The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-06
OHIO TOWN BARS OUT NEGROES.

Syracuse Will not Allow Black Man to
 Spend Even One Night. There.
 In the town of Syracuse, Ohio, on the Ohio River, fonr miles above Pome- roy, a town of about 1000 inhabitants, no negro is permitted to live. No negro is permitted to stay in the town over night under any consideration. This is an absolute rule in this year 1905, and it has existed for several generations. The enforcement of this unwritten law for keeping the negro from staying in the town over single night is in the hands of the boys from twelve to ewen- ty years of age, while the attempt of q negro to become resident of the town is resisted by the town en masse. When the. colored is seen in the town during the day he is generally told of these traditions, if he is so ignorant as not to know them already, and is warn- OHIO TOWN BARS OUT NEGROES. Syracuses Will Not Allow Black men to
 Speaid Even One Night There.
 Ir the town oi Syracuse, Ohio, on the Ohio River. four miles above Pomeroy, a town Of ah0ut 10000 inhabitants. no negro is permitted to live. No negro is permitted to stay in the town oxer night, under any consideration. This is an absolute rule in this year 1905, and it has exi sted for several genera tions. The enforcement of this un- unWritten law for keeping the negro from staying in the town over single night is in the hands of the boys from twelve to twenty years of age, while the attempt of negro to become a res- ident of the town is resisted by the town en masse.
 When the colored man is seen in the town during the day he is generally told of those traditions, if he is so ig- norant as not to know them already. and is warned to leave before sundown. If he fails to take heed, he is surround ed at about the time darkness begins. and is addressed by the leaders of the gang in about this language: "No nig- ger is allowed to stay in this town over night. We don't care what VOL are here for, Get out of here now and get out quick" He sees from twenty to twenty-five boys around him talking in subdued voices and waiting to see whether he obeys. If he hestitatas, little stones begins to reach him from unseen quarters, and soon persuade him to begin to hegira. He is not al- lowed to walk, but is told to "get on his little dog trot.' The command is always effective, for it is backed by stones in the ready hands of boys none too friendly.
 So long as he keeps up a good gait, the crowd which follows just at his heels, andw hich keeps growing until it sometimes numbers seventy-five to one hundred boys, is good natured and contents itself with yelling, laughing and hurling gibes at it's victim. But let him stop his ''trot" for one moment suader ETAOINN SHRDLU MFWYP from any cause whatever, and the stones immediately take effect as the chief persuader.
 Thus they follow hi into the further est limits of the town where they send him on his way rejoicing CD while they return to the city with triumph and tell their fathers all about the function, how fast the victim ran, how scared he was, how he pleaded and promised that he would go and never return if they would only go back and leave him, now Johnnie Jones hit him with such a big rock that it knocked him down, Then the fathers tell how # N