The Mena weekly star., 1897-02-10
A TROUPE SCARED.
Cowboys in Eonsa-Is Tcrroriza tAe
 Columbia Opera Company.
POISON PUT IN THE MILK.
A Bridge Gives Way -shet Dead by n Con stable Fatal Quarrel. Fire at Lsscoanb, ia.-Esaiiway shops Isarned-An
 lncendiary Fire.

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 9.-Superir- tendent Russell Harding, of the Great Northernrailway, has received report from the agent at Shelby Junction. Mont, that when the members of the Columbia Opera company arrived ther4 yesterday the cowboys greeted it with fusillade from their revolvers. After the party had alightcd the COW boys proceeded ta enliven them. E= three hours the members of the com pany were terrorized, their tormentops firing reSolvers, fighting with the men and insulting the women. When the station agent interfered the COW boys threatened to kill him and he was cofs- pelled to hide in a warehouse. The sheriff was notified and, armed with d warrant, is searching for the perps- trators
 Poison Put in the Milk.
 NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 9.-John E. Clancy aged s55, employed at the Bloomsdale dairy, had an altercation with his employer, J. E. Ferritt. ST., who supplies 25O families in Norfork with milk. Yesterday Ferritthad deliv- cred milk to about dozen customers when he found q pccH- liar coloring in the milk. Clancy's threat came to him like q flash and he quickly went to all the places, and found none had yet been used. He reported to the police and Clancy was arrested. The milk WAS analysed and found to contain poison. some of which was found under the finger nails of the prisoner. who nt first made q denial, but later said he had used it in treating sick cattle.
 \ Fridge Gives Way.
 DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 0.A freign train on the santa E'e road met with 2 disastrous wreck near Wylie, northeast of here last night The engine had just crossed bridge when the strue- ture gave way. The entire train, eS- cept the caboose, went into the stream. The stream was SO filled with wrecked cars as to leave no room for the cs- boose. One man, said to be tramp, is reported killed.
 Shot Dead by a Constable. 4 Afah1AN, ,, Mich. Feb. Q. Nonstak.e James Lawyer. of Lee township, ttsis county, shot and killed Joseph White, | bachelor farmer living two miles west of Hoppertown, Saturday night. Law yer was at Whites farm making an in- vestigation of cruelty to animals White became very indignant, making an attack with cross-cut saw. Law yer drew revolr5t and shot White dead. Lawyer wa5 seriously wounded.
 Result of Political Quarrel.
 ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.-Florcncc F. SulR- van, the veteran baseball player, was shot in the abdomen and dangerously injured in s;culiey's saioon OH Broad way. East St. Louis, yesterday fnorn- ing, by James Enright. bailiff of the city court. The shooting was the re suit of fight over politics.
 Fire at l.iScoIab, Ia.
 MAEsiIALLTowN, Ia., Feb. 9. 9.-Several frame store buildings, two barns and an ice house, constituting about half the business portion of Lisconb, IA miles north of Marshalltown, were de stroyed by fire at an early hour yes terday morning.
 Railway shops Burned.
 PRINCETON, Ind, Feb. 9.-The exten- sive shops of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railway in this city were completely destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Loss S75, GOO te s100, GOO.
 Cooiabs' school Burned by Ineendiar.ss
 tsf-rtIrIse. Ok Feb. 9.--Incendiaries burned the schoolhouse at Coombs. The Law and Order league had posse hunting the criminals and has offered ksno ,exvart