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Show KILLS HIS RIVAL AND ..' ', THEN . FLEES WITH WOMAN. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., May 22.-At a Ivmber camp in the'- south part of this county Boon Allen was shot and Instantly killed by Elam Burton. The shooting was caused y Allen's supposed attentions to a wun to whom Burton was devoted. A uarrel arose yesterday evening between be-tween the- men, but friends persuaded tbem to so to their noroes. This morning Burton, with a ' shotgun, shot and instantly , killed Allen, and he and the woman then fled to the swamps, where they are now hiding. , . . Burton came to this county from Kentucky Ken-tucky recently. He is armed, and is said to have told his fellow-workmen that he will not be taken. - Sheriff Hogg and deputies are searching for the two. with little success, as the country in the vicinity is mostly swamps or dense woods. - |