Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-16
NO. 26U
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Colored Prisoners Lynched by Tennessee
Mob-The Days Record of Devi1tries and

Colored Prisoners Lynched by Tennessee
Mob-The Days Record of DeviItries and
Disasters.
FIRE AT MENoMoNEE.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
MENoMoNEE, Wis.,, Sept. ia fire
this morning destroyed dwelling belonging
to Mrs. Green. Loss about 81 1000. In
surance $500.
TRAIN WREcKERs AT WORK.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
MANKATo, Mimi, Sept. l5.-Some unscrupu-
ious devil took a stone, broke the lock, and
turned the switch near the Red Jacket mill
about four miles above the city on the Central
road. The noon train, conductor Keeler, COM
ing to Mankato, run on to and the engine and
| one car were thrown off the switch, no
one noticing that the switch was turned, and
ploughed into the ground. The engineer and
fireman jumped. the former lighting in q cul-
vert and breaking his knee, sustaining three
fractures. No further damage.
LYNoHNa IN TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 15.-A letter from
the adjoining county of Robertson says seven
negroes have been arrested as implicated in the
murder of one Lee Laprade, one of the negroes
taken to Saddlerville Sunday. 1t is reported be
has confessed, naming his accomplicea.
Springfield special to the american says at 12
o'clock Tuesday night a mob Of 100 armed
men came into town and began to batter in the
doors of the Jail containing two negroes charg-
ed with the murder of old man Laprade. Four
suspicious negroes were in the hands of the
mob and two hers in the Jail; also negro
named Joe Ramsey, who murdered Miss Holt
The following special was to the An,ericaa this
morning:
GuTHR1E. Sept. Is, 2:30 a. M.-Jim Higgins,
one of the Lapfsde murderers, captured at
'Paducah a few days ago. and brought to Sad.
dlerville for trial. He made full confession
Yesterday. There were seven more
negroe. implicated in the murder.
The trlal not being finished
parties We're put on guard at SaddlervilIe last
night. This morning at o'clock a masked
party OF fifty men were seen half a mile from
Saddlerville armed with shot guns and holding
consultation. Twenty men were seen passing
there at IL o'clock going to Saddlerville. No
doubt they will lynch the seven negroes before
morning.
SPRINGFIELD, Sept Is. 3O.-Arch Jamisou
and Jack Bell, were taken by the mob ana will
be hanged. Ramsey was left dead on the iail
floor riddled with bullets. The mob left quiet.
ly. The mob broke open several blacksmith
shops and got tools. They broke down ths
doors of the jail and went into the cells, took
out two negroes and left town with them Sc
curely tied and riding in front of the mob.
Jail after the mob and found Ramsey lying on
the floor dead, perfectly riddled with bullets
None of the mob are known, They went west
on the Clarksville road. Some citizens asked
where they would fud the prisoners. The mob
remarked that the buzzards would find them.
N1,r,v T., ,<r,sII
where Laprade was murdered before day
light.
NASHVILLE: Tenn, Sept. I5.-Late advices
from Sprinfield state that the crowd who forced
the JUL there this morning we're disguised with
white handkercniefs across their faces and en-
tered the town along Cedar Hill at o'clock.
They rode quietly t., the Ill and dismounted.
Failing to find the sheriff To OBJ ain the keys
they broke in tie doors wi b sledge hammers.
The first cell reached was the one occupied by
Ramsey, who two months previous had shot
young lady because che refused to marry him.
This prisoner retreated behind the door and
fought the mob with leg of chair. He was
shot in the left leg, severing the femoral artery
and falling was dragged outside and one or
two more shots fred into his body, which killed
him. The crowd then secured Jack Bell and
Archie Jam, son, the negroes, arrested few
days ago charged with the murder of Louis
Laprade, who lived about seventeen miles
from Springfield. They placed these two per-
sons on horses, and with them left town by the
miles from Springfield, and hanged the two ne
groes on dogwood trees. about seven yards
apart. At o'clock this morning lady passed
along the road, observed the corpses swinging,
and at once notified neighbors. Intelligence
soon reached Springfield, and the coroner, ac-
companied by number of citizens, proceed
ed to the spot, cut the bodies
md ha1d 1Io,o ,oA
the corpses in wagon and drove back to
town. The bodies were taken charge of by an
undertaken. The five others accused of COM
plicity in the Laprade murder are under guard
at Saddlerville. One of them named Higgin-
son made confession duplicating others and
sickening details of the torture of Laprade to
make him reveal where his money was kept.
The excitementat Saddlerville is very great and
lynching of the prisoners tonight is expect
ed.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 1.-two hundred
men met at Guthrie tonight and discussed the
question whether they would visit Springfield
and lynch the remaining negroes connected
with the Laprade murder, but afterwards dis
persed. The six prisoners were brought here
tonight by the sheriff of Robertson county
and placed in Jail for safe keeping by order of
Gov. Marks.
MUST BANG.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 15.-Gov. Foster has re-
fused to interfere in the case of Mitchell, the
wife murderer. under sentence to be hung at
Trov, O., next Friday. A cham of circumstan-
tial evidence seem to point to VIM. Peel, now
under arrest as the murderer of Mrs Grimes,
whose dead body was found near this city some
time ago.
AsSASSINATED.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. l5-Robert Dudley.
aged 80, of Louisville, was shot through the
heart by an unknown man, in Fayette street, late
last night. Nothing is known of the origin of
the trouble, as one of the party is dead and the
other at large. The shooting occurred on the
sidewalk as the men were passing each other in
opposite directions.
FATAL FALL.
BRADFORD, Pa., Sept. l5.-This evening
Thomas q. Palmer, PAINTER and alazier. fell
down a stairway and was almost instantly
killed. His natal place Ia Bangor, Maine.
FRANCE. s
PARIS, Sept. 15.-The ministerial council, at
which stens will ha taken in regard tn reipious