From The Massillon Independent (Massillon, Ohio) September 14, 1899 

THREATS OF A MOB
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Want to Lynch a Man at Gallipolis.

   CINCINNATI, Sept. 13. -- [By Associated Press] -- a Times-Star special from Gallipolis says the city is full of excitement owing to the crowds in attendance at the county fair and the open threat from a mob to lynch Horace Brothers, who is in jail charged with criminal assault last night, while he was intoxicated, of Mrs. Ross Gilliland, in consequence of which she died in convulsions. Brothers denies the charge. The only witness against him is the husband of the woman, who is regarded as weak-minded.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010