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The colored American., 1900-09-15

pears to have found 1t as Will be seen
by the following bill of particulars.
Tammany Hall can nub out the ugly
facts her recorded:
He charges Q) that innocent men
were assaulted; (2) that police officers
were the main offenders; (3) that the
tough cOlored element were not trou-
bled; (4) that respectable cOlored wom-
en- who appealed for protection were
cursed and threatened; (5) that police
officers kicked opened the doors OF
business men, and meTcilessly clubbed
the occupants; (6) that men and women
were cruelty beaten while getting IN
and out of patrol wagons on their way
to police stations; (7) that some were
beaten there and others who applied
for protection were turned away after
being cursed and threatened; (o) that
women and children quietly sitting ia
their rooms were shot at; (9) that men
who had sought protection in saloons
were driven out by these same officers
into the arms of the mob; (1O) the
guilty white men were protected and
innocent cOlOred ones were cruelty
outrs ged by officers; (11) that men and
women were taken from their beds to
the stations in a nude condition; (12)
that officers turned Thieves and stole.
A medical student in his third year
course who has saved nearly 300 had
his door forced, his closet broken open
and every dollar taken. Rev. Brooks
boldly makes these charges and says he
is ready to substantiate them by wit
nesses.
DR.. Brooks is a responsible man and
if. as he says, be is prepared to make
good his charges, it is Tammany's next
move. They cannot be dismissed with
sneer, or with the usual insulting re-
joiner of New York's democratic police
officials; "You are one Of them smart
mig gers, you are too damned smart"
These charges wont make democratic
votes.
The intemperance Of the temperance
agitation was never more manifest than
it is shown to be, by the leaders of the
movement to invoke the aid Of the AL
mighty for the defeat of President Me-
Kinley by the endless chain system of
prayer. The sentimentalists in Amer
lean politics are the real extremists.
They would enslave the land to make
the ocean free" as Phillips said Of Bona
parte 1st, "aDd want only power to en-
slave bOth''
The temperance question is one of
those questions which no amount of
agitation or legislation can settle on
the lines on which these good, but mis-.
guided guardians OF public morals,
could wish to see it settled. There are
other questions of vastly more import
ance to be settled and the prayers of
these good people who seem to have q
speaking acquaintance with the AL
mighty If offered in behalf Of outraged
citizens who have been robbed of their
civil and constitutional rights in the
South, might possibly avail.
Perhaps the next move will be an
appeal to the throne of Grace for the
defeat of Mckinley by the same svs-
tenn on behalf Of the Vegetarian because
ne eats meat and doesn't object to 9th.
ers doing so when they can get it
The colored American., 1900-09-15

able TO furnish bim with the figures to
prove the solidarity of the Southern
Democratic vote. Perhaps Mr.. Bryan
does not wish to offend his Southern
friends and admirers by OhjectiDg TO
their methods of pro ,edure in piling up
Democratic msjOrities in the manner
described by his friend Tiblman. But
an honest man would scOIn to profit by
such bare faced fraud as that to which
the unspeakable TilIman cOnfesses with
M Malicious and brszen effronteTy
Should Mr.. Bryan have the misfOr-
tune to be elected President of the
United States, does any one assume
that his friend Tiilman's influence will
not influence? A man VINO publicly
coniesses to the CRIME of aiding and
abetting in the suppression OF the will
OF 750, 900 suffragans because they hap
pen to be black, and because OF his be.
lief that minorities should govern, would
not be likely to be ignored by the bep-
eficiary of his crime?
There are 6, ,077 ,169 9urrepresented Ne
gro voters in the eleven Southern
States, many thousands of them have
already been disfranchised, and there
are reasonable grounds for the belief
that the South Carolina plan which
has been so minutely described by Mr..
Bryan's friend Tillman, will soon be In
good working order in every one Of
these eleven States. w hen it does be-
come operative, popular elections in
the South will have become greater
farces than they now are. And yet Mr..
Lin coin once said: mo man has a
right to govern another without his con.
sent"
And Mr.. Bryan is very sOlicitous in
deed on the subject Of the government
OF the Philippines in face of the fact
that a condition which does not exist
IN those Islands, does exist in every
Southern State in the Union, where
every inhabitant is, or is supposed to
be he political equal of every other
inha bitsnt Yet more than 600, 900 of
these IL habitants are arbitrarily him
dered from exercising their COnstitu-
tiOnal rights. The Government of the
Philippines has not yet passed beyond
the experimental stage. The local gov
srnmeuts of the eleven Southern States
referred to, were reconstructed after
the war of the Rebellion, and have been
in existence for naOre than quarter OF
century, and they are not the kind of
governments which Mr.. Bryan and
some Northern Democrats profess to
want TO see est ablishe d in those Islands
Since "charity begins at home" and
performance is better than promise" ,"
eleven States really deriving their just
power from the consent of the govern
ed would be an infinitely better object
lesson to the PHILIPPINES and all others
than the eleven close Democratic polit-
ical corporations which are exercising
all the power at their command to dem
onstrate that KrateO-tO rule, and De.
mos-the people, means the rule of
white people, even though they are in
many instances in hopeless minority
in some Of these broken down Southern
States. Democracy at the South is a
misnOmer. It's proper appellation is
DemOnocracy, and this is warranted by
its bloody record and its lawIess atti-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
DIRECTLY AGAINST HOWARD.
Witness Swears That The Prisoner Admitted
He Had Killed Goebol.

In the trial OF James Howard Mon
day at Frankfort, KY, for the murder
OF William Goebel, Bowman Gaines
testified that Howard is the man he saw
run out OF the State house grounds and
jump the fence Immediately after the
shooting OF Goebel. James Stabblefeld
who lost leg and an arm in the Clay
county feuds last year, testified that
Howard stopped ut his house in Febru-
airy soon alter the shooting and said
81 never sight down my gunbarrel but
what | get meat or money, and this time
| got both"
Witness said he put the direct ques-
ton: Jim, do you mean to say that you
killed Goebel?" Howard, he said, re-
sponded in the affirmative, and said he
believed his mountain friends would
stand by him and that 500 men could
not take him TO Frankfort for trial,
Stabblefeld said he did not tell the story
of Howard's confession to him until he
heard that Howard and his friends were
planning to kill him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION REPORTS.
Guerrilla War Kept Up for Political Pur
poses-klany Want Peace.

The Filipino insurrcction, fostered
and maintained by the Tagalogs, assist
cd by the Ladrones. who are mainly
ex-convicts and criminals OF the worst
character, will cease il the election con-
firms the present policy. The leaders
admit that their last hope is the cleo
ton of Bryan. and that ii he is defeat
ed they will surrender and their forces
will lay down their arms.
The Philippine commission, compos-
ed of Republicans and Democrats, has
made a preliminary report on the con-
dtions in the islands. The most sig
nificant statement of the commission is
that the insurgents are constantly ell
deavoring to mass a sufficient force to
crush one of the American garrisons
for political effect in this country.
The report was made at the request
of the President, who desired the views
OF the commission on the general con
dition OF the islands as to peace and
industry. business and revenue condi-
tions prevailing; progress OF and OPP
portunity for education: disposition OF
the people toward the United States.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
JR. 0. U. A. M. SEPARATED.
Division at tho State Meeting and the In.
surgenls Withdraw.

The war between the two factions OF
the Pennsylvania State council OF the
Junior Order United American Me-
chanics over the per capita tax resulted
in the bodies holding separate meetings
and nominating different sets OF off
GERS at Philadelphia, Tuesday.
The meeting was the one authorized
by the National council, and that fac
ton which has been opposed to the
body recognized by the National coun-
Gil and which Monday refused to join
in special meeting. was admitted to the
session along with the regulars" The
latter numbered I26 and the other fac
ton zoo Charles s. Crawl, OF Monon-
gahela, regular, presided over the meet
ing All went harmoniously until a
motion was put that all who indorsed
the National council rulings stand up.
All the regulars" arose, but none Of
the opposing faction The former then
Withdrew to another part OF the room
and separate sessions were held.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
CLOUDBURSI DEVASTAIES TEXAS |
HEAVY LOSSES.
Tho Nuecos River Country Under Many Feet
Of Water-Deaih List SO Far
Numbers Eighteen.

A cloud burst in the Nueccs river
country, Texas, 90 miles west OF the
Southern Pacific road, resulting in a
terrific flood and much loss of life, is
reported. 1t is claimed that from 80
to 10 Italians employed on the sheep
ranches were drowned and all the
ranches swampcd. Extensive damages
have been inflicted on the upper Colo
RADIO and the Concho river valleys. par
ticularly at and near Brownwood, Blan-
ket and San Angelo. Wire communica-
ton with all these places is cut off. 1t
is feared many lives have been lost.
The last telegram from Brentwood,
Sunday morning, stated that the town
was flooded and entirely surrounded by
water, and that people and goods were
being removed to places of safety in
rowboats and RATS. Bulletins from
Temple state that the tracks of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fc railroad are I'M
der water TO the depth OF IS feet south
OF Brownwood. and that nothing can be
heard from places TIP the line. 1t is
raining hard for approximately 100
miles in all directions from Brentwood,
and as the streams in that part of Texas
are now very treacherous in the matter
OF sudden rises. a disaster is feared.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
BURIAL IN UNITED STATES.
The Government win Bring lis Dead From
China and Pacific Isles.

Colonel William s. Patten OF the
quartermaster's department, has COM
pleted arrangements for the free trans
portation to the United States of the
remains OF soldiers, sailors and civilians
who lost their lives and were buried in
the island possessions OF the United
States and in China. A burial corps
will take passage on the transport Han
cock from San Francisco on October
in charge OF d. II. Rhodes, inspector
OF national cemeteries.
All the bodies are to receive honora-
BILE burial in the United States at places
selected by the next OF kin Where
not otherwise ordered the interments
will be made in the national cemeteries.
The approximate number OF remains
to be exhumed is 1891. distributed in
the following places: Honolulu, 80 en-
listed men OF the army and marine;
Guam, men OF the navy; China, 2 Off
GERS OF the army, 5S enlisted men OF the
army and 81 men OF the navy; Philip
pines, II officers OF the army, I,I5o en-
listed men OF the army and 28 men Of
the navy.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
DON|E ELDERS COATED WITH TAR |
MEETING PREVENTED.
Victims 0isrobed, Daubod and Then Turned
Over 10 the Pollce-They Are
Sent Out OF Town.

Under instructions from Overseer at
Large Piper, OF Chicago, Elder Silas
Moot, OF Lima, who was forcibly de-
ported from Mansfield, o., August IL,
and Elder Ephriam Bassinger, OF the
Bluffton, o.. Dowiete apostles, who had
been deported by the authorities for the
past four Sundays, arrived in Mansfield
Sunday morning at 6:35 o'clock, at
tempting to hold Zion services.
They were recognized by small
crowd at the depot, which refused to
let them enter cab, but followed then,
UP the street and surrounded them near
the center OF the city. They were then
taken by the mob which by this time
had been vastly increased, to the Rich
land buggy works, where Bassinger dis
robed, but the crowd tore Moots cloth
ing from his body, as he refused to dis
robe himself. A paint bucket and q
brush were then secured and smoke
| stack varnish, tar-like substance, was
daubed over them from head to foot
1t was matted in their hair and beard
and no part OF their bodies escaped but
| their faces.
Their bodies were then partially Gov
| cred with their clothing, and the elders
were marched to the home OF L. II
Leiby a local Zion follower, who wa:
driven out OF the city last Sunday
There they promised not to return tc
Mansfield, but later they said they
agreed not to return unless Overseei
Piper ordered them to come.
Later, when the police gathered, the
elders were turned over to them ant
taken to the city prison, where the tai
was removed from their bodies by appli
cations OF lard and benzine, new cloth
ing was procured, and at noon they
were placed upon a west bound Penn
| sylvania train and sent out OF the city
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
LONG FIGHT ENDED.
Iron Scale Signed Sunday-Many Mills to
Resume Operations.

At 6:3o o'clock Sunday morning the
conference committees of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers and OF the manufacturers
signed the wage scale for the bar iron
and pudding mills. which will remain
effective until July /, 1901. This was ac-
complished after an all-night session OF
the two committees, and at its oonclu-
sion all who had taken part were well
nigh exhausted. The agreement reach
cd was q compromise between the de-
mand OF the workers and the offer OF
the manufacturers.
The conclusion OF this conference ends
one Of the most important wage contests
that has ever been pcaccably settled be-
tween the iron workers and manuiac-
turcrs OF this country.
As soon as the scale was signed, tclc-
grams were sent in every direction ord
cring fires TO be built at once and pre-
parations made for 4 resumption OF the
mills that have been in enforced idle
ness for nearly three months. About
10000 men will be given work as a re-
suit OF this settlement.
The mills affected are located princ-
pally in Western Pennsylvania, East
crn Ohio and Indiana.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
FOUR NEGROES LYNCHED.
Louisiana Mob Invaded Tanglpoa Parish
Jail-Reign OF Terror.

In Tangipoa parish, La, Friday night
four negroes were hanged after the jail
in the village OF Pontchatoula has been
broken open and the prisoners, accused
OF robbing the family of Henry Holfel-
ter, had been taken from their cells.
Mrs. Louise lloliclter who resisted the
colorcd men, was choked and beaten so
numerically that she lost her mind.
There were II colored suspects in the
Pontchatoula Jail, accused of various
robberies. Friday night at Q o'clock a
committee of white citizens called on
Sheriff Nix and demanded the keys to
the jail. The sheriff refused TO produce
them. Axes were brought and the Jail
was immediately broken open. -Four
suspects were hanged to a tree about
two blocks away, after being made 20
confess to having participated in the
burglary OF Holfelter's house.
Not until 7 o'clock next morning were
the bodies cut down. Meantime the
coroncr's jury returned verdict OF
death by unknown hands" Citizens
secured the parish throughout the
night, arrcstng all the negroes they
could get their hands on. These were
crowded into the Jail at Pontchatoula
Mayor Jackson and the sheriff are using
every means to restore order, but are
making slow progress. The better ele-
mcnt among the colorcd population is
fleeing TO the churches where the time
Is being spent in prayer
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
A BLOODY FEUD.
Tennessoeans Make a Battlefield Of Hotel
Dining Room-Fatal Results.

The Howard -McGee feud had a
tragic climax Tuesday in which one
man was killed. two others fatally and
one seriously wounded. At noon
Charles Jones and his brother Joshua
entered the Clew hotel dining room, at
Madisonvile, Tenn, which was filled
with guests, and took seats at table.
A moment later Calvin and Tom How
ard entered the room and met the
Jones brothers face to face. In an in
slant revolvers were drawn by the four
men and about 80 shots were fred in
quick succession, the terrified guests
making their exit from the room by
way OF doors and windows.
When the firing ceased Charles Jones
was found dead on the floor with two
bullet wounds in the heart and three
in his head; Joshua Jones and Calvin
Howard were mortally wounded and
unconscious, and Tom Howard, the
only one OF the quartet left on his feet,
had a number OF bullet wounds in his
bodv
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
SEVERAL KILLED.
sheriH's Deputies Fired Into Mob Of
Miners with Telling EfIect-state
Troops Ordered Out.

Riots broke out at Shenandoah, Pa.
and the sheriff of Schuylkill county, Pa,
was hastily summoned from Allentown.
After he arrived he gave his deputies
the order to fire, and they obeyed, kill
ing Hungarian and little girl.
Adit Gen. Stewart issued an order at
midnight, Friday. after a conference
with Gov. Stone and Gen. Goblin, ord
ering the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth
infantry, Battery {, OF Phoenixvile,
and the Governors troop OF Harris
burg. Pa, all of the national guard, to
proceed with the least possible delay TO
the Schuylkill region in command OF
Gen. Goblin. TO the relief of Sheriff
Toole. Col. Richardson took charge OF
the movement OF the troops and camp
cquipagc, and it is expected all the
troops. will be at Shenandoah inside OF
eight hours.
Gen. Goblin left on a special train
for Shenandoah, where he will establish
headquarters and will be joined by his
staff. Mai. Gen. Miller has been noti-
fed Of the ordering out OF the troops
and he is now on his way to Harris
burg from Franklin Attorney General
Elkin has also been summoned from In
diana, Pa, to consult with the govern
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Nevada Bank Mulcted Of $4,000 Gold by
Bandits In a Sensational Manner.

> The first National bank of Winnie
mucca, New, was robbed OF about $I3,-
600 Wednesday by three men who en-
tered the front door and with revolvcrs
made all present throw up their hands.
There were five people in the bank at
the time. One robber, at the point
of pistol, made Nixon open the safe
and take from it three sacks of gold
coin, They threw this in an ore sack,
together with all the gold coin in the
drawer. The robbers then marched the
five men out through a back door to
an alley, where three horses were wait
ing. The men were kept covered with
guns until the desperadoes mounted
their horses and escaped
The whole affair occurred in but FIVE
minutes. An alarm was quickly given
and several shots were fired at the des-
peradoes as they sped through town,
but without effect. The robbers return
ed shots, but no one was hit. Officers
and armed citizens started in pursuit OF
the robbers, who took a course up the
river. A posse also started from Gold
Conda to head them off.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
REBUILDING GALVESTON.
Martial Law Has Ccasad-Labor Is Now al
Premium Work Of Cleaning
Away Debris Continues.

Thursday evening Mayor Jones, Of
Galveston, Tex, proclaimed that mar
tial law would cease at noon to-mor-
row, and the civil authorities would as
sumo direction OF municipal affairs.
This was done at the suggestion OF
Gen. Scurry, who expressed the belief
that conditions had reached such a
stage that the civil authorities were able
to cope with the situation. This. how
ever, does not mean the immediate
withdrawal OF the militia They are to
cooperate with the city officials in the
enforcement OF order, and will continue
on duty as part OF the government
Labor in Galveston is at a premium.
There is not an idle man in the city.
Regardless OF station or position a man
must work. The merchant and his
clerk are working side by side along
with the man who has known nothing
but hard work since the time OF his
childhood
The work OF removing the dead from
the debris still continues. The pre-
vailing method OF disposition is crema-
ton, and as each corpse is taken out
IT is thoroughly saturated with coal oil
and thrown into a blazing fire. Funeral
pyres are blazing throughout the city
and in this way Galveston is ridding
herself OF the dead
). f. Barton, a nephew OF Clara Bar
ton, OF the Red Cross society, suggests
the raising OF fund OF from $4,000, 900
to SI5,ooo,ooo to aid the people in re-
building their homes. An appeal OF this
nature will be made to the people Of
the United States
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
FhvORS A FIGHT.
Father Phillips Issues Statement In Favor
Of Striking Miners.

Father Phillips, of St. Gabriel's Cath
olic Church. Hazleton, Pa, who has
worked diligently for arbitration as a
means of settling the strike, issues a
statement in which he comes out fatty
on the side of the strikers. In the
statement he says: "If the executive
officials of the big coal-carrying COM
panies have been correctly quoted by
the papers, arbitration is no longer a
means to the end desired by the general
public, namely a discontinuance OF the
conflict between labor and capital.
There is now no alternative but fight
to the finish between organized labor
and organized capital. Honest efforts
for peace have been throttled, and since
reason and justice and mercy will not
be heard the operator must either ar
rogatc to himself the title OF coal king
and sway his scepter over unwilling
subjects or the miners must meet the
issue by renewed efforts to deplete the
mar ket by the complete prevention OF
production"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Beers Fire and Loot Town, Also Damage
Locomotives.

Telcgrams from Lorenzo Marques,
dated Tuesday, say:
A pitched battle has been fought
midway between Kaap Muiden and
Hectorspruit, resulting in heavy Boer
losses. The Beers removed and threat
en- to destroy the cogwhccls of locomo-
tives used between Watervalboven and
Watervalonder, without which the rail-
way cannot be worked They have
blocked and damaged the railway for
six miles on the Crocodile Poort sec
ton, have destroyed the culverts and
the Hectorspruit bridge and looted and
burned Komatipoort. The British are
now at Komatipoort, and heavy fighting
is proceeding. 1t is rumored that Mr..
Steyn has arrived here.
Gen. Pole Carew has occupied Kaap
Muiden, about 20 miles east OF Nelspruit,
where he captured a number OF locomo-
tives and considerable quantity OF
rolling stock.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-26
BEsIEGED BY NEGRO STRIKERS.
South Carolina Planter Has a Thrilling Ex-
perence.

The first strike OF cotton field hands
ever reported in South Carolina occur
red at Eastover, Richland county. The
hands demanded an advance OF 10 cents
a hundred pounds for picking cotton.
w. S. Hodge, as spokesman for the
other planters. refused the demand.
Hodge was pursued to his home by 400
negroes, who surrounded his home. in
which were his wife and two small chill
dren. The Hodges barricaded them
selves. When the negroes advanced to
break in Hodges shot the ringleader
He kept the men at bay for four hours
with shotgun, his wife standing by with
revolver in hand. Finally three mount
ed planters came to the rescue and the
negroes fled. They are still threaten
ing the house. There are 20 negroes to
one white man in the Eastover region.