RACIAL PREJUDICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2273, 19 August 1908, Page 3

RACIAL PREJUDICE.

THE AMERICAN BRUTALITIES.

NEGROES’ PITEOUS SITUATION

United Press Association. Covyright

LONDON, August 17

The ‘‘Times’’ 'Washington correspondent describes tho appalling brutality of the mob at- Springfield as surpassing any of the racial excesses of recent years. When the mob attempted to lynch two negroes in tho gaol, one of whom was accuseed of a crime, they communicated with the officials, who took them both away by motor. The mob, being foiled, then wrecked •tho restaurant belonging to the owner of the motor. The soldiers in the tussle at this stage killed two and wounded twenty. Tho mob thereupon rushed the negro quarters, when all had taken refuge in tho arsenal or in the suburbs. The mob destroyed their property, and two innocent negroes were'eaught and lynched. An attempt to reach tho arsenal as frustrated. A brick struck on the head and seriously injured Mr. ClalHn, a prohibition candidate for the Presidency, while he was shielding a negro. Renter's Springfield correspondent states that the cavalry charged the mobs. Tho riots aro now quelled, but the situation of the negroes is piteous. Few dare venture into the streets.

LYNCHING ORGIES. OTHER TOWNS: AFFECTED. United Press Association. Copyright (Received August 19, ill 25 a.in.) LONDON, August .13. Tho “Daily Mail’s i\o.v York correspondent says that owing to a negro’s crime against a white woman, lynching orgies were imminent nt Rime and Galveston. He ulds that the 0 mob battened down the doors of the gaol, and were only prevented by the timely arrival of the cavalry fr< in seizing and lynching a negro prison' r. The latter was removed in safety.

A BREACH OF THE LAWS, WHITES INDICTED FOR RIOTING. United Press Association, Copyright (Received August 19, 3 2.25 a m.) NEW YORK, August 18. The Governor of Illinois has indicted 200 whites for rioting.