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Show Fatally Ansaulted an Old floliller. El Reno, I.T., May 10. Last night Jim Jackson, a negro, visited the cabin of John C. Smith, three miles east of hero, called him to the door, assaulted him and left him for dead. Smith is fi2 years old and is aerippled soldier of the late war. Ho was until recently an inmate in-mate of the National Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kan, llo has u son and two daughters in tho stato of Washington. Washing-ton. It is believed ho will dio. Tho assault is supposed to havo been made in an attempt to secure tho old man's money. The negro was arrested and lodged here in tho county jail. |