The herald., 1897-08-16
RACE RIOTING
Assumes the Proportions
of Actual War
WHITES AND NEGROES DEAD
WITH MORE KILLING ON THE
PROGRAM
WHITES AND NEGROES DEAD
Miscellaneous Murders and Crime Re-
ports Rounded Up When News
Is Rather Rare
associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. 15-The
bloodiest race riot that has occurred in
Arkansas in months took place today at
Palarm station, thirty miles from Little
Rock. Three men are dead, another
fatally wounded and two others injured.
The dead are:
HARRISON KORR. colored, shot to
pieces.
CHARLES sOTERs, colored, killed
outright.
CHARLES ANDRY, white. shot
through the heart.
The seriously injured are: -
T. CLARK, a telegraph operator, shot
through the shoulder, probably fatally.
| An unknown man.
| D. r. OWENS, deputy sheriff Of Perry
county, shot through the groin, seriously.
| Owens had warrant for Korr, charged
with murder. When he attempted to
make the arrest at Palarm, Korr opened
fire. The first shot struck Owens in the
groin, inflicting a serious wound. Andry
and Clark went to Owens assistance.
and five or six negroes Joined in with
Korr. A pitched battle ensued, in which
over fifty shots were fired. When the
shooting was over Andry and Peters lay
dead. Clark had gotten into his office
and fallen to the floor from loss of blood
Owens was lying in ditch near the sta
tion. Korr was found lying dead in the
road a mile away, literally shot to pieces
The other negroes fled and have not yet
been captured. The whole county is in
a fever of excitement and should Korr's
associates be caught they will be lynched
without trial.
MADE NO CONFESSION
BELLFONTAINE. O., Aug. 15.-There
were many detectives at work here and
in Union township today on rumors re-
garding the double murder one week ago
of David Detrick and his wife. While
Tony Ford and Lew Deerwester are un-
der arrest for the crime it is believed
there are others who know something
about 1t. In connection with the rumors
duplicating different neighbors one man
attempted suicide on his wife's grave
because he was suspected, and woman,
after brooding over the horror, took NOR
phine with suicidal intent Yesterday
Mrs. Charles Spellman, relative of the
Detricks, charged her father-in-law
Mack Spellman, with criminal assault
and there was talk OF lynching the father.
in-law, as well as Ford and Deerwester,
but no violence is anticipated, although
the excitement here is intense. The de-
velopments Of the past week have been
such that many are apprehensive o. the
result. The sensa tion now Is the alleged
confession of Ford to Mrs. William Ellis
worth, previous to his arrest, that he
committed the double murder. Ford now
denies the confession.
A TANGLED CASE
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Callinor, otherwise known as Bessie
jackson, young woman who was mys-
teriously burned on Saturday morning
in West Thirty-third street boarding
house. died today from her INJURIES. Mrs.
Mary Ann Patterson, the boardiDg house
mistress, who was said to have thrown
lighted lamp at the woman, was held
for further examination. In her dying
statement to the coroner Mrs. Callinor
denied that Mrs. Patterson had caused
her injuries, and intimated that she was
accidentally set on fire by a cigarette.
Mrs. Callinor came to this city from Bos-
ton four months ago.
THE SCHOFIELD CASE
SAN JOSE, Aug. 15-Sheriff Lyndon
and Under Sheriff Benson went to the
Schofield ranch this morning and passed
the day there verifying the confession of
Dan butcher and Irving Mann. The Of
f1cers state tonight they did not find the
cartridges where butcher says he
pumped" them. A careful tnyeStiga
tion was made as to the point where
butcher says he stood when he did the
shooting, and there is no question that
the shot could have been fired just as
butcher describes. The prisoners had
nothing of importance to say today.
butcher says he feels better since he
told the truth. Mrs. Schofield is In a
state Of nervous prostration and grew so
i'll tonight that a physician was called.
The doctor says she is simply suffering
from nervousness.
A SUSPICIOUS DEATH
BRISTOL, Va, Aug. 15.-Dora f.
Cushman, the 15-year-old daughter of
Dr. A. j. Cushruan Of Lincoln, was found
DEAD In pasture near her fathers house
at oaypreak by searching party which
has been out all night. The girl was
blackberrying yesterday afternoon. and
| when she did not return search was
made. An autopsy will be held to deter
mine the cause of death. There are sus-
plclous circumstances attending the
death, and the disappearance of a young
man from town is believed to have some
| thing to do with it.
| NEGRO BARBER SHOT
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 15-Ed C. Jones
a negro, who conducted a barber shop or
K street near Sixth, was fatally shot in
his rooms about o'clock this evening
and died about two hours later without
having gained consciousness.
! Del Gomez, an octoroon woman with
whom Jones had been livirg, and who
was the only one present at the time of
| the shooting, was arrested.
I When interviewed the woman said
that for some time past Jones had been
very abusive to her, and this evening
| slapped her i'm the face. She told him
| that was going too far and that she
would leave him. Jones replied. that he
would kill her rather than have her go
and stepping into a side room return d
| with revolver.
The woman claims she grappled with
Jones and attempted to wrench the re
volver from his grasp, and that in the
struggle 1t was discharged, striking him
in the left temple.