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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL OPTION IN AMERICA. HOW IT MAKES FOR "LAW AND ORDER?" TJECENT cables from Springfield, •^~* > Illinois, U.S.A., give terriblo accounts of riots in that city. A negro was arrested on the charge of assaulting: a white woman, and a mob of infuriated whites sought to wreak summary vengeance on him. Baulked of their attempt to murder a man without trial, the crowd invaded the negro quarter of tho town, seized and lynched two innocent negroes, and entered upon an orgy of destruction of tho negroes' property. A drink-enraged mob dominated Springfield during tho whole night, and several negroes and whites wero killed. Peace was only restored by a force of militia with a Gatling gun. The Washington correspondent of Tho London Times describes the gratuitous brutality of the mob as surpassing any racial excesses committed in recent years. And Springfield ia a "No-Licenso" city.

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