Farmed Incensed

Tampa, Fia., Jan. il- An attemp has been made to blow up the dam o the Consumere' Electric Street Raihva. by an armed body oí horsemen, whc used dynamite, doing eonsider damage but not succeeding entircly i. their work of destruction. This company has recently coi. strJ1Jj - ew (jam and power hou ave miles north of here, at a cost c $300,000. The country people thre tö blow it up, añil one night the co. pany sent an armed posse of sixty m. out to protect the dam, and sinoe four armed men have guarded the prop eny nighi and day. Thursday night at a late hour horss. men reached the old dam, three fmm the new structure. While were preparing for tlieir work the me. employee! at the old works secured all the available guns and for half an hour a fusilade of shots was exchanged. No one of either party was hurt, bul trom the bullet holes in the house t een be seen that they had a íiarrow escape. The besiegers were driven off and the sheriff oon had a posse thero. The trouble is due to the rising ■■ whioh has flooed the farmers' 1