THE ANTI-NEGRO RIOTS.

Evening Star, Issue 12928, 26 September 1906, Page 6

THE ANTI-NEGRO RIOTS.

*~ Press Association—By Telegrapli—Copyright. A NATIONAL DISGRACE. NEW YORK, September 25. The. public-houses at Atlanta arc still closed, owing to tho anti-negro riots. Seventeen companies of infantiry. besides cavalry and artillery, arc inadntaining order, It now appoaas that many of tho alleged criminal assaults on white women were not assaults at all. The New York ' Evening Post' declares that nothing lias lvapponed in Cuba in the remotest degree approaching the Atlanta horrors. Tho paper adds that the United States cannot now fairly protest against even the most terrible Russian oxecsses. INCITING THE POPULACE. NEW YORK, September 25. (Received September 26, at 7.28 a.m.) The 'Evening Post* affirms that the Atlanta outbreak is the result, of a campaign of denuncasaiion against the negroes which has been pursued for the last six months by politicians and the Press of the State of Georgia. One of the newspapers oflered a reward of 1,000 dollars for the killing of every negro accused of assaulting white women. THE' NEGROES RETALIATE. NEW YORK. September 25. (Received September 26. at 9.33 a.m.) The negroes at Atlanta ambushed and killed a police officer, and wounded four out of ten constables. The rest of the police retaliated, killing several negroes. THE CUBAN RISING . THE GOVERNMENT GIVE WAY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. September 25. It is rumored that the Cuban Government, have decided to concede practically all the insurgents' demands. |On Angust 28 a, cable message advised that. President Palma had denounced the insurgent rising as " a crazy and unjustifiable movement on the part of discontented persons," and that lie proposed to put, it down with a rigorous hand, believing that leniency was out of place. The rebelj, howevor, undor ex-Congressman Guerra, continued to advance on'tho capital. President Roosevelt, then sent a warship, which landed a contingent of bluejackets, and appointed Mr W. 11. Tsrft. Minister of War, tho special representative of the United States to bring about, a. settlement. Pour parlers followed, the insurgents, however, insisting on half the Senate ;ind (Chamber resigning and a new general election being held, the Palma Government to retain office meanwhile. A,s Guerra was apparently in a position to ettforoe his demands, Mr Taft has probably convinced President Palma of tho wisdom of submission.]