The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-09-10
Negroes and Whites Wage
War on Forty-Eighth
Street
POLICEMEN KEPT BUSY
Colored Men and Women Manifest a
Desire to Wipe Out the Whites
and Riots Result at Three
Points In the
City.

New York. September 3-An apple core
thrown by n colored boy which struck
William Kohes. a white man. caused a
small riot between whites and blacks In
West Forty-eighth street this afternoon
which was quickly quelled by force OF
patrolmen.
Kohles Is a vender. This afternoon he
was driving through Forty-eighth street
when he passed a crowd of small colored
BOYS and was struck in the back or the
neck with the core of an apple. The man
was stabbed in the neck a week pre-
vious by a co,ored man. the wound re-
curing several stitches. The vender be-
came very angry at the boy and after
catching him slapped his face. A colored
man finally struck Kohles in the face.
knocking him down. The exchange OF
blows attracted men and threats were
made against the colored population. IL
is alleged Kohles drew revolver ana
threatened to shoot the first man In sight.
The colored boy entered the residence OF
Charles Brooks. colored. This attracted
the mob to the building. Brooks who had
been III with typhoid fever, was taken
to the police station despite the pleadings
of his wife. who explained that he had
been i'll AMI that relapse might follow.
He was afterwards released. In the
meantime William H. Petillo. colored.
and his daughter Ruth. seven years DID,
were passing through Forty-seventh
street when a crowd of white men started
after them. The little girl ran away ana
escaped Her father and two other ne
sroes ran into the saloon of Lee Sprlngle,
nearby. The crowd started to follow the
colored men when Springle drew his re-
volvcr and threatened to kill the first
white man who entered. He stood in the
doorway and defied the crowd. A police
man finally dispersed the crowd.
About the same hour that this occurred
n co,ored woman. armed with n hatpin
and a razor. nearly caused another race
riot on Ninth avenue. She was taken In
charge by n policeman and followed 10
the West Thirty-seventh street station by
n crowd OF 300 men and boys. who want
ed TO lynch her man who said he was
Michael Grannin. was standing at Thir-
ty-ninth street and Ninth avenue when
the woman approached him. They passed
a few words and the woman attempted
to stab Grannin with a hat pin. Grannin
succeeded I'm lodging. Then the woman
drew a razor and attempted to slash
Grannn. Finally a policeman caught the
woman and secured possession of the
racer Before he reached the station
house the crowd had increased and there
were cries or lynch her" A half dozen
policemen finally rushed uD and kept the
mob at n distance. After tho woman had
been taken to the police station her hus-
band appeared on the scene. Threats
were made to lynch him also. but large
number Of policemen finally succeeded
in driving the mob away.
a row in which only colored people be-
came involved started this afternoon In
fat house on West Sixty-tihrd street.
AS a result Charles Daniels. colored, the
janitor of the apartment house. is dying
at the hospital He was shot by Benja-
min Carter. twenty-eight years old. also
colored janitor. The cause of the trou-
BILE is not known. but it is said that DAN
iels and several colored men endeavored
TO enter the fiat despite the protests of
the residents therein.