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  1. The White League Assassinates in the Name Of the Democratic Party
    date November 3, 1880map EAST CARROLL, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, Law, Government, Politics

    A dispatch from Lake Providence, Louisiana has "left little doubt that Dr.Williams B. Jones, the editor of the Lake Providence (La.) Republican, who was foully assassinated at his home on the day after the election, was sent out of this world for the one reason that he was a...outspoken Republican". In Lake Providence's election Gen. FLoyd King, a White Leaguer, was chosen as the Democratic congressional...