The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-13
LYNCH1NG IN THE NORTH.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and New York
Have Witnessed Mob Violence.
New York Times.)

New York Ttmes.)
Northern states, and especially
those forming the southern tier of the
territory which, since the civil war,
has continued to be called north, have
not been free from lynchings in the
last twenty years. New York state
furnishes only one lynching in that pc
riod. This was at Port Jervis on
June 2, 1897, when a negro was hang
ed by a mob for an attack on q girl.
Iowa has had one lynching as recent
ly as January, 1907, when a wife
murderer, James Cullen, was taken
from the Jail at Charles City and
hanged by a mob.
Pennsylvania, where the latest
lynching has occurred, has n other
similar act by a mob. On March Is,
1894, at Straudsburg a negro by the
name Of Richard Puryear was hanged
for the murder Of a white man after
he had escaped from Jail.
Delaware furnishes another in
stance. At Wilmington a mob burned
a negro at the stake on June %, 1903,
for the murder of the 17-year-old
daughter of a minister.
Instances Of mob violence in ILL.,
nois, Indiana, and Ohio are numerous.
On August 10, 1897, a tramp was killed
by a crowd Of farmers in Cook county,
ILL.,, for an attack on a woman while
attempting robbery. On April 26,
1903, near Santa Fe, ILL.,, a mob hanged
an unidentified negro boy for an at
tack on a 10-year-old girl, and then
turned against negro bridge workers
near the town, shooting several. In
Cairo two negroes were lynched on
the night of November II, 1909. One
of them was taken after an attack
on the Jail. In the same town there
was an attempt to lynch a negro purse
snatcher, but the mob was driven
back by the sheriff. One mar was
killed and four were wounded. Spring
field, the capital Of Illinois, was the
scene of violent ace in 1906
and 1908. State troops had to be
called out both times to restore order.
A case of mob violence occurred in
Ohio at the town of Newark on July
6 of last year. Carl Etherington, an
Antisaloon League detective, confined
to the Jail for shooting a saloonkeeper
in a raid, was taken from the Jail
and lynched. Other lynchings in the
St.NO AAovO OSSOAACu az xACllLOllS <1pIll
10. 1891, and at Millerburg on April
2. 1892. At Urbana, a battle was
fought with the Jail authorities, in
which two citizens were killed and
nine were wounded when a mob took
Charles Mitchell, a negro, from the
Jail and hanged him. At Springfield
on March z, 1904, Richard Dixon, a
negro, was taken from the Jail and
riddled with bullets by a mob.
Indiana had a lynching of five men
in September, 1897. In Ripley county
a mob took this vengeance on a gang
that had robbed and murdered and
for a long time terrorized the county.
Two negroes were hanged at Rockport
in December, 1900. An Evansville
mob killed a negro on July 6, 1903,
after a struggle with the state militia,
in which nine white men we're. killed.
The curiosity of the people of this
section has been aroused to such an
extent that exploring parties are be-
ing formed to probe the ruins thor
oughly in anticipation of more results.
This is the first discovery of it's kind
ever made in the ruins, and SO rare
ia the specimen brought to light that
the finder, Mr.. Clearinghouse, is CORE
spending with the Smithsonian insti-
tuition in Washington, D. c., with the
view Of 1t being placed in that mecca
of science and history. In the past
scientists have explored the ruins. but
have never been rewarded with any
thing but pottery and small articles
nothing to explain the mode of livina
of the extinct race.
The n peculiar phase of the un.
known history is that hundreds OF
years ago the Aztec race suddenly dis.
appeared, and no scientist has evel
! been able to decipher where they went