Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-05
GENERAL TOPICS.
The War Cloud in Mississippi
Somewhat Dispelled.
REPORTS OFFURTHER OUTRAGE
Robert Ray Hamilton Anxious tC
Have His Marriage Declared
Void.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

New ORLEANS, September A spe-
cial from Greenwood, Miss, says: From
present appearances it looks as though
the sun of peace would eupersede the
clouds OF war. The Sheriff of this coun-
ty returned from Minter City, the seat of
war, last evening, and reports everything
Quiet there. Four of the ringleaders,
named Adolph Horton, Scott Morris, M.
j. Dial and Jack Dial, were killed. The
excitement among the negroes was aug
mented by the report that peaceful
negro had been killed during the night
for refusing to take up arms against the
white people. Upon the arrival of the
troops it was learned that party oi
about 100 negroes, we'll armed with
Winchester rifles, were encamped near
Cane lake, a distance of six or eight
miles from Minter City. A reconnoiter.
ing party OF citizens, numbering about
fifty members, organized and proceeded
to interview the belligerent blacks. After
riding for some time through dense
forest of cane and vines, they arrived q,
the place designated as the camp of the
negroes, but they had moved to some
other place. Search was at once insti.
tuted. The party, while passing through
plantation, came upon Adolph Horton
and Jack Dial, and they were commanded
to surrender. They drew pistols and
started to run, when they we're shot
down. The other leaders were killed
this morning, while resisting arrest
Thomas Allen and one Cromwell, moving
spirits in the insurrection, have not been
arrested, but the whites and better class
of negroes are determined to bring them
to justice. The best feeling prevails be-
tween the whites and better class of
negroes.
THE TROUBLE NOT ENDED YET.
New ORLEANS, September 4.-The
Times Democrats Greenwood, Miss, spe.
cial says: The most dastardly outrage
since the beginning of the trouble in the
upper part of the country. was psrpe-
trated by George Allen and his equad Of
fifteen negroes last night, by the
burning of Mr.. Jamison's store at
Shade Grove on the Tallahachie river.
They went there and asked for
powder and shot. Jamison refused to
let them have any, and they told him
they would either burn his house or kill
him. They caught him and set fire to
his house, firing off their guns in the
meantime and making other hostile
demonstrations. Jamison got away and
went to Sunnyside, informing the people
of what had happened. About the same
time a negro deserter from AL.
lens ranks came up and offered
to pilot them to Aliens camp al
Lone Star Bend, if they would spare him
and his two brothers who we're among
Aliens men. About 200 men at oncs
started for the hostile camp, which is
about six miles above Sunnyside, but il
has not been learned whether they sue
ceeded in capturing Allen or not. 1t il
not likely that he will be taken alive, as
he is very desperate negro,
1t now transpires that the negro whom
he killed last Monday night for refusing
to take up arms against the whites was
his own brother. Yesterday evening a
| Sherif's posse got sight of two negroes
who had gone to Cleveland for ammuni-
tion. The negroes jumped from their
mules and fed into cane-brake. The
posse captured the mules and 1000
Winchester rife cartridges, ten pounds
of buckshot and five pounds of powder.
| Further particulars from up the river
confirm the statement that the four negro
leaders who were killed yesterday were
killed by Sheriff's posse while resist.
ing arrest. The number of hostile
negroes is now estimated at from one
| hundred to one hundred and fifty,
and they are still in large
squads, one of which is led by George
Allen and the other by one Backitt. The
object of the Sheriff is to capture the
leaders and deal with them according tc
law. Their followers are merely ignoran,
negr oes, who hardly understand what
they are about.