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Show RACE CLASH IS THREATENED. Tampa, Fla., March C. A serious race clash Is threatened at Palmetto, a small town forty miles south of Tampa, as a result of tho killing of two prominent whlto men by negroes this afternoon. Tho last message from tho scene of tbo crime says that two hundred whites with bloodhounds are pursuing several negroes and if they are captured summary punish-j punish-j ment will bo meted out. This after-t after-t noon when Sam Strlbbling, superintendent superin-tendent for a prominent contractor of this city, disputed with a negro employe about wages the latter shot him with a revolver, killing him in-stautly. in-stautly. Later the negro was chased into the house of another negro who had rifles and ammunition. In the exchange ex-change of Bhots that followed Deputy Sheriff Matthews was Bhot and lclllod. |