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Show NEGRO NARROWLY ESCAPES LYNCHING PITTSBURG, Jan. SI. C A. Jackson, Jack-son, a negro, bleeding from many wounds, is locked op following an exciting ex-citing and almost successful attempt to lynch him last night by a crowd of several sev-eral hundred persons in the heart of the business district. A number of unknown negroes who tried to protect Jackson were roughly used. The trouble started in Fifth avenue near Market street, when a newsboy asked the negro to buy a paper. Jackson shored the bov into the street, and the latter threw a stone that struck the negro on the head. Jackson then seized the bov and began to cboke him. The street was crowned at the time, and in a moment several men caught the negro and b"gan to beat him. Some one cried "lynch the nigger," and hundreds hun-dreds of men and boys rushed upon Jackson. 1 |