The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-07
CAUSED A RACE Rlot
OoQzORED BOY HITS WHITE NAN
NHTE AN APPLE CORE.
Hob Of White Men Goes On the War
Several of Then Policemen Quell
TIE DistuFbance-Colore Woman
With Hatpia and q Rasor
Nearly Causes Another Riot
About the SaAe HOur-Force Of
Police Kept Nhe Crowd at Bay
Threats of LynchinE.

New York, Sept. 4. - An apple core
thrown by colored boy which struck
William Kohles, a white man, caused a
small riot between white and blacks in
West Forty eighth street yesterday af-
'ternoon which was quickly Quelled by a
tforce of patrolmen. Kohles is a vendor.
Yesterday Afternoon he was driving
Through Ftonty-eighth street, when he
spassed a 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 week previ-
GUS by atcolored man, the cut requiring
several stitches. The vendor became
angry at the boy and after catching
him slapped his face a number of
times. A colored man finally struck
the vendor in the face, knocking him
down. The
EchxanEe of Blows
attrakted crowd and threats were
made against the colored population.
1t is alleged Koh]s drew a revolver and
threatened to shoot the first colored
man in sight. The colored hey entered
the residence of Charles Brooks, col
ored. This attracted the mob ito the
building. Brooks, who had been ill
with typhoid fever, was taken to the
police station despite the fact that he
was i'll. He was afterward released.
In the meantime William "a. Petlo, "a
colored man, and his daughter, seven
years of age, were passing through
Forty-seventh street, when crowd of
white men started after Them. The
little 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 coIored
men, when Springle
Drew His Revolver
End threatened to kill the first white
man who entered. The stood lin the
doorway and defied the crowd. A .po-
liceeman finally dispersed the crowd.
About the same hour that this &C.
Cured a col0red woman, armed with
q hat pin and a razor, nearly ecaused
another race riot or Ninth avenue.
She was taken in charge by a police
man and followed to the West Thirty
seventh street station by a crowd of
S&k men and boys who wanted to lynch
her. A man who said his name was
Michael Grannin, was standing at
Thirty sixth street and Ninth avenue,
They exchanged few words, when the
woman attempted to stab Gran1iin with
hat pin. Grannin escaped it by dodg-
ing. Then the woman DIRE wa razor
and attempted to eat him, but sG ran1lin
Kept Out of the Way.
A policeman grasped ta1e >wenaanss
arm and took away the razor.
Before they reached the police sstation
a large crowd had collected and there
were many cries Of lynch :fler:" "A
force of police kept the mob at bay.
After the woman had been taken into
the police station her husband ap-
peared. Threats of synching him also
were made, bat before any harm could
be done squad of police took him into
the station.
Charles Daniel, ja1ator of an apart
ment house, eolored, is dying at ,an
hospital. He was shot by James Car
ter, twenty-eight years of age, also co.,
.ored. The cause of the trouble is not
known, but it is thought Carter and
other colored men tried to enter the
flats despite the protest of Daniel.