The Portland daily press., 1898-11-11
WILMINGTON QUIET
After a Day Of rleedshed and
Turbulence.
EIGHT NEGROES WERE KILLED
AND THREE WHITES WOUNDED.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vi Aluei hAS'-
signed in Response to Public Sentiment.
Wilmington, N. c., November W.
After day of bloodshed and turbulence
| Wilmington has subsided tonight INTO
comparative peacefulness. Eight negroes
were killed and three whites woundsa
during th5 day, one of them, Wlliiain
Mayo, seriously. Tonight the city IS IN
the hands of new municipal govern
ment and law and order are being estab-
| lished. This afternoon the board OF alder
men resigned one by one. AS each alder
man vacated the remainder elected sue
cessor named by the citizens committee.
| until the entire board was changed legal
ly. They resigned in response to pubic
sentiment. The new board is composed
of conservative, democratic citizens.
| The mayor and chief of police then re
signed ard the new board elected their
successors, according to law. Ex-Repre.
sentative Waddel was elected mayor and
L. G. Parmalee chief of police. The first
act of the new government was to swear
in $50 special policemen, chosen from the
| ranks of reputable white citizens. They
are vested with all the authority of the
law and will take charge Of the city.
The trouble In Wilmington today COM
me need at g. 80 o'clock this morning,
when an armed body of citizens, number
| ing about 400 and led by ex- -Rspreseu uta-
tive Waddell, chairman of a COMMITTEES OF
25 appointed for the purpose preceded to
the publishing house Of a negro news-
paper the Record, to wreck it. The editor
| of this paper had published an article
defamatory of white women, and mass
meet ng of citizens yesterday ordered his
expulsion from the city within "A hours
and the removal o. his press. Fifteen
leading negroes were called in by the
committee of 25 last night and directed to
notify the chairman by 7.30 O'CLOCK this
morning whether they would agree to the
removal of the press. They were informed
that If no answer was returned the press
would be demolishe d.
No answer was received by the chair
man this morning, and after waiting an
hour, the citizens proceeded in body and
demolished the fixtures of the printing
office The building WAS also tired and
quilted. The burning of the printing
office created a great commotlon among
the negroes of the town. The rumur
spread that the whites were going to Lurn
rumor reached the negro employees OF a
cotton compress numbering three or four
hundred VINO quit work and hung about
the streets in manifest terror.
Other parties congregated in the negro
section and it WAS in one OF these that
the first tragedy was enacted. me men
were standing on corner ana were
ordered to dispense. They declind and 1t
is claimed fired into the whites. A fusi-
| lade was Immediately opened upon them
| by the whites and tbree negroes were
killed. Two whites were wounded slight
| ly. One negro ran down the street and
passing residence fired rifle at William
Mayo, white, standing on the veranda,
shooting him through the left lung. This
negro was recognized. pursued and
captured while hiding under bed. be
was riddled with shot by his captors and
killed.
In the meantime the town was in a
state of excitement. The whites rushed
60 the scene from every direction, the
local military company was ordered out
| and q battalion of United States naval
reserves proceeded to the vicinity OF the
| troubls with a rapid fire gun.
| Abont one O'Clock some negroes In q
house fired upon passing party OF white
men, The houge WAS surrounded and Ioui
negroes were captured and taken 20 tne
| Jail. One negro broke away and ran, Dul
|
proceeded half block.
During the afternoon there were other
| affairs of this kind and eight negroes
| were killed at various times in the dls
| turbed sections.
| AS the news of the riot spread through
the neghboring cities. they offered to SEND
help All such offers were declined. ex
cept In the case of Fayetteville, from
which town came about $50 men,, AS
night fell the town was completely
patrolled and guarded. Very few negroes
| were en- the streets and they were not al
| lowed to congregate any here.
| The action of the citizens in organizing
new municipal government is expecteo
| to bring peace and order ana no riouinE
| is expected tonight.
Ex-Representative WaddelI, chairman
of the committe of 25, received at moor
today the following letter:
ssWe. the colored citizens to whom was
referred the matter of the expulsion from
this community of the person AMI press
of A. IL. Manly, beg most respectfully &c
say that we are in no wise responsible lor
nor in any manner oondone the obnoxious
article that call forth your actions
Neither are we authorized to act for MIN
in this matter, but in the interest. ol
peace we will most willingly use our IN
lfl1ence to have your wishes carried oup.
Very respectfully,
4 This answer instead Of being delivered
in person to Mr.. Waddell at ~ TINS
morning as required, was placed In tnt
mail and did not reach him until alte
the printing office had been destroyed. a
crowd was formed tonight to take IRON
the Jail and lynch two negroes, Tho mas
Miller and Ira Bryant, who were arresuee
today charged with making threa5s aho
were regarded as dangerous cases
The Mayor, Col. Waddell. promptly
prohibited the assembling of the crowu
ct the jail, and he himself headed guarl
of S5 men with Winchesters to guarc 'h'
prisoners.
ANOTHER NEGRO KILLED.
/ Wilmington, N. c., November ~. -Ah ;att
other negro was killed tonigno az loS1 y,
and Mulberry streets. He was naiteu ts,oS ~
a guard put refused to halt and cohgintss, nc,
to advance when he was shot by tn
guard.