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Show NIGHT RIDERS IN INDIANA. Land Owners and Tenants In Tobacco Tobac-co District Terrorized. Washington, Ind. "Night riders" are terrorizing land owners and tenants ten-ants in the vicinity of Harriman's Ferry, south of this city. William Schrolucke, a large tobacco tobac-co owner in that neighborhood, reported re-ported that twenty men on horseback visited all his tenants and informed them that if they paid greater rent than one-third of the crop raised, their crops would be mowed down before they became ripe. Farming machinery belonging to three tenants Dn another farm were destroyed. Thomas Taylor, a wealthy land owner, received by mail a package containing powder and matches with a warning note of what he might expect, ex-pect, if he insisted on one-half crop rental. A few days ago a stranger entered a store at Ivy and asked the merchant for reduced price on all the carriage whips in stock. This is taken to mean that the riders intend to administer floggings. , |