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NO TROUBLE AT LINTONCIRCUS NEGROES HAD BEEN SIDE.TRACKED TO EFFINGHAM.Dui'hiii llnri Troop* Ready—Flrit Ar-rest Mude at Evansville—RefugeesHake Trouble at Vincennes.p iiP* rrl*? JwfrJ.nr .’■'tT!1,iJ■ ■ ♦apodal to the Indiana polio Journal.LINTON, Ind., July 13.—Wallace's show arrived In this place from Bedford Sunday morning and gave an exhibition this afternoon to a tremendous crowd. Nearly all the mines closed to-day In consequence, as it is the first opportunity the people have had to attend an animal show in Linton, owing to insufficient railroad facilities heretofore.Owing to the feeling here against the colored people, Hr. Wallace did not bring hisnegroes to Linton, but Bent them on to Effingham. 111., where the show will be tomorrow.Troop* Held In Readiness.Governor Durbin received a telegramfrom, R. E. Wallace, proprietor of Wallace'scircus, staling that everything wras quiet at Linton and that he feared no trouble ofany kind during the day or evening. Ithad been anticipated, In view of the hostile demonstration made by the people ofLinton against negroes from Terre Haute last week, that when Wallace's circus cameto that place yesterday with a number ofnegro employes, trouble might occur. In order to avoid any such complications Mr. Wallace left sixty of his negroes at the last place he showed, with Instructions to report at the next stop after L.inton.The Governor took the precautions to havethe Terre Haute company of militia inre: dineaa all day yesterday to proceed to l.inton at a moment's notice. He kept hisarrangements secret, however, and when hewas asked last evening if the company had been under arms all day in case of an emergency call from Linton, he smiled and said: ‘•Well, I Imagine It would not have beenvery hard, nor have taken much time, to find all the members of the company If they had been needed.•-ONE ARREST MADE.F*lr«t on Account of the EvanavllieRiot—Two Investigations.Special to the Indiana poll* Journal.EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 13.-CoronerMatt Walling, who this morning began examining witnesses who saw the battle lastMonday night between Company E. Indi-nna. National Guard, and the mob trying tostorm the jail, will return his verdict sometime the last of the week. There are oversixty witnesses yet to be examined. Noneof the witnesses who were before the coroner to-day wis able to say who fired thefirst shot or who gave the command to fire.One of the witnesses said many shots were fired from the courthouse windows, presumably by deputies.The grand jury examined several witnesses to-day and will adjourn some timethis week. Joseph Llvingood was arrested this afternoon on the charge of faking partwith the mob in the riot of Monday night. Refugees Make Trouble.Special to the lniUnn-olt: Journal.VINCENNES. Ind.. July 13.-HenryThomas, a negro who says his home and I wife 'are in St. Louis, was arrested tonight on complaint of George Gardner.Democratic member of the police commissioners. Gardner and others were elbowed off the sidewalk and insultingly addressed by Thomas. Thomas says he meant noharm. Thomas arrived here from TerreHaute to-day. Since the Evansvilletrouble many strange negroes have come here. Some have openly taunted and thrown insults at whites.ANDERSON, Ind.. July 13.—The exodusof negroes from Evansville has been noted in Anderson. To-day several arrived inthis cit. The factories have been besiegedby applicants for work. The tin plate mills had six aplicatlons. This forenoon several made their appearance at police headquarters asking for work. The police department was equal to the occasion and therefugees were at once put to work cleaning the courthouse.'Iaction against the atrocious crimes with which the papers have been filled. The fact that the people are now interesting themselves in the discussion of this problem makes manifest the fact that there is atendency toward a change. I expect that It will come soon. 1 cannot say what form it will take, but there will be an uprising of popular feeling against lynchings which will result in a remedy.ENEMY TO BOTH RACES— ■■ •WHITE OR BLACK WHO NEEDLESSLY STIRS LP STRIFE.iBooker T. Washington Urges Harmony In Speech and Deed, Self-Control, Patience and Coarage.— ■ • —ATLANTA, Ga., July 13.—Booker T. Washington to-night addressed an Immense audience at the Peoples' Tabernacle., the occasion being the thirty-sixth anniversary of the First CongregationalChurch, colored. Mr. Washington spokein part as follows: *♦Every decent white man and negro In the South is glad that the time will soonbe at an end when a negro will be popular with his people in proportion as he cursesthe white man; or when a white man canbe promoted to positions of trust and honor, in proportion as he has been successful in unfairly condemning the negro.The time has come here in the Southwhen I believe the very highest type ofSouthern white men and wom«*n are truing more and more to take a hand in the ele-vatlon of the blacks at their doors.Whites ami blacks are to reside together in this country permanently and we shouldlose no opportunity to cultivate in every manly way the greatest harmony between the races. Whoever. North or South, black or white, stirs up strife needlessly. by word or deed I? an enemy to bothraces and to his country.I appreciate from the bottom of myheart the tremendous and trying strainthat is now upon us. and how difficult it Isfor us to make progress under such circumstances; but I believe the momentous period thiough which we are now passing will draw to our support the good will, the sympathy and helpful co-uperation of large numbers of white men In the South as well as In the North. If we only exercise due patience, self-control and courage.TERRILL OF GOOD CHEER»♦ —HAS NOTHING TO SAY REGARDING SUNDAY NIGHT’S CRIME.•Takes Interest In Brininess Matters—Receives a Number of Visitors— Broke Down Sunday Night.— ♦8p#*ctal to th* Indianapolis Journal.BLUFFTON. Ind.. July 13.-John Terrill, who last evening shot and killed his son-in-law, Melvin Wolf, in a doctor's office atPetroleum, a village of this county, spentthe night and the day quietly In the BlufT-ton Jail. Under instructions of his attorneys. Mock Sons, and Postmaster A. L. Sharpe. he positively refused to-day to speak of his crime, but talked cheerfullyenough of other things, and gave some attention to business matters.During the early part of the night, wjienthe stress of the excitement under which he had been laboring passed away. Terrillbroke down and cried bitterly. The inclp-iency of the trouble which culminated in yesterday's tragedv lay in the fact thatWolf had married Terrill's daughter as theoutcome of seduction charges, and the relations between the men. never of the best.had become increasingly strained when Wolfbegan to neglect his wife and run around with other women, finally deserting her.Terrill said last night he had committed an awful crime, but he added that the one man in the world who should uot have reproached his daughter with her shame was the one who by his taunts drove him (Ter-rill) to commit thePrior to the tragedy Terrill and Charlea
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