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♦III II(•EVAASVII.LE HAS A DAY OF ABSO- , « LITE PEACE A AD Qt IET.*Law Rigidly Knforcrd In City and County. l»nt the Day Wlth-ont nn Arrest 11c lug Made.i■FEARS OF A RIOT AT LINTON » ■4CIKCIS WITil XEGRO EMPLOYES IS | 1EXPECTED THERE TO-DAY,! JGovernor Durbin Inquires Regarding the Situation, and Eucene DebsI *Prod* the Mine Workers.I-• jRACE OUTBREAK IN NEW YORK » — -OUTGROWTH OF AS ATTEMPT TO : ARREST A NEGRO.—— ♦I’dllee Stoned and Fired on by theIllucks—Missouri \eg ro League toConsider Racial Problems. -----♦Special to the Indianapolis Journal.EVANSVILLE. Ind.. July 12.—Not an arrest was made by the local police, to-day, and the city was quiet, very few people being seen on the streets.Last night Mayor Charles G. Covert issued orders closing ail the saloons of tho city and the orders were carried out to the letter. For the first time In years the town was tight, and not a glass of liquor could be bought any place. Liquor was also barred at thecity parks, for the first time within thememory of the oldest Inhabitant of the city. On order of Sheriff Christian W. Kratz, the saloons and clubhouse*, in the county wtre also closed. As a rule the people re-mained in their homes.The churches were filled and in many Instances the preachers touched on the mob rule that has existed in the city for th* past week. They attribute It to the laxity of the enforcement of the laws, and the officials were criticised for permitting the saloons to remain open day and night, Sundays and holidays.The Rev. T. W. Whittle, pastor of the First Baptist Church, criticised Mayor Covert, and declared he had violated his oath of office In catering to the lawless element. The Rev. Wesley Smith, of the Nevada-street Baptist Church, said the mob and rioting of last week was the result of the violation of CRkTs and man's laws.Evansville is one of the few cities In theState that has not observed the Nicholsonlaw. The large Gorman population here Is against the enforcement of the law, and , saloons have been permitted to run night and day.The negroes have remained at their homes all day and the services at, their churches were not w'ell attended. Many of the negroes who left the city during the week, are returning and by the middle of the week, business will be resumed In Baptist Town. The authorities will keep no extra guards this week, as they believe the excitement is at an end.It is not thought it will be necessary to guard Robert Lee, the negro, when he is brought back here for trial for killing Policeman Massey. ♦— —RIOT FEARED AT LINTON.A Circus with Negro Employes Is Expected There To-Day.Special to the Indianapolis Journal.TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 12.-Govemor Durbin to-day called up by telephone Alec Bandlson to ask about conditions In Linton, and it is understood that it was with a view to some action to-morrow, when It Is expected there will be another race conflict in that mining town. A circus which employs a large number of negroes is billed for Linton to-morrow. Sandison is the caterer who took a number of negro waiters to Linton last week for the Elks' banquet, and who was ordered to send the negroes out of town, which he did, with a mob of two thousand persons expediting the departure of the scared waiters.Linton has not permitted negroes to live in the town since a coal company someKears ago imported negro miners from Keu-ueky. who were afterward driven away. The Terre Ilaute Elks and Sandison say, however, that a negro baseball club played in Linton not long ago without the suggestion of trouble. It is said that one cause for the mob demonstration against the Terre Haute waiters was the fact that a large number of Linton men had been blackballed by the Elks.Eugene Debs, in an interview, calls on the United Mine Workers to discipline their Linton men for the part taken In the Elks demonstration of mob violence. “The organization can do no less.’* he says. “It is appealing to the negroes of Kentucky and West Virginia mines to help tight Its battles. At this very hour President Mitchell is in Kansas assuring the negroes that the miners' union is their friend and proposesto recognize them on terms of equality. The Linton affair is an utter repudiation of the union's professions, and if unrebuked the negroes will have no reason to regard the union in a friendly light.”Negro miners are employed in the mines elsewhere in the State, and they are members of the United Mine Workers.
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The Indianapolis Journal
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Mon, Jul 13, 1903
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