Show MOBS IN GEORGIA BURN AND MURDER EASTMAN Ga Aug The 29 The charred body of Eli Ell Cooper a i negro I was as found yesterday In the ashes of ofa ofa a negro ch church which was burned by incendiaries early in the morning Three other negro churches and a alegro negro legro lodge in this this section were burned burne Tuesday night The acts of violence followed reports that the the negroes negroes planned to rise up and wipe out the white people and I that hat Cooper remarked the negroes had lad been run over for fifty years but this will all all change Jn in thirty days The rhe only explanations for the burnIng burning burn- burn Ing ng of the churches and lo was that these were said to have I been the scenes of mass meetings j j j recently during which the uprising of was discussed Hundreds I of copies of a Chicago negro newspaper news news- paper aper were said to have been distributed distributed dis- dis at these meetings I Cooper was as taken from his home Wednesday night according to his wife by a crowd of about twenty white men The negro was taken I several miles by the the- mob and it Is presumed that he was shot by the I crowd and his body thrown into the burning church II |