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Show THE END NOT YET. A Deputy Sheriff and His Posse Have a Brush With Strikers Jfear ' Little Bock. 450 Men Go Out at the Chicago Brnnswick-Balke Works. Evidence Sufficient to Convict 22 Aldermen Ald-ermen and Others in the Broadway Broad-way Railway Job. Trouble Near Little Rock. - Little Rock, Ark., April 9. At 1 o'clock this morning, Deputy Sheriff Williamsy who had charge of the force of deputies guarding the St. Louis & Iron Mountain - round house' and machine shops in Argenta, opposite this city, was approached by F. H. Darley, a leading member of the Knightyof' Labor, and notified to take his force away or they would be put out. Williams said: "I'll take you in now," and seizing Darley, locked him up in . one " of the rooms. Just then the outlines of 20 or 30 men were seen a short distance away and Williams ordered them out, saying he was there to guard the property and would do it if he fell in his tracks. Some one from the crowd replied: "Well, die then!" an da regular regu-lar shooting between the deputies and their assailants began. Probably a hundred shots were fired, and Williams was dangerously wounded; he got - a ball - in the right side, and one or two other lesser wounds in other portions of the body. The mob soon afterward fled. It is reported that several were wounded, but if so they were taken away by their comrades. Sheriff Worthen was telephoned and hurriedly collected col-lected a posse and went over to Argenta. Near the south end of the Iron Mountain railroad bridge, three men - were halted and arrested. One, Charles Stepp, had a double-barreled gun another, named Cork, a ticket agent, was intoxicated and abusive, and was locked up in the bridge ticket office. A strong guard was placed about the round-house shops, and obtaining an engine and car, Williams and the four prisoners were brought to the city. Everything is quiet this morning. Williams' Wil-liams' condition is pronounced critical. He is well known, and a very popular man. 1 |