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Show AN ARKANSAS OUTRACE. l oion Labor Orators Brutally Assaulted and Tickets Destroyed. Sr. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1. A special from Little Rock, Ark., says: 1 A mob of !j"i00 men, some mounted and some on foot, Saturday, surrounded surroun-ded tho Morriltown station. A union labor mass meeting was to he held there, on the incoming of a train from Little Rock. Among others was J. R. McLaughlin, the well known union labor la-bor orator,' and George Small, of Sprinfelield, Conway county, prominent promi-nent white republicans who have been hero for the purpose of getting union labor tickets for use in Conway "county election Monday. Small carried tho tickets, T000 in all, and when the train stopped the crowd of meu sprang forward for-ward and poured into the coach where McLaughlin -and Small were seated and brutally assaulted them. They captured captur-ed tho tickets and then went out. All business houses were closed and every man and boy was out taking part in the general excitement..' McLaughlin came back last night and his description of affairs has caused a great deal excitement. Tickets have been printed to replace the ones stolen. |