The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-24
RACE TROUBLES SOUTH.
A Bloody Battle With Deputies in
Mississippi
DEPUTY AND NINENEGROEs DEAD
Governor McLaurfn Has Gone to the
Scene to Prevent a General Upris-
mysterious Race War and Election
Troubles In North Carolina.

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Inc troupie originated last FRIDAY,
"hen- negro named Bill burke had
an aitercat'oh with ms employer
Cnarles FREEMAN "hlte man. III
winch the negro got the better OF the
dificuily' The next night crowd OF
"hite men. headed py Wallace sipiey'
VINO was deputized to arrest the man.
went to Burkes house, which Is about
mile from HafpersVllle. Ihey were
greeted by fuslllade from the ne
sfoes concealed IN ambush IN the
bushcs surrounding the mouse ana IN
the mouse Itself. wallace SlDley, the
leader, fell dead at the hrst vOlley. AMI
three more white members of the
crowd-James Johnson, James Hamil-
ton and James Wells--were wounded.
The whites returned the fire, but were
unable to do any execution, as their as
sailants were all concealed. There were
not more than eight men In the white
crowd and, finding 1t impossible to re-
sist effectively. they dispersed towards
Harpersville.
When the crowd returned to Harpers-
vile the news spread like wildfire
During the night large crowd gath
cred from the neighborhood. They i'm
mediately went to Burke's home and
got from his mother the names of all
parties which ambushed them the
night before. Then the pursuit and
search for each of the prescribed
darkies began. According t. the state
ment of reliable citizens six negroes
were found and killed by the crowd OF
armed and determined citizens before
the sheriff arrived.
Yesterday morning Sheriff ]. NJ.
Stevenson was wired to get together
posse at once for Harpersville. Gath
ering together posse of 20 or 30 men
the sherlH started at once for the
place. When he arrived in the after
noon ne was joined by crowds OF citi-
%ens until conservative estimate
placed the NUMBER IN the posse as over
5oo men, anu the pursuit Is sui on. IL
mas resolved ltseit INTO chase or the
negroes lmpiicated. A reilaple tele'
phohe message received at late hour
states that three more negroes nave
peeH louhu anu k'''eu' making total
OF nine 10 oale' win ABOUT ~ more 10
Sherlit stevenson, rea'iZlhg the dan-
ger appfehended' immediately wired
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