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A NEGRO LYNCHED In Morgan County fo Writing an Insulting Letter to a White Woman Bawling [sic] Green, Feb. 4.—Last night, near Rockfield, ten miles from this city, a negro named Robert Morton yesterday wrote an insulting note to Miss Tillie…

Another Kentucky Lynching. BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 4—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight last night. The lynchers went about the work in a quiet way, and the people of this vicinity…

NEWS NOTES. An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.

A Murder Summarily Avenged. LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 16–Seven masked men visited the old Union neighborhood near Bowling Green early this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro 18 years of age, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man…

FILLED WITH BULLETS. FATE OF A NEGRO BOY WHO CUT A WHITE ONEA Mob's Vengeance About Two Miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky-The Victim of the Cutting Will Also Pass in His Checks Special to THE LEADER Bowling, Green, KY., April 17.—William Skaggs,…

Seven White Curs Kill a Boy BOWLING GREEN. KY.--William Skaggs, a colored boy eighteen years old, met death, early last week Thursday morning, a victim to mob violence, in the country about two miles from this city. Skaggs, on Tuesday, went up into…

KILLED BY A MOB. A Murderer Meets Sudden Retribution at the Hands of Masked Men in Warren County. BOWLING GREEN, KY., April 16.--At 2 o’clock this afternoon the news was received at this town of a mob that visited the old Union neighborhood, this…

Bob Harper Dies At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the…