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locked up. Ho was given his bed, table, books and writing materials, but every thing else was kept from him.HE SHOT TWO MEN,Anlt;lThen Went and Killed Himself—A Mule Also Dead In the Melee.Nasiivii.i.e, Tens., Nov. 5.—John K. Alexander, a respectable and well-to-do farmer living in the western portion of Hickman County, in what is called the Blackwell settlement on .Duck river, yesterday morning about nine o’clock shot I and seriously wounded Jackson Black-well and his son with a Winchester repeating rifle, and then killed himself in his pca-ficld. All were neighbors. Jackson Blackwell received fourshots and lii.s son five, and both will die.After the shooting Alexander told a neighbor named Saunders what ho had done, and s^ud then that ho was going to kill himself, which bo did. Alexander was buried to-day. Blackwell was a well-to-do farmer, a good citizen and an cider in the Christian church. lU-fceling had existed for some lime. Blackwell was hauling corn out of his field and had to pass Alexander’s corn-crib, in which Alexander had secreted himself, and from which he shot the Blackwells. lie also killed a mule ofBlackwell’s at the time when tho shootingtook place.Ill own Up by Powder.0 l iwtfunr?if rs \V V 4 Nnv. li— A fcorri-ifr wilhd began. A mu rched of tho nlt; The numb(from tbirt was by u lour menW ASIIIX( this.momi by Cptair master's cavalry ar Kas. It is tire regiin pf light ar maudcd b; Cavalry, « lislon, ofMap i soi men of t arrest foi stengel,, lt;rope aroi: wore drag when the up in cot tinucd uivBur;W ASIIINreceived 1hud char
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Granville Times
Granville, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 11, 1887
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