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At Danville, Ky., on the night of the 15th, four masked men entered the Jail and took therefrom Jim Tarpin, who was imprisoned for committing an outrage on a little girl at Perryville. The next morning Tarpin's body was found suspended from a tree.

The Latest Outrage The Kuklux of Owen, frightened from their native haunts by the recent vigorous prosecution of their gang in that county, seem to have betaken themselves to Franklin, where one of their cowardly exploits was perpetrated the other…

The Ku-Klux Grim Death Among Us We have to record the doings of the “King of Terrors” among us-- king of terror and terror of kings; the doings of Death. He came ghastly, if reports be true; and the work he did appeared ghastly enough on yesterday…

Kentucky Elections Rioting Reported in Various Places– Two Whites Killed in Frankfort– Negro Prisoners Lynched FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 8– A riot commenced here last evening after the closing of the polls. A short scuffle arose among several negroes,…