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Show Owner of Plantation i Store Burns to Death OSCEOLA, Ark.. Jan. 8.- W. E. Hansel, Han-sel, owner of n. chain of plantation stores, bound to a post, supposedly by robbers, with his face and clothing saturated sat-urated with gasoline, was burned to i death when his store at Holt, near here, was set afire after it had been looted last night. Farmers, roused by a negro who discovered the building in flames, found Hansel. Ho died shortly after being taken from the building. Holt, a farming settlement sbc miles south of here, is populated largely by negroes. no |