The Osceola times., 1888-12-22
RACE TROUBLES IN MISSISSIPPI.

| Blacks, In Which Three White Wen Are
| Killed.
| MERIDIAN, MISS, Dec. f7.-This morning
a number Of kilograms were received here
stating that q riot had occurred at Waha-
lax, Kemper county, fifty miles north Of
Meridian. and that Holly Morton, Of this
place, had been killed. Aparty Of twenty
men was at once organized and left for the
scene on the regular passenger train. sub-
sequently another party Of forty was
raised and left on a special train. num-
| ber OF wild runners were in circulation,
ono to the effect ths1 the posse from this
city had fight with the negroes nnd that
several Of them had been wounded. These
rumors were set aside by the arrival Of the
two posses on the regular mail train to-
night, who reported that everything was
| quiet. and that their presence was not
needed. They told the following story OF
the riot: Last Thursday the son Of Hr.
q. j. Mich bison, a prominent farmer OF
Kemper county, was driving a wagon
along the road leading TO Suqualak, when
he met negro desperate driving u team
in the opposite direction. Young Nichol-
son accidentally brought his vehicle In col.
lison with that OF tho negro who Kept in
the middle Of the road, as IL determined to
drive the boy out. The negro began curs-
ing the youth, when Nicholson appeared
and interfercd in the boys behalf The
negro thereupon drew revolver, bot ln-
stead Of firing, closed with Nicholson and
brought the weapon down with his full
strength on the formers face. Nicholson
| f.Il 20 h. yhat In
recovered the negro had left. The follow
| ing day Mr.. Nj, holson told his friends Of
the assault, and on Saturday it was deter
mined to organize posse and arrest
Marry. Information OF this determination
OF the whites reached the negroes in some
way. 1t is said that two white men gath.
cred party OF negroes together at a
church Sunday night, and after haraugu-
Ing them, organized force of ten negroes
| to resist any attempt to arrest Maury or
| attack on his house. The whites are known
to the people OF Wahslak, Int their names
cannot DO learned. 1t is their settled de-
| termination to lynch them when found and
the people argue that when they are hung
1t will be the proper time to make their
names known. The negro force raised by
the white men went to Maury's house when
the church meeting adjourned and con-
cealed themselves In the smokeh use and
| cottonhouses. Very soon thereafter the
posse Of whites came up the road and
halted in front of Maury's place. A few
| Of them walked up to his residence, but
| found !. deserted. From the residence they
! went TO the smokehouse, where they found
| three negroes. These negroes were asked
| the whereab ,uts of Maury, but they pre-.
| tended they could not tell where ne could he
| found. While they were trying to exact
same information from the negroes, man
on the outside shouted, "Uere Is Mnury ;
suppose you come TO arrest him.
The whites rushed in body from the
| bXilding, and as they emerged were re-
ceved by a volley from eight or ten mus .
kets aud shotguns.
Vim. Vaughan was seriously wounded
| by buckshot in the left arm, neck and
| shoulders, and another man, whose name
| the whites will not reveal, received n
slight wound in the hand. This voley
| came from the cotton house and was
promptly returned by the whites, but the
| negroes being behind stout plank wall
fottlNtu no lne Wulltb SOON
discovered that they were fighting at great
| disadvantage and moved around to the
north side of the structure. Here they
received another volley, resulting In the
instant death of Henry Maury, and the
wounding OF his brother, j. L. Maury, in
the arm near the elbow. The whites now
drew off and the firing censed temporarily.
Notw outstanding their losses, however, the
posse determined to make another attack
on the cotton house, approaching it this
time from the south side. AS they came
up to the building they received a third
voley, the negroes apparently waitins the
order to fire, as they had done in the two
previous instances, At this third volley
| Seth Cobb received twenty-five buckshot
| in the breast and stomach, tearing the
entire front of his body from the neck to
| the navel away. John Dew, another Of
| tho whites, was also wounded, perhaps
| fatally, by pistol ball In the groin.
The whites again drew on for consulta-
| tion, when il was determined that another
attack on the building with their reduced
| force would be useless, aud they deter
mined to wait for daylight and reinforce
| men,s.
| While they were consulting the negroes
rushel from the cotton-house to Maury's
residence In a body, and proceeded to
fortify that building. The whites went
back to Wahalak yesterday morning.
| Another force OF fifty men or more was
raised and proceeded TO Maury's residence.
| The place was found entirely deserted,
even the bedding aud furniture having
been removed. The whites burned the
three buildings on the place, together with
those on near farm, securing the woods
| for the negroes in vain. No TRACE Of them
could be found. 1t was impossible to come
| across a negro in five miles of the scene of
| trouble while people from the adjoining
| towns began to pour into Wahalak all day
| and joined in the search, but as none Of
| the negroes were known except George
Maury, they accomplished nothing. One
negro was sen lurking in tho woods and
was fired upon by a white man, but he not
only disappeared when the po So from Me-
ridian under command of Thomas Jamison
reached Wahalak, but they were told that
their services were not needed. They say
the whites throughout kemper county are
very sore. and think more trouble will fol-
low. 1t is certain that II any of the no.
groes who tred on the whites are caught
they will be killed at once. The feeling,
however, is greatest against the two white
men who are said to have organized the
negroes. Not n single negro is known to
have received any injury whatever. Two
white men beside those already reported
were wounded, but ms their hurts are slight
their names are withheld for prudential
reasons.
1t does not appear that the whites, in at
tempting TO make the arrest were acting
under any legal authority, but they are
sustained by the entire white population
OF Kemper and the adjoining counties, and
it is unlikely that any proceedings will be
taken against them.
Arkansas swamp Lands.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Repretentative
McRae to-day introduced bill requiring