At Bellingham, in the State of Vashington, a mob of 500 persons last night raided the mills where foreigners are working, battered down the doors of their lodgings and badly beat a number of Hindus, while they drove 750 of them towards the British Columbia frontier.
Racial feeling, and the fact that Hindus are taking the place of whites in the mills are ascribed as the cause of the outrage.
September 7.
The Mayor of Bellingham, State of Washington, has sworn in special officers to protect Asiatics. Posi~ tions in the mills have been offered
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