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Show AN ACT OF RETRIBUTION. Soldier Hum Down a Palnou In Which a Comrade Was llrntally Deafen. San Francisco, April 18. Fully 1,000 soldiers marched to the saloon of A. L. Rchfold, just outsldo tho reserve, on Saturday night, nnd burned tho building build-ing to tha ground. A bucket brlgado was formed by tho soldier boys and tha adjoining buildings were saved. As n result of tho crtmo over 300 soldiers aro uuder arrest und a number ol others will probably bo arrested, charged with Incendiarism and rioting. All tho soldiers Involved In tho trouble aro white men. Tho troublo began when Ovo or six rccruitH went to the saloon, which if known as tho Presidio Club Cafe. Thero wero several women In tho placo and ji row soon started over one ol them, In which nearly all tho men prosonrvpnrticlpated,-- SVUen comparative compara-tive order had been restored, it wai found Private King had been seriously Jnjnrcd about tho head, his skull probably prob-ably fractured and features badly battered. bat-tered. Tho soldiers assert that the saloon pcoplo are responsible, and claim that tho proprietor, A. L. Itch-feld, Itch-feld, was tho chief assailant of tho injured in-jured man. A roport being circulated that King was dead, tho placo wus sot on lire and destroyed as au act of retribution. |