Ogden Daily Standard | 1898-08-22 | Page 1 | Killed a Prospective Rival Preacher

allied killed a prospective rival preacher rr eacher new york aue aug 22 the american 7 missionary association has rec received elved dle patches stating that rev 1 11 II fletcher pletcher a s C congregational minister and one of its missionaries mission ariee has been shot while at temp tine to organize orga nizo a congregational church at smiley ga which is about twenty miles from hia his home at hagai ga he went to smiley as the result of correspondence concerning the organization of a church which baa has been car ried on for several months white while in the pulpit be was shot through the win win dow hie his body being riddled with buckshot his condition Is i serious although tho the expectation is be he will re cover the would be assassins eins are eaid said tobe to be colored officials ol 01 a methodist church