The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
NEW YORK NEGROES MUCH INTERESTED
 IN MISSISSIPPI CASE
Demand That Gov. Bilbo Announce What Action He Is to Take Regarding
 Recent Lynching
By E. E. FRANTz

Jackson. Miss. December 2s.-(Spe- ciaL L)-While one of the many negro organizations of the east was In ses- sion in New York. the citizens of Clarke county were lynching four dis reputable members of their race-two men and two women--who had killed very prominent physician while he was milking his COW.
 The motive of the murder was that the physician had refused to sell one of the women a sewing machine on credit. sne had brooded over the mat ter two or three days, when she in- vited the other three to join her in killing the physician. One of the men agreed to fire the shot that was to put their victim out of the way. and, concealing himself near the spot in which the doctor was known to always milk his COW, he carried out his plan
 The negroes. all of whom were e1n- pIoyed about the physicians farm, dis appeared after the murder. and as matter of course. were suspected. Be- ing captured. they all confessed the crime, and were placed in the jail at shubuta That night the jailer was
 
 bridge that spans the river at that point and hanged
 It is said that not more than 25 men were concerned in the lynching, but not one of them was recognized, it is said Such crimes are not indorsed by the people of the community in which the lynching took place, nor elsewhere, so far as that is concerned. but it Is admitted on all sides that the negroes got what they deserved, and that the county has been saved the expense of costly trial.
 However. the New York negroes had the impudence to demand of the gov ernor of Mississippi what he proposed to do about it. Governor Bilbo has not replied to their telegram at all and he may never notice it. but when asked by The Age Herald reporter what he was going to do about it, said.
 Nothing. just now, but I might give you a tip to the effect that I may just tell them to go to he'll" Of course, the governor was speaking figuratiyeiy. and meant that would be about the ef-
 SPENT A QUIET CHRISTMAS
 more quiet Christmas was never seen in Jackson than was that just ex- perienced. Times were too hard and the price of fireworks too high for the average citizen to invest with his old time recklesSness. and there was no noise of that kind. Ordinarily the sky over Jackson Is profusely illumina ted with rockets and candles. but this time they were so infrequent that even the small boy did not remain out in the cold to see them.
 A very small quantity of whisky seemed to have been sold. for not a t drunken man was seen. For several days the police and the sheriff's depu- ties had been unusually busy hunting down blind tigers. and had put many of ttem out of business A large nurp her of handbags and satchels were seized on the trains coming from liquor towsas. and there was not a claimant for one of them. The officers have poured the whisky into the gutters, but they have a greatsvariety of cheap sat tchels on hand. and which owners can have by calling for them and prov ing property. But such claim would near that the owner of the grip car ried liquor. and that would bring heavy fine and perhaps Imprisonment.
 WILL REOPEN SCHOOLS
 It is announced that the public schools of Jackson and the movies will he permitted to reopen their doors next Monday. Two weeks or more ago they were closed by order of the city commissioners on demand of the city health authorities. The influenza had broken out a second time and was taking off men and women nearly every day The physicians were as