Show telegraphic NEWS KANSAS CITY april 1 A journal special irom leavenworth says this I 1 his evening as james king white in a leavenworth coal mine was walking along the street he met harrlson harrison young a noted colored politician sam barn headspath Hede Hed and ben easton baston also colored the three negroes were standing at the spot where a year ago headspath Hed fled had knocked down and brutally beaten king king wis was accosted by young and headspath Hed who wanted to fight headspath Hed drew a knife and sprang towards king while young put his bis band in his bis pocket lets kill him bun at this king drew a re and fired two shots at young who dropped dead clead with a bullet through his forehead and a shot through the heart king then turned on Hed headspath and shot him in the right grola inal I 1 acting a fatal wand he then shot easton in the left thigh there had been bad feeling between the white and colored miners for some time and the ahe report that the white miners had killed three colored miners ceased intense excitement among the colored people who compose a large portion of ane population in that neighborhood in ina a few moments the colored people flocked to the scene from every direction carrying shotguns knives pistols and weapons of every ever description all for revenge kins king at once started to run ran the mo met tired fired six shots at king kiu who gamely turned and returned the fire in a short time king now pressed by his wrathful pursuers turned and hii hid in a 9 pump boase bouse of the water works the negroes searched the place for an boar but find him enile the excitement c cit I 1 wag wasat at its height mayor neely appeared on the scene und and attempted to order the crowd back A dozen re were pointed at him and chief of police roberts met with no better success mayor neely made unsuccessful efforts at communicating with the slie riff or deputies by telephone ano an finally moun mounting a bis kis horse started lor for fort leavenworth Leavea worth to get a force of soldiers in the meantime the entire police force of the city had arrived and aided in the seat ch for king A squad of policemen finally found him crouching under an obscure stairway they ordered bim to surrender and he responded by leaping out oat with cocked r revolver volver ready leady to shoot policeman sweet theia shot him the bullet enter jug the muscle of the arm mst below the shoulder inflicting a painful wound while deveral policemen guarded the prisoner others athers went nut nat side and the excited crowd nat kug K ug ng was dead having been shot by a policeman ahne resisting arrest A cheer went up I 1 from rom tha mob and in a short hort time dime nearly aliu alit lefto under the impression that king was dead king kine was waa kept secreted in the building buil build dini inz until a company of 01 irom fort leavenworth whence was taken to the fort to prevent washington april 2 tue tae official correspondence between the united states and germany growing out of the recent troubles in me lue samoan Is lalands will probably be sent to congress today it shows that this government has scrupulously refrained from increasing its prestige and influence in the islands by itself of the unmistakable friendship which the natives entertained for this country bayards bayaras Ba yards letter to minister pendleton concludes in these words in the ovia lon of this government the course taken by germany cannot be regarded fregard ed as having been marked by that aust cou consideration which ancient friendship between the united states slates and germany entitles this government to expect and that the present condition of affairs in the wand island cannot ni view of the circumstances under which it was brought about and is adu maintained be regarded by tho tha united states as satisfactory perm permission dishion is given pendleton in this letter to com bayaras bayards Bavar Ba yards ds views to bismarck 01 J aril 2 the handsome residence of william walter phelps was destroyed by tire last night at a few minutes after six A loud report was heard from the art callery at the southwest corner of the building flames at once filled the gallery and long tongues ot of fire shot from the windows the building was lighted with gasoline ud and it is that the explosion and fire were caused by a defective gas pipe by 9 the entire inside of the house was burned out and nothing left but the walls of tile the house mostly composed of stone thu the hackensack hackenback Hacken sack firemen u tried to get to the fire but the distance is ia three miles and the roads were very muddy there was no water so that they could have rendered no service se ivice ane loss will be bd the house stood in the midst of lawns drives and eryin a park of acres set apart front from the estate of acres which readies reaches from hackensack hackenback Hacken sack to we the grounds and was peaked and towered and gabled on all sides CHICAGO april 2 the burlington continues its aggressive policy and about 9 notified the police that it waa going to ao deliver a train of freight to the michigan central railway A detail of officers was sent to the michigan central yards and robn soon after the burlington bristling with pinkerton dete detectives cOves and various railway officials official Q pulled in beyond the usual curses and aad cair of scabs scab ss that invariably groet greet IQ Q trains nowadays novi there was no it ostile hostile demonstration the cars caks wei acie e delivered to the michigan central the IQ Q engine pinker tons and officials quickly disappeared from the scene As soon as they had bad gone the michigan central switchmen notified the yardmaster that they would not touch the IQ cars A strike on this road will therefore be precipitated whenever an order is given to move more the cars care now in the yard it is thought that this order is sure to come during the morning the burlington also announced that they had four hundred cars at englewood which they intended to offer the like lake shore company during the day several switchmen on that line declared to a reporter that they would not handle them we shall most certainly handle all freight deli delivered verea to us said mackay general freight agent of the michigan central when asked what the they y intended to do with the Q cars our general superintendent arrived here from detroit today just what bis plans are I 1 do not nob know but you can rest assured that we will handle those carfif cars if I 1 have to go down there and ana help myself we prop propose ocie to run this road and it if our present em aloyes refuse to carry out any of our orders order we will wih discharge them and till their places so far I 1 have not heard that they have refused to obey orders 2 an order was made assigning justice harlan to the jouitti judicial circuit to fill the vacancy caused by the death of chief justice waite |