Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-13
RACE TROUBLES RENEWED.
Assaults on Negroes I'm New York City
COntInme-PoIice AyerI a LYnchIng.

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New York, Sept. Am apple core
| thrown by colOred boy which
struck William Kohles, a white man,
caused small riot between whites
and blacks in West Forty eighth
street Monday afternoon which was
quickly quclled by a force Of patrol
men.
kohlcs is a vcnder. lie was driving
through Forty-eighth street when he
passed a crowd of small coIorcd boys
and was struck in the back of the
neck with the core Of an apple. The
man was stabbed in the neck week
previous by a colored man, the cut
requiring several stitches. The ven
der became very angry at the boy
and, after catching him, slapped his
face number Of times.
\ colOrcd man finally struck the
vendcr in the face, knocking him.
down. The exchange of blows at
tracted a crowd and threats were
made against the colorcd population.
1t is alleged Kohles drew a revolver
and threatened to shoot the first COL
ored man in sight The colored boy
entered the residence of Charles
Brooks, colored. This attracted the
mob to the building. Brooks, who
had been i'll with typhoid fever, was
taken to the police station despite
the pleadings of his wife, who ex-
planned that he had been i'll and that
relapse might follow. lie was af-
terwards released,
In the meantime William II. Fet-
tilo, colored, and his daughter Ruth,
wears old, were passing through
Forty-seventh street when a crowd OF
white men started after them. The
girl ran away and escaped. Her
father and two other negroes ran
into the saloon of Lee Springle. Tho
crowd started to follow the cOlored
men, when Springle drew his revol"-
er and threatened to kill the first
white man who entered. He stood in
the doorway and defed the crowd. \
policeman finally dispersed the
crowd.
About the same hour that this oc-
Cured a cOlorcd woman armed with
hat pin and n razor nearly caused
another race riot on Ninth avenue.
She was taken in charge by police
man and followed to the West Thir-
tv-seventh street station by a crowd
of 300 men and boys who wanted to
lynch her.
A man who said ne was Michael
Grannin was standing at thirty
ninth street and Ninth avenue when
the woman approached him. They
exchanged a few words and the wO-
man attempted to stab Grannin with
q Le+ pin. Grannin succeeded in
dodging. Then the woman drew
razor and attempted to slash Gran
min. Finally policeman caught the
woman and secured possession of the
razor. Before he reached the station
house the crowd had increased. and
there were cries of Lynch her"
half dozen policemen finally rushed
up and kept the mob at distance.
After the woman had been taken in
the police station her husband APP
peared on the scene. Threats were
made to lynch HIM also, but Il large
number of policemen finally succeed
ed in driving the mob away.
A row in which only colored people
became involved started in a house
on West SiXty-third street AS re-
suit Charles Daniels. cOlorcd, the jan
itor of the apartment house, is dying
at the hospital. lie was shot by Ben
iamin Carter, 2S years old, also
colored ianitor. Carter was arrested
The cause of the trouble is not
known. but it is said that Daniels and
several colored men endeavored to
enter the fiat despite the protests OF
the residents therein.