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Show LYNCHING NEGROES. A Mississippi Mob Making it warm for thfl Biack Men. Meridian, Miss., Nov. 28. Reports nave reached here that three negroes were lynched last night four miles west of Meridian. Newton county farmers are said to be on the trail of others implicated im-plicated in an assault on a white man, who came to Meridian on Friday from Newton county and was pursued and fired upon by the negroes. A mob of armed farmers left for the scene, and while no definite news has been received re-ceived from them, it is believed that the' have summarily dealt with the blacks. Early today a frightened negro reported re-ported to the sheriff that a mob of white men were shooting into negro houses and threatening to kill every negro in the community. He said they fired over a hundred shots into the house of the ringleader of Friday's trouble. The sheriff organized a posse aud started for the scene, but on arrival ar-rival could fiud no trace of the white men nor any corpses. However, the three negroes concerned in the outrage had "disappeared." aud it is said the mob had taken them in charge. |