The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-24
AN ALARMING STATE OF AFFAIRs
EXISTS IN LITTLE RIVER
COUNTY, ARKANSAS
BLACKS AND WHITES ARRAYED
SUMMARY PUNISHMENT OF NEG
RIO MURDERER STARTED THE
SERIOUS TROUBLE
NEGROES INCITED TO RISE

Leader Was General bucket, Who
Was Taken From sEer,e,.
! Posse and Swung to a Trs.
| ed a Planter Named James stocL
tom, Then Called on Member. ~,
His Race to sIay More Whites.
| LITTLE ROCK, Ark. March % >-,-
was received mere this evening of an
"'7' ming state OF affairs In Little River
county A telegram received late In the
AFTERNOON stated that an ATTEMPT on the
part OF the negroes to start race war
against the whites resulted In the whole
sale lynching of negroes by white citi-
zehs. Six were reported dead, and IT waa
STATED IN the telegram that in all proba-
ollty others had been hung and were
swinging to limbs in the woods.
Inc disturbances grew out of the lvnch-
ing OF a negro named Gen. Ducket near
| hlchmond, in that county, on Tuesday
LAST saturday q planter named lanes
| o'ocAtoh was murdered at his home near
| rocky Comfort, by Ducket The negro
escaped at the time, but after remaining
| III AidinS In the swamps until Tuesday he
| surrendered, saying he had had nothing
TO eat since his flight. He was taken
10 Rocky Comfort, and soon after his
arrival there Sheriff johnson and denu-
ties started with him for Richmond rrhev
were overtaken by 200 armed men wbo
demanded the prisoner.
Ducket was taken to the nIooa ,,h-o
ne mad killed Stockton, and after making
| d confession he was lynched When the
| negro was taken to the George plantation.
just before the start was made for Rich
| mond, 1t seemed as If every man in fen
| miles knew of the capture, and before
| the officer and prisoner could get fairly
started the whole country was aroused.
| AFTER the lynching it was learned that
Ducket had frequently tried to get the
negroes in the county to join him in 2
race war against the whites. A few hours
after he had killed Stockton he nassed
| several negroes at a farm house and told
. .aetn ne had killed one white man. and
| .hey would follow him he would XIII
more. 1t is now believed that the ne
groes had banded for race war.
! Ouckets S body was buried by the coun-
| ly' as the negroes refused to touch IT.
NOT THE FIRST TROUBLE.
|
soutnWest corner of the state bordered
| on the west by the Indian territory and
| on the south by Texas. The negro popu
! iatlon is large, and has for a long time
proved very troublesome to the whites
frequent murders have occurred and
| theIts and lights have become common
| aHafrs. One or two negroes have nra-
| vlously been severely dealt with when
| the people found it necessary to take the
ID" INTO their own hands, but 1t was not
until tuesday that the trouble took on n
serious aspect. 1t then developed that
caretully-lafd plans had been made by a
NUMBER or negroes to precipitate a race
war and that many white men had been
marked for victims. 1t is learned that
twenty-three negroes were implicated in
the plot and the whites are now bent ON
meung out summary punishment to the
entire coterfe of conspirators Six have
been killed. and the work of wiping out
the entire list continues without relaxa-
! t1on All implicated in the plot are known
and small parties of white men, VARYING
In number from twenty-five to fifty, are
| securing the country for them. Wherever
| one is found he is quickly strung up and
his body perforated with bullets.
The work of dispatching the first two or
three was an easy matter But the news
soon spread among the negroes who In
! stead Of making the resistance and Of
| fer1ng the battle that they had threaten
! ed, became panfc-stricken and began get
| ting out of the community as quickly as
| possible. Two whose names are on the
| list Of conspirators got a good start and
succeeded in reaching the Texas state
line before being captured They were
| overtaken, out OF breath and exhausted,
but were swung up without ceremony.
DETAILS OF LYNCHINGs.
TEXARKANA Ark, March 29.-The
widest excitement prevails among the
negroes of Little River county where
many negro men have been lynched by
the citizens Of that section. The affair
comes directly from the assassination Of
| the planter James A. Stockton. by the
negro, General Ducket, on last Friday,
Ducket having been subsequently lynch
ed in retribution of the crime Among
| those who have fallen victims to the
wrath of the whites are Edward Good
win, Dan King, Joe Jones, Ben Jones,
Moses Jones, and still another whose
| name could not be obtained. The last
| three named were brothers. and were In
| innate with the assassin of Stockton, and
| 1t was discovered that they were leading
q scheme to avenge their comrades
| death.
| The assault was provoked by the un-
| earthing of a plot that the followers OF
! General Ducket had concocted, and when
| the revelation was made the citizens be-
| gan their search for the principals.
Friendly negroes of the white people,
who had originally Informed Stockton OF
! buckets threat, were the medium Of
knowing the facts against the present
| victims, these informers themselves hav-
ing been warned under the penalty of
death not to communicate the plans OF
the outlaws to the whites.
All of the victims that have fallen be-
| fore the whites were pursued singly over
| the country and met their fate at differ
| ent times and in different localities. Ed
| Goodwin was shot down On Mud creek,
| near Rocky Comfort, and his body
| thrown into the stream. The Joneses
had fed in different directions when they
| learned of their pursuit. and were run
| down and lynched one at time.
ONE MORE VICTIM