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Show TROUBLE IN TENNESSEE. Murderers of Deputy Sheriff Lynched by Frenzied Mob. - 'Vn(cm-GUy,aiimn. I'lu. M'.i'.i.-lnuif of TIptonvllIe, bordering on Reelfoot lako, which has iiecn the bccno ot many stirring Incidents tho past month, witnessed tho lynching Into Tuesday afternoon of three negroes, who were arrested thnt morning ror mnrdorliw Special Deputy Sheriff Richard P.urriibi; and fntally wounding John Hall, a deputy sheriff. Tho ne groes were Marshall Stelnhack, Kd-ward Kd-ward Stelnhack and Jim Stelnhack. Theso brothers crented a disturb-nnco disturb-nnco nt n religious meeting near TIptonvllIe TIp-tonvllIe Saturday night, nnd when the olllcers attempted to nrrest them a light ensued, In which tho negroes shot the officers nnd made their escape.. es-cape.. After being captured and lo'dged In Jail, a mob formed nnd, despite de-spite of cooler heads, nnd ufter tho negroes hud been hurriedly tried nnd sentenced to death by tho authorities, tho mob took thu negroes from tho Jail and hanged them. |