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Show A RACE 4VAB IN TEXAS ' ttfn " ) ARMED MENIN THE FIELD LOOKING LOOK-ING FOR NEGROES. Murder of Leading Planter by a Negro Ne-gro Liable to Result in War Between Be-tween Whites and Blacks. News from Walter county, sixty miles north of Houston, Texas, Indicates Indi-cates that raco feeling is very high, owing to tho murdor near Hempstead of Tucker PIncknoy, a brother of Congressman Con-gressman J. M. PIncknoy of tho Houston Hous-ton district It appears that Plnckney and a companion com-panion woro riding by a negro church when thoy woro flrod upon. Whllo tho dead man's body lay ln front of tho church, a negro with a shotgun rodo by and Informed tho crowd that be did the shooting, after which he disappeared. This negro had a finger shot off, which Indicatos that Plnckney Plnck-ney and his companion returned tho Are. Georgo Goss, who was with PIncknoy, PInck-noy, says ho thinks tho nogrocs mistook mis-took the dead man for him. Ovor 100 armed whltos aro In tho field aftor tho negroes. Tho dead man was ono of tho leading plantors and stockmen of this section. |