ASSASSINATION IN HEMPSTEAD.

Lewis McDade, Colored Candidate for Cotton Weigher, Shot Down.

HEMPSTEAD, Tex., October 14. — Lewis McDade, colored, a prominent republican politician, was shot and killed last night about 10 o'clock on one of the public streets by a concealed assassin.

There is no clue to the dastardly deed.  He was a candidate for the office of cotton weigher on the republican ticket.

Everybody here condemns the deed.  Full particulars can not be obtained at present.

"ASSASSINATION IN HEMPSTEAD.", Galveston Daily News, Monday, Oct. 15, 1888, p. 1, col. 2.

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