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Saturday night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the jail in Russellville and hung him to a tree in the suburbs. The mob was composed of about forty persons most of whom were boys, and but few were disguised. The jailor did not recognize any…

HANGED BY A MOB. Geo. Scott Answers for his Crime to Judge Lynch Approached and Threatened Mrs. Scroggins—Had Planned to Assault and Kill Her. AN ACCOUNT BY AN EVANSVILLE PAPER Russellville was again the scene of a lynching Saturday night. The…

GUARD KILLED Robert Coffee Assassinated Near Empire Mines. STRIKERS FIRED ON MINERS Coffey Started in Pursuit and Was Shot From Ambus. SEVEN MEN UNDER ARREST Five of Them Are Union Miners and Striker — Excitement Over the Affair. Special…

VENGEANCE Meted Out to Negro By Hickman Mob. -------------------- DRAGGED FROM JAIL TO RIVER. ------------------- ROCK TIED TO HIS BODY AND THROWN INTO WATER. ------------------ ASSAULT ON GIRL CHARGED. ----------------- Hickman,…

Feeling At Mayfield Has Not Abated Against Stone--Little Doubt of His Guilt. Mayfield Ky., Nov. 27.--(Special)-- The feeling here against Jim Stone, held for the outrage Monday night on Mrs. J. M. R. Green, one of the most highly respected women in…

Meet Death By Fire MAN AND WOMAN BURNED ALIVE IN KENTUCKY. -------- Mrs. T. J. West Cremated and W. A Deveres [sic] Bullet-Ridden-Prayer of a Little Child Has No Effect on the Band of Brutal Outlaws. -------- Mob’s Awful Deed. In Marion County,…

To The End of the Law Governor Bradley Will Do All in His Power to Punish the Guilty. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 31.--The Commercial Gazette’s special from Frankfort, Ky., says: Governor Bradley feels that the law has been greatly outraged and the state…

Prompted by Revenge Theory of the Double Assassination in Marion County. ------------- Even this Belief Affords No Clew To the Murderers. ------------- WEST A DANGEROUS MAN Lebanon, Ky., Jan. 6.--(Special.)--At the end of a week the identity of…

Shocking Assassination. Horrible Crime of a Marion County Mob. ------ WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. ------ Her Paramour Shot Down As He Fled. ------ DONE AT MIDNIGHT. ------ Mrs. T. J. West and William Dever the Victims. ----- THEIR MURDERERS…

Burned Alive. A Mob Wreaks Vengeance on a Faithless Woman. ---------------- They Attack the House in Which She and Her Paramour Resided. -------------- Failing to Get the Couple Out They Fire the Dwelling--The Man, Attempting to Escape, is Shot…