| Show r TENNESSEE fi THE on the rampage in tennessee there has been trouble in that state lor for months r the me latest piece of lawlessness on a I 1 large scale WM was perpetrated at brice ville wb where ere a mob of miners liberated convicts and burned the stockade where they were lodged this to is the means taken by the populace to solve v the convict vict labor question with this disposition in a 00 considerable proportion of the work people and a large number of convicted criminals turned loose loom upon society the status of tennessee is likely to go 90 from very bad to much worse but what else could be expected in a state where a masked mob could with impunity break into a house bouse where innocent people were peacefully preparing to engage ln in the de worship ws bip of god and without the slightest caitie butcher them in ID this fashion on elders john H gibbs gibbe and W S berry from utah Uta hand and i martin condor and J B R hudson of 1 f lewis county tennessee were brut 1 ally murdered while mrs condor was wao shot hot and so severely wounded by the F same gong gang as to be maimed for life this terrible tragedy occurred on i the morning of sunday august f 1884 not one of the perpetrators of 5 the horrible hor deed were ever brought to justice now the officers of the state are having their bands full as the re suit of monocracy which they enczur t gead by failure to punish those who took part in one of the most cold blooded and barbarous massacres of innocent people on record tennessee dobo not seem to be near the end of her troubles as the lawless element in the present controversy are evidently gaining ground |
