Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-11-17
BITTER RACE FEUDS.
White Citizens Assert Their ST.
premacy in Wilmington, N. c.
EIGHT NEGROES KILLED IN RIOTS.

A Negro Newspaper Plant Wrecked and
the Omce Burned Municipal on
Gers Made to Reaign-rr Trouble
In south Carolina
Wilmington, N. G., Nov ll.--After a
day of bloodshed and turbulence, Viii.
mington subsidized last night into com.
parative peacefulness Eight negroes
were killed and three white men
wounded during the day, one of them,
William Mayo, seriously. At night
the city was in the hands of new
municipal government and law and
order was being established. In the
afternoon the board OF aldermen re.
signed, one by one As each alderman
vacated, the remainder elected a sue.
cessor, named by the citizens commit.
tee, until the entire board was changed
legally. They resigned in response to
public sentiment The mayor and
chief Of police then resigned, and the
new board elected their successors &C.
cording to law. The first act of the
new government was to swear in 25O
special policemen, chosen from the
ranks Of reputable white citizens.
The trouble in Wilmington yester-
day commenced at $3.50 yesterday morn
ing. when an armed body Of citizens,
numbering about 400 and led by ex-
Representative Waddell, chairman of
a committee Of s5 appointed for the
purpose, proceeded to the publishing
house Of negro newspaper, the Rec
ord, to wreck it. The editor of this
paper had published an article defam.
atory Of white women, and mass
meeting Of citizens ordered his expul.
sion from the city within "a hours and
the removal OF his press. Fifteen lead
ing negroes were called in by the COM
mittee of 25 and directed to notify the
chairman, by 1880 Thursday morning,
whether they would agree to the re-
moval OF the press. They were in
formed that If no answer was returned
the press would be demolished.
No answer was received by the chair
man yesterday morning and, after
waiting an hour, the citizens proceed
ed in body and demolished the fix
lures of the printing office. The build
ing was also fred 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 extin-
guish it, The burning of the
printing Office created great com.
motion among the negroes Of the
town. The rumor spread that the
whites were going to burn and muir
der in the negro quarter This rumor
reached the negro employees OF cot.
ton compress, numbering 800 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 enacted. The men were
standing on corner and were ordered
to disperse. They declined and, it is
claimed, fred into the whites. A
fusillade was Immediately opened up.
on them by the whites and three ne
groes were killed. Two whites were
wounded slightly One negro ran
down the street and, passing resi-
dence, fred rife at William Mayo,
white, standing on the veranda, shoot
ing him through the left lung.
This negro was recognized, pur-
sued and captured while hiding
under bed. 1t is said he confessed
to the shooting; He was riddled with
shot by his captors ank killed. About
one o'clock, some negroes in house
fred upon 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.
TROUBLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Greenwood, s. G., Nov. 1l.-Five ne
groes lay dead at Rehobeth all day,
along the roadside, another was killed
yesterday and likely four others are
dead and lost in the woods. One white
man was buried, three others lie at
the point of DEATH and more have
been wounded. -Four heads of fami-
lies have left the country, and armed
troops OF countrymen are securing the
country, hunting other victims. The
trouble was precipitated on election
day, when 200 or 800 negroes at the
polls opened fusillade at the store in
which the voting was going on. In
this fight the two white men were
killed.
News was received that the mob
lynched another negro near Phoenix.
His name was JEFF Darling and he wa,