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ing and beating them and driving them into their homes or elsewhere, until the police became numerous enough to prevent further rioting. The reserves had to be turned out, as negroes and whites rushed to the scene to help their companions. Two unidentified negroes did some drinking in the saloon of Gustave Kanze, at the southwest corner of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and Washington avenue, about dusk last night, and had a quarrel with the proprietor about the payment of the last round. They settled, but were surly, and had to be put out. They threatened vengeance on the proprietor. They and a dozen other negroes were seen about 8 : 30 o'clock opposite the saloon. Allen Price, of No. 10 Weir Court, said he overheard threats to kill " Gus," which he believed to mean Kanze. One of the negroes went to the saloon door and called to Kanze to come outside. First Act of Violence Kanze was busy and did not leave, but Finnessy went to the sidewalk. The man who had called went back to the other negroes, and a knife was seen passed around among them. The first man took it and went back to Finnessy. He attacked the white man, stabbed him twice in the left arm, and then gave him a vicious dig in the abdomen, causing a wound six inches wide and two inches deep. Finnessy fell unconscious on the sidewalk, where he was left for a time, while fight- ing and rioting raged all about and around him. The men in the saloon felt that trouble was brew- ing when the negro called to Kanze to come out, and they seized billiard cues and glasses and bottles, and rushed to the street. The man who did the stabbing fled tow^ard Jerome avenue, and a lot of the men went after him. " Kill him ! Kill that nigger ! Stone him ! Shoot him ! " were some of the shouts that went up from the pursuing crowd.