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BRYAN’S PLANSEvansville Gives Way to theHorrid Passions of Unreasoning Mob.MILITIA FIRES TO KILLIn a Mad Onslaught Upon the Jail Seven Persons Were Killed By Fire From Guards.Governor Durbin Has Been Appealed lo io Declare Martial Law There.Evansville, Ind., July 7.—A reign of terror exists here. The police are powerless, while there are grave fears that even the local company of militia which has been on patrol duty under instructions from Governor Durbin since Thursday night may be swept away by the mob. In a clash between citizens and the militia last night seven persons were slain and twenty wounded. The mob refusing to believe that the negro, Brown, held for the killing of Patrolman Massey, had been removed to. Vincennes, stormed the jalL With orders to shoot to kill, the militia on guard repulsed the onslaught with a deadly fire and seven members of the mob fell dead, while many were wounded. Four soldiers were shot Governor Durbin has beea asked to take immediate and decisive action, and it is not unlikely that martial law will be declared in Evansville. The police admit their inability to cope with the situation, while the angered mob is threatening to overpower the militia. The negroes are panic-stricken and all but the most bold and desperate are leaving the city in wagons and on foot. The exodus has almost depopulated Baptistown, the negro quarter.The Dead—Hazel Allman, sixteen years old, shot in the heart; Ed Ruhl, twenty-two years old, shot in the back; Ed Schiffman, twenty-eight years old, shot in the head and back; August Jourdan, twenty-five years old, shot in the head and back; Fred Kappier, fifteen years old, shot in the side; Unnamed man, middle aged, shot in the back; John F. Feris, forty-eight years old. Theodore Bee, twenty years old, will die. Miss Allman was an Innocent bystander,” having driven with her father in a carriage to witness the scene of turbulence.Aft Being Dally Made More Manifestin Indiana.Indianapolis, July 7.—The admissionof the Democratic papers generallythat the new Jefferson League of Indi-»ana is to be a pretense for trying to capture this state for Bryan, is surprising, and where there is so much smoke there certainly must be some fire. The conservative Democratic leaders look with suspicion on the movement, as they realize in it another disturbing element, but there is nothing for them to do but to grin and bear it. There is no doubt but that Bryan is going after Indiana. He realizes the importance of the state. Therefore he wants it. There is a report beginning to go the rounds that if the league is a success, and through it Bryan gains control of the state committee, that he may bring out John W, Kern of this city, former candidate for governor, for second place on the national ticket next year.The race riot at Evansville may be regarded as an evidence of the growing bitter feeling against the negroes in the larger Indiana cities. This statement may be denied, yet those who have kept a close tab on the development id the state during the last few years know that there is more truth than poetry in it. Witness for instance the frequent outbreaks in Indianapolis which is becoming the Mecca for bad negroes from the South. Whenever there is the least bit of an opening for a riot at the parks the riot generally takes place. It is only by exercising the greatest caution that serious trouble has been averted lately. The situation here, according to the police, is becoming critical, but there is apparently no remedy for it.The annual meeting of the State Bar Association of Indiana was held at the new Claypool hotel today and over 200 lawyers from throughout the state were in attendance. The Hon. Truman F.'* Palmer is president of the organization but a new set of officers will be elected tomorrow. Merrill ^foores, former assistant attorney general, has been secretary several years. The feature of today’s program was an addreass by Walter S. Logan of New York, on Legal Remedies for the Trust Evil.” Allen Zollars of Fort Wayne, former judge of the supreme court, Judge Frank Roby of the appellate court, and J. L. Rupe of Richmond, are on the program for tomorrow.It is probable that the proposed trip of the St. Louis World’s Fair commission to the stonefleld will be made next week. Chairman W. W. Wicks of the committee on building stone, to whom the Monon issued its invitation to take the party through the field, is trying to arrange for the ex-ournion on Julv 15 and 16. The com-
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New Albany Weekly Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1903
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