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Show NEGROES ARE DRIVEN OUT Colony of Twenty in Pennsylvania Ordered From Town. INDIANA, Pa., Feb. 24. Ten days ago Sterling Alkcn. a negro, shot and wounded Wclton Thomas, a bookkeeper of Webrun. Aiken escaped, but the Webrun residents ordered all the negroes ne-groes in the town about twenty to leave the neighborhood. Falling to comply after repeated requests, the white residents yesterday attacked the negroes' shacks with ropes and poles and pulled them down. The negroes then took their belongings and boarded a freight train for Vintondale. |