The Newark journal., 1903-10-09

the aid of a telephone pole, forced
an opening in the wall of the coun-
ty jail and took out Walter Davis, a
negro, and hanged him to tree in
the edge of town. Davis was charg-
ed with numbering an officer by
shooting him from ambush.
Fearing an epidemic of yellow fe-
yer, a number of persons living
along the Rio Grande have appealed
to the war department for the es-
Enlistment of Shotgun" quaran-
tine, and that soldiers be ordered
for this duty. The department does
not regard the situation SO serious
as to warrant this course.
Clad in uniforms of blue and
gray, emblematic of the reunion as
comrades of men formerly separat-
ed by sectional strife, one thousand
soldiers of the Spanish-American
war marched i'll parade September
% at New Haven, Conn, as a pre-
liminary to the opening of the
fourth annual assembly of the ma
tional army and navy Spanish
American war veterans. The mem
bership now numbers 10000.
AT a meeting of a special COM
mittee of the Northern Presbyte-
rian church, held to discuss the
status of the negro in the church,
it was decided to recommend to the
general assembly that no race dis
tinction be made. By this action
the $4,000 negro members of the
church will not be set apart as a
separate denomination, nor will the
church take part in any class legis-
lation-that is to say, the word ne
gron will not be used as a quahf-
cation of any of the church laws
or regulations. There is nothing in
the committees report, however, to
prohibit the forming of presbyteries
composed wholly of negroes.
A bloody riot was started at Ok
ford, o., ON the 1st inst. by two
brothers named Joe and Louis Spi-
yey getting drunk and trying to
run the town. Town Marshal Wood
ruff arrested Louis and started to
take him to Jail, when Joe Spivey
deliberately shot the officer down.
When the populace realized that the
officer had been murdered, a large
crowd started after the Spiveys, and
running fight took place in which
several parties were wounded, among
them Joe Spiyey. The two men
were landed in Jail, but few min
ntes later a mob, led by the father
of the dead officer, battered down
the door to the prison and, with a
rope around Joe Spivey's neck, haul
ed him to a tree a few hundred
yards away He was twice strung
up, but just before life was extinct
officers made their way through the
crowd, cut the rope and succeeded
in getting the prisoner out Of the
city.
Mr.. George Lynch, a representa-
tive of the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat, now in Macedonia, has cablea
his paper of some of the sights that
he has personally witnessed in the
Balkans. In describing the situa-
ton at Monastir, after several days
fighting, the correspondent says:
Scores of bodies, with limbs liter
ally torn away, as if by wild horses,
block the narrow streets, while the
weeping and wailing of mourners
make the day and night hideous. 1t
is impossible for me to estimate
with any accuracy the number of
dead and injured, but from all ac-
counts it must run between 5000
and 10000 1t is impossible to fix
the number of Turkish losses dur
ing the recent skirmishes.
Swift & Co., the Chicago packers,
are said to have lost in the neigh
borhood of million dollars in an