Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-10
MOB VENGEANCE. "
Memphis the Latest Scene of
Lynch Outlawry.
THREE NEGROES SHOT TO DEATH.

The City in Il State of Excitement and
Apprehensive That Some vengeance"
Will be Tried by the Black People
Cause of the Shooting Saturday Night
Big Talk by the Authorities of Punish-
ing the Mob-Armed Men Everywhere g.
MEMPHIS, March lO-There were abund
ant indications of mob law in this city for
the past few days, but the authorities
didn't see them apparently, and seventy
five men had no difficulty in getting inside
the Jail Tuesday night, taking three of the
ne yroes confined there for the shooting
ARRAY saturday night, rushing them
them to quiet spot and shooting them to
death, and this in city of S0,00u inhabi-
tants The result is that the relations be-
tween the negro population and whites
are strained The city is full of rumors
that the negroes are going to take dread
full revenge for the crime committed Ly
the mob and strong force of armed men
Is guarding points where it is supposed
turbulence may break out.
Cause of the Trouble Saturday
CALVIN Mcdowell, negro who keeps a
grocery and barroom at the corner of Mis-
Ssippi and Walker avenues, was up ON
Saturday before Judge DuBose on a charge
o assault and battery. Having been re-
leased on bail he returned to his place OF
business and, gathering his friends. he
I I'D them that the whites We're getting
+ ady To mo- them. When Mcdowell was
BEFORE him Judge DuBose said that he
intended to purify the district in which
Mcdowell and his supporters flourished,
and this is supposed to have given Mellow
ell the idea that an organized assault was
to be MADE upon the negroes
\ Wife Man at the Bottom.
So when Mcdowell found Saturday
night that his house was surrounded by
armed men, he thought the qualification"
was about to commence. Hence the shoot.
ing. At the bottom of all the trouble was
the rivalry between Mcdowell and a white
man who keeps a barroom near Mellow
ellis. The latter got all the negro trade
and this was the beginning of the case
against Mcdowell. He, Tom Moss, and
VIII Stewart were the victims of the mob.
Who the lynchers were will probably never
be found out. Judge Du Bose announces
that he will find them all and sentence
them to the limit of the law. General Pc
tiers, the states attorney, declares his de
termination to follow them to the end.
They Are Talking in Their Hats
4Dtl, HiltI llit olllCtIS nave SAil1uSJttl
every eXpedient and followed every clew
to its disappearance, they will probably be
just where they are now-in the dark. The
mob was a delegation of chosen men-se-
lected for their courage and ability to Keep
silenCe-who had taken it into their heads
that an outraged community should be
avenged
How the Negroes Feel.
The negroes do not pretend to protect
some of the negroes lynched. The better
class of cOlored people are against that ele-
meut of their race implicated in the at
tempt to murder the officers of the law
There are no signs of peace now. Black
mobs are on every street corner.
Negroes have threatened to break in the
Jail and lynch Casper, the white man who
killed negro at The Curve" several days
ago They are holding secret meetings.
THE Curve" is the locality of Saturday
nights shooting.
Every White Man Has His Gun.
Every white man in the vicinity OF The
Curve" is armed with a Winchester rife.
and the crack of a single gun would be
the signal of battle. The author
tiles are making every effort to
restore peace The Curve" Is sur.
rounded by $50 men. They were
sent out there by Judge Dubose and
President Clapp. The negroes show great
determination in the matter and the result
cannot he easily conjectured