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Show NEQROE8 RUN OUT OF TOWN. Citizens of Louisiana Town Clean Out "Hole-ln-the-Wall" Gang. Now Orleans. Tho work of a re-mnrknble re-mnrknble city houso cleaning party which p.accd l!5Unegro men and "wo-mon "wo-mon on board n pnsscngor train at Lako Charles, La., and shipped them out of tho town nnd parish Is told In dispatches to the Plcayuno. Thoy wore placed on no samo train with the body of a negro who shot and killed the city marshal of Jonnlngs, Un., and who' subsequently died In Jail at Lake Charles from wounds received re-ceived whllo' attempting to avoid arrest. ar-rest. Shortly boforo midnight tho no-gro no-gro tenderloin known as tho "Hole-In-the-Wnll" was Invaded by sovoral hundred hun-dred whlto men, including some members mem-bers of the stato militia on their way to the United States encampmont. The dispatch snys: , "Homo after house was visited and' the inmates, not oven being given time to dress, wero taken out nnd -turned over to a guard. The motley group was marched under guard of pistols to a water tnnk nbout a mile from town, a passonger train was stopped and the negroes put aboard and their fares paid as far as the parish par-ish lino, mombcra of the guard riding that far with them.' Somo of tho no-gro no-gro women wero -shipped away In their night cresses." |