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Show RACE TROUBLE IN EAST. Pennsylvania Women Compelled to Carry Arms for Protection. Pittsburg. One hundred and twenty-six ncgroos who wero arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday, following a' carnival of crlmo againBt young whlto girls In the Horron Hill district recently, re-cently, wero given hearings Wednesday. Wednes-day. Forty-threo of them wero discharged. dis-charged. Forty-two woro fined or sentenced sen-tenced to Jail, and forty-ono wero hold ever pending further Investigation.-Every Investigation.-Every negro who has no vlslblo means) of Bupport or who Is known as a user of drugs will bo arrested. Somo of tho women of 'tho Herron Hill district now go nrmed, and a majority ot tho men havo armed thcmsolves and positively pos-itively threaten to kill negroes caught molesting whlto women. Th pollco nro of tho opinion the torrlblo acts ot tho negroes afo tho work of a few do-generato do-generato cocaine fiends. During tho past month over a dozen girls havo bcon assaulted In tho Horron Hill district. There Is talk of raco riots and bloodshed. |