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Show HATPIN HER WEAPON. Boastful Soldiers Meets His Waterloo at the Hands of a Woman. While a cake-walk was going on at East Chester, N. Y., Thomas Evans,'a big artilleryman from Fort Slocurrf,"ap-peared Slocurrf,"ap-peared on the floor flourishing a knife, declaring that he could whip any man In the house. Half a dozen dancers made for the soldier; other artillerymen artillery-men went to his rescue. The row that followed lasted about ten minutes, and several women became mixed up in it. Evans received a thrust In the stomach stom-ach with a long hatpin; William Smith, another artilleryman, had his ear nearly cut off, and an unidentified man had his hand cut by a razor. |