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Show -; lAlvt ilbill fr I MASSIIXOX, 0., July 10, With B cries of "Hong him I" "Lynch tho E bmtel" a mob of several hundred g persons gathered in tho northorn part K of tho city tonight and threatened to B - wreck summary vengeance upon Har- H vcy Micfcens, a negro who is accused ff i having attacked Myrtle ETana, a i lC-year-oId white girL The negro had been captured by a posee, who chased I bim for several miles on a handcar. I ' About half n hundred men surrounded t I l" Jail and made a demonstration of 1 i violence, but were quickly repelled i ' "T tho police and dpntls. Nows of i tho attempted assanlt had pained wide onrroncy and intense excitement prevailed pre-vailed an tho members of the posee with their prisoner arrived : f ' Take Prisoner to Canton. Upon the negro's appearance on the i clt"'s outskirts the crowd made a i rush rs if to teke the prisoner from f I Mr, custodians, bnt tho police and I. deputies drove the mob back quicklv, r ! nnd soon had the negro landed safely L n jail. I Lter tonight Mickens was spirited fc away to the county Jail at Canton for V i snfe keeping; e bridges overv the Ttlo , Grande have bccii' gwept awv " . X". v Tjje'. Rock1 ftlap,d" .nd "qm nSout,b. western "arc,, haying,, 'jnych, trouble ywlth soft' tracks, and.,, tho, jM,exlcan Central is funning, trains 14- hours Into. A considerable section of the Santa Fc roadbed north of' this city is gone. |