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Lynch Law A Negro Rapist Pays The Penalty Of His Crime– Hung Upon The Bridge At Midnight– By a Mob of Five Hundred Men The people of this city and county took the law into their own hands Tuesday night and executed swift justice upon the…

Lynched on Capital Bridge Mob at Frankfort Hangs John Maxey And Then Riddles His Body With Bullets– Victim Had Fatally Shot Bert Bowers, Of Kansas, A Director Howe Circus– Lexington Detectives Save Man From Probable Death Earlier in the Night, But…

Nothing Likely to Be Done About the Lynching of John Maxey, a Negro, By a Mob at Frankfort Thursday– Governor Willson Denounces Work of the Masked Gang, But the State is Powerless– Those Who Took Part in the Affair Are Believed to Have Been Composed…

Lynching Denounced In Bishop Penick’s Resolution, But It Is Tabled At Frankfort– He Stated That all Male Citizens in Frankfort Were Placed Under Suspicion by Murder of John Maxey. Frankfort, Ky., June 5– The Citizens’ Improvement Association,…

Kentucky Elections Rioting Reported in Various Places– Two Whites Killed in Frankfort– Negro Prisoners Lynched FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 8– A riot commenced here last evening after the closing of the polls. A short scuffle arose among several negroes,…

The Pulpit and the Bar Father Lambert Young— Letter from Hon. John L. Scott to Judge Ballard The case of Father Lamber Young drags, and will not be finally disposed of for two or three months to come. He was fined fifty dollars and costs by…