The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-21
KILLINGS AND LYNCHINGS
IN KENTUCKY, OHIO AND ELSE
WHERE.
Intense IndlgnatIOn Over the Lynchlng Of q
COlOr0d Woman-Wendell Phillips Pro.
tests Against the Hanging
OF Abbott.

CINCINNATI. April Is "A dispatch from Batavia,
Ohio. reportD murder at the village Of Rural, on
the OHIO River, and In G ermont county, last eve.
ming, at singing school taught bya young Ken.
tuckian, named Carr. All Reed and Harvey
Hlcks, both roughs, created disturbance and
were fepfimanded by Carr. On the way home
Reed met and whipped Carr. Afterward Reed
came into the drug store where Carr was, and the
later struck Reed with scale weight, killing
him, and escaped,
% A dispatch from Hopkinsville, Christian coun.
ty, Ky. reports that Kiah Baker an old colored
man, was shot and killed by an unknown person,
last Friday night He said he met three men on
horseback, one Of whom shot him. OLheE. say he
was shot while robbing u hen rofh.
GALVESTON, April 1S.-While circusmen were
loading cars at the railroad crossing three men
leaving town insisted on Gre s3Ing that particular
place fight ensued, In which Campbell, one
Of the showmen, was seriously shot twice through
the BODY. Two other citIz9ns were seriously cut
Boston, April 1S.-wsndell Phillips filed pro-
test to the Governor and Council against the
execution of stearps X. Abbott, convicted OF the
murder Of Mrs, Crue, and sentenced to be hanged
on Friday next. Phillips contends, even admit
ting ABBOTT killed Mrs Crue, there Is no evidence
showing he did II wi generalization or malice
aforethoueht Phillips, In ending his protest,
says: II do not care TO enlarge on the motive
which l think impels the Executive to commit
this crime, whljn, In my view, makes the act
murder in the strctest sense OF the law.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, April 1S.-A colored man
charged with the assassination OF a leading citi'
zen OF Gadesden county some time since, was
taken from jail in Quincy on sunday by disguised
men and hanged.
Lynch Law In the South.
PRosPERITY, S. c., April lS-The lynching of
the old negro woman Eliza Cowan, alias Jldith
Nets, In Laurens county, is denounced by all
right thinking people, The offense Of the old
woman was barn.burning, a crime punishable
upon conviction in this State with death, The
victim Of mob law in this instance was a helpless
and defenceless old woman. The county in
which 1t occurred is one OF the wealthiest In the
State It's inhabitants claim and are recognized
as the most refined and intelligent people In the
State OF South Carolina. The lynChlng is de-
nOunced on all sides. No active or systematic
steps, however, have yet been taken to arrest and
punish the perpetrators Of the crime.
ST. LOUIS, April 1S.-.The Republicans Camden,
Ark. special says: Mrs. Mutt, living near that
city, while in fit OF insanity on Saturday last,
killed five of her children by throwing them into
a well The Oldest was twelve years and the
youngest eleven months old.
DENVER, April 1S.-The Tribune's special says
On Saturday night Jim Devine, alias Jones, an
escaped convict from California, where a reward
of 81 400 Is offered for him, was lynched near
Las Vegas for the attempt to murder a section
hand,
Campbell, proprietor Of the Bon Ton restaurant
at Deming, N. H., shot and killed ChInaman on
Saturday night.
On Saturday night Worman Jones, at Cranes
Station, on the Atlantic g. Pacific Railroad, wa
shot and killed by one Halloran In self Defense