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NEWS WINNOVINGS.
Important Happenings Cleaned
=. From Late Dispatches.
Desperate Hatfeld's Terrible
Story Of Crime.

Ellison Hatfield, sometimes called Ellison
Mounts, one of the participants in the Hat
field-McCoy feud, who is in the Pike County
Jail in Kentucky, has made q confession
to State Attorney Ferguson. 81
was present." he said, land participated
in the murder of the three Mccoy
brothers-Talbot, Farmer and Randolph, Jr
The brothers were taken from school house
in Logan County, W. Va, where they had
brought over to the Tug River, which sepa-
rates West Virginia and Kentucky.
"AbouG fifty feet from the river Carpenter
tied them to a paw-paw bush and hung Ian
tern over their heads Bad Anse Hatfield then
said to them: .Boys. if you have any peace to
make with your Maker you had better make
it, Talbot and Randolph began praying, but
Farmer did not. However, before the boys had
time to finish their prayers John Hatfield
Shot Farmer dead Anse then gave the
order to fire, and shot as he gave the word
killing Talbot and then emptying the
contents of his revolver into the
dead body. Alexander Masser fired
and killed Randolph Mccoy. The others fol-
lowed suit, and all the bodies We're riddled
with bullets. After the boys were killed Wall
Hatfield administered an oath to all of us,
divulged the name of any who were along"
" Captain Hatfield said that he and Tom
Wallace shot jeff Mccoy after he had es-
capped from them. The prisoner also gave
the particulars of the brutal murder Of ALA
phare and Calvin Mccoy. in which he took
part Nine of the Hatfield faction, on a
Sunday night in January, 1855, crossed
the river into Kentucky under
the command of Jim Vance They sur
loI la To lo,,,o-+ao1 Sra1 70
house, and killed the girl rs she stood in the
door begging for her life. Cap and Jonce
Hatfield both asserted that they killed Calvin
Mccoy, and Dragged about it.
The Worlds Conference of Mormons.
: The Worlds Conference of Latter Day
Saints, which has been held at st. Joseph,
Mo-, was the largest assembly of Mormon
representatives ever held in this country.
The preliminary proceedings were attended
by over 500 delegates No regular proceed
ingss were held on the first day but Informal
gatherings discussed various matters
to be considered during the week
There are over 1000 of them in
the city, England having a stronger repre-
sentation than any other foreign country ex-
cept Canada. Australia had eight repre-
sentatives. Much interest is manifested in
the affairs of the Mormon Church in Utah.
The Statehood claims of the Territory will
be put in shape for presentation to Congress
at Washington. A communication from the
Mormon General Conference in session at
Salt Lake arrived by mail and was read.
The report of the church recorder shows
that there are over $4,000 members of the
church. gain Of 1855 in the last year.
There We're 1165 removals and eNpulsionS.
Elder G. 7. Griffith reported that mission
aries in Virginia had met vigorous oppoSi-
tion, and had been threatened with personal
violence on account of the erroneous belief
that the Latter Day Saints were polygamists.
! How Natives Harrassed Stanley.
/ Henry NJ Stanley's letter to the Royal Geo
graphical Society was read at meeting OF
that body in London. The letter consists
mainly Of repetition of what has already
been published. He describes at length the
various devices by which the natives
endeavored to prevent the advance Of the e--
pedition. One of them was to dig shallow
pits across the path of the column and fill
them with skewers, which were deftly cov-
cred with leaves.
: The skewers pierced the feet of Stanley's
men, inficting wounds that in many cases
developed into gangrepous sores. The men
who were famed in this manner were sell
dom of further service.
= Mr.. Stanley calls the natives cunning
rogues," and says that for purposes of ex-
tortion they always pretended that the coun-
try was suffering from a famine.
The 'friendlies," he says, withheld
information, but the natives who
were captured by the expedition i'm
parted all they knew. Mr.. Stanley believes
that the lake he discovered in 1876 belongs to
the Congo.