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Show TELEGItAPIl SEWS' Items ol Interest from Various Quarters in eviuence tbere. Tha Reading com- pny has about discontinued the sale of coal for future delivery, and tonight's rioting ilmoet certainly means the shutting shut-ting off of coal handling all over the anthracite field, temporarily at least. New Orleans, 21. A reign of tenor broke out in the bloody Tacgipouh parish par-ish again Uit night, when four Degrees wpre baDged, after the jail in the village of Pontchatrula bad been broken open The Newe this morning received the following letter from Elder Joseph Habbard, written from Charleston, West Virginia, under and the family of Henry Heilfelter had beeD taken from their cells. Mrs. Louisa Lou-isa Helfelter, tbe wife, had been choked ar.d frightened by tbe black ruffians bo unmercifully that she lost- ber mind. ' Tbere were fourteen colored suspects in tbe Pontchatoula jail. Lust night at. 9 o'clock- a committee of white citizens called on sheriff Nix to give up the ke-p, but he tefused. Axes were brought and tbe jail immediately broken open Four of the suspects, were hanged to a tree about two blocks away after being i made to confess. date i iu . i A member ot the church has been shot down and murdered in cold blood. The victim is John Dempaeyof Eugene, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, His slayer was Thomas Clark, a Cam pbel lite preacher, who was his nearest neighbor. "Dempsey waB known as a o-r-ahle citizen, and was widely respected. He was in evary way trying to live the life ot a true follower cf Christ, and was in the etrict discharge of duty when be metfci fate. Tbe school house had been ordered closed by tbe ecbool board and Dempsey was tbe man chosen to close it. lue decision did not oaeet with ibeap-woval ibeap-woval of Clark and beiua : MW ib intense batrfld towards the Mormons aud towards Dempsey, rticnlar. he matched hie chance from a hiding place by the roadside, and s Dempsey passed be pouced the contents of a double-barreled soot gun into his body. Having accomplished the murderous, mur-derous, deed , for which he made premeditated preparations, Clark ran to his hoie, knelt down a-jd prayed and then flad to the woods where be na oeou iu n..,... since. The Derapey family has the sympathy of the community, und eff. i'" are being made to brioe the m crderer to justice- - I .'Mr 1 leavwi a gnef- -stricken wife and five children one ' .of them being a babe Dot aek old "at the time the murder wl commuted commu-ted Be was on tbe way get tbe , i. ,ifo t the ime he aocior . wes shot, and only stopped at the school house for a moment to close tbe door.'' '. . .'Cainpbetrs dislike for everything .Mormon" as been mow intense, and recently 4e was know to remark re-mark thai f Mormou fclders were treated as hev should be they would be rittden on countrv. 'Ret H ems that be tad in, bis 'heart a .till worse I eebng-one eebng-one that caused him to dip b.s hnnda in bumau hloi. He is one of tbe minister, wbq bas beer. per, the Mormon .elders and eayicg an manner of evil agair st tt-em. " PbiWideloW, Sept 21. The trap. ; dv that has been looked for B'hce the coalworteers strike was Won. .cameddenly and unexpeetedlv at Sbanandoh Ihrt afternoon A poise, L riedK'gn.n.-redby Sheriff Toole "f GchuilkiU ' io meet an eaier ;ncy was fo.oed to fire if. a mob S.?w 1hreat.ni.,g work on their way hero ''V'.Aid aud a little gfl wore instantly killed, Lver-,1 others fell store or leM wound L ! ed Sberitf Toole, lost no ume li ontbe xVutiooa! .U.i.rd C.en IZ consultation the authorities decided to send troo.s to the urbu. lent reS.on. At miimieht t.e Fourth Eighth nd Twelfth regiments tbe - Governor's tmop and ..tury C we c.lledouttw.lbGen Gobm com-mand. com-mand. Bbenandoal.'s trorMe was . precipiUted by the closing j collieries there tel. mor.mil through the efforts of strike leader Mow will close tomorrow as a voluntary act it is said. .hBriff This is done at the reque st of She nff Toole, who hopes in this aDDerid. avoid further noting. OutlooK at night, bovver dubiouMS Uia eigners are m an tidy mono i |