Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-24
MAIL NEWS.
ruLL CALESpAK or CRIME.
\ B.ud OF Dsspersioo. charged witn
ne,nuu- Deeds Other Interesting
NsW. ~ inc ,IAN.

a BAUD ot Dssperstoc. Charged WIN !
neinuu- Deeds Uther Interesting
News ut the Iay.
The Banks oouuty ku KluX trial wts
begun at Atlanta, Ca, On rdesday. Tao
defendants are Jasper, James, DnmnS and
Neal larbtOugh, Lovel Strrrtman, Bold
Emery, Stnto Summons and f. II, Green
Tx Congressman Speer appeared for the
prosecution.
Warren Bryson testified that ho was
called from his house one night IN July
aud beaten by a crowd OF masked men
The mob swUre vengeaucs against the
negroes of the locality who had voted for
cx Congressman Speor. Brysou WAS hit
On tho head with pistol aud otherwise
maltrrated.
CALVIN Bush testified that ho WAS taken
ont of bed by howliur mob, who stripped
him and gave him rs laShos lie was
stripped IN court and displayed the scars
made by tho llshCs.
Elisha Brooks told how no was taken
out and whipped by crowd, who re
marked You sec what your ID
SpCer has dOno Tor you He rccNguGd
Jasper Iarbruugh IN the mob. and Var.
brough said It you know anybody ia
this crowd aud tell on him, Iii put you in
your grave" Brooks was also beaten
| with brass kuuckles.
Ben saunders gave an aIJDuat of how
ho was shot three times by mob aud left
for dead. The evidence will probably be
concluded To morrow. The defense will
eudcavOr TO prove au albi and will con
! tend that the case should bS tried in tue
state court.
Iho ratn OF Crime.
/ The trial OF the Banks county Ku.kluX,
! clght in number, was continued yesterday
! in Atlanta The evidence will probably
| close to-day. The defeuse will set up an
! albt aud contend that they should bo
! uiCd in state cDurt.--At the
close OF u circus performances in Nash
vile, on Monday evening, Robert I. Bates
was shot dead by James i. Briefly. Two
shots were fired, one Of which wounded .
baby that Bates had IN his arms. The
murderer Was arrested. His crime WAS
tue result of au old tued.
TNJ negroes named Holden aud Cooper,
were sho; dead in Wilkinson couuty,
Georgia, on Monday, in an attray growing
out oi the stealing Of hog by Holden.
Thomas Couuers, OF No , Pell street,
New York, was fatally shot yesterday
| morning. No arrests were made
RlnSe Walton shot aud fatally wound
od K. J. BArSlay, IN ChapuEH, Kansas, on
MDudly night. Btrkley had bsen court.
lng Wal,Ou's sister against tho wishes uI
her tamTy. aud IL is le.od, had mali gucd
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The Episcopal Convention.
The Episcopal general convention held
is al gh-reuth days session II the church
Of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, yester
day. IL the house OF deputies IN the
morning a large amount OF business on tie
cIleudar WAS disposed OF. The board
Of missions met IN the afternoon,
when the Mexican commission pre-
sented statement of the condition OF
the Mexican church, aud reported that
they had, with the approval OF the house
Of bishops requested tho Nt HeV. henry
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IL IL All In the Family
ArtIcIes Of merger aud consolidation
weru filed yesterday in the state depart
mcut At Harrisburg, between the New
I
company, of Pennsylvania, aud tn
New York, Lackawanua y West
ern railroad company of New York
Holders of stock in the first nance
corporation are fully reimbursed wit
the stock of the combined roads, tht
capital stock of which Is not given. TIL
directors Of tho new road are Samue
Sloan, Wan. c. Dodge, Percy x. Pyne
New York city John l.. Blair, Barton
y J. George Bliss, E. ). Higgins, Ben
iam!u ;. Clark. Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon
RlsseI sage, John +. Dillon, Walter :
Guruce aud S0lOn Humphreys, Of Ne'
York. The scheme is an absorption o
2 the Pennsylvania company by the Ne
York company.
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