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Presence of Colored Waiters at LintonStirs 'Em Up,Linton, Intl., July 7.—The appearance of eight Terre Haute negroes In Linton last evening caused a demonstration in which the men narrowly escaped death. Alex Sanderson, a Terre Haute caterer, was employed to serve the banquet at the institution ofa new lodge of Elks, He took his cookand waiters with him. and while thelodge work in the hail was going on several hundred miners assembled Inthe street and threatened to dynamite the hall unless the negroes were sent out of town. The eight colored men were hurried into a cab and driven to Jasonvilie, where they were put on the train for Terre Haute. Six policemen hung on the carriage and beat back the crowd while the negroes war© driving out of town.
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Rushville Tuesday Republican

Rushville, Indiana, US

Tue, Jul 07, 1903

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