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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…

NEWS NOTES. An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.

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…

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.

HUNG BY A MOB.—Nashville dispatch of the 7th: Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruley, near Franklin, Ky., Friday, was taken from the guards while they were endeavoring to take him to Bowling Green for safety, Monday…

Served Him Right. NASHVILLE, March 7,.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., last night for an attempt to rape a white girl sixteen years old, named Ruly.

Three gentlemen arrested for taking the negro Sarver from the hands of the officers at Franklin, to be mobbed, are guarded in the jailer’s residence, and their trial comes off Monday. Public sentiment seems to be in their favor.

Another Kentucky Lynching. BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 4—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight last night. The lynchers went about the work in a quiet way, and the people of this vicinity…

18 Indicted For Lynching (Associated Press Telegram) OWENSBORO, May 12.--Indictments were returned here today against 18 well-known citizens of McLane [sic] growing out of the lynching of the negro William Potter at the Opera-house at Livermore…

Two Negroes Hung by a Mob in Russellville