The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-14
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
SENSATIONAL RIOT m A HOTEL
AT GREENSBORO.

The Proprietor Has His Clothes Torn
From His Body-Trial of >. 7. Davi'
Begun-Cold Discovered Near Char
iotte-North state Gleanings.
RALEIGH. ". c.. February 49, Special.
Reports reach here to-day Of a riot Of q
sensational character which took place in
McAdoo Hotel. at Greensboro. last night
A crowd Of Young sports around Greens
boro were engaging in game Of poker in q
room at the hotel and were interspersin.
their amusement with picnteous p0tation'
Of O. c0nyiyial character.
The crowd soon became hoister0us anc
marrei-0me. and the uI-hi-cicrk went mp q
demonstrate with them. A difficulty en-
sued. resulting lu a collision between IN,
clerk and the card-players, in which ths
former was beaten 80 badly that he was
forced tO retire. The crowd then left the
hotel. bat came back in a short while Will
rcnirrcomouts. the whole crowd number
ing ten or twelve.
They had been locked out. bat succeeded
In gaining am entrance i0 the hotel. They
no once attacked two negro pOrters, whom
they found in the office. and beat them se-
yerelv with sticks. inlictiug injuries upon
one which are feared t0 De fatal.
Mr.. Walter McAdOO. proprietor Of the
hotel. hearing the din. came down and at.
tempted, single handed, 90 route the belli-
gereut-. He was set upOn and hi clothes
were literally rent from him. In the scrim-
maze. lamps. chandeliers. show cases
chairs. and. in fact. ail the furniture Of the
hotel oHIce were demolished. The riot was
finally Quciled by the arrival Of a police.
man. Fortunately no body was killed
though several were injured.
Professor Duwiddic. who is % be the new
urincinal 0f Peace Institute. VIII arrive
here tomorrow for the purpose of making
arrangements for taking charge Of that ln'
stIiuti0n.
10 is learned today that ex-Goyernoi
Scales. who was taken ill IN Philadelphia q
short time ago. and who has since been very
low with pneumonia at his home at Green's
bOrO. is again entirely recovered.
The trial OF I.P. Davis. who murdered
John a. Horton in Chatham county some
time ago. began at liitsb0r0 Today. lle
was brought here and put IN Jail almost i'm
mcdiaicly after the murder. that be might
escape expected lynchng. Last night he
was visited in Chatham county iail by some
acqnalntancos. % whom bee made a confess
sion. saving that he had killed Horton and
expected tO Dee hanged for it. He said that
this would Doe nothing but Justice.
the annual anniversary exercises OF the
literary societies of ~ AXE Forest VIII take
place tomorrow night.
Governor f0Wle received to-day n0tiiica-
ton from Ocrac0ke Island that the recent
oyster disturbances there have been carried
into ihc courts OF Hyde county. The men
who drove oft Lieutenant Ninsi0w and his
gang 0f f0ystermen last week. and who also
dcied ihe sheriff who tried % arrest them,
have Voluntarily given themselves up and
agreed 10 stand trial.
At Matthew. night before last. William
staten. Lun and John Craig, ali colored,
got into difficulty over an old grudge about
"a woman and a fight ensuing. wound up
with very brutal murder. Lun Craig stab
bing staten six times 0r more with pocket
hnip. Craigs son, boy of liileen years,
stepped up and shot staten in the stomach
with thry-twO c1lilre pistol killing him
almost instantly 10 is said that the Craigs
were under the influence of liquor. staten
was a shl. maker. and WAS always looked
uu0n as being "a negro Of excellent char
acter. The Craigs have been arrested and
are now in the county jail az Monroe.