Harpers Ferry Free Press

By a letter received in town from one of Gen. Ashley's expedition, we are informed, that a man by the name of Mike Fink, well known in this quarter as a great marksman with the rifle, and the same who sometime since, in this place, shot off a negro's heel to enable him, as he said, to "wear a genteel boot," was engaged in his favorite amusement of shooting a tin-cup from off the head of another man. when, aiming too low, or for some other cause, shot his companion in the forehead and killed him. Another man of the expedition (whose name we have not heard) remonstrated against Fink's conduct; to which he, (Fink,) replied, that he would kill him likewise; upon which the other drew a pistol and shot Fink dead upon the spot.-- Missouri Republican.