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Show W ALABAMA FIGHT. ro8S and White Men Have a Battle Over a Keg of Beer. jE SHEEIFP CALLS OUT A POSSE. jj.jjats, Stones and Clubs Are Eurled in Great Profusion One . -Man Killed. " : Birmingham, Ala.. Juno 19. A keg I beer caused a small race riot Tues-v Tues-v it tirooksitc, a small town teu aL south of this city, a pitched battle ' fought on ho niuiu street between i) armed negroes on ono side aud in.it seventv-hvo white men on the Tom 'Redmond, leader of the liro'ee was killed aud two or thrco hers wounded. Tom Acres, white, ,.ivcl a slight wound ou the' head. us the only white man hurt. V troiiblo came about in this way: , sHy a crowd of white men were a wooded hill near the town drink- l,ccr. They threw an empty keg ta the hill and wcro throwing rocks i it One rock struck a party of ne-rot,'s ne-rot,'s nt the foot of the hill, aud a dis-ute dis-ute iiiose betwecu tho whites aud lacks. One white man remarked that ,c ntcioes had bet ter shoot him. The mimes said they -would, and went me and armed themselves with rifles, j jive minutes thirty negroes were iavd and patrolling the streets of the wn making all sorts of threats. The Mies armed themselves, but the Tinble was settled temporarily sit i'ht. Yesterday morning the disturbance asrcTH'ed. Tom Acres, a whito nil, met Jim McDowell, one of the ,.nro leaders of tho disturbance, and nemptrd to arrest him. Acres drew a itol aud would have killed McDowell, iil about that timo Tom Kedmond, an-thcr an-thcr negro, appeared with a ritio in md. McDowell seized Kedmond's fle and lircd. at Acres. The ball isnd tlu'ough the man's hat, inflicting lieht wound in the head. Acres fleet i town, aud tho negroes pursued, wting at him. In front of toe & Co.'s Btoro a pitched atile took place, iu which over 100 iots were iired . The whites had armed leraselves aud the negroes had been enforced to 100. At first tho whites ivc way and fled to tho stores and nu$H, but finally they rdpulsed the I'groes aud drove them away. Several 1 1 he leaders of tho negroes fled to the uods and tho whites pursued.. Two I them. Mack Prater aud Jim MeKae, ore captured. As scon as the sheriff was advised of is trouble he sent out a force of icnty-five deputies, but at 4 o'clock n'C had not succeeded iu quelling the kurbaiiee. Deputy sheriff Lockliart, lio is iu command of the officers, udc a speech to the whites, call-southern call-southern to disperse and assist In iliititaiiiiiig order, but they refused, nil more trouble is expected. |