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Show Crime unU Crliutuula. Mount Vernon, Ky , 22. Several weeka ago a party of men holding meetingB near here tficted an org in izitiou for tbe purpose of killing eeveral persons in the town and county, on trial in the circuit court, should Ibey escape indictment and have also threatened to bum the town and hang certain couuty officials. Last Saturday a writ was issued lor several persons koown lo be members of the organizition and tbe writ was placed in the hands of Ashley Owen-, counly detective. A posse of twenty-fivo twenty-fivo mil was summoned aud together they proceeded to the bouse of Jeaa Tittman, who lives near Pine Hill. Not finding him there, ihuy returned and when a short distance from Pittmau's bouse tbey were fired into by a party of bushwhackers. Tho fire was returned aud eomo 200 shots were excharged when the bush-wbackerw bush-wbackerw withdrew. Two officers were slightly and one of the bushwhackers bush-whackers is reported seriously woimdcd. Independence, Mo., 22. Tbe body of the girl named Ella Ryder, tied hand and foot, wag found in tbe Missouri river some milei below this place on Sunday. The supposition is thai tbe lather ol Hie girl, a farmer, threw her in Ibe river, and then killed hiaitelf because she persibted in keeping company with a disreputable disrepu-table man. |