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Show THE KNIFE. j A Quarrel and a Seriously (JarveJ Young Man the Result. j As a settler of disputes among Christians the knifo is one of the most barbarous, and yet one of the most effective in its results. And nice more its keen edge has been called into requisition in this city, in an attempt to take human life. About 7 o'clock last evening, two parties of young men one of three and the other of seven persons entered the dining room of the- Overland House, and sat down, to supper. One of the boys, of rather diminutive diminu-tive stature, laid bis bat on a chair, when another, Charles Williams, threw the hat on the door and kicked it. A friend of the owner of the hat. Alma Dudler, resented the insult, and a quarrel ensued. The offence was trivial, yet, combined with the liquor the yotnii; men evidently had drunk, was sullicicnt for a fight. Further trouble in the dining room being suppressed, the parties adjouriKd to the outside, mutually mut-ually agreeing to light. At the Clii't House corner, where theallair was to be settled, a few blows were struck, when the two clinched and fell. As they did so, Williams drew a knife and commenced cutting bis antagonist. antagon-ist. Dudlc-rericd "Hu's got a knife," when one of the hitter's friends a Mr. Young, the owner of the hat over which the trouble bad originated interfered to protect IHidler. Williams' friend caught Young and thrust him aside, and Williams continued con-tinued to use the knife, indicting six painful wounds on Dudler, one of which may prove serious. Immediately after the cutting Williams, Wil-liams, with his friends, took to High I and up to a late hour last night had not been caught, though the police were on Ins track. J)u dler was carried car-ried back to the Overland House where his wounds were dressed by Dr. Thompson. The most dangerous stab was in the back just below the shoulder shoul-der blade, the knife touching the spinal column; there were other deep gashes in the forehead, across the back of the right ear, on the right side of the neck and on the arm. He was sull'ering great pain last evening, even-ing, and at one time it was thought he could not live, but after thoroughly examining the injuries the surgeon pronounced the case as curable. Budler is a young man, about twenty-one years of age, of naturally quiet disposition. He is a son of Mr. Joseph Jos-eph Dudler, the brewer. Williams is a young man of about the . same age as Dudler and resides on one- of the Cotton woods . |