The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-22
FIRE AT JACKSON
 EXCITES PEOPLE They Thought t a Renewal of
 the Even Trouble GRAND JUsY QUITE ACTIVE 
Return Three Indictments Connecting Men With the Burning of Ewen's House and the Various Att
 tempts at Bribery.

Jackson, Ky, July 21.-rhe military camp was alarmed at 2 o'clock thls morn- ing by the cry of fire and by shots fired by the provost guards and two details of troops were sent into town. The fire was near the depot and q small house, belong ing to Henry Collier was burned.
 The people were wildly excited for fear it was repetition of the Ewen fire. Inves- tigation showed 1t was of incendiary origin and a negro is suspected and the troops are hunting him.
 The burned house was near a house owned by Henry Comings and occupied by the Strong family. The Strongs are the last of the noted Strong-Armis feud. The Armises were all killed. The Calla- hans had inter-marred to the Armls family and took up the feud for several years afterwards.
 B. J. Ewen remained in the express car in which he was brought from Lexington until l a. m, when he was escorted to camp. He appeared under a hollow square guard today and insisted that the grand jury first consider the cases of Crawford and Tharpe charged with setting fire to Ewen's hotel, in which case Ewen is not witness, as he was in camp with the soldiers when his hotel was burned
 Want to Get Hearing.
 It is stated that Ewens friends want to ascertain how the pending inquiry pro- ceeds before they testify in the bribery cases. Captain Ewen said that Gardiner Plummer, who offered him five thousand HnlI Ior xrrfta l., bod cealed, was poor man and one of his best friends, and there was no desire to punish Hummer and let the man escape who furnished the five thousand dollars and made Hummer act as the "go-be- tween"
 The grand jury tonight returned in- dictments against Edward Tharpe and Joseph Crawford, teamsters for the liar gis brothers, for arson. They were held on the charge of setting fire to Ewen 8 hotel last month. An indictment was also returned against Gardiner Hummer for attempting to bribe q witness. It Is charged that he offered B. J. Ewen five thousand dollars to leave town so that he could not testify in the trial of Curtis Jett and Thomas White. It Is currently reported that L. T. Bo1in, who is well known here as we'll as Ewen, testified before the grand jury as to who was to
 
 Ewen by Hummer, and that two we'll known county officers were named in the grand jury room.
 Other Cases Taken Up.
 As the jury is continuing it's sessions after returning true bills in the arson and bribery cases, 1t Is generally be- lieved that the investigation is extending into other capital offenses in connection with the feud. It Is known that witnesses were called to testify regarding the as- sassination of Dr. Cox, and 1t is thought that other cases that never received of- ficlal notice heretofore will now be taken up.
 There Is much talk over an alleged quarrel between County Judge James Hargls and Sheriff Edward Callahan. It is said that the former was angry because the sheriff refused to insist on his rights to draw the present grand jury, and that the latter replied that Judge Redwine would have appointed an elisor in his place If he had not declined to serve Ac- cording to common report these county officials after a passage of words were about to come to blows when bystanders interferred. 1t is also reported that there have been differences between the two gentlemen since the transfer of Jett and White to jail at Lexington, and that the trouble started with Callahan, refus- ing to pay any part of the expenses of the Marcum murder trial here.