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Show ATTACKED ; Former Minister to Liberia ' Is Stczcd and Iagon Set on Fire. NEW YORK," Nov. I. Negroes in One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street attacked a truck from which James R. Spurgeon, a former Minister to Liberia, was haranguing the crowd In support of a Democ ratio Congressional nominee. The crowd, incensed by some remark of the ex-diplomat, pelted him with various va-rious missiles, and finally fret fire to the bunting- with which the truck was decorated. dec-orated. Flames shot up all around the speaker and those on the truck with him, and they beat a hasty retreat. Police reserves had to be called out, and night sticks frequently used at an Interval of an hour and a half before the negroes were persuaded to go to their homes. |