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One hundred masked men took Bob Sarvers, a colored man who attempted to outrage a young Miss of fifteen, from a train near Franklin, and hung him.

Bob. Sarver, col:. who assaulted Miss. Tennie Ruby near Franklin, Friday, the 3rd inst was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob on the following Monday night, at the place where he attempted to commit the crime. The young lady was a school…

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…

TRIALS SOON.SUSPECTED POLICEMAN AND HIS ACCOMPLICE ARE AT HICKMAN.Fulton, Ky., Feb. 19. - The examining trials of R. M. Potts and Hardee Beasley will probably take place the latter part of the week at Hickman, Ky. They were arrested as suspects for…

ARRESTS MADETWO MEN ACCUSED OF MURDER OF BILL DOOLEY.One of the Prisoners a Police Officer - Fulton is Quiet, But Great Indignation Prevails. Fulton, Ky., Feb. 18. - Police Officer R. M. Potts and Hardee Beasley were arrested this morning charged…

A HARMLESS NEGRO SHOT BY UNKNOWN MEN.Fulton Council Offers Reward of $200 For the Conviction of the Guilty Persons. Fulton, Ky., Feb. 15. - [Special.] - Bill Dooley, a harmless negro, was dragged from his house last night by three men and shot. The…