| Show anarchy in Lou louisiana islai A TERRIBLE stath STATE 0 OF AFFAIRS I 1 i APPEAL FOR FEDERAL IN intervention era V P N T I 1 ON attorney general williams has received a letter from Mr sAlice H 1 Crawford widow of judge crawford murdered lately in louisiana un under derreceni der recent date from columbia caldwell parish lai lae xia in which she says you are doubtless aware of the delibe dellbe deliberate and cold coid blooded murder of judge C ti G crawford and district attorney A 11 harris of the judicial district of the state of louisiana that cruel and horrible deed which has left two widows and nine orphans desolate ha has 1 also aiso I 0 thrown the whole country in such a state of trepidation and fear that I 1 cannot forbear stating tile the fact to you it is perfectly terrible to be compelled to live in this country now people are afraid of one another afraid to say what they think it is even worse than during the war for then if ir men would make a pretense of patriotism south they were safe are afe biow mow no one knows he is safe sir if the president does not send us protection and that speed ilythe best men in our community will be murder ed threats are abroad against our parish judge or sheri sheriff fr and several of our most prominent citizens because they have felt some interest in tracing up these assassins self preservation is the strongest law of or na nature and even I 1 woman as 1 I am feel afraid of being r murdered because I 1 so naturally have taken a deep interest in having the murderers hunted out mrs crawford forwards the following as a sample c cf f ilow liow low they do things in her section lection of tile the country COLUMBIA 3 LoUI loul LOUISIANA lana IANA 99 Md amei amel I 1 will nill drop you a few lines about the negro school you are now teaching jwill gia you until tuesday morning the tile of the month I 1 will be at tho schoolhouse school house tuesday at 12 and if you are there then we will take you out and whip you until you cannot walk for a month and if that will not do we vc will kill kiil you immediately you vou had better take warning and leave we ive would have come and whipped you without giving you notice but we thought that we would give you a little time to get away wo will be there e on tuesday prepared to hillhou kill you jou if if you ure are ire not gone we have stood the sctt seli school ool sir as long as pos possible sibe it has become perfectly dl dis gusting to the whole neighborhood and we intend I 1 to put a stop to it and if you stop it ift you will be dealt with very vers seriously 11 vt 11 ashington A boston roston dry goods dea dealer adv advertises er 1 u grash crash towels A hach machelor elor elon i residing at kansas offers onn ars 1000 reward regard to any lady who M ho can beat him en oking cooking three captains in the cunard service services handmade hae had have made over three hundred voyages across the atlantic chief of police McDonoug rb of st louis louie la Is undergoing g trial for malicious oppression in office the baltimore Ameri american cat thinks it would be rather below than above the actual figures to say that the canning trade requires of cans yearly The Clay county munty towa iowa iowa reporter fays says that yesterday the cold coid vind wind nind we went nt j ap the trousers of many mans a coif ar ling aing ahu what ho he hail had bce been i dolow doia doin till tili iii sill summer the salouh keepers of roma iowa most of whom were indicted for fon c ontra ont ent rr r tola toia to law ave chose p lo 10 goto poto ato jeli jelt jn i iban ihan pay ane of t 55 erch cadi ana nna cuete 70 |
