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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-13
MANY DRIVEN INSANE BY
THE HORROR AND SUSPENSE.
Stories of Survivors Family Outline the TerrOrs and the
Sorrows of the Gulf Coast Storm.

came worse. many women became demented
| and several will never recover. One notori-
! Gus woman threw $1,000 worth of DIAMONDS
| into the aVenging flood.
! In the hotel the women kissed each other
and said a general good-by. They prayed
| to Providence. who many believed had de-
! serted them, and sang hymns in turns.
! Win each announcement that the waters
were rising over the doomed city many
men and women, some with their children
| In their arms. gave up to the terrible men,
| tai strain and fell into mercilnl uncon-
sciousness.
The hotel was the Mecca of the city's in
! hab!ian's who survived. The three men
now In Mobile pay high tribute 10 ;he
bravery in the face of death of the women
or Galveston, and say ;hat, despite the
melancholy that settled over all when the
Hood was at its worst, the spirit of iorti
tuce displayed by the women brought out
the best characteristics of the men.
The horrors of the night were equaled on
the succeeding days. As the water receded.
The story OF piles of dead In the streets has
been told by the accounts published. The
men now here add descriptions Of outrage
and looting by negroes and worthless
whites which are revolving.
TIiIRTH-sEvEN NEGROES
SHOT DOWN ONE DAY.
The negroes were feared from the first.
and on Monday. when the citizens meet
ing was held in the fremont House. where
S25. 5.0I0 was at once subscribed, a representa-
tive of the Mcclure Publishing Company.
whose name could not be learned. took il
upon himself to bring them TO subsection.
He formed a posse for the purpose Of con-
scripting all negroes in the city. and when
i large number refused 10 obey, thirty
seven were shot down the first day after
subsidence of the storm. Many of these
had wedding rings. watches and other jew
elry In their possession which they had
taken from the thickly strewn corpscs. and
several had rins-encircled fingers and be-
jeweled ears of women in their pockets
which they had cut off in their haste to
rob the dead before order was restored out
OF ;he storm chaos.
One soldier was murdered by a negro
whom he had followed into a house. The
dead were piled on drays and wagons hur-
riedly, without order or Identification. and
were hurried 70 the sea.
The stencil from the large piles of wreck
age threatens pestilence IL the people of
the island are not soon transported to the
mainland
Contrary TO what has been given out. the
refugees who arrived to-day declare that
good water supply was obtained Monday,
and that Sunday 400 gallons were Gistrib-
uted from the hotel, whese daily distribu-
tion of -four, canned goods and living ne
cessities is being made.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-13
T0-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF.
RITSINESS

Discount rates were to per cent on caii
and time loans. Clearances. S.f54.cS9; bal
af,ces s4I7. 770. New York exchange, 4oc
discount hid. SOC discount asked; Louisville
25c discount bid, par asked; Chicago, .Nc dis
count bid. l0c discount asked; New orleans
%, discount bid. Ear asked; Cincinnati. 2Jc
discount bid, par asked.
The local market for wheat closed lower
at 73lsc nominal for Sept. 7Sl4c hid Oct,
74a,c bid Dec. 7Sc nominal May, IaaItc No. ,
red. Corn closed lower At 59c nominal Sept,
ss3zc bid Oct 33asc asked Dec, 5S-sc asked
year, 40c No. white. Oats closed at Il.c
hid sent. 22ssc Dee. 2rAc asked May, 2lS4Ia
22'Sc No. ?.
The local market for standard mess pork
closed firm at $3.50 for new. Prime steam
lard closed firm at $40 East side
Spot cotton locally closed Sc higher.
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s. On three occasions the CARLOAD of hui
, man beings. some half dead. others crazed
with fright, was carried for blocks by the
raging currents but he landed all of them
safely, even TO his last load. when he met
his death. As he attempted TO pass into
the building on his last trip the ftrehouse
succumbed to the wind and collapsed. Some
of the wreckage struck Mutt and he was
mortally injured.
THINKS THE CITY
WRECKED FOR ALL TINE.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Austin, Tex, Sept. 12-The narrowing
tales of the horrors Of the Galveston calarl-
ity grow with the return of individuals
from there. This morning Colonel w. b.
Workman, who went to Galveston as the
special appoirtce of Adjutant General
Scurry to investigate the conditions. re-
turned home and reported as follows to the
Governors:
The situation at Galveston beggars de
scription. l am convinced that the city Is
practically wrecked for all time To come;
FULLY 40 per cent of the business portion or
the town Is irreparably and most depiorahiy
demolished and WRECKED. and al least the
same percentage OF amage Is 10 be founn
IN the residence portion.
Along the wharf front great ocean steam
ors have bodily bumped themselves on TO
the big piers and stand there great MASSES
of iron and wood that even fire cannot to-
tally destroy. The great warehouses along
the water fronts are smashed In on one
slde u plitu IN ntaps on tit "hdi VI aoiiS
the streets.
Small tugs and sailboats have jammcd
themselves half in and half out of the great
doors where they were landed by the in
coming waves and left to their fate with the
recedinS waters Houses are packed and
Jammec in great confused masses in all the
streets. Great piles Of human bodies. lead
animals. rottins vegetation. household fur
niture ana fr gments of houses themselves
are piled in confusing heaps high in the
main streets OF the city.
Along the Gulf front human bodies are
floating around like SO much cordwoUd. In
terminsling with them are to be found the
Cascasses of horses. chickens. q IS and
rottening vegetation. Above all rises ;he
foulest stencil that ever came from any
cesspool absolutely sickening in its inten-
sity. and most dangerous to health ia its
effect.
GREAT WAREHOUSES;
ARE NOM SIMPLY 1OMBS.
Along the Strand adjacent to the Gulf
front. where are located all the big whole
sale warehouses and stores, the situation
almost detes successful review. Great
stores of fresh vegetation, having been in
yaded by the incoming waters, are now
turned into carriage piies of most befoul-
ing OdOrs. The Gulf waters, while on the
land, played at viii with everything. de-
posting bodies of human beings and ami
mails where II pleased. and then receded
leaving the wreckage to tell its own tale
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-13
STABLE BOY WAS A GIRL.
Successful Disguise of an Adven.
turous Kentucky Maid.
REPURLIC SPECIAL.

fstPJSl<IC
Louisville. KY. Sept. 12-George Brown
Is the foster father OF Birdie Helton. Birdie
disappeared six months ago, and. although
the river was dragged. the city searched
and the country piacarded. nothing could
be learned of her whereabouts. Brown
adopted the child when she was years
old. and in fifteen years ne had grown to
love her as his own daughter. But Birdie
was bit wild and wanted her own way.
Brown has always been old-fashioned. The
result came six months ago, when the up
to-date girl disappeared from the home of
the old-fogy man. Yesterday Nv Brown
received a message written in the girls
rand, which said: Il am now a boy-Eddie
Mcclure
He hunted up Eddie Mcclure at the ad-
dresS given and found a doctors office
oh. yes" said Doctor Drake; Eddie Nc
Ciure Is my stable boy. have several
good horses. You know besides the ones I
drive. and Eddie rode them in the races at
the county fair circuit this season"
Then Eddie came in at the doctors call
"Birdie!' cried Mr.. Brown. and the sup
posed stable boy. baggy trousers cropped
hair, shaggy coat and all, threw herself in
10 hsr foster parents arms
why did you ever come back7' asked
the reporter who interviewed Birdie
We'll. said the girl. you see 1 had got
ten engaged TO a couple OF girls and they
both wanted me to marry them. L had to
crawl
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-13

MRS. MARY BURNETT.
MISS MISS jESNiE ioSSlhEAkEE fkdEJETHAKER.
WILLIAM MILLER wife. son-in-iaw. dauGh-
LCciA MINER.
tnkREE.s Il k EEfEskNANff bkRfY
MRS. FIoEMR.
CHARLi5s TiLLEBACH. wife. mo,her-in-law
@% Mss sNo LE%S sFAEFssEAg and fRa5 ,. children
Mr., AID MRS. sTAwiNskY.
MIS- MIS- Nile II Il fAEs PAkk.
F. sEiXEs and Two daughters. Emma and Lu-
Mrs. GARY BURNETT and two children.
PETER sToCKFLETcH. wife ard six chill
GEORGE sCHwETzEL. wife and daughter.
Lula.
l. KREussB, wife and two daughters
MRS. MATILDA OLSEN and two children.
NJ M,tNs0N ., Q, @ kEiso. Else. JR
EDwAkp WEssfER SIR.
MRS MRS ssisaA Mfhslf;f WEissIER
GEORGE AND JOE WEBSTER;
6SSreE 58HS 3. sAYBiss.
RoBEkTs; wsichman C. H. & n. r. R.
MRS. HENRY DELcIE and child.
MRS. JOHN 4. HAYMAN and five children.
MRS. MRS. SiiLt. M1LLiAM ToH f. 4!sH ScaANGs. Nan is
Mis- Mis- SMkEaE SMkFREk AND and 'S tSilG dAuSH'eTs
MRS; NARY AIRY PIERsoN
AkhNk AklGE fffERRS6SN PiERS6N.
MRS. NELSON and daughter.
- FklEDMAN wife and son.
MR, MR. AMP \ .tak MRS i.t!T:is REMPsET; ;ss,orea,
MIS-: MS kNbEAsoN. NAa!A 6s.Wis 'e0l0F''''
MRS MATTE ANDERSON.
HOFFMAN family.
AE tfP hHs kHak dh2KS6 and a sbiidfsS
Mkl Ms Az lAHEH MhH. HoIHHStR, II HStknas.
SAN WILLIAMS GcolereGj.
!s1Tius ERsi SHTnHkAY fnkGSf MOORE
CHARLES Boss
RRss s rSSTlzI SH5Tz FH,EHER. ,R7
MRs MRs y5Hx V i EaIaSS 11HTsI2S and two children
MR. AND MRS. E. CHARLES LAWSON and
gEfFH HED hEE EEErREffIREHsffREoaE %IEH RoEun and six
cHSREEs 5HSkE.Es SSEpE3,KER. ScEBETRF
Mrs. HOWARD c. bTNNING and three chill
ALFREp LrDwIa. mother and sister-in-law.
Mrs, ' HiGdINs. I NM
\. f: GOTH and wife.
5nE ,.n Nancy y .NtEL @9ther gg and two nieces.
HnhAEfH e MihkR4soN aaatlSN and wife.
n.
MRS. LACKEY'S father and mother.
MRS. SPARKS'S two daughters.
NBs: s fSSK M AZ &RPs6S 5sS and nine, nine ehld5sn !.
IIENRY DIREKES and family
Five OF FTlGEL family
ADELAIDE uLERIpGE (coloredD
JORDAN TRESENSNT.
MRS. TURNER.
MRS. z. G. WILLIAMS 1colored).
PROFESSOR WEISS.
SEILA SEXAILS
W. r. JONES and child.
JULIA LABATT
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SCHOONER AND STEAMER
WRECKED IN LAKE ERF.
West India Storm Has Gathered New Force and Caused Great
Destruction of Shipping on the Lakes.

The damage to fruit in this section OF the
State Is estimated at over S00.010.
SAFE AFTER A NIGHT OF
TERROR ON LAKE MICHIGAN.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept l2-Battered and
| damaged by the terrible gale that swept
| over Lake Michigan last night. the steamer
Flint and Pere Marquette No. OF the PeIe
/ Marquette Line, arrived in port this morn
| ing, after one of the narrowest escapes
| from disaster ever experienced by passen-
| ger steamer on the lake. Thirty of her
| passengers were injured on the trip. The
| following received serious injuries:
| W. Harker. Detroit.
Mrs. w. Harker.
Maggie Eglenton. Detroit
Mrs. Martha Derham. North Lansing.
Conrad Hibbard. Monroe, Mich.
Willie Gustie. Detroit.
III. Fearer. Toledo.
None of the injuries will result fatally.
Prayers of thanksgiving went up from the
lips Of every passenger when land was
finally sighted.
Probably no steamer ever went through
wilder night on the lake and survived. AL
most every window in the cabin was broken
while the cabin was one mass Of broken
timbers, broken chairs and general debris.
The life RATS were broken to pieces and
hurled through the windows of the cabin.
where were congregated all the passengers.
The weather was moderate until p. m.
northwest. putting the steamer right in the
teeth of the gale
HEROIC RESCUE OF
THE CREW OF THE MAGNET.
Detroit, Mich. Sept. 12--The crew and
the wife of the captain OF the little schoon-
err Magnet, of Harbor Beach. Mich. mar
rowly escaped destruction on Lake Erie /,
during last nights storm They were res
cued by the steamer Frank E. Kiroy.
The Magnet was leaking badly and had
almost sunk when the Kirby came In sight.
The sea was too high to allow close ap-
proach to the steamer and the crew tossed
about In their yawl. A line with lfe-pre-
server attached was thrown from the
steamer near the yawl. and Mrs. Bennett,
the captains wife. sprang overheard.
reached the preserver and was drawn
aboard.
In trying to get the men aboard the
steamer the small boat was several timesS
dashed under the guards, but the rescue
was finally accomplished.
St. Joseph. Mich, Sept. 12.-The steamer
Lawrence. reported lost in last nights
gale. arrived In port here at l o'clock this
afternoon
TEN YACHTS LOST
IN VICINITY OF OSWEGO.
Osweso. n. Y, Sept. 12.-The storm hero
was severe. The wind reached a velocity
of forty-two miles an hour The schooner
Albercore was driven ashore east of the
harbor. The crew was rescued by the Efe-
savers.
The T. p. Kerritt OF Hamilton. Ontario,
Is ashore on Nine-Mile Point. The crew es-
capped to shore.
Ten handsome yachts were dashed on the
beach here.
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DAUGHTER AVENGED PARENTS,
Story of a Chiid's Brave Act Is
Still Remembered.
hEPrRIIC SPECIAL

hEPU BI4iC SPECIAL
Cincinnati, o., Sept I2-"Afrs. Afford. 81.
AiDans, w. Va, is the way it reads Ou
ihe register of the Dennison. The owner of
II Is mooest, womaniy woman. little
past 80. who is engaged in the millinery
BUSINESS and who cones occasionally to
cincinnati to purchase goods. Some years
aso ner name, then a little girl and single.
was ON every lip in the Western and South
esn states, for she had avenged the killing
OF hsr father and mother by burglars Orc
quiet night the family homestead was en-
tered by three men, who were discovered
Dy Mrs. Affords father. and a fusiliade of
.snots foliowed. and when the smoke cleared
away both father and mother were dead
Ihe now Mrs. Afford, awakened BY the
snots secured a Winchester and opened
nre. kiiling two of the burglars and so
%ouno'ng the third that he was caught and
given life sentence. Mrs Afford does not
IKE TO talk Of that time gone by. but her
eooiness and bravery is story well known
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JOSEPH LABATT:
MALTA w9UDf5w.
M0LtIE Van ~ LEW.
- sCHOFIELD.
MARIA LEWIS.
GRASDMA" ctSFY. mother of the lat
afSkM afSkSE LsiItS; AifIN and wife.
ANNE SCOTT
MRsi MHStfi11E EIia FINER. siiisRN and ia"'iS
TpiTH sANDoLPH.
MR. AND Mrs. GABE DAVIS.
ALEX. BELL. wife. two sons and one daugh
WILLIAM LYLE. grandmother and sister.
s!RS FoMERs , N :! and 9 child :, .-,
MRS AUGUST FRANK and daughter
@ MSs SsNk kEyASsi" Ss" two daughters.
CHARLES c. aSHuz.
NJ. SCHULZ and wife.
Si;, MRS; ATGuST JEFFERBRooK.
HSs Ss HSs sSS%Fh %hAS ssH aSphSsSS 81 anSSsaSSsr SsSs
MIS-: MIS- MAkf Wii.f1sMs. ss'hL
MRS. THURMAN.
I 1rhsilf b Bf2SKS EkaMox.
MIS-. Mrs i111HR FLohENcB BLAND ccoloreD and
TESHy ft:shnxTr s pAyEs pAASFasEs sR ,.o;o,,s,.
MRS. MILLER and five children 'coiorea,.
Mrs. Mrs fNe fRosrMaS a.Ss'sa5 AID three children.
IDA and CORA PATRICK.
lin Mrs. ". !! Knowles and two children.
MRS. Schiller and six children.
hERNAN sARGENT. E!&T
MR.; ANP MRS: p9RRFE ;,a1s, and two children
f9FEMNSE HhRMSk aaKItN sA5fF daa naf faiHI5E faa%IiE'
MRS KUHNEi. ard two daughters.
FRITZ WEiDEMANS.
aE SsS NFz aLLHs Taes ana aPAs IA sAlG1ss sEs
. MRS THOMAS CALHOUN and three children.
TERRY JAsTERs and two children tc0loredD.
GE0RsiE GE0RGE asHE AsHE. ST Jr:
MRS. ANNIE DrNTON.
". D., DAMMELL and wife tcolored). school
I'D McDADE ,colored).
MRS. G9I,TJIE!B TITLE ard seven children:
i3aN Roi RoEREi wifa 'sa ana M Ave children,
HERMAN VAN BUREN and three children
cTf Tis aEf sGT sHdIsP wrLk
aRs PETER H!-MRERG and i've children.
'"liaIsi'i "cliHaIHRLoTTE GENTRY ,colo.etD.
ada and IIATriE ROWE tcoioredn.
GEORGE; ROWE tcolored).
THE REVEREND and MRS. THOMAS W.
CAIN.
JOHN Mcguire
OTTO REUTER-.
HENRY REUTER-.
MRS. CHARLES ROUKES.
MRS. ANNIE CASEY.
MR. and MRS. TURNER.
HENRY BELL, tcolcredp.
,,ARTHrR T. MORSE: wife and three chilirer.
Mr. Morse was printer IN the Tribune.
BrCk LLOYD and wife also a printer.
ALBERT LUDWIG. printer.
WILL RICE. proofreader Galveston News
wife ard child.
JOHN CHRISTIAN.
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CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Insurance Man Under Arrest in In.
dian Territory.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

fEPt BLIC SPECIAL.
Ninita. l. t. Sept. IA man giving his
name as Bassett Rossington has been ar
rested here charged with perpetrafJna an
insurance fraud. Rossngton appeared At
MNi.uiskoSee few days ago and met Julins
nniiier. representing himself to be Bassett
rtossihgton, special agent for the Caietio
MAN. Mr.. Miller, being anxious to secure
an asency for the Caiedonian iusurance
Sompahy. at once made a deal with Pos
Sinston, and an agency was esta bjjshed
beicre leaving, Rossington told Miller thai
ae sed nsa haa peen away from home some time
S anu mao run out OF money. Miller was in
a. nuceu 70 indorce 500 check, which. later
~ Is alleged, proved to be worthless. Ros,
c>2to1 v as arreStad to-day AWE
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Cleveland. O.. Sept. 12-As a result OF
| the furious gale which swept over the lake
region last night telegraph and telephone
| lines were prostrated in all directions from
this city to-day. During the height Of the
| storm the wind reached a velocity of sixty
| miles an hour.
| The schooner Dundee. owned by the
| Minch Transit Company, in tow OF the
| steamer John NJ. Giidden. foundered about
| eleven miles west of this port early to-
| day. The boats were bound for Ashtabula
with ore. and the storm struck them about
8 o'clock this morning.
The Dundee lost her rldder and a big
sea boarded her and carried away her for
ward hatch. The crew took to the rigging
! with the exception Of Kate Hoffman, the
cook. who was drowned. The men were
finally taken of by the steamer c. Lower.
Jr.. and brought to Cleveland.
At D. m. to-day a telegram was re-
ceived at J. C. Gilchrist's Office here stat
ing that wrecked steamer. believed to be
the Lyons. had been sighted five miles of
Conneaut. and that with the aid OF glasses
a dozen or fifteen men could be seen cling
ing to the rigging.
Tugs have been ordered sent out from
Conneaut TO the assistance Of those on the
wrecked steamer.
The Lyons carried a crew OF sixteen, and
was valued at $4,000.
Toledo, o., Sept. 1.-THE passenger
steamer State of Ohio did not depart for
Cleveland last night on account of heavy
weather, and is safe at her dock here.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE
DONE ALONG LAKE ERIE.
Buffalo. n. Y. Sept. 12.-Reports from
Crystal Beach, a summer resort on the
Canadian side Of Lake Erie. say that cv-
cry dock has been destroyed by the ter
rife windstorm of last night. and all the
yachts anchored there were completely
wrecked The damage there has been very
heavy.
The wind here attained velocity of sew
enty-eight miles an hour. but beyond the
blowing down of a number OF trees the
wrecking of awnings and chimneys and the
destruction of a tower of one of the PAN
American buildings In the course of erec-
ton, no serious damage has been reported
A woman. while picking up debris in her
yard. caught hold of an electric light wire
and was killed. Her husband was badly In
jured.
At Bay Beach, the headquarters of the
Buffalo Yacht Club, much damage was
done.
In this city, a number of small craft.
ashore.
At the Pan-American grounds. while sew
eraI buildings. including the United States
building. were damaged. the officials are
generally pleased that the loss was no
worse. and say the damage soon will be re-
paired ami the buildings finished according
to contract.
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BOUGHT BY TRUST.
Shaw Leather Plant Prob.
ably VIII Shut Down.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

ItTsf7 z fIsiO SIfIIAIA
Boston, Sept. l2.-The treasurer of the
Fayette-Shaw Leather Company. Mr.. KIM
ball. is authority for the statement that the
business of his concern. together with the
tanneries controlled by the various COM
panies of which Mr.. Shaw is the head, has
been purchased by the United States Leath-
er Company. The plants. numbering six, are
all in Wisconsin. They. employ about LEO
hands and represent an output of about
sS,0o0.0W worth of leather a year. Ii is said
here that the tanneries win be dismantled,
IS the trust has now more plants than f.
knows what to do with.
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building was valued at 100000 and insured
for $75000.
The Hazard block was valued at $35OO0
The other losses ranged from $500 to s10-
600. among probably three score OF n,er-
chants. and the insurance represents about
half of the value OF the property swept
away
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New York. Sept. 12--Arrived: Servia, Lfv-
erpool.
Plymouth, Sept. 12-ArTiyed: Pretoria
New York for Hamburg.
Southampton, Sept. 12.-Arrived: ST. Paul
from New York.
Liverpool, Sept. 12.-Arrived: Oceanic
New York.
London. Sept. n.--Arrived: Manitou, New
York.
CherbourG, Sept n--Arrived: Pretoria,
New York. via Plymouth for Hamburg.
Queenstown, Sept. u.-Arrived: Rnyn-
land, Philadelphia for Liverpool. Sailed:
Lake Superior, from Liverpool, Montreal.
New York, Sept. 12-Arrived: Servia Liv-
crpool. Sailed: ST. Louis. Southampton:
Teutonic, Liverpool; Westernland, Ant
werp.
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NEGROES TERRoRIZE A TOWN.
RiOting in Streets of Huron, Ind,
Results in Six Murders.

Bedford, Ind. Sept. 12.-Drunken negroes
are causing a reign OF terror at Huron, u
miles south of here, On the Baltimore and
Chic Railroad and Judge Martin of tins
city has been asked that the Sheriff and
a posse be sent TO the town to queli a riot
that is on between q number of negroes
and number Of whites in the Marshars
pCSSe.
The negroes rave been employed by rail-
road contractors and received their wages
Saturday, since. when they have been
spending their ;ine in drinking and
gambling. Many aloody fights have re-
suited. ana at least SIX murders have been
committed among the negroes since their
advent here.
Yesterday number of blacks were Jailed
by Marshal Glory and are being guarded
by a posse of white men Friends of the
prisoners have armed the. selves and
threaten to release the prisoners.
The Best Prescription for Malls rim,
Ch.s and Fever is q bottle OF Groves Tas. .eless
GLill Tonic. II is simply iron and cuinine n a
tasteless form No cure-no pay. Price soc.