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Show i.IU?i5PtCDS, kilD .HALM SHOOTS. DOWN SHIP'S CREW Stoker on Steamer Arabistan Resisted tapture I: Throughout Entire Voyage. ' . NEW TORK, March- -Details have been received here of a fight which occurred oc-curred aboard ' the British steamship Arabistan, bound from this port to Montevideo, Monte-video, In which a road Italian stoker half killed a. fellow stoker and then shot down all the officers who tried to put him in ironsL The vessel sailed for the south February 11th. When nearlnc Bah I a, .the Italian ' I struck down another stoker with a bar. He was called before the captain who ordered or-dered him tn Irons. Drawing a revolver, the man shot down every one who approached ap-proached and fled to the hold. A hose was trained on the hatchway and he was kept below until the ship docked at Bahia. where the authorities dragged him ashore, charged with murder, two of the wounded men having died. The captain, who was severely wounded, has recovered. , |