Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-09
MOB SPIRIT BREAKS OUT At
ARGENTA, ARK.-KENTuckY
j HAS TRAGEDY
LYNCHING AND MURDER
w. b. Blackburn Is Hanged on Main
Street Of Arkansas Town.-ken-
lucky White Man Kills Young Negro
And VIII Not Be Prosecuted.

And VIII Not Be Prosecuted.
Argenta, Ark, Oct s.-W. B. Black
burn. negro was lynched at sixth
and Main streets here Sunday night
The affair is the latest link in chain
of clashes between whites and blacks
which started in September when 4
r. Macdonald killed negro musician
named Wiley Shelby.
Next day at the Inquest held at the
Colums undertaking establishment, a
dificulty arose in which Robert Colum
was killed and Deputy Constable Ed
Lindsay and Garrett Colum severely
wounded. Policeman Milton Lindsay,
brother of Ed Lindsay, was also hurt
at the time Saturday night Police
man Milton Lindsay and his father
we're walking past the Colum store
when they were fired on. John Lind
say was killed on the spot His son
was severely wounded, but managed to
crawl out of danger. When the ponce
and citizens attempted to enter the
store they were fred on. 1t is sup
posed Charles and Garrett Colum did
the shooting. Later in the night,
thinking the Colum brothers were still
locked in the rear room OF the store
S the. place was dynanited, but the ne
groes had escaped. They are still at
large
White Man Is Shot in Back.
AT / 80 o'clock Sunday morning Will
Harding, a painter, was halted on the
street by unknown parties, whether
black or white he could not tell In the
darkness. He was asked if he was
black or white. On replying that he
was white he was told to go back, and
while leaving he was shot in the back.
At Q o'clock James Mahoney and A..
I,.s beiding, a Ispcs I'D. oe the Little
Rock Gazette, while going to see Hard
i1lg were fired on from four different
auerters with shotguns. Mahoney was
painfully shot in the hand. Belongs
clothes were peppered with bird shot
but none entered his body. That end
ed the developments for the night
Take Prisoner From Station.
At noon Sunday H. Blackburn, 81
years old, negro, was arrested on
suspicion of being the man who fired
on Mahoney and Belding.
Shortly before 10 o'clock four mask
ed men entered the police station from
the rear, one covered the turnkey with
a pistol while the others got his keys,
quickly unlocked Blackburn's cell and
took him out the back way. Not a
shot was fired and there was no loud
talking, so that Policeman Bratt,
Sheriff Kavanaugh and two deputies,
who were a few blocks away, knew
nothing of what was going on until
they heard the shots fired at Main and
4 found Blackburn already. Dead hung
90 a telephone pole, while the crowd
s9s2und was apparently composed of
onl&okers.
* Special From Little Rock.
Kahsas City Mo-, Oct s.-A special
to the Journal from Little Rock says:
Blackburn, the negro taken from the
JAIL by a mob at Argenta last night
and lynched, is not believed to have
been the man wanted
The free bridge between this city
and Argenta was covered with negroes
last night. Fully 800 deserted their
homes in that city and came to Little
Rock The leaders stated that they
were afraid to remain in Argenta after
dark for fear of another outbreak by
whites
Kentucky Disregards Law.
Paducah, KY, Oct. S.-Ben Jones, a
young negro, was shot to death yes
terday near Vicksburg by John Scott
a farmer. Jones had brutally assault
ed the young daughter of Scott and
was chased down by the father and
killed Scott is not likely to be molest
as the sympathy of the people is with
him.
Posse Looks for Negro.
Charlotte. N. c.. Oct. 8.--R. H. Eu-
banks, superintendent of a construction
company double tracking was shot
and killed Sunday by Oscar Garry, a
negro, at the railroad camp near Lex
ington.
A posse with blood hounds Is search
Ing for him.
All Quiet in Macon.
Macon, Ca. Oct. S.-Quiet reigns
here and no further trouble is antic-
ipated The negro who shot Adams
and Solomon last night was sent to
Atlanta Sunday afternoon for saft
keeping. The military is held in read
mess in case of emergency.
The white men charged with mur.
der escaped from jail during the ex-
element. but were captured Sunday
All is Quiet in Mobile.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. S.-Fears are en-.
tertained of rebellion by the negroes
fer Saturdays lynching of Thompson
and Robinson, negroes charges witt
erinlinal assault, have disappeared
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