The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-07
NEGRO REVOLT.
Mississippi Blacks Armed and Or
ganized.
WHITE POSSES ,ALSO ORGANIZED.
Two Negroes Killed and Seven Wounded
Terrible Fight a scaffold Over
Niagara Fatal Shooting Ofa
Baptist Preacher.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 3.-An Appeal
Avalanche special from ClarlSsdale
Miss, says: Sheriff Harris, of this
place, was notified this morning by
Deputy Fitzgerald, of Friars' Point, to
at once organize posse and proceed to
the plantation of Mr.. j. X. Wilkinson,
a large planter of Bo Boa, small town
eight miles south of this place, to put
down an insurrection among the ne
gres in that locality and against the
whites.
Sheriff Harris promptly complied and
| in short time had an armed posse,
consisting of twenty-seven men from
this place The information has just
been received that two negroes We're
killed outright and nine captured and
are now at Friar's point, heavily
guarded.
In addition to the two negroes killed,
| several are said to be mortally wounded
The negroes took to brush and are still
out well armed. None of the whites
are reported hurt.
From conversation made by some of
the negroes, it is learned that they have
organized an order among themselves
covering the VIII ole neighborhood with
pass words and grips for the avowed
purpose of killing the whites
The greatest excitement prevails. Ne
groes are thoroughly organized, and
fears are entertained that the end has
not been reached Mr.. Sessions. man
ager of the plantation, was fired upon
yesterday, but was not hurt.
The town is without telegraphic IA
cilities and the Wilkinson place some
what in the interior, therefore details
are somewhat scarce
\ FIGHT IN MID-AIR.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct. 3.-Two
painters engaged in repainting the
cables aad guy ropes of the cantilever
bridge across the Niagara river had
swung 4 slender scafIOld 200 feet above
the scething stream on which to do
their work
They We're both Canadians. one n
French Canadian, from Montreal,
named Joseph Graves, the other named
William Camel. At dusk yesterday
evening they engaged in a terrific hand
W III utuE-
ly lost his life.
What started the. quarrel no one
knows, but Camel lost his temper,
grasped hatchet and threatened to
brain his companion. Then ensued
duel, the like of which is rarely de-
scribed except in fiction.
Graves grasped the would-be assas-
-
and pressed the weaker painter to the
edge of the scaffold, threatening to hurl
him into the river. To save himself from
falling, Graves loosed his hold on Ga IN
els wrist and grasped n rope.
Three quick, sharp blows were raincd
on his defenseless head by the enraged
assailant Two fell on Graves back,
and one split open his skull back of the
left ear. He staggered, lost his hold
and fell, but was caught between two
guy ropes as if by IL miracle, where he
lay out of reach of the other.
With the blood streaming from his
cuts. Graves climbed hand over hand
up the cables to the bridge floor. Camel
followed, hatchet in hand. Here an
other workman interfered and prevent
ed actual murder. 1t is doubtful if
Graves can survive.
Camel escaped while Graves was be-
ing attended by surgeons hastily sum-
moned Constables think he has fed
to Buffalo He is a sailor and may ship
up the lakes. He was last seen on
board Michigan Central train.
A FATAL SHOOTING.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 3.-On Thurs
day evening at Baird's Chapel in Hemp
stead, thirteen miles west of Prescott,
fatal shooting affair occurred, the
participants being Newman Sheffield,
and his brother-in-law, Pink Allen.
Sheffield was shot through The heart
Allen claims to have acted in self-de-
fense.
Sheffield WAS a missionary Baptist
preacher, and was to have been tried
that night at the chapel on some seam
dalous charges. Allen was about forty
yards from the church when Sheffield
came up and the shooting occurred.
When the members arrived from the
church they found Sheffield lying on
the ground, dying. He had 4 pistol in .
his pocket, but had not been able to
draw it. Allen made no attempt to es- !
cape. The parties had married sisters, !
and Sheffield leaves a widow ard chill !
dren