| Show HERES UP OF the lynch ings of the at wil ui ington dela and belleville the efforts of mobs to mete out punishment on negro criminals at louis and peoria and the widespread ilia cuss ion at thu time of the raco problem have turned the attention of the public again to the prevalence of lunching lynching lyn ching and the causes thereof statistics of the last 10 years compiled by the new york herald bhoj that 1483 lunching lynching lyn ching have occurred in the united states in that time the following table gives an exhibit of the extent of mob law for each of tho years 1900 03 1897 to date 43 1808 last year shows the best record for 20 years january february march and april of this year indicated thai 1903 waa to be even more free of the disgrace but june already has contributed 14 lynch ings to the record and 11 men and 1 woman all but ono were victims of the wrath of mobs in slay the roll of dishonor by states during the last 10 years is as follows alabama arkansas at california colorado 17 delaware 1 florida 81 fie orcia i idaho 1 illinois 12 indiana 16 iowa 4 nebraska 8 wisconsin I 1 arizona 3 kansas i 17 kentucky CO Ioui iana michigan t 4 1 l 2 maryland iti 13 minnesota 7 4 montana 7 missouri 43 mississippi W iloa new york f 1 north carolina 22 ecat virginia 15 indian territory 12 18 oklahoma A 30 nevada 2 north dakota V 3 2 ohio 1 t 5 squy carolina rt 52 pennsylvania tb 2 south dakota ta C teens tennessee 96 Virgi hii 47 washington L 11 wyoming 4 new mexico t 8 alaska i 4 total 1483 georgia heafeli li ellist with lynch ing in 10 is a close second with loudiana Loui iana alabama tennessee arkansas and kentucky following inthe order named of late years the tendency has bet to bum the victims at the stake or to mutilate them in a revolting manner no detailed of statistics on burnings so as known has ever exen of the atrocities however have been in the south in the last three years A table for the ac years from to 1900 the number of lunching lynching lyn ching wag 2510 af these 2050 were in the southern states and in the north tho proportion between blacks and whites vas as two bo one 1078 being cs white men the proportion of black men in thelast ave bews yews has been very much larger this ia accounted for by the fact that lynch ings for horse and cattle stealing by men of the west were formerly more common than they arc today of the 2510 lynched ia the years mentioned victims were men and 51 were women A list of tho causes of lynch ings in the 16 years mentioned is very interesting it shows a range all the way from throwing a tone and doping with a girl to murder and assault the principal causes are divided as follows murder attempted murder 24 murder 28 robbery and murder 8 assault and murder C suspected of murder 18 assault sll attempted assault 77 alleged assault 22 horse stealing cattle stealing 22 borac known cause 92 ho cause 10 race prejudice 49 by 0 by vigilantes lan tes 14 living with whits woman 1 enticing away servant gai 1 bad reputation 8 unpopularity 8 arson 93 robbery 38 outlawry 48 keeping saloon 3 and 2 altogether motives are assigned for alia over aiding of the law by the wrath of the inoa several men were lynched for writing letters to while women one for asking a girl to marry him and several for quarrels with white men the agurci herewith printed omit two of the lyn chinga of the past few days TO ALTAR THE BIBLE an almost unprecedented demand haa been made by the turkish censor in constantinople stantin ople writes our correspondent in reference to the printing of the bible an american bible publishing house ia experiencing some difficulty in printing the sacred volume the turkish objecting to taft word macedonia in st pauls epistle to the thessalonians Thess alonians and insisting op its being replaced by the of kalonika Sal and monastir Mo the mba of ancient geographical names is generally prohibited n turkey I 1 tho publishing house referred to ia probably he isible society 1 thich carries on its york n turkey in joint agreement with the britis h and foreign bible society i official of ho latter body stated on saturday atiat the censors action a peri ence but added that it was perfectly certain that tho american society bould cease circulating the in turkey rather than altar a single word the reference to macedonia in the first epistle 0 sit paul to abo lonians are as follows chapter I 1 verbe 68 6 8 and aja became followers of us and pt the JL alord ord haying ward in much affliction with joy ot the holy ghost so that 0 o were tp all that believe in macedonia andA chaia i for from you bounded out the word ot the lord not only in macedonia bindi but also in every place youra faith to odward od ward is spread abroad so that we need not to speak any thing and in chapter IV verses 9 and 0 but as touching brotherly lovo yo need not that I 1 write unto for ye are af towa oft A n d ye do it toward H th are in all macedonia lut we you brethren that yc increase moro and more |
