. None OF the mob are known. They
! went west the Clarksville road Seine citizens
asked where the would find tie prisoners The
mob remarked that the buzzards would find them.
1t is said that all the negroes will be hanged
together. The mobwI,l now have time to take them
where Laprade was murdered before daylight.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
| NASHVILLE, September 15th.-Late advices
| from Springfield state that the crowds who
| disguised with white handkerchiefs across
their faces, and entered the town along Cedar
| Hill at l o'clock. They rode quietly to the
| Jail and dismounted. Failing to find the
! Sheriff to obtain the keys, they broke in the
| doors with sledge hammers. The first cell
reached was occupied by Ramsey, who two
months previous shot a young lady because
she refused to marry him. This prisoner re-
treated behind the door and fought the mob
with the leg of chair. He was shot in the
left leg, severing the femoral artery, and fall
| ing, was dragged outside and one or two more
| shots fred into his body, which killed him.
| The crowd then secured Jack Bell and Archie
Jan ison (negroes), arrested few days ago,
charged with the murder of l.. S. Laprade, who
lived about II miles from Springfield. They
placed these prisoners upon horses, and with
them left town by the same road they en-
tered. They halted seven miles from Spring
field and hanged the two negroes Of dogwood
trees, about seventy-hve yards apart. At z
O'Clock this morning lady passing along the
| road observed the corpses swinging, and at
once notified the neighbors The intelligence
soon reached Springfield, and the Coroner,
accompanied by number of citizens, pro-
! ceeded to the spot, cut down the bodies held
an inquest and placed the corpses in a wagon
and drove back to town. The bodies were
then taken charge of by an undertaken. Five
others, accused of completely in the Laprade
murder, are under guard.at Sadlersville. One
! Of them, named Higgins, made a confession
| duplicating the ethers, and giving sickening
details ofthe torture of Laprade to make linn
reveal where his money was kept The ex'
element at Sadlersvilie is very great, aud the
lynchiug OF the prisoners tonight is appre-
hended.
The Gully Murder Trial.
DE KALB (Miss) September 155b.-The
trial Of Virgil and Houston Gully on a charge
of the murder of john 2. Gillner in 1877 is
progressing. The State has closed its case,
| having examined ten witnesses. In the trial
years ago Of Henry ]. Gully for the murder
| OF Cornelia Chisholm, he was acquitted. The
plan Of the prosecution then was to establish
a conspiracy. That plan is now abandoned.
! The States proof shows that Virgil Gully
fired the first and second shots at Gilmer
| Witnesses for the defense testified that Virgil
| fired neither the first For second shot, because
| they were in conversation with him at the
time. One witness-Hopper for the State
| testifies that he was in Jail at the time Gil
mer was killed, and saw Houston Gully
| shoot at him after he was down. Walker
| Morrison, for the defense, testifes that he
was in jail with Hopper. They were
| looking at thescrowd 800 yards away through
the glass in the Jail window, and could dis
| tinguish no one in the crowd of 100 men or
more. He did not see Houston. Witness
Harvey testified that Houston was near him
| all the while that Houston had no gun, and
he is certain that he did not shoot at Gilrner.
| Witness Waddle testifes that after the second
shot he saw William Gully run out of the
back door of his store in the direction Gilmer
had gone and after raising his gun to his
| shoulder, he Immediately disappeared from
view behind a corner of the store. An in
slant after he heard the r port Of gun back
of that house. This was the third and last
shot. Witness supposed at the time that
VIM. Gully fired it, but is not certain. The
defense then closed.
Railroad Excitement in Chicago.
CHICAGO, September 18th. = There has
been considerable excitement to-day in that
| part of the South Side through which the
| Chicago aud Western Indiana Railroad is at
| tempting to gain entrance to n convenient
place for passenger depot. The company
| has secured State Supreme Court decision
in its favor, has obtained several injunctions
restraining various railroad companies whose
tracks it will cross from interfering
with its track-layIng, and has purchased
| and condemned the land which it needs
except small strip. Its opposition origi-
mated with the other railroad companies
whose tracks it crosses, and with some of the
property owners along the routes. This is
| regarded as in reality contest between the
Indiana being also an entering road for the
Grand Trunk and perhaps the Wabash. Last
| night the track was practically completed
far north as Twelfth street, the tracks of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. the Michi-
gan Central the Illinois Central and the
Chicago and Northern Railroad at Sixteenth
street having been crossed in spite of consider
| able opposition from the engines and cars of
the roads above named. This evening squad
Of about 20 employees of the Western Indiana
began laying track on the condemned
land north of Twelfth street. They sue
ceeded in getting the track pretty nearly
all down, when some excited groups of
residents, mostly of the lowest class, seized
the rails, took them to one side, and piling up
the ties made bonfire OF them. The police,
under instructions from Mayor Harrison, re-
fused to interfere, and at midnight the rail
road drew off its forces. The case will be
taken into the Superior Court tomorrow, and
it is expected that the company will ask for
warrant for Mayor Harrison for contempt of
Court. During the melee two of the work
men were hurt with bricks thrown by the
mob. Had there been resistance on the part
of the track-iayers Iiot would probably
have occurred. The outcome of the fight
will be watched with great interest, as
quarrel between two great rival corporations.
The Western Indiana people claim that they
have the law and decisions all in their favor,
and that all opposition to their entrance is