Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10
AT THE SOUTH.


in the vicinity of New Orleans arc becom-
ing so serious as to cause thoughts of an
exodus. News comes now of a peculiarly
brutal piece OF lawlessness in Assumption
parish, the home Of Gov. Nichols. The
house of Il law abiding colored man named
John Lynn was broken open and entered
by mob of thirty-tive armed white men.
In the darkness the mob could not see
where their victim was stationed, $50 one
of their number was ordered to strike q
light. AS soon as the light was made.
Lynn, from his hiding place in the house.
shot and killed the man who made it. The
attacking arty captured Lynn and took
possession of his home. Leaving several
of their number to guard their prisoner and
his home, they carried away the dead BODY
of their accomplice and buried him. Re-
turning to Lynn they took him out and
shot him to pieces. his body being perfor-
ated in no less than twelve places. This
act became known all over the parish. but
the officers of the law have made no effort
to capture the midnight maraudcrs. The
colored people are considering a whole
sale exodus from the parish on account of
the entire withdrawal of the protection OF
the law from them.
Reports of the trouble on the San Car
los reservation in Arizonl show that the
Indians have been stealing cattle and pre-
pairing a supply of dried neat preparatory.
it is presumed. to an outbreak. When the
party went to arrest the hostiles they were
fired upon and three Indian scouts killed.
The posse returned fire. wounding several
of the band which Immediately left the
reservation, followed afterwards by others.
troops of the various fors in that vicinity
are being held inre diness to march should
a general outbreak occur.
The steamship Villa Verde. from San
tiago de Cuba. says Il New York special,
brings the full tidings of the fires that
swept Port Au Primo C. thecapital of Hayti.
on the 4th and 18th OF July. The fire COM
menced in the chamber of the deputies on
the afternoon of July 4. the balconies and
outside passages upstairs having been set
on fire. From that point It burned down
to the rue de arsenal, sweeping away three
square blocks of buildings. This fire de-
stroyed that part of the city used larg ly
for private residences. Among them were
many valuable and imrosingediticcs. 1t is
now known that the fire of both days de-
stroyed some $50 buildings. causing a loss
of S2.O00C0o. The fire of July 9TH was in
another section of the arsenal district.
During the afternoon it was started in four
different localities practically at the same
instant. 1t seems to be more than coinci-
dent that the burned district should be the
section occupied by the adherents of Gen
Manigat and Senator Legitme. who started
the insurrectionary movement of May IL,
1850, and who have been expelled. They
were too dangerous for President Solomon
to shoot, and he sent them off but it is SAID
that their petty adherents were crowded
into prison. 1t is believed that Solomon's
own party fired that section to please him.
j. w. Ramsey recently deputy clerk OF
Crittenden county, Arkansas, and one OF
the eighteen negroes driven out by the
whites. has arrived in st. Louis and will
address a meeting in a near future on the
condition Of the negroes in the south. He
says that the cause of the trouble there
was thatthc whites did not want the negroes
to hold office.
In Halifax county. Va. near Meades-
vile, Bruce Younger. colored, committed
an assault on Mrs. Robert Dodge. He was
arrested and sent to Jail at Halifax courts
house. Late that night Il party of men
took Younger and hung him TO {; tree.