The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-18
Day of Riot and BIoodshed In Will
mington, N. C.
RACE WAR BREAKS OUT ANEW.
Editor OF the Negro Paper Forced to
Leave the Community and His Office
Is Burned-An Entirely New Munich
pal Government Set Up.

Wilmington has subsidized into compar-
alive peacefulness. Eight negroes were
killed and three white men wounded
during the day, one of them, William
Mayo, seriously.
The city is in the hands of a new
municipal government, and law and
order is being established. The board
of aldermen resigned, one by one. AS
each alderman vacated, the remainder
elected successor, named by the citi-
zens' committee, until the entire board
was changed legally They resigned
in response to public sentiment The
new board is composed of conservative
Democratic citizens.
The mayor and chief of police then
resigned, and the new board elected
their successors, according to law.
Ex-Representative Waddell was
elected mayor and E. G. Parmelee
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 land, and will
take charge of the city. The citizens
committee will remain on guard, how
ever, throughout the town, to prevent
possible attempts at incendiarism.
The new government will devote it's
attention to restraining recklessness
among the whites, as well as keeping
Il To- thn
Further trouble of a general or serious
nature is not expected.
The trouble in Wilmington COM
menced at $40 Thursday morning,
when an armed body of citizens, num-
boring about 400 and led by ex-Rep-
resentative Waddell, chairman of a
committee of twenty-five appointed
for the purpose, proceeded to the pub
fishing house of negro newspaper,
the Record, to wreck it. The editor
of this paper had published an article
defamatory of white women, and a
mass meeting of citizens ordered his
expulsion from the city within twenty
four hours and a removal of his press.
Fifteen leading negroes were called in
by the committee of twenty-five We'd
nesday night, and directed to notify
the chairman, by 1880 Thursday morn
ing, whether they would agree to the
removal of the press. They were in
formed that, if no answer was re-
turned, the press would be demolished.
No answer was received by the
chairman, and, after waiting an hour,
the citizens proceeded in body and
demolished the fixtures of the print
ing Office The building was also fired
and Quilted. The leaders say that this
action was the work of irresponsible
persons, and, as soon as the fire was
discovered, the fire department was
called to eXtinguish it.
The burning of the printing office
created a great commotion among the
negroes of the town. The rumor
spread that the whites were going to
burn and murder in the negro quarter.
This rumor reached the negro en-
ployees of cotton compress, number
ing 300 or 400, who 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 enact
ed. The men were standing on cor
ner and were ordered to dispense.
They declined, and, it is claimed, fred
into the whites.
A fusilade was Immediately opened
upon them by the whites and three
negroes were killed. Two whites were
wounded slightly. One negro ran
down the street and, passing resi-
dence, fred rifle at William Mayo,
white, standing on the veranda, shoot
ing him through the left lung. This
negro was recognized pursued and
captured while hiding under bed. 1t
is said he confessed to the shooting.
He was riddled with shot by his cap
tors and killed.
About 1 o'clock, some negroes in q
house fred upon a passing party OF
white men. The house was surrounded
and four negroes captured and taken
to the jail. One negro broke away
and ran, but was shot down and killed
before he had proceeded half block.
During the afternoon there were
other affairs of this kind, and eight
negroes were killed during various
times in the disturbed sections.
1t developed later in the day that
the negro committee had agreed to
use their good offices to have the press
removed, although the editor had dis
appeared and they had no authority in
the premises This letter, instead of
being delivered to the chairman of the
committee of twenty-five in person,
was put in the mail and did not reach
him until three hours after the expira-
ton of the time limit which had been
Fixed for the reception of the answer.
THIRTEEN NATIVES HANGED.
LONDON, Nov. 12.-The mails from