The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-12
VAST WAVE OF
RACE TROUBLE
SERIES OF VIOLENT ExcEssEa
SWEEP cOUNTRY-WAlTE
AND BLACKS DIE.
MANY DIE VIOLENT DEATHS
sHooTlNes, LYNcHiNGs AND AS.
sAULTs REPORTED FROM
MANY STATES.

Macon, Ca, Oct 9.-About 10 o'clock
Saturday night Charles Adams and
William Solomon, prominent young
white men, were shot by negro and
seriously injured at the fair grounds,
where night shows were being given.
The Midway was thronged with hun
dreds of young people.
Adams and Solomon were escorting
two young women when a negro, in a
| very offensive manner, forced his way
between the couples, separating them.
A remonstrance from the young men
led to an encounter when the negro
whipped out revolver and opened fire
on Adams and Solomon, both receiving
wounds in the stomach
PROFANITY Arrested.
The negro was promptly arrested
and placed in Jail A general stampede
ensued among blacks and whites, as
friends of the wounded men made
threats of vengeance.
A mob of 200 men soon formed and
half of them went to the Jail and 9TH
ers to the barracks. The barracks
were so well guarded that no effort
was made to storm it, and this contn-
gent of enraged citizens joined those
at the Jail, which was vigorously
stormed
The mob succeeded in breaking into
the Jail. but the negro had been placed
in the barracks under heavy military
guard.
TWO Negroes Hanged.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 9-The crimes
committed upon Ena May Fowler. Lii
ian May Savell Ruth Sossman and at
temps on others were revenged ~
d party of forty-6ve men in lone
spot in the neighborhood of Pritchards;
Station. The leaders ordered the men.
who We're all armed with revolvers.
shotguns and rifles, not to fire a shot,
and the orders We're carried out.
Robinson, the negro who committed
the first of the crimes that startled the
people of Mobile and worked them into
fury, was first strung up.
Was Slowly Strangled.
A long half-inch rope was thrown
over the limb of a tree. Robinson
slowly strangled to 'eath. Thompson
was hanged Immediately after Robin
son.
The hanging of the negroes was con-
Quoted in very quiet manner. and
during the time it was going on hardly
a word was spoken.
Kill One, Wound Another.
Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 8.-As a re-
suit Of III feeling following the recent
shooting Of Robert Colum, negro
who conducted an undertaking estab
lishment in Argenta, across the river
from Little Rock, John Lindsay, n
white man, father of the man who
was suspected by the negroes of hav-
ing been implicated in the killing of
Co]um. was shot and killed last night,
and his son Milton Lindsay, was
wounded. The shooting, Martin Lind
say alleges. was done by Garrett and
Charley Colum, brothers of Robert
Colunl
Negro Is Lynched.
II. Blackburn, a negro, was lynched
here Saturday night by a mob. This
is the sequel to the killing of John
Lindsay and the wounding of his son,
Policeman Milton Lindsay here Satur-
day, presumably by Garrett Colum
and Charles Colum, negroes. Black
burn was charged with shooting two
white men yesterday.
Killed for Sandwich.
Bloomington, Ind, Oct. 8.-Alfred
Stephens, proprietor of street lunch
wagon, was shot and killed by Edward
Jones negro. last night.
Two attempts were made to take the
negro away from the officers.
The negro demanded a sandwich
without paying for it, and upon being
refused shot Stephens.
Caught and Hanged.
Basin, Miss, Oct "a negro at
tempted a criminal assault on Mrs.
ketchum. He was followed by posse
and captured fifty miles east of Mo-
bile. After being identified he was
lynched.
Hunt Negro With Dogs.
Charlotte, N. c., Oct 9-R. H. Eu-
banks, superintendent of a construc-
ton company,\ was shot and instantly
killed yesterday by Oscar Gaddy, q
negro, at the railway camps near Lex
lngton. Eubanks had gone to the camp
to quiet the negroes, who were raising
disturbance. Gaddy escaped.
Both Claim Cane Rush.
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