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Show AFTER TWENTY-NINE 1EARS. A Crime of Almost Ante-Bellum Drjs Renewed In Conrt. Hiawatha, Kas., July 18. Great was the excitement at Troy, Douiphau county, this state, today, the occasion being the preliminary examination of Joseph Tribble, who was arrested July 4th at Wathena for the murder of Alexander Alex-ander Kincaid on September 8, 1801. Tribble was a rebel and Kincaid a man of uniou tendencies, although neither belonged to either of the armies. On the day mentioned, which was Sunday, the boys, both under 21, met at a campmeetiug. A quarrel ensued and they went at each other, Kincaid with a butcher-knife, Tribble with a bowio knife. Kincaid was killed. Tribble went to Mississippi and never reappeared until July 4, when he was arrested, and today he was bound over in the sum of $7000, which he is unable to give. The most intense excitement prevailed pre-vailed at Troy during the trial, the courtroom being crowded. Tribble has a wife aud live children iu Mississippi all in destitute circumstances. circum-stances. He made no defense at the preliminary trial today. |