The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-10
TROOPS ON GUARD
AT SPRINGFIELD
TROUBLE is NOT YET OVER.
THAT is THE FEAR THE AUTHORI-
TIES ENTERTAIN.

| Ten Companies of the National
| Guard of Ohio Are on Duty, and
Ten More Are Expected-SaIoons
Are CIosed-Thousands of People
Traverse the Streets-NegrOes Are
Ordered to Close Up the Places the
Mob Has Condemned.
Springfield. o., March 9.-The situa-
ton early this evening was considered
! by the authorities to be more threaten
ing than at any time since the begin
ming of the present race troubles.
/ While Gov. Herrick has not proclaim
ed state of martial law, such con-
dition practically exists in the down
town districts. and the burned portions
of the town formerly occupied by the
negro resorts. Ten companies of the
Ohio National Guard are on picket
duty, and seven more companies are
expected
The saloons, without exception. have
been closed all afternoon and many
other lines of business have practically
closed. II is estimated that fully $4,000
people thronged the streets to-day
visiting the county jail. the telegraph
pole at Main and Fountain avenue.
where the negro Dixon was strung up,
and the burned out districts Of the
lsvea.
As a result OF repeated requests
from influential citizens, Mayor Bowlus
has finally consented not only to close
the remaining negro saloons, hotels
ana lodging houses, which are under
the ban of the mob. but has ordered the
! proprietors in every instance to move
out all the intoxicating drinks and in
some cases even the fixtures, including
| gambling apparatus.
Mayor Bowlus to-day issued a proc
lamation warning people to keep off
the streets and refrain from congre-
eating in public places.
| The mob has at no time shown any
disposition to burn property other than
that on the levee.
The Kentucky relatives of Dixon the
lynched negro, have already engaged
in dispute as to which of them should
come into possession of his body. Rev
j. e. Frazier of Harrodsburg, KY,
brother-in-law of Dixon. has been
active in his demands to have final dis
position of the corpse. The body was
prepared for shipment and this even
ing was sent to Harrodsburg. Ky.
Negroes Are Frightened.
At II o'clock tonight the militia
had dispersed the crowds in the CEN
trail part of the city, but 1t was feared
they would form elsewhere for later
movements. While there are $4,000 me-
groes in this city, none was seen any
where tonight. notwithstanding re-
ports about shipping the body of Dixon.
the negro, to kentucky, his remains were
privately inferred here this evening.
The order for saloons to remain closed
is observed, but no attention is paid
TO the Mayors proclamation for peo-
pie 70 Keep from congregating or re-
naming off the streets.
The colored people here now are
afraid to be seen getting. kilograms or
mail. When the west end of the Levee
was cleaned out to-day no white man
would work with moving vans and
no white man would accept the goods
in storage. The work had to be done
by colored men under guard of the
militia.
Col. Mead, of Dayton, is holding the
city under strong military rule tonight
he will be superseded tomorrow by
Gen. McMakin, of Toledo. when there
will be seventeen companies of militia
here.
The only outbreak up to midnight oc-
Cured at IL o'clock in Short Winter
street when five shots. aimed at a col
ored man. were the occasion Of three
companies of militia being despatched
to the scene of the disturbance.
BY the time the militiamen arrived.
the police had res Sred order Shooting
was also heard in the vicinity of Miami
alley, a negro district, but the police
were unable to ascertain by whom the
shots We're fired.
special grand jury will sit next
Monday morning to ascertain If pos
sible the leaders of Monday nights
mob, which lynched Richard Dixon.
and also the leaders of the rioters
Tuesday night, who burned the negro
resorts in East Washington street.