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Show constbles and the crowd renewed he-' tji'l!-!. . .. JS'eiaon StarVy, It la Mid. Bred Into tv ' crowd twice, tue f.rst snot wounding or man In the hand end the second bu..t. -entering the abdomen of Knox. The police po-lice d.aperaed the mob with .difficulty, ; after nrreetlnir the detectives and a num- . ber of the .mob. Knox died while being taken to the hospital. ... OLD-BLUE LAWS THE cause, of xnur:? PITTSBURG, , Aug. ' Si. The crusade carried on by the Allegheny County Sab- -bath Observance association In the past three weeks to enforce the blue laws of 1 4 resulted In a riot and murder In Allegheny Alle-gheny last night. The man who was killed vet identified at midnight as Harry D. Krox. driver of an Ice wagon. Itie enforcement of the oid. laws which prohibit the sale on Sunday of Ice, soda water, candv, cigars and every other article arti-cle of merchandise called a luxury -has a ro lined intense feeling throughout the country, and many tnreats have been made against the prosecutors. Last night the chief detective of the association as-sociation P T. Gamble, and two of his force. Nelson C. and Harry W. Starkey, were on trial for perjury, -the charge being be-ing that they secured tne conviction of storekeeper who proved that his store had not Bn-opeod for business on -Sunday. About luuO persons bad gathered about the Alderman's office, and when the hearing hear-ing was concluded the mob made a rush for the detectives. Gamble was knocked down and rendered unconscious - for a time, and the other .detectives were roughly rough-ly handltd. Some time later the detectives detec-tives left the othee under the escort-ef |