Lower coast gazette., 1913-10-04

Senator'S who supported the Clarke
amendment to the cotton futures bill
are willing to drop the matter. The
House and Senate cannot agree on
the points involved in the Clarke
amendment. President Wilson, it is
believed, will try, it is almost GER
tain, to put through the Clarke
amendment with the Smith Lever pro-
visoes attached. Congressman Sims
of Tennessee leads an insurgent ele-
ment in the House, in support Of the
unadulterated Clarke amendment. Ru-
NOR has it that Underwood will an
nounce that the President favors the
Clarke amendment with the Smith
Lever clothes on. Some say Sims will
surrender but many more than these
some say he won't. In the mean
time wild reports of Presidential APP
prevail at different times have sent
the market down to a sinking depth:
Will Jones and Walter Jones, ne
groes, aged Is and 20, went crap
shooting Saturday night at Harris
ton, Miss. Both got drunk. Both
lost money. The whiskey and the
losses and a handy revolver and then
they began shooting the members. of
the crapshooting gamesters, all ne
groes. They killed nine of these. Will
left the battlefield and passed a white
mans saloon. He placed his gun by
the side of the building and deliber-
ately fired into the room where a num-
Der of white men were playing poker
behind closed DOORS. No one was in
,jured. Claude Freeman, one of the
poker players, went outside and got
some buckshot inside of him and died.
The fellows heard Claude shout: ooh,
give a man a chance, won't your"
Then they went out and saw Claude
dead. Will went along and killed
three negroes. At 1880 a. M, the Ya7
zoo and Mississippi Valley train from
Memphis reached the station at Har-
riston, Miss. Conductor Appleby
walked into the telegraph office to
receive his orders. Will was behind
a box car: he fired at Appleby and
Appleby fell mortally wounded. The
flagman sought the shooter and he
shot. c. S. Hill, a negro porter,
looked out of the vestibule. He was
shot. The shooting awoke the town.
The Constable, Frank Kinstley, awoke
when someone stood by his window
and said: Frank, oh Frank, come
here quick" Frank jumped up and
ran to the door. A bullet got him
in the abdomen and Frank died. Sher-
if Hammett, living at Fayette, Miss,
two miles away, was called by a hur-
ried telephone message. He drove fu-
riously fast to Harriston, accompa-
MED by his old father, Tom Hammett,
a deputy sheriff, and 0. S. GILES,
clerk of the circuit court. The two
Hammetts and ellis approached the
negroes home and ordered the Jones'
to surrender. Before advancing on
the negroes house the Hammetts and
ellis had been advised not to attempt
to corner the negroes until daylight.
Walter Jones fired upon the party, not
from the house, but from under a cot
ton oil mill to the right of the front
yard Of his house. Sheriff Hammett
got what Walter fired and died. ellis
fell, fatally wounded. A mob gather
ed. The mob fired about 5000 shots
into the house, occupied by the ne
groes. The firing by the negroes
ceased. The crowd was halted from
approaching by the fears that the 81
lence of shots was a ruse This fear
was born because the sheriff had been
A negress was given $40 to
enter the house and ask the negroes to
surrender. The negroes surrendered
and were lynched. Troops were rush.
ed tothe scene and a deathly quietude
followed the riot. These two negroes
lynching and the trail Of blood that
marked their last living night were
the result of drink and gambling.
They began to kill because they were
drunk and had lost all their money.
They drank because there was whis-
kew in the town. They lost their
money because they gambled. Whis-
key and Dice had a c%reditable night;
seven men died and six men were
wounded.
Governor Hooper signed the electric
chair bill which makes the electric
chair the method of capital punish
ment and bans the use Of the gallows
in the state Of Tennessee.
A bitter fight will be waged on be-
half of negroes and by negroes to
have "Jim Grow" and Grandfather
Clause" legislation declared void. The
fight will take place in the United
States Supreme Court; the partici-
cular objects of attack being the Ok
lahoma and Maryland grandfather"
laws. and the Oklahoma Jim Grow leg
islation.
EnpEIcN NEWS.