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ASSASSINATION OF COFFEY. Brave Officer Shot Down From Ambush Near the Empire Mine.WAS FOLLOWING UNION OUTLAWS WHEN KILLED.Party of Unionists Had Fired on Guard Preceding Miners Going Peaceably to WorKFIVE UNION MEN ARE UNDER ARRESTIndignation…

MINE GUARD Killed from Ambush at Empire Mines in Christian County. Detective Murdered as He Search [sic] for Hidden Marauders.Three Men are Under Arrest Charged With Having Fired the Fatal Shot.FIRST BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct.…

SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Union Strikers Under Arrest Suspected of Crime. (By Associated Press.) HOPKINSVILLE, KY., Oct. 26.—Special Officer Robert Coffey, chief of the guards at the Empire Mines, was killed to-day from ambush. He had been leading a…

BLOODSHED AT LAST. Officer Bob Coffey Assassinated at Empire Saturday.Slain While Searching the Woods for a Party of Strikers who Fired on Guards. The reign of lawlessness at Empire on Saturday culminated in the slaughter of Robt. H. Coffey, of…

Article Transcription Title: KENTUCKY. A Young Negro Boy Brutally Shot to Death by a Mob. BOWLING GREEN, April 16.—[Special.] At an early hour this morning a mob, composed of seven masked men, visited the house of Boyd Johnson, a negro, in the old…

MobHanged White Prisoner.William Thacker Dragged From Jail At Flemingsburg And Strung Up.Had Twice Been Given a Life Sentence For Murder of John Gordon and Was Awaiting Third Trial.

ANOTHER MASKED MOB INVADES RUSSELLVILLEHangs Four Negroes Who Were in Jail Charged With Complicity in the Cunningham Murder.

Article Transcription Title: Shot by Masked Men. LOUISVILLE, KY. April 15.—Near Bowling Green seven masked men visited the old union this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man named Kirby.

Article Transcription Title: Lynched a Negro Murderer. Louisville, Ky., April 16.—Near Bowling Green, seven masked men visited the Old Union neighborhood at an early hour this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, 18 years of age, who on…

LYNCHED AT NIGHT.A Murderer in Bullitt County Taken From Jail and Hung to a Tree. …