Bloody Race War In Georgia
Joseph Isom, one of the njost prosperoue farmers ara! best citizens oí Brooks county, (a.. was murdered n a party of Negroés, and it leaked out tbat the of Isona was a part of ft plot to uil all the whites who were in the posse whieh a few weeks ago arrested Jesse Jeffretk for the of 1. Mouldim. [som was one of th nost popular men in tlie eountv. He lived in a part of the eounty whère the eg-roes outnumbered the whites. and the created a g-ieat deal of exciteraent. When it developed that the samo gang of Nesrroes had Bworn to kill other white men. the whites ifathered togetlier and the work of death and destruction bcan. Seven Ñeeroes j were killed by one posse of whites and tour by another. and as a result the ' whole eounty is in anus. the whites ag-ainst the blaeks, and a bloodv race ! war is imminent. I.atkk.- The troublo in Brooks Munty, Ga,, is over. The Valdosta idettes were ordered to Quitman bv thegcmsrnor. They found peace r stoi-ed and the citizens assured them that tliere would be no more tronble and they returned to Valdosta
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