The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-29
4 RACE WAR NIPPED
Seven Arkansas Negroes Victims
ct the Wrath of the Whites.
AGiTATORS WERE LYNcHHED
The Whole Thing Started With
the Lynching.o of an Assassin.
Who Was the Ring
CT the Wrath of the Whites.
AGlTATORS WERE LYNcHHED
The Whole Thing Started With
leader.

A dispatch from Texarkana, Arkan-
sas, says race war is is on in Little
River county, and during the last 4S
hours an indefinite number of Negroes
have met their death at the hands Of
an infuriated white population. Seven
are known to have been lynched, and
the work is not yet done.
The bodies Of the victims of the mob's
vengeance are hanging to the limbs Of
trees in various parts Of the county,
strung up wherever overtaken. The
country is in state Of intense excite
ment. White men are collecting in
mobs, heavily armed and determined.
Negroes are fleeing for their lives, and
the community is in an uproar. The
exact number Of Negroes who have been
summarily dealt with or those who may
yet fall into the hands Of the mob be-
fore order is restored may never be
known.
Seven bodies have been found, and
other victims are being hunted and will
meet similar fate when run to earth.
The known dead to date are: Gen.
Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam King,
Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses
Jones, unknown man.
Joe King and John johnson we're
also taken in hand by mobs and whipped.
They were afterwards tarned loose and
have disappeared.
Little River county is in the extreme
southwest corner of the State, bordered
on the west by the Indian Territory
and on the south by Texas. The Ne
gro population is large, and has for a
long time proved very troublesome to
the whites. Frequent murders have
occurred, and thefts and fights have
become common affairs
One or two negroes have previously
been severely dealt with when the peo-
pie found it necessary to take the law
into their own hands, but it was not
until today that the trouble took on
serious aspect. It then developed that
carefully laid plans had been made by
a number Of negroes to precipitate
race war, and that many white men had
been marked for victims. Its learned
that % negroes were implicated in this
plot, and the whites are now bent on
melting oct summary punishment to the
entire coterie Of conspirators. Seven
have been killed, and the work Of wip-
ing out the entire list continues with
out relaxation. All implicated in the
plot are known, and parties Of white
men, varying in numbers from 25 to SO,
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 instead Of making the re-
sistance and offering the battle that
they had threatened, became panic
stricked and began getting out Of the
community as quickly as possible.
Two whose names were on the list Of
conspirators got a good start and sue
ceeded in reaching the Texas State line
before being captured. They were
SW uUS up nII4IVOV SCACuOAy.
The trouble arose over the killing Of
James Stockton by Duckett. Just prior
to the lynching Of Daekett, the negroes
had planned the inauguration of race
war. Duckett was the leader, and at
his death the negroes let the matter
out. The citizens became greatly en-
ragged. Joe King and John johnson
were taken to the woods and whipped.
Other negroes made threats, but moth
ing occurred until yesterday, when the
wholesale lynching began.
In the gang that was plotting fora
race war there were % Negroes, and it
is likely the entire number have been
strung up in the thickets. It's known
to a certainty that the seven ringleaders
are doad. The negroes are fleeing from
the district. Today three wagons full
arrived at Tezarkana, having crossed
Red river at Index last midnight.