| Show TWO NEGROES shot a city marshal who attempted to hake an arrett A colored excursion became involved in a quarrel and when an officer attempted to restore peace he vas shot posse of whites lynched the culprits st losia jane aa special to the post dispatch Dia patch from aio an exco boat from quincy JUs tend hannibal mo arrived here yesterday with about negroes on board after the boat had tied up curtie young not into a tight with a calorel woman named lena brjan ol 01 hanm N bai the fight became general and city A arenal west on board tl anell it he pat curtie younk under earest when someone in the crowd u in the back and he died in fifteen minutes there wai firmat excitement throughout town when the shooting became known and ahe citizens began to patrol the streets armed with gune and revolvers A of fiely men went on board abr boat and arrested arre eted sam young curtie bob taylor and charles tay all colored and took them to jhb city jail there they were all locked up pending tho arrival of the prosecuting attorney from bowline green the county beat when officers ar rived anday they found that curtie and sam bad been taken from the jail and banged to a convenient tree it ie feared that the two other men will suffer tho dauie fate thy town ia all excitement crowds of people from all parts of the surround in country are comin in to aarl learn of the lunching lynching lyn ching citizens armed with are on guard to prevent any farther baiting and tha sheriff and bis deputies have twenty uvo more negroes in they are ef complicity in the aal are beine held to awan the of tho in aneel will come kofl shortly the two who were lynched were cut down today and buried in the cita cemetery there is eo much excitement that it ie almost impo eible to bet a con necked elory of the late at a mob of 20 men heavily armed marched to the jail and demanded that the give ap hie the abher i iff who was with a of deputies pleaded with the mob to 1 bia prito nere it wae ue elesa however as these about the jail were renz beil they pointed their auna at the sheriffs head ealine we want the sheriff was forced to give up the keys and the mob entered the jail picking out too two young brothers on whom they wreaked their vengeance after banging the to a tree the mob dispersed but it ia feared they may maeo an attempt to get the other men is a river ton ol 01 several thousand inhabitants in pike county fifty miles north of st louie |
