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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…

BLOODSHED AT LAST. Officer Bob Coffey Assassinated at Empire Saturday.Slain While Searching the Woods for a Party of Strikers who Fired on Guards. The reign of lawlessness at Empire on Saturday culminated in the slaughter of Robt. H. Coffey, of…

SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Union Strikers Under Arrest Suspected of Crime. (By Associated Press.) HOPKINSVILLE, KY., Oct. 26.—Special Officer Robert Coffey, chief of the guards at the Empire Mines, was killed to-day from ambush. He had been leading a…

MINE GUARD Killed from Ambush at Empire Mines in Christian County. Detective Murdered as He Search [sic] for Hidden Marauders.Three Men are Under Arrest Charged With Having Fired the Fatal Shot.FIRST BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct.…

ASSASSINATION OF COFFEY. Brave Officer Shot Down From Ambush Near the Empire Mine.WAS FOLLOWING UNION OUTLAWS WHEN KILLED.Party of Unionists Had Fired on Guard Preceding Miners Going Peaceably to WorKFIVE UNION MEN ARE UNDER ARRESTIndignation…

Two Negro Boys Were Lynched at Shelbyville Found Hanging to Bridge at Daylight; Had Murdered Printer Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2– “We, the jury, find that Jimbo Fields and Clarence Garnett came to their death upon the C & O railroad trestle by…

Bad Man Hanged at Courthouse Gate in Paris– George Carter the Victim– Mob Composed of About Twenty-Five Men– The Negro’s Black Record Paris, Ky., Feb. 11– [Special]– George Carter, a negro aged about twenty-one years, was hanged to the arch over…

Killed By A Mob A Negro at Hodgenville Shot Full of HolesHodgenville, Ky., Oct. 31– A mob of 50 or 75 determined citizens arrived in town about 2 o’clock this morning and took from jail Silas Esters, the negro who forced Granville Ward, a…