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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…

Now It’s Women They Burn Southern Mob H lds [sic] an Auto-Da-Fe to Punish Suspected Immorality. Lebanon, Ky., Dec. 30.--Within two miles of this city Saturday night a relentless mob burned to death a woman and riddled with bullets her grayhaired…

Edwin Traughber Murder. Prominent Kentuckians Said to Be Guilty of the Crime. Special to the Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 27.--Much excitement is reported from Adairville, Southern Kentucky, 35 miles from here, since the convening of the…

Traughber Lynching. Jury Failed to Agree--Four Were Defendants. Special to The Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Fe. 22--The highly sensational trial of William Proctor, F. P. Apgar, Moses Cook, Jr. and Robert Henderson for the lynching of Edwin…