Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-04
MAY GUST ALL
NEGRO REGULARS.
Wal Department to ASK Congress to
Abolish the Four Colored
Regiments.

w ASltlNNltN, II. G., Dec. N
The war department. will ask Congress
to repeal the law which maintains four
negro regiments in the regular army.
Southern members of Congress favor
this change but there will doubtless he
hard fight on il from other sources
The movement is the direct result of
the disturbances at Brownsville. Fort
lcaVenworth, Pensacola, and III other
places within recent months.
Another Case at FL Reno.
Ell RENO, Ok. Doe %. Resisting
an attempted hold up in his laundry Mt
$40 o'clock last night, Lee Sung. Chi
naman, was shot and dangerously
wounded 10y an unknown negro who
wore the uniform OF the United States
army. The assailant escaped. Soldiers
from Fort Reno. the ShCriN's force, po-
lice and many posses of citizens are
searching for him.
The numerous outragcS pcrpctratrd by
negroes believed to he discharged soldiers
of the Twenty-hfth infantry have
aroused the public TO an intense degree.
Some of those dismissed for partici-
patton i'll the Brownsville riots carried
their uniforms away with them ut the
time of their discharge. 1t is therefore
believed that the latest assailant was
one of the disgraccd negroes.
Much damaging testimony against the
dismissed negro companies was given
by witnesses i'll the investigation being
conducted at Brownsville, CrcX) 10y AS
siStant Attorney General I'urdy for
President Roosevelt. Witnesses testified
that they saw negro soldiers firing from
within the fort and saw them scale the
wall and invade the town.
Negro Slayer Held to Jury.
CHICAGO. H., Dec. 29.-Scrgt. Grif-
H.. 1
States cavalry, who shot and killed Pri-
vate Taylor. also colorcd. Christmas day
while at dinner at Fort Sheridan, was
held to the federal grand jury yesterday
on n charge of murder.
Griffin has been imprisoned in the
guardhouse at the fort since the shoot
ing. 1t was shown at the hearing that
a woman, Mamie Littlcjohn, coltrcd,
was tie cause of the affair
Atlanta Report Sensation.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 2g.-Thc com
mittce of business men appointed to in
vcStigate the recent race riots in AT
Ianta made its report public, and it
blamcs the tough element of the white
population for the rioting and adds:
Among the victims of the mob there
was not single vagrant. They were
themselves and families on
dependent relatives. Most of the dead
itll SIlllll CulIuEbI ana WIDOWS. mothers,
or sisters, wi Il practically no means and
only Il small earning capacity.
about seventy persons were wounded.
among these there was an immense
amount of suffering. Most of them were
III humble circumstances, but they were
useful members of society.
''Murderers" Are at Large.
AS twelve persons were killed ana
seventy were murderously assaulted, it is
clear that several hundred murdcrors or
WOuld-bc murdcrcrs are at large in the
community. A slaughter of the inno-
cent drive away good citizens. From one
small ncighborhood twenty-five families
have gone.
THE crimes of the mob included rob
berry as we'll as murder, and in a number
of cases the property OF innocent and
unOffcnding people was taken"
The committee has distributed $4,000,
given by business men, to aid negro VIC
tins of the riots.
Calls Roosevelt Nearly Insane"
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 29.-'Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt is almost insane on mill
tarism, or at least that is his fad" de
clared President Dabncy, of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, who is attending
the Ohio Colleges association convcn-
ton, i'll discussing the recent recon-
mcndation Of the President regarding
the establishment of target practice for
school children in connection with their