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Show GENERAL. A Savage Fbi1. Chicago. 2'J. An extraordinary . ud, between a number of the wealthiest weal-thiest and most prominent citizens of Wilmington, Ills., has been carried on for the past few weeks. Buildings have been burned, horses poisoned, carriages carria-ges hacked to pieces and . other property prop-erty destroyed by both parries. A day or two since a feilow was arretted on suspicion of having fired some of the buildings burned. lie made a confession confes-sion and declared he was hired by one of the leading citizens, wealthy, and hitherto a respectable man. Further developments show that whi'e the actual ac-tual perpetrators of the various outrages out-rages were hired villains, their employers employ-ers were among the oldest and heretofore hereto-fore the most reputable people of the place. Several of these have been arrested. |