Boone County Recorder . ut 300 Hungarians, men andwomen, in which a Hungarian girl waakilled and other* injured, among whomare several deputies. The battle oc-curred about 3 oclock Wednesday after-noon, whHe the members of CompanyC were lunching down at the boiler-house. The deputies were trying tokeep the Hungarians from carryinghack the household goods which hadbeen thrown out of the houses in theforenoon. A big, strong Hungarian wasfighting with the deputies, when SheriffMeCormick started to assist Hungarian saw him comingand tried to shoot The girl who waskilled was a sweetheart o


Boone County Recorder . ut 300 Hungarians, men andwomen, in which a Hungarian girl waakilled and other* injured, among whomare several deputies. The battle oc-curred about 3 oclock Wednesday after-noon, whHe the members of CompanyC were lunching down at the boiler-house. The deputies were trying tokeep the Hungarians from carryinghack the household goods which hadbeen thrown out of the houses in theforenoon. A big, strong Hungarian wasfighting with the deputies, when SheriffMeCormick started to assist Hungarian saw him comingand tried to shoot The girl who waskilled was a sweetheart of the big Hun-garian, and was fighting for hiawith the ferocity of a young lionessThe deputies say the pistol went off lathe hands of the Hun and killed hiasweetheart If itrhad not been for thearrival of Company C at that momentevery deputy would doubtless hav*heett injured, if net killed - Sheriff-Mettormiek was shot through the thumbby the bullet that killed the girL Moments of Dismay Throughoutthe Entire City. Caated. THE PARCEL POST. A PaH of a Carriage Sent Through tl.»Mails—The System Developing people are Aware that under theparcel post treaty with Mexico, Jama-ica, Barbadoes, the Bahamas, BritishHonduras, the Sandwich Islands, theLeeward Islands, Colombia, Costaliica, Salvador and the DanishWest India Islands unsealed packages,not exceeding eleven pounds in weightand three feet six inches in length,may be sent in the mails for twelvecents a pound. Under this law a sys-tem of international commerce is de-veloping rapidly, especially with Mex-ieo. A few djy ^fj +* wppr halfof a carriage, divided into twelve sep-arate packages, was sent from St Louisto Mexico. Over a thousand poundsof merchandise were transmitted byparcel post during the month of March,being four times the volume of suchbusiness for January. All the securityextended by the government to theregular malls is given to the parcel postsystem, and packages are deliveredwhore any of the governments


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