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Show TROUBLE IN TENNESSEE. Murderers of Deputy Sheriff Lynched by Frenzied Mob. Union City, Tenn. Tho llttlo town of TlptonvIIlo, bordering on Ileelfoot lake, which has been tho sceno ot many stirring Incidents tho pnst month, witnessed tho lynching lato Tuesday afternoon of three negroes, who wore arrested that morning for murdcrlns Special Deputy Sheriff Richard BurrtiBS and fatally wounding John Hall, a deputy sheriff. Tho negroes ne-groes wero Marshall Stclnback, Edward Ed-ward Stelnback and Jim Stolnback. Theso brothors created a disturbance disturb-ance at a religious meeting near TlptonvIIlo Tlp-tonvIIlo Saturday night, and when the ofllccrs attempted to arrest them a fight ensued, In which tho negroes shot tho officers and mado their escape. es-cape. After being captured and lodged In Jail, a mob formed and, despite de-spite of coolor heads, and after tho negroes had been hurriedly tried and sentenced to death by tho authorities, tho mob took tho negroes from tho jail and hnnged them. |