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THREE WHITE MEN KILLED BY NEGROES Webster County On Verge of Race War Over Shooting of Town Marshal of Providence. Dixon, Ky., March 15, – After Jake McDowell, a negro, who shot and it is thought fatally wounded Smith Childers, deputy city Marshal…

NEGROES FIRED ON SUPPOSED MOB And Shot Down Two Innocent Men. RACE WAR NOW THREATENED Result of Fatal Wounding of Deputy Marshal at Providence. DIxon, Ky., March 15. – The fatal wounding of Deputy Marshal Smith Childers by Jake McDowell, at…

Positively Exhibit Afternoon and night at LIVINGSTON, MONDAY, JUNE 15 Jake McDowell, the negro who shot and seriously wounded Smith Childress, Deputy Marshal of Dixon, was taken from the jail at Dixon by a mob and later his body was found in the…

JAKE McDOWELL KILLED BY MOB. Taken From Dixon Jail Sunday Morning and Shot to Death. NEGRO WHO HAD SHOOTING SCRAPE WITH SMITH CHILDERS. Dixon, Ky., May 31. – A dozen or so men took Jake McDowell, a negro, from the Webster county jail here this…

Passion and Mob Spirit Bring Fearful Chain of Tragedies in Webster County. DEPUTY MARSHAL CHILDERS AND TWO TRAVELING MEN VICTIMS Ambuscade Formed to Stop Mob and Sight seers are Shot. MCDOWELL MAKES SERIOUS CHARGED AND SAYS HE SHOT CHILDERS IN…

Article Transcription Untitled Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched in Simpson county, Ky., Monday night for attempted rape on a bright young white girl named Sina Ruley, on last Friday. Her screams brought help and the fiend got off but was arrested…

HANGED BY A MOB. A NEGRO LYNCHED IN TENNESSEE FOR AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 7.—Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruby, near Franklin, Ky., last Friday, was taken from his guards while they were…

FRANKLIN. A BLACK BRUTE BOBS UP SERENELY IN THE TITLE ROLE OF A LYNCHING DRAMA. [Special to the Courier-Journal.] FRANKLIN, March 6.—A negro man by the name of Bob Sarver was taken from the custody of officers to-nightm as he was being passed into…

SWIFT AND SURE Is the Justice of Judge Lynch,And From His Decision There is No Appeal—How Bob Sarver Paid the Penalty of His Crime.SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. BOWLING GREEN., March 7.—Your correspondent has just returned from the scene of the…

RAVISHER LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY. Nashville, March 7.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., to-night, for an attempt to rape a white girl 16 years old named Ruly.