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Show Mob Nciium I lie Question. St. Louis, 16. A dispatch from Osceola, Mo , says a mob ot armed and mask Kd men took possession of that town on Friday night, arrested everybody on the Btrefts at tbe muzzle muz-zle of revolvers and shotguns; then went to the court houtie, seized all the tiix buoks for this and past years in Hie coumy clerk's and treasurer's oliicea, and carried them away. The trouble grew out at a railroad tax which had been levied to pay ct-rlain judgment? Against Hie cimuly for pant due intension railroad bond. Several ol lhe mob were recignrzL-d by officers of law, and arrtsiB will probably be m;de, in winch event more trouble wi.l duiiUK occur. |