The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-12
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sHooTINos, LYMcHlNes AND AS
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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 we're 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.
Propmt!y Arrested.
The negro was promptly arrested
and placed in Jail. A general stampede
ensued among blacks and whites, as
threats of vengeance.
A mob of 900 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 contin-
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.
Z Mobile, Ala, Oct. 9.-The crimes
committed upon Ena May Fowler Lii
liam May Savell, Ruth sossman and at
temps on others were revenged by
party Of forty-five men in lonely
spot in the neighborhood Of Pritchard's
Station. The leaders ordered the men.
who were all armed with revolvers,
shotguns and rifles, not to fire shot,
and the orders were 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 strangied.
A long halfinch rope was thrown
over the limb Of a tree. Robinson
slowly stransled to death. Thompson
was hanged Immediately after Robin
son.
The hanging of the negroes was con-
Quoted in a very quiet manner. and
during the time it was going on hardly
word was spoken. ts...s
Kill One, Wound Another.
Little Rock, Ark, Oct 8.-As a re-
cult Of Ill feeling following the recent
shooting Of Robert Colum, a negro
who conducted an undertaking estab-
lishment in ArgeIta, across the river
from Little Rock, John Lindsay,
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
Colum. ~
Negro ls Lyhehed.
! H. 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. s.-Alfred
Stephens. proprietor of a street lunch
wagon. was shot and killed by Edward
Jones . negro. last night.
2 Two attempts were made to take the
negro away from tho officers.
The negro demanded q sandwich
without paying for 1t, and upon being
refused shot Stephens.
Caught and Hanged.
Basin, Miss. Oct. "a negro 1T
tempted criminal assault on Mrs..
Ketchum. He was followed by posse
and captured hfty miles east Of No
bile. After being ideutiasd he was
lynched. ~. g.. ..:.. 3.,i
Hunt Negro With Dogs.
Charlotte, N. c.. Oct. s.-R. n. Eu-
banks, superintendent Of . construc-
ton company, was shot and instantly
killed yesterday ~ Oscar 0addy, q
negro. ct the railway camps near Lex.
lngton. Eubanks had gone to the camp.
to quiet the negroes. who were raising
disturbances. Daddy escaped III
Both Claim Cane Rush.
Mortified, Mimi. Oct. I. The 70
suits OF the cane rush betwesn OeE1s=s
ton sophomores and freshmen - 81:
doubt The sopkomoFss clalns moro
hands On the stick when time wns cali;
q. B Members of the facult mn ly1ssd
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