The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
PEOPLE OF CAIRO
 DEEPLY STIRRED
Unfavorable Sentiment Against
 Negroes Is Growing
BURIAL OF HOLIDAY
Nearly GOO People Attend Funeral of Man Killed in Rioting-Home of Sheriff NeIIis Is Guarded
 By the Militia

are searching the city tonight for negro suspected of purse-snatching and another clash between the authorities and the cit- izens is feared if the man is captured.
 Feeling is still running high against the negroes, and intensity was added to this sentiment this afternoon when negroes, it is charged, made insulting gestures at the persons in the funeral procession that was following the body of Alexander Hal liday. killed Thursday night in an attack on the jail, to the cemetery
 Nearly GOO persons attended Halliday's funeral and accompanied the body to Mounds, Ills, in a special train. As the train was passing through the negro dis trict east of Cairo negroes collected on the streets to watch it's passage. At Thir- ty-first street members of the funeral party charge that an insulting demon- stration was made. An effort was made to organize a party on the train during the return to Cairo to wreak summary vengeance on the negroes, but no disturb- ance resulted
 An unidentified man created the dis turbance at the cemetery by demanding permission to make speech over the grave, but he was hurried away. He said he was friend of Halidays and that he had been run out of town by the po- lice.
 The negro the police are after tonight is believed to have been associated with John Pratt, the negro who escaped lynch ing when Sheriff Nellis defended the jail at the cost of one life and the injury of several others in the attacking party If he is captured an effort may be made to take him away from the police before the militia has an opportunity to interfere.
 The military continued to patrol the streets tonight at regular intervals. Sev- eral small crowds were dispersed during the day, but no demonstration took place of any moment.
 The bitterness of feeling against the negro element Is manifested in threats and rumors of future demonstrations. Women generally are carrying revolvers and are urged by their husbands and male relatives to shoot to kill if attacked
 The special grand jury which has bs< instructed to investigate the riot probably will be dissolved tomorrow morning, when 1t reeonvenes. Judge William Butler who instructed the jury conferred with Sheriff Nellis this afternoon and later announced that he would decide whether new jury is necessary There are four negroes on the jury.
 The home of Sheriff Nells is guarded by the militia and he is given a military escort when he leaves the courthouse Popular feeling is intense against him for using negro deputies and allowing Halli- days body to lie in front of the jail for three hours.
 Adjutant General Dickson, Governor Deneen's personal representative de- clared this afternoon that Sheriff Nelis was not ordered by the governor to per init Halliday's body to lie on the ground until the militia arrived as was ciaimed by the sheriff.
 Mrs. Nellis, wife of the sheriff, collapsed this afternoon under the strain, and is now under a physicians care She is one of the women who are carrying revol- vers
 The ministers in their pulpits, for the most part. today united in urging the cit izens to support the law. The Rev Frank Thompson of the First Christian church said In part:
 ''No American whose heart is filled with passion for the commonwealth can ap- prove mob law, yet things have occurred in Cairo. which. if they had not moved
 
 desperate deeds-and Cairo's fair women to tears, would have lowered them to the level of the unfeelng OK, which calmly feeds as his comrades suffer and die"
 This in a way is the feeling in Cairo among the masses.
 Company H of Shelbyvile of the Illi- nois National guard, has been ordered to report there by Adjutant General Dick son. The Shelbyvile company will arrive here tomorrow on a special train. Adjutant General Dickson and Sheriff conferred tonight and the ordering of the ddtional militiamen was the result Neither Adjutant General Dickson nor Sheriff Nellis would say that any particli- lar trouble is expected. They say the ad- litional militiamen were ordered there as ] precautionary measure If the verdict of the coroners jury at he inquest, which will be resumed to- morrow, names a negro deputy sheriff as being responsible for the death of Alexan- Ter Halliday, 1t is believed that an effort will be made to harm the deputy