Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-20
EAST RALEIGH ROW.
4 LIVELY FIGHT BETwEE'
NEGROES AND SOLDIERS.
SEVERAL MEN WERE WOUNDED
The Cause of the Troable-Feeling
still Runs High-Arms Of the
Second Regiment Turned In-Other
Military Notes.

RALEIGH, n. c., September ls.-(spe-
cial)-There was plenty Of excitement yes
terday afternoon and last evening in East
Raleigh, just outside the city limits, and
there was a narrow escape from rioting.
There were a thousand and one stories,
TO the effect that members of the Second
Regiment and negroes were fighting and
that several had been killed on each side.
Here are the facts:
In East Raleigh there are several blind
tigers" where whiskey is sold on Sun
day. 1t is out of the Mayors jurisdic-
ton. The county officers know OF the
sales Of liquor. Yesterday afternoon two
white men were sitting on the steps OF
one Of the blind tigers and engaged in
a dispute with negroes. Both the white
men are worthless fellows, and for one
two warrants are out for former offences.
The negroes threw a volley of stones
and nearly broke the skull OF one of the
white men. One stone struck soldier.
who was there, unarmed. He went away.
and quite near found some of his COM
rades, who returned with him to the
scene. A general tight followed, in which
the other OF the two white men who
started the row was shot in the calf OF
the leg. One soldier was shot through
the hat. another was wounded I'm the tIp
of the finger, and two or three negroes
are supposed to have been wounded
Mayor Russ telephoned to camp for a
guard to reinforce the regular provost
guard. and 100 men were sent in, arriving
in II minutes, under command of Major
John w. Cotton. A guard was placed
at the corner Of each street along the
eastern boundary; all soldiers passes
were revoked. Forty men were thus put
on guard, like number kept at the sta
tion-house, and twenty kept at the Capt.
tol Square as a reserve All these men,
like the provost guard, were made subor-
dinate to the civil authority. There
were reports by some excited people that
mob had seven soldiers oooped up
in house. These We're all false. The
guard was kept on all night, and there
was no further disorder. The soldiers
did not start the trouble. The two
drunken white men and the negroes
caused ii all number of arrests were
made by constables to-day. The feel
ing between some OF the negroes and the
troops is high, this being particularly the
case with the troops from the extreme
western part OF the State.
The arms of the Second Regiment, save
those 10 be used by the guard. were all
turned in to-day and stored in a ware
house which the government has leased
This will be guarded and there will also
| be a regular guard at camp 1t is said
that about one hundred officers and mer
will remain In camp, not taking their fur
| Tough. Nearly all the captains will be
| here ten days any way, settling up ac-
counts with the mustering-out officer
| Tomorrow those who take furloughs &c
| home The companies from Wilmington
and Fayetteville will arrive at those points
| at 4:30 and $40 Z. NJ. respectively anC
the people will give them an ovation.
Major T.. NJ. Hayes, of the Seventh
| Cavalry, is here on the way 10 Arizona
| AS the senior major he will take the regi
ment TO Huntsville, Ala, its new rem
| devious. and 1t will be in General Wheel
er's command of five cavalry regiments
| which go 20 Cuba and Porto Rico ARM
/ officers here 80 state.
Secretary -of-State Cyrus Thompson to
| day appointed John $. Koonce, of Tren
| ton, chief clerk, vice A. ID. Wallace. dis
| missed. Mr.. Koonce graduated at Trinit,
College with the highest honors.
| Charles NJ. Cruch. one OF the member
of the lower house OF the Legislature
! from Johnston county, died in the hos
pital here yesterday Of malarial poisoning
| He was 80 years OF age, and had for som'
time been an agent for Caraleighs mills
near here. His body was taken home fo
| burial