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I.nuUknallo*d Hk«d INew Orleans, La*, Aug, 17.—Thedifficulty over the regulators in Vermillion and Lafayette parishes resulted as was feared in considerable bloodshed. The regulators have been whipping the negroes for some weeks past Jfor miscegenation and other charges. The negroes thus whipped took refuge in a town called Freetown, nine miles from New Iberia occupied by colored people who promised the refugees then protection. It is said the Freetown daTkiet armed themselves for fear the whites of the neighborhood would visit the place and interfere with them and the friends they had taken in. Whether this is so or not the story was circu-taied and a large number 01 white citizens of the ward petitioned Captafh Code oi New Iberia as Deputy Sheriffand Captain of the Attttkapas Ran gers to come over to Freetown and disarm the negroes there. With a party of eight men he left New Iberia yesterday afternoon and was joined a short distance from there by 150 white men from Vermillion and Ln-favcite parishes. They marched toFreetown, near to which place they lound a party of armed ^negroes tor-lifted in the house of a preacher named Ccleton Narre and called on them to surrender their weapons. Two hours were wasted in negotiations, but the negroes refused to surrender whereupon the white* advanced upon the house and the firing became general. It continued I01 half an hour when the 'firing from the negroes cabin became weak and finally ceased altogether. The while men were then ordered to reconnoiter the building. They approached the door, when the firing was renewed, and one of them, PaysonSmith, was instantly killed, falling within the cabin. The whiK* then kept up volley after volley into the cabin for another half hour, riddling the house. Two negroes who spiang from it were instantly shot down and killed as they ran across the fieldit. They found that all in the house lay on the floor. The total loss of life in the affray was one white and seven negroes. The white man killed, Payson Smith, caine to iDena from Chicago, and was a Republican.Two irifTin'i DcaUib.Clarkson, Ky,, Aug. 16.—A terrible tragedy, which has greatly excited the whole community, oecured here Tuesday evening. Will Johnson and Alice Silvester, two young people,Th* tnlQiit* Uni,started to drive fo the minister’s in aneighboring town to be married. Yesterday morning an early passing fanner saw two bodies at the bottom ot a ravine, through which Rocky creek runlt;i. On investigation they were found to be those of Johnson and Miss Silvester. It was evident they had driven off the embankment in the darkness and so met death.TWf* American 1'nrlj.New YorK, Aug Irt.—Jtiduo Church,of New York, placed In nomination James L. Curtin, of Now York, the ('itllftimla delegation seoouded Mr.HuvvUfn nnialnation, tie also did thohiftrtoL of Columbia. New York tioccmdtid the nomination of Mr, Cur-tl».The result of the IIrut ballot was a*Birmingham, Ala.,—August 16.—A special from Tuscaloosa says: At Hull’s Station yesterday Gid Blackburn, aged 6, and Lewis Davis, aged 4, were playing with an old rustv shotgun, which was supposed to be unloaded. Blackburn aiphed a lighted match to the tube of the gun, and it was discharged, blowing Davis1 headnearly off, killing him initantly. two little boy* were cousins.AnPmTheMr.Tsist fetttod f!a«axkt.VYhitewright, Tex., Aug. 16,-M. W. Davis, a citizen of this city, returned yesterday from an extended tour througn Europe, South America *to and the Canary and West Indea Islands. In his tour be visited London, Pans. Brussels, Colwgne, Rio Janeiro andJBucnos Ayres. He visited the Argentine republic with a view ot finding a country where he could grow slock profitably. He says It is a fine stock country, but there is no market and cows sell them from*$2.50 to 13,50 each, and horses from $ 2,^0 to $5. He says that North America is good enough for him the balance of his days.So Kla*d WantedNew Orleans Aug,. 17.—Greatex.S5rL*SS8K «“!!g-y - J. *2neo of the convention. O11 motion ofn delogntu from low* Gan. Curtin’ nomination wan made unanimousamid great cheering**Wvlroma Bain.Jefferson, Tex., Aug Ifl,—After a drouth or several wooka thl* place was vial tod tbl* afternoon by * very Hard roili, which lasted about an hour. II will bo of vast benefit to the cotton crop, which won suffering «•-verely. The Indication# are that there will be more rain before night.A ThuHilrrboll.Kansas City, August. 17.—Chief™ -_______-_______ Mcrcotte, of the Kickapoos, hisThe'shoolingkfiad'eoalinued for near-1 squaws and five children acre killedly five hours, and as the ammunition had been apparently exhausted, in the cabin the whites again approachedby lightning in hi* cabin on the reservation near Nelawaka, Kansas, ye*-terday-Abbeville, in Vermillion parish, dur ing the last few days over the attempt of the regulators to break up mi* cegiaation there. The movement, which has been general in the itate for some time, recently spread 10 Vermillion, where the regulator! orCaucauians, as they are called, warned all white men living with negro women and vice versa to leave the parish. On Tuesday the regulator* whipped one white man, but when they came to the residence of a negro named Shepherd who was living with a white woman, the woman rushed out with a shot gun and opened fire on the crowd, fatally wounding oneof them. This created great excitement and a company of ranger* in the adjoining parish nf Iberia wore *um-mooed iu arms. .-^disturbance 1* expected.
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The Waco Evening News
Waco, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 18, 1888
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