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Show A riGHTlMS EDIT0K. nl Erporlrd le Hare Kltlrd m Sfarahal. Birmingham, Ahu, Nov. 29 At Sylaeaug., Ala., this morning W. L. B. Hunter, editor of a weekly piper and correspondent of several dally ipers In the Slate, shot aed killed Charles Niekenon. the town marshal. Monday night Hunter and a party of Irienus were out on a lark auil were arrested by the marshal for firing pistols on tho streets. In a dispatch to a morning paper in this city, Hunter mentioned the arrest and charged that the mardial was drunk at the time. When Niekeron read the article ho was ery angry.but did not meet Hunter until today. They met ou the street, when, it is chimed, the maivhal attacked the editor with a stick; Hunter shit him twice-, oue ball taking ctTect in the brain, causing Instant death. Hunter is in fall. |