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Show v ulurdtr. J.J The little town of Klni, Bo ir Like it , county, baa its sensation, in the sh.ufl? j ;of a murder, and what ir.nkes it moro I'Jterr.blc is ttic laet that a woman iJ I the killer. A L x years ago a Mr. , ii Pratt purcha.sex.1 the somewhat; E" 'notorious "Cub" Johnson a piece of, 'j land in E len. Pratt recently built a ,c log house on Ihe land, when it ap-fjpearcd ap-fjpearcd that Johnson had gone back 111 1 on his bargain and did not propose lo u ! surrender tho property. The log a house was lornduwn by the Johnsons, is, but immtxliately rebuilt, and a Dane 'i-! named J. C. Sivcnson was sot to work, "'painting it. While he was thus em-e. em-e. ployed, Sally, John-on's wife, armed .k'wiiha danble-barreled shotgun, aud . ie her son, a young man. went to thej )e ' house and told the painter to leave.' ,e ! Ho refused to gj, even after the I woman had threatened to kill him,; si and when she cocked the gun for, u 'carrying the thrc.it into ei-eutiou, he 1 !u!r.m into the bo no and dosed the , heido-Dr. Silly went b-hind the house, he';ftn.j firing through the window, ter-j j ribly ahitlorad Swensju'a riyitt U c J0. above the knee. The guu was j at ! charged with navy bulleW. Four I days afterwards the young man died Kn I from the etlects of the wound. Mrs. '.Johnson is under arrest, but her son lL.n ! is out on b-iil. |