The women of the race have not escaped the fury of the mob. In Jackson, Tennessee, in the summer of 1886, a white woman died of poisoning. Her black cook was suspected, and as a box of rat poison was found in her room, she was hurried away to jail. When the mob had worked itself to the lynching pitch, she was dragged out of jail, every stitch of clothing torn from her body, and she was hung in the public court-house square in sight of everybody. Jackson is one of the oldest towns in the State, and the State Supreme Court holds its sittings there; but no one was arrested for the deed—not even a protest was uttered. The husband of the poisoned woman has since died a raving maniac, and his ravings showed that he, and not the poor black cook, was the poisoner of his wife. A fifteen year old negro girl was hanged in Rayville, Louisiana, in the Spring of 1892, on the same charge of poisoning white persons. There was no more proof or investigation of this case than the one in Jackson. A negro woman, Lou Stevens, was hanged from a railway bridge in Hollendale, Mississippi, in 1892. She was charged with being accessory to the murder of her white paramour, who had shamefully abused her. In 1892 there were 240 persons lynched. The entire number is divided among the following States: Alabama 22 Arkansas 25 California 3 Florida 11 Georgia 17 Idaho 8 Montana 4 New York 1 North Carolina 5 North Dakota 1 Ohio 3 South Carolina 5 Illinois 1 Kansas 3 Kentucky 9 Louisiana 29 Maryland 1 Mississippi 16 Missouri 6 Tennessee 28 Texas 15 Virginia 7 West Virginia 5 Wyoming 9 Arizona Ter. 3 Oklahoma 2 Of this number 160 were of Negro descent. Four of them were lynched in New York, Ohio and Kansas; the remainder were murdered in the south. Five of this number were females. The charges for which they were lynched cover a wide range. They are as follows: Rape 46 Murder 58 Rioting 3 Race prejudice 6 No cause given 4 Incendiarism 6 Robbery 6 Assault and Battery 1 Attempted Rape 11 Suspected Robbery 4 Larceny 1 Self defense 1 Insulting women 2 Desperadoes 6 Fraud 1 Attempted murder 2 No offense stated, boy and girl 2