The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-09-07
SMALL RACE RIOT
I'm New York Caused BY An Apple Core
Thrown BY n Negro Boy.


I'm New York Caused BY An Apple Core
Thrown BY a Negro Boy.
New YORK, Sept. 3.-An apple core
thrown by n colored boy, which struck
William KohleS, a white man, caused a
small riot between whites and blacks
in West Forty-eighth street this after
noon. which was quickly quelled by a
force of patrolmen. Kohles is a vendor
This afternoon he was driving through
Forty-eighth street, when he passed
crowd of small colored boys and was
struck in the back of.the neck with the
core of an apple. The man was stabbed
in the neck a week previous by a colored
man, the cut requiring several stitches.
The vendor became 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. 1t is alleged Kohles
drew a revolver and threatened to shoot
the first man in sight. The colOred
boy entered the residence of Charles
Brooks, colorcd. This attracted the
mob to the building. Brooks, who had
been i'll with typhoid fever, was taken
to the police station, despite the plead
ings of his wife, who explained that he
had been ill, and that a relapse might
follow. He was afterwards released.
In the meantime William III. Petillo,
cOlored, and his daughter Ruth, years
old, were passing through Forty.
seventh street, when a crowd of whites
started for them. The girl ran away
and escaped. Her father and two other
negroes ran into the saloon of Lee
Springle, near by. The crowd started
to follow the colored man, when Sprin-
gle drew his revolver and threatened
to kill the first white man who entered.
He stood in the doorway and defied
the crowd a policeman finally dispersed
the crowd.
Hat Pin and n Razor.
About the same hour that this oc-
Cured a colored woman, armed with
hat pin and razor, nearly caused an
other race riot on Ninth avenue. She
was taken in charge by a policeman and
followed to the West Thirty-seventh
street station by crowd of 800 men
and boys who wanted to lynch her.
man, who said he was Michael
Grannin, was standing at Thirty ninth
street and Ninth avenue when the
woman approached him. They ex-
changed a few words, and the woman
attempted to stab Grannin with hat
pin. Grannin succeeded in dodging.
Then the woman drew a razor and at
tempted to slash Grannin. Finally a
policeman caught the woman and Sc
cured possession of the razor. Before
he reached the station house the crowd
had increased, and there were cries OF
Lynch her!" A half dozen policemen
finally rushed up and kept the mob at
a distance. After the woman had been
taken to the police station her husband
appeared on the scene. Threats were
made to lynch him, but a large number
of policemen finally succeeded in driv-
ing the mob away.
A row in which only colored people
became involved started this afternoon
in a fat house on West Sixty-third
street. As a result Charles Daniels,
colored, the janitor of the apartment
house, is dying at the hospital. He was
shot by Benjamin Carter, % years old,
also a colOred janitOr. The cause of the
trouble is not known, but it is said that
Daniels and Several colored men en-
deavored to enter the fiat despite the
protests of the residents therein.