Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-22
A MANAGES DEED.
He Slashes Himself with Knife on
Board a Train.
The LYyCHIyC OF DR.. RIDER.
Georgia People Moved to Mob Violence by
the Continuance ola Case-A Race
War at RIvertOn, Ala.-A
Razor Mt Ball.

MIssouLA, Mont, July I'M. Carey,
an eastbound Northern Pacific passen-
ger from San Francisco to Butte,
Mont, went insane while the train
was crossing the Flathead Indian res
ervation. Before several passengers
he cut his throat from ear to ear.
This seemed to make him ravlng
maniac. With his knife he slashed
his head right and left Then he
plunged the knife into his breast and
Jumped off the train, which was rum
ming at full speed. The train was
stopped and Carey was picked up
bleeding from wounds from his own
hands and from additional cuts and
bruises from the fall from the train.
He fought like demon but was
finally lodged in the baggage car,
where a physician aboard bandaged
his wounds, only to have the bandages
torn off, Arriving at Missoula, he was
taken to ST. Patrick's hospital. Owing
TO the terrible cuts about his neck 1t
was unsafe to administer chloroform,
and the county physician was com
PEELED to sew up the cuts while Carey
was held down by number OF men,
making a revolving spectacle. Carey
is still alive and is bound in irons.
THE LyNcHING OF DIR. RIDER
ATLANTA, Ga, July 9l.--Dispatches
received from Talbotton yesterday con-
firm the reported lynching near there
Monday night of Dr. Rider, who muir.
dered Miss Sallie Emma Owen at Tai
bottom year ago When the case
against Rider was considered Monday,
Judge Hart, on the evidence that the
leading counsel for Rider could not be
present on account of sickness, con-
tinued the case until the term in Sep
TENDER. Rider was to have been re-
turned to Muscollee Jail, and was
taken TO Waverly Hall, the nearest
station from Talbotton, for the pur-
pose. A few minutes after the depu-
ties arrived at the station mob took
the prisoner from the officers and re-
turned with him to point just across
the county line and there lynched him.
His body was found hanging from a
limb Mt an early hour yesterday morn
ing. The action of the mob is ascribed
to the Indignation Of the people at the
case being continued.
10th RACES ARE FOR WAR.
BIRMINGHAM Ala, July Ala tele-
gram says race war Is on at River
ton, Ala, u town of 600 inhabitants,
and serious results are feared A ne
gro attempted a criminal assault on
Mrs. $. l.. Vaughn, an estimable white
woman, Monday afternoon but was
beaten off and the neighborhood
aroused. A searching party is said tc
have caught the Aend and lynched him
but this Is not admitted After this
lynching the whites became incensed
and threatened to exterminate the ne
groes. Both sides are arming and one
white man has been seriously injured
Mrs vaughn's death is momentarily
expected.
A RAZOR AT AN OKLAHOMA BALL.
GUTHRIE, Ok, July 21,-At a dance
near Carney, Bob Denny insisted on
going home with Emma Moore, the
belle Of the ball, who had been escort
ed there by Charles Lennox Lennon
objected and general row ensued, in
which Bob Denny and his brother,
Luther, were badly slashed by a razor
welded by Lennox. 1t is feared the
elder Denny will die, and the others
injuries are serious. Lennox escaped