Show It shows a measure of civilization and progress in Missouri when a white man Is sent to the penitentiary for be lag the leader of a mob that lynched a negro This la the cheering report that comes from Joplin and it is an indication indica-tion thut tho State is getting l tired ot mobs and lynchingo It is about as extreme ex-treme IL Case as could be presented sour so-ur as any sort of Justification for a mob Is concerned aside from one cause the negro who was lynched had shot a policeman to death who was try InS to arrest him The Joplin court did well In convicting and sentencing the I ynchcr to ten years In the penitentiary |