Show RACE WAR IN TEXAS X SI NINE NEGROES N lYNCHfD Tragedy Follows the Murder of Two White Men Which Was Laid to Members of Black Race Houston Texas Sunday night nine Iegroes met death at tho hands of n mob In tho vicinity of Hemphlll In Snblno county and as lit result a tor ilblo raco war Is feared every man In that section having secured arms and an attack Is expected nt any moment Tho lynching 1 followed the killing of two white men by negroes Two weeks ago Hugh Dean hntl several others other-s hlto men visited tho negro church I anti school house where n dace was In progress presumably In quest of liquor It being tho custom of somo of tho negroes to sell whiskey during tho progress of such affairs During the evening Dean Vas killed nnd six negroes were held for tho killing At tho preliminary examination examina-tion the evidence tended to show that the plot was formed at the danco to kill 1 Dean Saturday last Aaron M Johnson a prominent farmer was assassinated vhllo seated at a dining tnblo with Me wife nnd child the bullet being flrod through a window For this crime Perry Price n negro was arrested ar-rested and It Is stated confessed Implicating Im-plicating Robert Wright n relative of one of tho negroes held for Deans murder Price declared ho was offered of-fered 5 to kill Johnson Then followed tho forming of a mob the overpowering of the jailer at Hemphlll and tho lynching of six negroes ne-groes held for the murder of Dean Five were hanged to tho same tree while another attempted to escape and I was shot to death Later In the night William McCoy another negro was shot and killed while standing at the gate of the Johnson homo and next morning the bodies of two more negroes ne-groes were found In tho creek bottom |