Skaggs, Cleveland Gazette, April 25, 1891

Seven White Curs Kill a Boy

BOWLING GREEN. KY.--William Skaggs, a colored boy eighteen years old, met death, early last week Thursday morning, a victim to mob violence, in the country about two miles from this city. Skaggs, on Tuesday, went up into Allen county on a visit and while there became engaged in a personal difficulty with a white man named William Kirby, resulting in Kirby being fatally cut with a knife. Thursday, seven masked men hunted Skaggs up, and while he was trying to escape a volley of bullets from the maskers killed him.

The Arkansas legislature has twelve Negro representatives, one in the senate and eleven in the house.