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Show DEED OF ASSASSINS. Five Prominent Tennessee Citizens Killed From Ambush. . -- Murfreesboro, Tenn., Oct. 3. Thirty miles east of this eity five men are reported re-ported to have been assassinated. John Hollingsworth killed a man by the name of Higgins something over a year ago. A suit was brought against Hollingsworth and judgment taken against him by the members of Higgins' Hig-gins' family for 850,000. Recently there was to be an auction sale of his property to satisfy the judgment and Hollingsworth and several of his friends concealed themselves in a barn on the place. When the men came to carry out the proceedings, the party in hiding hid-ing fired into them with double-barrel shotguns, killing four men and wounding another so badly that he will hardly recover. The dead men are of the most prominent promi-nent people of this section. A posse is in pursuit of Hollingsworth and his P"rty- ' |