Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — RACE RIOTS OCCUR IN OMAHA [ARTICLE]

RACE RIOTS OCCUR IN OMAHA

One Negro Killed, Numerous Fight* and Many Arrested. Omaha, July s.—Race riots in Omaha as the result of the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight are responsable for the death of one negro and numerous lights and the arrest of a dozed or more blacks. Trouble started just after the fight decision came and within half an hour five fights in which negroes participated had occurred. Last evening “Red” Dale and Henry Anderson, both negroes, engaged in an argument over,the prize fight and Dale shot and killed Anderson. Dale escaped. Negroes threaten to lynch him if he is captured.