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Show QUARREL OVER f CUP, LYNCHED TEXARKANA, Tex., July 29. Al quarrel over a elrlnking cup betweent a white street paving foreman and u ne.grei employe .-it Hope Ark., about, joj milea n'jrthfeast of T-xarkuna. was followed Frldaj alfternoon By the! lynching of the nero near Guernsey, I four miles southwesl of Hope. John West of Emporia, K'ahs., was the negro lynched The- foreman Waal Henry WorthlngtOA, Ot Topeka, Kuni.i Worthlngton and West crime to blows over the drinking cup and both were fln.-d In the police court for disturbing dis-turbing the pen .. Later West Is re-' ported to have been advised tc. leave town and boarded a train at Hope aJ 10 i.". o'clock onroute to Tearl;an. 1 MOB PREX EDED TRAIN j A mob of about 100 white men prc-l ceded the train to Guernsey where West was taken off. H, was e.n-rlrd e.n-rlrd a short distance from tho track and Bhot to dr-i.h eight Or nine bullets! entering his body. This Ifl th.- second lynching at Hope within the layt 18 months. Brownlel Tuggles having been hanged there on i the night of Marrh 15 1921, because' of an alleged attack on a white woman |