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Show TAKING IN A "TERROR."! A .Michigan Bad Man Who Resents a Dnn by Attempting- to Kill the Collector. j Eelisrious Services In an Ohio Saloon, and a 3Ian 3fysteriously 3Inr-dcred 3Inr-dcred at the End of them. Outbreak of Small-Pox in A'ew York, and There Are Now Several - - Cases In the Hospital. : A family of Terrors. loxu, Mich., Septembor 20. Abner Aid-rich, Aid-rich, a man abgut 45 years of age, with his wife and two children, one of them a young inan about 20, live on a farm about eight miles from this city and east of Collins station, on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad. The family have been for years THE TERROR OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD Where they reside. Aldrich has been arrested ar-rested for assault and threats against life time out of number, and never without cause. Some time since a judgment was obtained ob-tained against him in the justice's court of Portland, but no officer there would attempt at-tempt collection, so it was brought to this city and given to Constable Perry H. Chapman, with a warning to take help with him and look out for himself. He took with him George Bradley and W. Ainsley, of this city, and went out there yesterday afternoon. They found Aldrich and his 20-year-old son loading wheat into some bags. Chapman stepped up to the wagon, where Aldrich was, and said he was an officer and had an execution, Aldrich caught up an axe laying in the wagon and raised it to strike Chapman, when Chapman COVERED HTM WITH HIS REVOLVER, And at the muzzle compelled him to leave the wagon, and Btill covering him. told the men to seize him, but before they could do so the young man had got a rifle and opened fire on Chapman, and the woman was coming com-ing with an axe. Young Aldrich fired at Chapman, but missed him, and he shot at young Aldrich, who, recovering the repeating repeat-ing Spenoer carbine, opened fire from the house. Bradley fell at the third shot, but was helped away by Ainslay. Chapman was uninjured, but finding himself alone he retreated. re-treated. Ainsley was but slightly injured, but Bradley is in a precarious condition. His right arm Was amputated late in the afternoon, and he is doing as well as could be expected. A warrant was issued for Aldrich. Al-drich. Two men and women and four officers went out to serve it. After HOLDING THE OFFICERS OFF FOUR HOURS WITH RIFLES, They finally yielded, and at midnight were lodged in jail. They still kept the guns and more trouble was expected. The house where the Aldriches live is boarded up and the walls pierced for rifle shooting on the plan of a frontier fort, and is nearly as strong. The family are armed with repeating repeat-ing rifles, and have for years kept off the officers after the plan of yesterday. |