Chinaman Lynched Near Weatherby

PORTLAND, October 3d.—News of the lynching of a Chinaman near the town of Weatherby, Baker county, is received. A Chinese cook, employed in a white family named Jessop, made a criminal assault on a little seven-year-old daughter of his employer. The screams of the child brought assistance, when the Chinaman fled and took refuge in a thicket. He was pursued by crowds of excited men, who set fire to the woods. The flames drove the Celestial out, when he was captured. A rope was procured, and the Chinaman was lynched. The whole affair did not occupy twenty minutes. The Sheriff was sent for after the Celestial was dead, but deemed it prudent to make no arrests. The action of the citizens is generally sanctioned.