NEGROES KILLED.
AFTER CLOSING A SHOP
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, Sept. 13. Negroes attempted to force a merchant at a .small village in Illinois to accept an, irregular bill in payment for small. purchases they had made.
The merchant refused, -whereupon the negroes shut up his shop. _■" The citizens organised a posse, and pursued the negroes..
A pitched battle followed, in which two negroes were killed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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