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Show Negroes Narrowly Escape Lynching. Seneca. Kan. Jim nnd Olllo Johnson, John-son, negroes of Contrnlla, are In Jail hore, lacking only by a narrow margin mar-gin of bolng victims of an Infuriated mob. Tho men had been betting on tho races, nnd, being losers, attacked a boy bystander. This called for Interference In-terference by Sam Murphy, a whlto spectator. Tho negroes at once slashed slash-ed Murphy, fatally, with knives. A trowd with ropos quickly gathered, crying "lynch thorn, hang them." but tho colored men wero spirited away. |