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Show CHINAMAN !S PURSUES Overtaken by a Mobj and Narrowly Escapes Lynching Settle. Wash., Oct 22 Interference of the police saved Prank I.:;lc, a , Chinaman, from probable Ijnehlng by I a mob cf Infuriated white men who j attacked him after he had knocked : down his American mother-in-law, j Mrs Richard powers, cm the street, i last night. Three months og TjOiiIo married Mrs. Powers' 21 year-old daughter. Miss Lillian filler, telephone operator opera-tor in n fashionable hotel. Mrs. Powers Pow-ers opposed the match j Last night, Mr. and Mrs. Powers , met Louie on Second avenue. Mrs. 1 Powers demanded that he fll them ' where he w as keeping the girl, where- upon the Chinaman knocked her down and fled. A crowd of men lm- : mediately pursued him and Peon of- I fccled his capture. They were throating throat-ing to lynch him when the police interfered. in-terfered. Iiule was locked up, and his white ', wife, who xvas found in a hotel, was : taken to police hedquarlers. , |