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The race war in Weston, in which Tom Mitchell. colored, lost his life last Saturday night, originated in talk among the colored people that the election of a Republican governor would result in colored children attending high school with white children. Saturday night, a free-for-all fight between blacks and whites took place on a bridge near Weston, and Tom Mitchell was found dead under the bridge the following morning. Blood was found on the bridge, indicating a struggle. Five colored men showing bruises, have turned up around town, but they will not talk. It is said that in the fight in which Mitchell was killed, there were 12 white men on one side and 12 colored men on the other. One man has been found who says he saw the fight but he refuses to give particulars, further than that he saw 4 negroes knocked down. Thera are about 250 negroes in Weston. One of them, Sawney Vaughan, owns a farm and several houses in town. He is king of the bunch, Missourians say, and a man of intelligence as well aa means.Date(s) of Creation
11/19/1908
