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MOB’S QUICK WORK. Jack Williams, Who Helps a Brother to Assault a Girl, is Lynched. Tennessee Comes Forward With Another Instance of the Same Kind. Crimes and Casualties Reported By Telegraph From Various Quarters of the Globe. WAYS OF A WICKED…

LYNCHING IN KENTUCKY. Mob Hangs One White Outrager and Menaces Another. A dispatch from Barboursville, Ky., says: Jack Williams was caught in the mountains near Brush Creek and lynched Friday night by a mob of enraged men. He and his brother Tom…

A Kentucky Brute Lynched. Barbourville, Ky., Aug. 6. - “Jack” Williams was caught in the mountains near Brush Creek and lynched last night by a mob of enraged men. He and his brother Tom were accused of assaulting a dear mute fairly named Viney…

LYNCHED FOR WRITING A DISRESPECTFUL LETTER We learn from the Standard, published in Lexington, Ky., that a Robert Morton was lynched in Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 4th for writing an insulting and insinuating letter to a white lady. The Standards…

ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED Kentucky Citizens Take Fratus Warfield From Jail and Hang Him. Shortly after 12 o’clock Thursday morning, Fratus Warfield, a negro, 23 years of age, was taken from the county jail by a mob and hanged at Elkton, Ky. Tuesday the…

Fratus Warfield, a negro, was lynched at Elkton, Ky., by a mob for attempting to enter a farmer’s home when the farmer’s home when the farmer’s wife and little child were the only occupants.

NEGRO LYNCHED. Fratus Warfield Who Attempted to Asoult Mrs. Penick Taken From Jail by a Mob at Midnight. Elkton Ky. Oct. 18, - Last night at midnight the negro Fratus Warfield, who attempted to outrage Mrs Len Penick, the wife of a prominent farmer…

GUARDS OVERPOWERED And Robert Morton Taken out By a Mob and Hanged BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 5.—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight Wednesday night. It is said that the negro, a son of…

NEGRO TAKEN OUT AND MURDERED BY NIGHT RIDERS AT GOLDEN POND. Second Killing That Has Occurred by Night Riders Within a Week. REIGN OF CRIME STILL UNTOUCHED Following close upon the murder of Hiram Hedge in Nicholas county, comes the news of…

Shot Down Inoffensive Negro. A band of twenty-five night riders, masked and armed, rode Tuesday night into Golden Pond, a village in Trigg county, and after firing off guns went to the hotel and from the servants’ quarters forced Tom Weaver, aged…