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Show IN HANDS OF MOB. Rioters and Officers Clash at Danville, Ills., Mob Being Foiled. A race war broko out nt Danville, Ills., Saturday night. Whllo a mob of COO men was on its way to tho county coun-ty Jail to lynch James Wilson, a Dloomlngton negro, who had confessed con-fessed to assaulting Mrs. Thomas Burgess, wlfo of n farmer, an unknown un-known negro shot and killed Henry Gotterman. white, a member of the mob. . , Tho murderous negro, a refugee from Evansvllle, Ind., namod J. W. Mayflcld, was then lynched by the mob and three other negroes who attacked at-tacked tho whites were beaten badly. Tho mob Anally resumed Its march to the county Jail, determined to lynch Wilson. Whon tho mob reached the Jail It was flred upon by tho sheriff. sher-iff. Nino porsons were seriously wounded and tho crowd scattered. |