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Show RACE WAR IN TMS; NINE NEGROES MUD Tragedy Follows the Murder oT Two White Men, Which Was Laid to Members of Black Haee. Tiouston, Texas Sunday night nlno tegroes met flcnth nt the hnnds of a mob In tho vicinity of Hemphill. In Sahluo county, and ns a, result a ter-rlblo ter-rlblo raco war Is feared, every man In that section having eecured arms, nnd nn attack Ih expected nt any moment. The lynching followed the killing of two whlto men by negroes. Two weeks ngo Hugh Denti and several otlrer white men visited the negro church nnd school houso where a dance was In progress, presumably u quest of liquor. It being tho custom of somo of the negroes to sell whiskey during tho lrogress of such affairs. During the evening Dean was killed and six negroes were held for tho killing. At tiro preliminary examination examina-tion the evidence tended to show that the plot was formed at the danco to kill Denn. Saturday lait. Aaron M. Johnson, n prominent farmer, was assassinated v.lillo seated nt a dining table with his wife and child, tho bullet being llred through n window. Tor this crlmo I'erry l'rlce, a negro, was arrested, ar-rested, and. It Is stated, confessed, Implicating Im-plicating Robert Wright, a relntlvo of ono of tho negroes held for Dean's murder. I'rlco declared ho was of-iered of-iered $5 to kill Johnson. Then followed tho forming of a ivob. the overpowering of tho Jailer at Hemphill nnd tho lynching of six no-grocs no-grocs hold for tho murder of Dean. Klve were Imngcd to tho same tree, while another nttempted to escape nnd was shot to death. Later In tho night William McCoy, another negro, was shot nnd killed while standing at tho gnto of tho Johnson home, and next morning the bodies of two more negroes ne-groes were found in the creek bottom. |