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Show THE MONGOLIAN ATTACKED. A Chinese Laundry Beeieg-ed be a, Murder-nua Murder-nua Uenar IIifithvTayinen l-'olled. Shortly before midnight last night Ye Foong, a laundryman at 2o'J West Second Sec-ond South street was aroused by resounding re-sounding raps at the door. Toouy answered an-swered the taps and a brace of ruffians burst through the door and commanded comman-ded the trembling celestial to disgorge. He pleaded that he had no money whereupon a blow sent bim unconscious unconsci-ous almost to the lloor and the garro-ters garro-ters began their search. In the meantime mean-time another Chinaman had beat his retreat to the rear and was shrieking for assistance when tbe thugs wheeling opened fire on the prostrate form of the proprietor and then leaping into the darkness disappeared. Aroused by the cries of ths Chinaman a number of persons per-sons had rallied and found F'oong with a bullet wound in tbe left leg and another in the fore arm. Foong will be laid up for several days, but the physician phy-sician apprehends no serious results. Knpnlaed the Tliuca. J. 11. Ramsay, a soldier who is now on a furlough end is temporarily messing mess-ing at the Utah house, went out for an airing last evening and was returning to his lodgdings when two men sprang from the shadows of the Valley house and commanded bim to hold up his hands. The soldier seized a rock and landed on the face of the foremost thug and sending him to the grass ho seized the other ilank of the enemy aud a hand-to-hand conilict followed in which Kaiu-sey Kaiu-sey was scoring a victory when the footpad broke loose aud made his escape es-cape on tho heels of his confederate who had, during the struggle, recovered recov-ered his feet. Iu the struggle the footpad foot-pad held his six shooter to his antagonist's antagon-ist's body and threatened to shoot but he was either afraid or was not given tho opportunity. |