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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

ANTE CITY, La. Oct. o.
Three white men and eleven
negroes killed IS the startling
news from Washington parish.
A man just from Franklinton
confirmed this information, but
he knew nothing of what has
happened since Sunday evening.
The first news of the race riot
was brought here yesterday by
Cornelius Nixon. who, with his
mother, came from near Frank
linton in the morning. He said
that white men rode into Frank
linton at 2 o'clock a. m asking
for help, saying that the negroes
were up in arms. threatening to
exterminate the whites.
The scene of the trouble is
near Ball Town, where a negro
was burned last week for assault
ing a white woman. This was
not the cause, however, of the
present affair.
Nixon saw and talked with
many men from the scene, and
they said more and worse trouble
was expected, as armed men
were focking to the scene. and
it was reported the blacks were
equally active in preparing for a
battle.
p. 3. Carter arrived from
Franklinton little after dark
last night and said that the sit
uation was terrible and more
trouble is feared. He said that
Joe Seals and Charles Elliott
and another white man, whose
name he did not know, were dead,
and E. H. Thompson, a white
man, wounded, and that eleven
negroes were dead. At 3 o'clock
yesterday morning posse LETT
Franklinton for the scene in
charge of Sheriff Simmons and
from all over the country armed
men were hurrying to the same
place. Mr.. Carter said that 500
men were probably under arms
now in Washington parish.
The trouble occurred at ne
gro camp meeting. Greer Lott,
negro, was running refresh
ment stand, and a constable, a
white man, went to him and asked
for his license; he had none and
became impudent, cursed the
constable, and defied him. The
constable Withdrew and went for
assistance. He returned with
several white men, when Lott
rushed out and fired point blank
into the crowd, killing Joe Seals
and Charles Elliott. The whites
returned the fire and killed Lott.
Then a negro preacher named
Connolly rushed out of a house
with gun in hand, attempting to
shoot, when he and his daughter
were killed.
In the shooting which followed
another white man was killed
and E. E. Thompson wounded,
and seven or eight negroes killed.
The shooting had no direct
connection with the burning of
the negro Morris in that section
last week, but it is undoubtedly
a sequel to that tragic event.
Since that time it is reported
that the negroes have been hold
ing nightly meetings preparing
to attack the whites.
Ball Town is about twenty
miles from Franklinton, in a
sparcely settled section. 1t is
isolated and almost entirely cut
off from the outside world.
Franklinton is twenty-seven
miles east of this place. and there
are no telegraph or telephone
lines.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
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3 Notary Public.
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he got home. She thought he
was joking and heard a shot
after he started, out thought
nothing of it, as he was in the
habit of shooting as he drove
along. Myron had told others
that he intended to kill himself,
as cigarettes were driving him
crazy. He preferred Death to in
sanity, he said.
He shot himself in the fore.
head His face was powder
burned. The revolver. with one
chamber empty, was found in the
buggy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
One Far. Plus $500 tor the Round Trip.

In the rate the Northern Pacific
will make to western points reached
via its lines on account of Home-seek-
ers excursions. Selling dates will be
Oct. 18th, Nov. 5th and 18th and Dec.
3rd and 18th. For further informa-
ton write, J. E. Turner, D. p A,
N. p. r. Jackson Place. Indianapolis,
Ind, or address Chas. S. Fee, G. P. s.
T. A., n. p. p.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Everybody Wants I'll
Murat HaIsteads Great Book, Life and
Public Services of the Late William
Mckinley. -.

For limited time only enabled offer sub
scrbers old this
of the greatest sellers Mr.. Hastead
himself asonishd its popularity and sought the
copyright for his but the promptly decided
him and held him to his contract.
The book contains $40 and copiouy illustrated from
photographs Chauncey NJ Depew General c. H. Grs
Secretary ofSate John Sherman and Colonel Albert
Haead contributed chapters and the work McKneys
entire life his birth to his death and burial 1t liberal
education and should be in every home.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Wronphursi Roasts.
\ Wronghurst fellow named Stair
Took in the Bremen fair.
He bloVed i'm his dOuoh

l
Took in the Bremen fair.
He blowed in his dough
At some sort of a private hooche-
coochee show.
And since then he hasn't been there
Mrs. Jessup is making pumpkin
butter. Yum. Yum.
Rap Larkins is digging potatoes for
the Widow Mack. What will the har-
vest be?
Isaiah Haskins came twenty-one
last Tuesday. His mother wants him
to be preacher, his father thinks he
would make good horse doctor and
Ike himself wants to brake on a
freight train. Just SO he keeps out
of the legislature. say we.
We will do the best we can to keep
this burg before the people, but not
much happens here and we may miss
week or two sometimes. If you
don't know where Wronghurst is
don't inquire at the post office but
follow the crowd awhile and then go
the other way.
Bud Krout wants to open board
ing house here, probably because he
thinks his wife could do all the work,
but there's nobody to board. Better
start cannery, Bud: you've had
more experience peeling apples than
any one we know.
Lem Asbury has set up BARRIERS
chair in his blacksmith shop and is
working on machine to pull corns
out by the roots without pain. If he
is busy at the anvil he will let you
shave yourself for half price
Skid Raymond is on the jury this
term and goes to the county seat
every day. He intends to be law
yer when he gets through and will
have his office i'm one end of the corn
crib this winter, corn being scarce
One of the Widow Macks hens laid
double-yolk egg this week. Mrs.
Mack thinks heap of her chickens
and treats them well.
Rev. McSwatt came over from
Doughface Corners Monday and said
he was going to Plymouth toget some
hymn-books for the church. He came
along back late in the afternoon and
said he couldn't find a hymn-bOOk or
bible or even a tract for sale in the
whole town and his feet got sore from
walking on the new brick pavement.
Ben Davis has saved up $3.50 and is
talking of starting general store in
the old wagon shed by the blacksmith
shop. We never have had store
here yet and think it would be good
thing. Ben wants the people to give
him bonus of $40 to get started, but
he wants cash down and they don't
want to give it to him until he has
been open year and can prove that
he is making money.
AMI Skidder traded his butting
ram to Jake Terwilliger for wheel
barrow and ten bushels of potatoes,
and when Jake went into the barn.
yard to getit, it sneaked up behind. him.
ID butted him over three times.
grabbed the ram by the horns
Tered to beat the band, and
mi gave him back three
'tatoes and kept the ram.
he'd quart of arnica
Amzi he had the
he market. Jake
his trade, and
wool over
,osTER.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
RACE RIOTS
Southern Whites and Negroes
Clash With Fatal Results.

Fourteen Dead and Many Wounded In a
Disturbance at q COkscd C0mpmcct-
Ing-TrOOpS Called Out and Formers
Armed More Trouble Coming.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

This is the case that was re-
ported Monday as having occur
red near Plymouth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
What 1t Costs Our Subscribers:

Any person paying all areaages ard in advance
weekly edition THE
may Life Mckinley The reg
price and the paper sell
two for $500
The price for THE DAILY TRIBUNE ten weeks in advance
Mckinley $3.50, payable all
. rearages
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Plymouth, Indiana
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

year, in that event. there is danger Of panic,
as all holders will be anxious to unload, and
values will 60 glimmering.
"We all remember that when Jay Cook failed
in 1873, financial institutions went down like
ten-pins. The same result happened when
the Barring Bros. failed, in 1893.
Gan eminent writer, in reviewing the pres
ent outlook says:
"'The panic of 1893 was the product of
good many years of rash speculation, but the
speculation of those days was in no particular
more senseless than that now witnessed. The
folly which then characterized stock market
dominated by such watered concerns as the
Atchison, Northern Pacific, Reading, General
Electric, National Cordage and other companies
of that stripe, fell, as matter of fact, far short
of the folly now witnessed in connection with
an endless list of inflated industrial concerns.'
"Shall we profit by experience2"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
FOOLISH TALK.

Without exception, the Republican daily pa
pers are endeavoring to lay the blame OF the
shooting of President Mckinley upon the So
cialists and every class of reformers who have
entertained and expressed ideas contrary to the
policy pursued by the present administration.
They wilfully and maliciously class the Social
lists and anarchists together, knowing full we'll
that no similarity exists between the two.
These papers insist that the next congress pass
laws against the criticising of the president OF
the United States and the powers that be. A
great deal of foolish talk is INDUCED in.
There are already laws on the statute-books
TO punish murderers and traitors, and mole are
not needed-they would simply be superhuous.
The sole object of these papers is to make 1t
Impossible to publicly criticise those in power.
The Kansas City Journal says the cartoons
and "inaammatory' expressions that have ap-
peared in the opposition papers are responsible
for the assassination. Had Bryan been elected
president and had he received the assassin s
bullet, instead of Mckinley, would the cartoons
aud the "imfammatory" expressions in the Re-
publican papers, have been responsible for his
assassination?
It is lust as we'll to be temperate and sensi-
bic about these things. Frothing at the mouth
and making rabid accusations is not argument.
No sensible Populist, Socialist or Democrat has
any desire to see Republican president or any
other official assassinated.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
The Financial Outlook.
T CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.

CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.
was 81, 500, 200, 900 nave increased it to five
bilious, with no intrinsic value added.
"This system OF watering stock is not new.
Back in the first years of 1870, this same thing
was adopted. The New York Genital increased
its capital from $27, 900, 900 to $II2 ,ooo, 900.
The Erie railroad increased its watered stock to
an amount equal to the capacity of the printing
presses. Other railroads and corporations did
the same thing, and the disaster Of 1873 was
the result. These samples of stock watering
were mere bagatelle to the operations of cor
porations of to- day. see that the corporations
owning FIVE wells in the new Beaumont oil
region are attempting to float capital of $780,
ooo, 900. A cotton trust with $500, ooo, 900 is
another item. These corporations will attempt
to earn dividends upon these increased issues
of stock.
"Who will suffer if they succeed? The peo-
pie at large, as earnings must come from the
producers and consumers. If they fail to make
money, who will suffer? The people who have
foolishly put their money in such stocks.
81 do not look for panic, but do look for
much closer money market in the next twelve
months. If these billions of watered stock fail
to make earnings as promised within the next
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
LabOr's Only Remedy.

The Pilgrim for September contains the fol-
lowing excellent article:
eff the men now on strike will use some of
their leisure to consider the odds against them,
they will see no small part of the power of
their enemies is derived from or supported by
their political influence. This trust has ire
mendous authority in official circles. 1t was
not mere accident that led to the selection of
former attorney of the Carnegie company as
attorney general of the United States. The
utter failure of successive encouragement for
the past twelve years to put the federal anti
trust law to the test has not been without delib-
crate action to that end by the trusts-for,
mark You, all trusts are as one when the
purpose to control the government is concerned.
When, six years ago. the Democratic party in
fierce revolt against the subservience OF its
leaders to monopoly, declared war on trusts,
the trust magnates who had been in its organ
ization deserted it to man. They are still
out. and will be out SO long as The party as
whole opposes trusts. Sometimes they try to
come back-as in Ohio-but only in hope that,
once re -admitted, they can turn the party again
to the service of plutocracy. We use the
Democratic party merely for illustration. If
the Republican party should throw off the
woke of the plutocrats and return'to the prin-
ciples of Lincoln, we should find the we'll
organized army of the trusts fighting it'as they
now fight for it. The trusts, with all their
myriads of haugers.on, are in politics Just as
much as Croker and Quay.
"Now, workingmer have always been very
sorupulous about keeping their unions out of
politics. They would unite to regulate wages
or hours of labor, but not to get their share in
the powers of government. AS result, the
capitalistic class has become the governing
class. and labor finds hostile governors, hostile
law officers, hostile judges, and SO on down the
list. President Shaffer has sale that, as re-
suit of his call, about 100000 men will stop
working for the trust. President Gompers
pledqes the moral and financial support OF 2oo,-
600 more This is magnificent army OF men
TO unite in any cause-so magnificent that it
seems pity that the cause is not more fund
.mental one. 1t is not too muck to say that
those 400 900 men, acting as unit, politically,
could destroy, forever, plutocracy in the United
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

impOrtant business ia regard To the
estimate on court house due Lati-
mer s. Benning and any other busi'
ness of Importance that may properly
come before said Board.
G. A. McAdam,
J.F. Henning,
Members,
TO G. A. McAdam and J. + Hen
ming. Members OF the Board of Conn
ty Commits sioners of Anderson coun-
ty, Kansas. ! hereby grant your pe''
ton and call the special session OF the
Board of County Commissioners. OF
said county to meet at the time ana
place above specified.
II. w. Parrott,
Chairman.
Ordered by the Board that that bill
of Latimer & Bening for estimates on
made on court house by Geo. T. wash
:, burn, AZ per contract, be allowed ana
warrants drawn on the county treas
erur for sane.
Il w. ParrOtt,
Attest Cha'rinah
j. E. Calvert,
County Clerk.
Ordered by the Board that Erastu'
Hearn be released from cOnfinmen'
in the county jail and that the hn'
and costs stand AS judgement against
him.
IT. w. PaTrOtt.
Attest Chairman
j. E. Calvert,
County Clerk.
Board adjourned sine die.
IT. ". Parrott,
a,,est Chairman
j. Il. Calvert,
County Clerk.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
Commissioners Proceedings.

Sep. S, 1901.
Office of county clerk, Garnett Kan
To II. w. ParrOtt, chairman OF the
Board of County Commissioners of
Anderson county KS. Sir: We here
by petition you to call special seS-
sion of the Board of County Commits
sioners OF Anderson county, Kansas,
to meet In the Office Of the county
clerk In Garrett Kans. on Sept. 5. 1901
at 3 O'Clock p. m. of said day for the
purpose of looking at plans submitted
BY Geo. z. Washburn, architect. for
all furniture and fixtures for court
house, now being erected in Anderson
county, Kansas, and for advertising
the same for bids and to transact any
other business that may properly
come before said board.
G. A. McAdam.
F. Henning,
Members.
To G. A. McAdam and J. f. Hen
ming members of the Board OF County
Commissioners of Anderson county,
Kansas. Gentlemeh: hereby grant
YOUR petition aud call the special ses-
sion of the Board Of County Commits
sioners of said county to meet at the
tine and place az above specified.
T. w. Parrott,
Chairman.
Board Of County commissioners az
ter inspecting plans submitted by
George z. Washburn, for furniture
and fixtures for court house, adopted
the plan and IL Is hereby ordered by
the Board that sealed proposals will
he received at the office Of the county
cle,k Of Anderson county, Kansas,
until one O'Clock p. ID. Oct. IA 1901.
r. w. Parrot,
Attest Chairiiiah'
j. E. Calvert,
County Clerk.
Hoard adjourned to meet sine die,
II. w. ParrOtt,
Attest O"a'ruian !
J.E. Calvert,
County Clerk.
Sept. 7, 1901.
Office Of county clerk, Garnett Kan,
Tot. W. Parrott, chairman OF the
Board of County Commissioners OF
Anderson county.
Sir: We hereby petition you to call
a special session of the Board of COun-
~ Commissioners of Anderson Coun-
ty. Kansas, to meet at The Office OF
the county clerk 10 Garnett, Ks. on !
Sept. Z, 1901, at 3 O'Clock p III. of said
day, for the purpose OF transacting
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
PRESIDENT Mckinley.

President Mckinley did not die from his
wounds, as reported last Friday, and the indi-
cations are favorable to his recovery. HIS
physicians say it will probably be six weeks
before he can be removed.
The would.be assassin was an anarchist oy
tie name of Czolgosz, who claims that ne Out
id his duty in shooting the president. he In
,ists that he had no confederates, but that ne
;lone is responsible for the deed. 1t IS prooa.
lie, however, that he belongs to the society OF
anarchists who have committed like deeds in
foreign countries.
This (Friday) morning, the news comes that
the president passed very restless night last
night, and there are grave fears that he cannot
recover. We shall hope for the best, however.
It is the earnest wish of every patriotic citi"
zen that President Mckinley may recover, and
there is no true American who does not con-
,iemn the spirit which actuated the murder, or
attempted murder, of the president. While
,nany do not endorse his course as president
all regret the terrible catastrophe which has
befallen our nation. It is the desire OF every
loyal citizen that the assassin may receive the
Just reward for his deed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
The Missouri Pacific Excursion List.

California, Oregon aud Washington
POints-Very low ratrs in eject Tues
days of each week.
Louisville. Ky On SAFE August q
Kansas City. M0-On sale Oct. 5tO
IL limited for return t. Oct. Ii. Fare
81 %.
Kansas City. M. On sale Oct. 10
to 20 l,Mit,l for return "a O:t. 2.
Fare $500.
st Louis. Mo.-On sala Oct o to II
limited for return to Oct. II. Fare
$9.5..
Fort worth, Texas-On sale Nov. II
to IL limited for return tn Nov. %.
Fare $l4.5O.
Wichita, Kas. - On sale Sept. 20 to
Oct. 5 limited to Oct. for returD.
Fare $416.
Minneapolis, MINI. On sale Oct. 8
to 10 limited for return TO Oct. 81.
Fare $3.50.
San Francisco, Calif.-On sale Sept.
| 10 to ~ limited Ia Nov. Is for return.
Fare $1,000.
ST. Joseph. Moon sale Sept. Il to
| % limited for return to Sept. 30,
Fale $4.05
Kansas City, M".-On sale Oct. %
and "a limited for return to Oct. ?6
Fare SO 20.
Topeka, kas-On sale Oct. S IT, y
limited for return to Oct II. Fare
81 81.
R. G. WING, Agt.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

Now THAT the public domain is practically
gone, and it is found necessary to decide by
wheel OF fortune which 1900 of the $4,000
applicants shall have farms, 1t may be of inter-
est to know that between 1861 and 1871, the
government presented the various railroad CON-
panies with 135,8oo, 900 acres of land. That
was not, if we remember correctly, during
Populist administration Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

FIVE men may meet secretly and lay plans to
crush an independent manufacturer, and that is
called fnanciering. Five hundred men may
meet openly and endeavor to persuade their
fellows to stand by the just demands of organ
lied labor, and that is called intimidation. and
punished by prison sentences. Opinion,
Usage City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

States. They could carry any election-state
or national. They could compel their repre-
sentatives to abolish all special privilege in this
land, and Herewith do away with all need for
desperate and almost hopeless strikes. There
is nothing which the plutocratic class so greatly
breads as the discovery by the people of their
power to seize the government and make it
truly by, of and for the people,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13

move the crops, public funds are piling up in
the treasury to the detriment Of the country.
Secretary Gage declined to state what, if any
thing, would be done to relieve the situation.
He will be in Washington in the morning and
can there consider the matter at close range.
He will not announce his decision until he is
on the ground.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-13
GAGE HELPS WALL STREET AGAIN.

Secretary Gage has again gone to the help
of the Wall street banks. Tuesdays Kansas
City Journal contains the following dispatchts s;
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-At the close of the
stock market to-day the following telegram was
made public at the clearing house:
'To Hon. Lyman ]. Gage, secretary of the
treasury, Buffalo, N. Y: The continued abb
sorption Of money by the treasury, in view of
The increasing demand for currency for crop
moving, we trust, will have your immediate at
tention, and measures adopted by which at
least some portion of this surplus may be re-
placed in circulation tor the benefit OF the bus
mess community.
E. D. TAPpEN,
"Chairman Clearing House Committee"
BUFFALO, N. ", Sept. e.-Secretary Gage
has been appealed to by some of the New York
& ,aueial institutions to relieve the money mar
ct by increasing deposits in national banks.
Representations are being made to the effect
that, while the interior is demanding money to