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Show DUEL IN THE STREETS. How Arkansas Tollllclana Settle Their Tolltlral Difference-.. IlotSprlngs, Ark., March 18. As tho result of Ill-feeling growing out of tho mayoralty contest, a shooting took place In this city In which five men lost their lives, and a bystander ,vas seriously wounded. Tho dead are Thomas Tolcr, chief of police; J. K. Hart, city detective; Thomas F.Ooslco, police sergeant; John Williams, son of sheriff Williams; Louis Hlnkle, driver of a brewery wagon. Ed Spears was shot In the neck and may die. Sheriff Williams was a warm supporter sup-porter of tho regular Democratic nominee, nomi-nee, while Tolcr, Hart and Ooslee were supporters of the opposition candidate. Feeling ran high, and early In tho afternoon shots woro exchanged In front of the city hall between the sheriff and his son John, on ono side, and Sergeant Gosleo on the other, but no ono was Injured. After this both parties determined to havo It out. Tolcr, Hart and Ooslee Oos-lee were together walking south on Central avenue at nbout half-past five o'clock when they met Sheriff Williams Wil-liams and his two sons, John and Coffey, Cof-fey, and Ed Spears a deputy sheriff, In front of Letup's beer depot Tho quarrel quar-rel was rcnowed. No one can tell who fired tho first shot, but In a moment there was a general fusillade, In which forty or fifty shots were exchanged. ex-changed. When It was over, Tolor, Hart, Ooslee Oos-lee and Hlnkle, a non-combatant, wero dead, and John Williams died about an hour later from his wounds. Louis Hlnklo attempted to separate the combatants com-batants at tho commencement and war shot In the head and died Instantly. |