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Show DEED OF ASSASSINS. 3!r rromlnent Tennessr Clllf.ns Killed From Amtiatli. Murfrccsboro.Tcnn., Oct. 3. Thirty mile east of thl city five men are reported re-ported to have been assassinated. John llolllngswor'tli klllJd a man by the name of Hlggln something over a year ago. A ault was brought agalntt llolltngtworth and Judgment taken agalntt him by tho member of Illg-gln' Illg-gln' family for 330,000, Recently there wa to be an auotlon tola of lit property to satisfy tha Judgment and Ilolllngsworth and several of hi friend concealed themselves In a barn on the place. When tha men camo to carry out the proceedings, the party la hiding hid-ing fired Into them with double-barrel' shotguns, killing four men and wounding another ao badly that he will hardly recover. The dead men are of the most prominent promi-nent people of thl section, A posse I In pursuit of Ilolllngsworth and his party. |