Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — POLITICS AND MURDER. [ARTICLE]

POLITICS AND MURDER.

A Combination of the two at an Alliance Meeting-Five Men Killed. News reached Little Rock, Ark., on the 29th, of a terrible hand to hand encounter at Bucksport, twenty miles from Eldorado, Union county, at a Farmers Alliance mass-meeting. State Lecturer Bryan, of the Alliance, was the principal speaker of the evening. Shortly after he had concluded his speech, a quarrel took place among several of the spectators, which was soon taken up by many others in the > audience. Winchester rifles, shot guns and pistols were used with deadly effect. Burt Manning, J. H, Town and th re® others whose names could not be learned were killed, and several slightly woundedSheriff Goodwin, of Union county, left Eldorado for the scene of trouble. Redhot politics was the solo causp of the trouble. The Prohibition National Committee wIP meet InJCnicago at the Sherman House on December 17. Sylvester Johnson, of Indianapolis, member of the committee for -Indiana, has been notified and will attend The meeting will determine where the next national Prohibition'conference for :the nomination of a candidate for PresD dent will be held. The last convention was held in Indianapolis.' -