Noble County Sentinel. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1896 Page: 2 of 4
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1 Frppman Miller Is cr.r.'.ly tho poet
; laureate of Oklahoma.
Warty St. .John 1. si ill having con-
siderable time getting his liond.
The latest raffled report i* that Kill
< arr Inn been apprehended in Mexico.
The average wage* paid to school
teachers in Woods county is 830 a
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to lie a sort
.ion in Ok.. at present.
That cave in Noble county will have
to l e exhibited over the conntry be-
fore people will over believe it i.s a
There is only one pl&cc in Oh lahoma
wherein a man can get more blame
than bv bein# postmaster that is to
l>e a judge.
Sam Marshall, the (Jarficld county
man who was so riddled with bullets,
still has two in him somewhere. He
is going to submit himself to an \ ray.
The first ear load of new wheat on
the St. Louis market in 1893 came
from Oklaeoina. It arrived in St.
I«ouis June 10, 1895. What will be
the date this year?
An Iowa farmer has applied for ft
divorce because his wife refuses to
patch his trousers. Oklahoma has
divorces for causes which are not near-
ly so deep-seated as this.
An Oklahoma grand juror was so
interested in a counterfeiting cise that
he went home ami ripe rated a little
himself. Ho w«s Micccssful enough tr
to get two years in the penitentiary.
Oklahoma has the largest prospec-
tive railroad mileage, according to
th«- Railway Age, that is liable to In-
built this year of any state in the
I'nion. It liar, 1.0.",-j miles. The next
best is Texas with 808 miles.
When young Owens was arrested for
counterfeiting in Oklahoma county,
there was one person who w as heart-
broken. This was his ) cst girl who
getting up an oyster supper in his hon-
or aiifl had already issued invitations
until.
It i
stiinated that 17,000 acres cf
will be planted in OMihoma
cot ton
this year
Col'-IIel Freeman, the Indian at*ent,
was with Custer in his famous cam-
paign.
Recently Miss Laura White of Pur-
cell, horsewhipped a man for fcccusin;:
her of stealing.
Oklahoma is on the eve of a relig-
ious revival. The papers arc full of
the doings of revival1 t%
Pending the settlement of the coun-
ty's change, the public schools in
Greer county arc closed.
Cleveland county has brought suit
Ioimow91MM0 ii few which mvw*
al ex sheriffs thought they were en-
titled to and took.
Miss Jane Eyre is the name of a
Pawnee Indian She is highly cdtr-
eated and admired the book and t«Mik
the heroine s name.
The Oklahoma fanner should plant
trees before he plants him a handsome
house. It is noticed that ten-year-old
•an't lie Is* grown in one day: and
Ail over Oklahoma Krflir corn la
known as the farmer's 'standby."
A charter has been gianted to the
Oklahoma Mining and Tjwn company
of Okarche.
An evangelist who has spoken in
several places in Oklahoma county is
1- years of age. His name is Parks.
Oklahoma's stateho«>d ha* been re-
ported favorably by the committee,
but Oklahoma doesn't expect it now.
Alter lieing out six days the jury in
the William Smith perjury case in Ok-
lahoma county brought in a verdict of
guilty.
Howard Hall is known as the pota-
to king of Grant county. lie has set-
en varieties of potatoe ■> growing on
his farm.
A man who recently met Sam Stnall
says that that reverend gentleman
does not n<>t like to'alk aliout 1:is Ok-
lahoma experience.
Oklahoinaus are rejoicing in the
belief that when the next anniversary
of her opening to s •ttlcment comes
she will be enjoying free hemes acd
statehood.
• oalgate has a tailor who is a hyp-
notist. When a man goes into his
tailoring establishment, he hypno-
tizes him and measures him for a new
suit. Rut when he goes to collect his
hill he paralyzes him.
Jack Potts, an employe of the Stand-
ard oil company of Kay county has
given tip his |H>sition and gone to Olt-
, lahoma county. That is probably a
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many t( man when he is able to build l>n-tty (fwid county in which to loiiite
a frixMl house lliul> lie has to (In it on a -'aek I ott.
bald knob. I Miss Ilattie I*. Wilhelm, of the Rridg-
Luckv Davis, Louis ravia, Kufns
Ruck. M. July. Sam Hampton, and Rd
Wilkey. alias Davis, were sentenced
in tlw federal court at Fort Smith,
Wednesday, to Is? hanged on Wednes-
day, July 8th, for crimes against wo-
men. committed in the Indian Terri-
tory. L'leky Davis is a negro, Wilkey
is white, and the others are Indians.
of
Grant OiitHth and Dave Wallace,
working for the Cherokee Coal com.
pany in Alderson slope, were badly
burned Wednesday by gas, the former,
it is believed, futaily. Roth were tak-
en to South McAlester hospital for
treatment.
Considerable excitement exists over
the disappearance of 8 year-ole Kdith
Fritsch. the daughter of a well-to do
farmer living in Noble county. She
has been missing since Monday and it
Is believed that she has been kidnap-
ped or killed.
G. W. Crosby, superintendent
public instruction for Noble county,
savs twenty new school house., have
been hnilt in the past few months
costing from to f.VMi each. There
are fifty schools in the county anil the j
fund amounts to a little over SO,000 j
man Hotel, in the Indian country, has
liecn left a fortune of S.5,<KK by an
old admirer of hers. The man who
made her an heiress had been a elorlc
in the hotel at one time.
T. J. Palmer who is going to read a
paper at tho Oklahoma Press Associa-
tion, entitled: "How Much Space
Should be Devoted to Kditorial?" de-
votes no more space to editorial than
any other editor in the territory.
and there are
the county.
,100 school
The mystery of Dead Man's Crossing
may lie solved. This is a crossing
Oklahoma county. The day of the
opening a dead man. unknown, was
found there. The officers now be-
hildrcn in *'eve l^py are on the seeut of tho man
I who murdered him.
In many of our Oklahoma exchangca
we notice that some frightful runa-
ways have Ijcen occasioned by per-
I sons thoughtlessly throwing paper into
tin' streets. This is something that is
j contrary to nearly every yillage ordin-
ance and should he strictly enforced.
teacher. "Don't let it occur again.''
Kate L. Ncuman. wife of Lieuten-
ant Bertram S. Neuman of the I'nited
States man-of-war Charleston, secured
i divorce in the Noble county court.
She is a daughter of Captain A. R j
Dawson of the. I'nited States army j
mil lives in Washington and New York !
In the Noble county district court,
i Saturday A. I). Kersey and his two
j sons, V. E. and A. N. Kern-v and liar
; ry Carter and Daniel Williams were ar-
rested Saturday for perjury. They
were witnesses in a ease in the I'nited
• States court. This makes eleven ar
| rests and indictments from one land
Rill Doolin chief among western
outlaws, was indicted Friday evening
for the murder of three men, Deputy
I'nited States Marshals Late Shadley,
Richard Shead and Thomas Ponton.
The murders occurred ut Ingalls in
A boy in a Canadian county school September last. There are about
soddenly broke « ut laughing asd three doatn charges, ranging fromj. Robert i,. Owen, the distinguished
when reprimanded by the teacher j bank and train robbing to murders, i Cherokee politician and financier, will
said: •oh. I waa just thinking about • hashing over the outlaw. s -n at auction In Blaekwell, CX T. on
Mimething." "You liaye no right to I Several of the Oklahoma county su- • Saturday, May 10th, a large number
think during scIkniI hours," said the j perinteudent say that many of the j of lots in that town the design being
distriets will begin the eoiuinsr school ' to g*t more people interested to help
.vear free of debt. Teachers will feel and by promoting the construction of
that a better day has dawned, when j a railroad to the place, make a few
once they can take their orders to the j lots with a railroad worth more than
district treasurer and receive the cash | many,
for them. While the warrant system,
owing to the condition of the country,
has probably l een a necessary evil, it
City. The ease was tried three mohths ! is vt'r.V « -vpensive method of paying
tgo, the court at that time refused a | '•«,,,ts and always works a hardship to
lecree. I 1teacher. Those who build and
One of the most Important captures furniali houses always a Id to the price
In many days is that of the arrest of ! th,'.v eharge enough to enable them to
Davis alias Diamond Field Jack, by make a fair profit when their war- n,ntl'8ti One man has been sent to
Sheriff Trousdale of Pottawatomie I rHU*N have been discounted heavily; l',e penitentiary, two others convicted
county a few days ago. A re war.I of | ,n,t the teacher is paid no more in ^ and eight are in jail.
81,400 had oeen t>tiered for his arrest warrants than he should receive in | Dr. Frank Bleehambers, a druggist
cash. Thus, without gain to the tax- of Kureka Spring, Ark., has filed n
payer, the teacher's wages are re- suit for divorce from his wife, Minnie
dueed to what is a good deal less than ; Klcchambcrs. in the Noble county
a reasonable remuneration. Cash pay- court. He says Mrs. lllcchainbers
mi nts will be a gain both to the teach- i lives at Atchinson, Kan., and they
er and to the supporters of the schools; j were married in 180'?, Rlechamhers
for the teacher will receive the full I alleges that his wife abandoned him
iinount of his wages, and the taxpayer ' because he would not send his two
will save the interest which must lie I daughters by a former wife auuv
paid until the warrants can be paid in j from home and give her all the proper-
cash. | ty.
Railroad building is huving a j reat | Sam Lee. the colored gentleman who
ty shot a man through the arm, badly | boom in Oklahoma. An ok., exchange ! was convicted of perjury some time
lacerating it. and when arrested said ' says one town in the territory has j g« in Kay county has been sentenced
he didn't know any boil y in Greer built thirteen new roads in the past to Hve years in the penitentiary and to
county hud authority to arrest a law week and is preparing to build anoth- ! pay SMK) tine. This is one of the most
t.r I noted cases of the numerous cases in
An old man named James T. Row- j Oklahoma that grew out of land con-
land, living on Mud creek in the In- I t"1*- lh,t very few people lielleve
dian Territory, was shot three times I 18 Ruilty. I lie case will be sp*
Monday by his daughter-in-law, Mrj. inaled.
Jaines Rowland, and died Tuesday Mrs. Kmuin de Reina was divorced
The trouble grew out of j in the Noble county district court
the daughter-in-law accusing him of i Tuesday from Miwguel de Reina.
sucking three eggs. They were married on the Island of
Last year in Pawnee county. James ! Cuba, April 17, ism. Two years later
Kendall's wife sued him for divorce they came to the I'nited States, since
and it was granted her. Now Jim- which time the plaintiff claims she
mie forges to the front and says he ! had wholly supported herself by keep-
docs not propose to l>e a down trodden '"tf a rooming house or flat in New
creature In other words the worm ^ ork City. She further stated that
has turned and Jiinmie is now slicing ber husband made no effort to support
his wife for S.1.000 back salary for the I her, spending his time lounging about
duties he performed the past three the theatres of New York. The de-
years. Jimmic docs not stipulate | cree was granted on the grounds of
and conviction by Idaho authorities,
being charged with at least three
cold blooded murders in that state.
Sheriff Trousdale has had his eye on
the mini for Bone thMand finally be-
ing satisfied that he had the right
man, quietly took him and wired the
> Idaho authorities. II. I.. Perkins, uu
dershcriff, and George Watrous, a
noted detective of Denver, came on
snd got their man Thursday.
A tough citizen down in Greer coun-
breaker for any offense, whatever. He
discovered, to his regret, however,
that Greer county now has a full com-
plement of authorised officials.
Charley King has one of the best im
proved farms iu Gartield county. The
.entire farm, except twenty acres j# J morning,
under cultivation and a large lake of
water has been established on the
place, located so that at least thirty
acres can be irrigated if necessary.
Mr. King has sit out about ten a ores
of fruit trees of the best variety and
they look real thrifty The lake is
fed by a large double pump windmill
In less than five years the King farm
will l>c producing $.V«>oo per year clear '
profit. The proprietor is a worker j
and after he reaches success the drone
A man in Denver has christened his
son Free Silver.
II C. Duncan, a stockman of Pied-
mont, Mo., was robbed of $540 be-
tween St. Louis and Jefferson Rar-
racks by two confidence men.
William Wegner, a wealthy Chicago
manufacturer, struck his neighbors
wife in a quarrel and was shot dead
by her husband, M. J. Wyckoff, an en-
gineer.
The Transvaal governmcnfcls in pos-
session cf telegrams directly Implicat-
ing the South Africa Chartered Com-
pany, Cecil Rhodes and other notables
in the Jamison raid.
Junior Order American Mechanics
lost 9200,000 by a Philadelphia tire.
Hamilton Disston, the famous saw
manufacturer, is dead.
Mexican weevil U playing havoc
with cotton in Kennedy apd Runge
counties. Texas.
Robert Ward of Hinshaw. Ky., aged
40, killed his wife, aged -0, and him-
self. Jealousy.
The Epworth league rejects a pro-
posal to co-operate with the Christian
Endeavorers.
An explosion by which 100 are be-
lieved to have perished has occurred
at Micklefield. Yorkshire.
Rishop Diaz, wife, three children
and brother Alfred, who were impris-
oned at Havana, have arrived at
Tampa, Fla.
Five foreigners and C00 Chinese
were drowned at Woo Sung iu a col-
lision between two steamers. I'nited
States cruisers saved many.
Robert Campbell, aged -*0, of Den-
ver, lost 8100,ooo in Cripple Creek so
killed himself. His widow was re-
strained by force from self destruc-
tion.
Rev. C. O. Rrown of San Francisco,
has been forced to resign his charge.
Governor Hastings has refused a re-
spite to Holmes, who is to hang May 7.
President Zelayo has administered
another crushing defeat to the Nica-
raguan rebels.
Abandoned factory of the Denver
Hardware Manufacturing company
burned: loss, 8100,000.
Sheboygan, Wis., was inundated by
a cloudburst and much damage done.
Servant girls at Superior, Wis., have
formed a union and arc on a strike for
on increase of wages to 81 •' per month.
St. Louis directory for 1896indicates
that the population of the city is now
ill 1,268, an increase of 145,050 since
18 IK).
The American schooner Competitor,
loaded with arms, ammunition and
newspaper men was captuied by a
Spanish gunboat off the coast of
Cuba.
II. II. Massey, millionaire manufac-
turer of agricultural implements, of
Toronto. Canada, left $000,oOo to Can-
adian colleges.
A Cuban plot to blow up a Spanish
war ship, seize the treasure aboard a
Peninsula mail ship and capture the
town of Neuvitas has been nipped in
the bud.
William Scarborough. Joseph Ileid-
elbranch. Mrs. Lucinda Williamson
and Charlea Cranberry were killed by
a cloudburst at Waldo, Del. Damage
is reported to other places there-
abouts.
Captain Henry C. Rorstel, ex-consul
to Rrazil. has tiled suit for divorce
from his wife l.orinda at Perry. Okla.,
on the ground of abandonment. They
were married in Maine in 1808 and sep-
arated in 1800.
The Senate accented the Marquette
statue, presented for the Capitol stat-
uary hall by Wisconsin.
In the new French ministry .Mcline
is premier and minister of agriculture.
Rritish defeated the Mat&he!es in a
big engagement. April jr. but tho
natives are closing iu on Ruluwayo.
Illinois supreme court has decided
that tlie city of Chicago has the right
to reduce street car rates of transpor-
tation.
Kx-Mayor J Hull Davidson of Lex-
ington, Ky., has challenged ex-Mayor
T. Duncan to a duel. Roth are edit-
ors.
If a Wichita prognosticator can be
relied on,Kansas will experience three
more cyclones during the summer of
1806.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the
Salvation Army went slumming and
was arrested, but was bailed out by
Steve Rrodie.
Kansas wheat now averages Oft per
cent of a full crop, and the prospects
are good for « 0,000,000 bushels. Har-
vest will begin inside of a month.
During a popular fete at the town
of Lons Le Sunnier, France, an an-
archist named Colin stabbed and killed
the mayor from political hatred.
A bold and partly successful at-
tempt was made to blow up with dy-
namite the palace of the captain-gen-
eral of the Spanish forces iu Havana.
Ex-President Harrison presided at
a reception and dinner given at In-
dianapolis by the State executive
committee of the Y. M. C. A. Ren
was extra sociable.
'1 wo firemen were killed and 8-50,-
000 of property destroyed by fire in
J. K. Ry water's building. Paris, Tex.
Chief of Police Conlin of New York,
Sin we spare will not spare ua.
DfiOPS NINE FEET lO
STANT DEATH.
Firmly to the Callow*, Uh-r
ifo Wat Attended l>y Father Keiiiie.lj
— I.* ft a Statement to the l'uhllr. but
Mad** no ('onfe lou.
Cahroli.ton, Mo.. May 1.—RU1 fay*
loi was hanged here yesterday morn-
ing at 0:57. The execution passed off
without incident, and Taylor was pro-
nounced deait at 11:15 by a coroncrs
jury. The drop was 0 feet, and the
doomed man's neck was broken by
tho fall. The body was cut down and
placed in charge of W. G. Beckett, of
Purdin, Mo., as per Taylor s last wish.
and will be buried to-day in ^ ount
cemetery, near Laclede, Mo.
Taylor exhibited a remarkable
nerve and presence of mind durincr the
trying ordeal and never once faltered.
He marched from the jail to the scaf-
fold through the crowd of 5( 0 people
without so much as a tremor and de-
scended the scaffold steps with a firm,
steady step. He carried a tiny cruci-
fix in his pinioned arms as he went to
his death and kissed it when it was
offered him by Father Kennedy.
He scanned with idle curiosity the
faces of people who were inside the
stockade, while the straps were placed
about his knees, i nd turned and
looked Sheriff Allen, of Linn county, 1 against McKinley.
The Second. Third, Fifth. Ninth
ami Tweiflh congressional districts of
Michigan gave ironclad instructions
for McKinley.
Republican territorial convention in
Arizona ended in a split, and McKin- j uv
ley and anti-McKinley delegates were
elected to St Louis.
Illinois Republicans turned down
Senator Cullom and instructed for
McKinley. Cullom was backed by the
machine and all the losses
McKinley's victory in Illinois makes
his nomination at St. Louis almost
certain.
Piatt and Manley declare that Mor-
ton and Reed will under no circum-
stances withdraw from the presiden-
tial race.
The Filley-Davis men swept the .
board in the Kansas City Republican j
' nrimaries for presidential delegates.
The Warner-Kerens followers were
badly defeated.
As a side incident of the Leland-
Morrill falling out in Kansas, Leland
charges that in is'.i4 ••Farmer1' Smith
came to him and agreed to withdraw
from the contest for the gubernatorial
nomination if Morrill would pay him
S3,tOO, the amount of his expenses in
the campaign of 189-, when he was
defeated by Le welling. Morrill re-
fused. Smith hotly denies the story
aud says Leland is a liar.
Tennessee Prohibitionists nomi-
nated Josephua Hope wood for gov-
ernor.
Ada, Ohio, A. P. A. s officially de-
nounce the efforts to array the order
full in the face when he tightened the
noose about his neck. He was not J
permitted to talk, nor did he make (
any request to be allowed to make a ;
statement He raised nis chin as the |
black cap was adjusted. Deputy Cum- :
mings dropped a handkerchief; there j
was a slight creak when Sheriff Stan- J
ley threw the lever and the body of
Senator Irby says South Carolina
Democrats will not follow Senator
Tillman in a bolt.
Senator Teller of Colorado flatly an-
nounced his intention to bolt the
Republican party if silver is ignored
at St. Louis
Michigan Democratic convention de-
Rill Taylor, clothed entirely in black, clared for sound money by a narrow
shot into space, and the murder of the majority.
Meeks family was partially avenged. Th IV
limlant Death ItesulteiL
The fall of nine feet broke Taylor's
neck and killed him instantly. There
was not the quiver of a muscle nor
the tremor of a limb after the body
settled from the first rebound. The
execution was a very successful one
will still be sitting around on dry
goods boxes looking for an office or
damning the country.
A man in Pottawatomie county says
to himself at least.
There is an attempt to start up the
will,I dutlra III' performed, but he Im- i alwudonment nn.l non-support. Juilpe
KgineM that they were worth Sl.uuo ■ Miweller wn the attorney for th«
per milium -to himself tit leant, j plaintiff.
Friday night about 0 o'clock James
Clclland, cashier of the Osage trading
k | company was instantly killed at Krebs
A committee has been appointed
from the bar of Oklahoma to investi- ,
gate the professional conduct of Law-
he would run for road overseer if he I statehood agitation again but it wont i '
could tell which ticket to run on. ' -1-
The territorial board of equalisation
probably wishes now that It hadn't
The Chicago Inter Ocean is the only
pa|>er in Chicago that advocate im-
mediate statehood for Oklahoma. The
other papers are against it.
That wall of water iu Reaver coun-
ty is now traveling around the new-
papers of the cast growing a foot in
ueight every day.
We knew it would conn*. Noble
county has a new restaurant called
•'The Mineral.'
Joseph .1 ohuson, an old Oklahoma
county citlr.cn. died at Gaudelnjara iu
Mexico, the other day.
It is a fact that more men were kill-
ed in Oklahoma on April ' than
on any other day in the history of Ok-
lahoma.
The fast woman who was supposed
to have been killed by cocaine iu Lo-
gan county the other night will t>c
dug up. Someone has expressed a
Joubt that she uu* dead.
yer Kugan.
Here s what a tramp, at Coalgate,
said the other day when the lady of
the house showed him the wood pile,
and told him how to earn hi* breakfast;
"You saw me see the wood but you'll
never see me saw it." And she never
did.
Monday Judge Rierer sent Sam
Lee, a citizen of Kay
|M nitcntiary for three
him 8500 for perjury.
out of a contest lie for
office for one of the finest cluiins in
Kay county.
I. T.. by two negroes, who made their
escape before officers could be prcour-
ed Clelland was hit on the head with
a stone, which crushed his skull, kill-
ing him instantly. No motive ia
known.
United States Indian Agent D M.
Wisdom is at Fort Gibson paying oft
the old settlers. The town is crowded
with old settler* anil the usual num-
ber of fakirs.
About 050,000 will soon be distrih*
county, to the uted among Kick a poo l:,dinns.
years and fined This will give them three thousand
The case grew apiece.
the local land
Five pigs were produced in Oklaho-
ma county since last July weighing
I•m ,' pounds. They were fed almost
Texas strawberries are in the mark- exclusively on Kaffir com.
et, and in the next few weeks Oklaho- | David Heard, uged *5, and Mary
ma will U*gin to move her crop. Oil ber t, aged Ort, were married by
The other nlffht at an Oklahoma 1 ••'"•l*' eounty.
prayer meetlnif a limn tliunkeil Hod The old lady refuted to elupe I icon use
that he ti Id not live iu Ohio to be torn she hud no purents to chase tb*>iu and !
up by cyclones and dried up by drouths, make the thing sensational.
in every respect. Sheriff Stanley of
Carroll county. Sheriff Allen of Linn
county, Deputies Lon Shelton ami
George Cummings of Carrollton, Dep-
uty County Marshal J. R. Ross of in-
dependence and Sheriff Andriano of
St Joseph were 011 the scaffold in an
otlicial capacity.
Father Kennedy, through whose ef-
forts Rill Taylor was baptized and
admitted into the Catholic Church,
and Dr. II. W. Tull of Carroll-
ton stood beside the doomed
man offering spiritual consolation as
the preparations were made for the
execution. At the foot of the scaffold
twelve women, members of the Cath-
olic church, who had twice assisted
; Father Kennedy in administering the
last supper to tho condemned man at
the jail and with high ma s at the
1 church, knelt and prayed while Tav-
! lor's soul passed into eternity. They,
with l ather Kennedy and Dr. Tull,
were in the jail when Sheriff Stanley
I read the death warrant to Taylor and
j his hands were bound preparatory to
the march to the scaffold, and they
! went with the procession. It was the
1 first time in the history of Missouri
{ that women were permitted to see an
j execution.
The Heath Warrant Read.
At 10:45 Sheriff Stanley went inside
' the jail with his assistants and read
the death warrant to Taylor. Father
Kennedy praying and pleading all the
time. The prisoner's hands were then
pinioned tight against his stomach
and he was led out. Deputies Shelton
and Cummings preceded Sheriffs Allen
' and Stanley, oetween whom the con-
' demned man walked, his hat upon his
! head and his eyes red and swoilen
with weeping. Next followed Sheriff
j Andriano and Deputy Marshal Ross
of Jackson county, l ather Kennedy
and Dr. Tull followed close upon the
I officials and were followed iu turn by
the twelve women and several young
men who were praying aloud until
the jolt of the dropping body as it
straightened out the rope told them
all was over, Mr* Martha Meeks.
wh )sc son Rill Tajflor killed, and
some women of Sheriff Stanley's
family, also saw the exccutiou.
Taylor'* Statement to the l'uhlic
lie left the following statement to
the public:
| "1 have only this statement to make.
1 ought not to suffer as I 11111 com-
pelled to do. Prejudice ami perjury
convicted me.
j "Ry this conviction my lonely wife
is to be left a widow, my babies are
made orphans in a cold world, my
brothers to mourn and friends to
: weep. You hustcn my gray haired
, father and mother to their graves.
"The mobs and that element have
! hounded me to the grave. I hail at
I least hoped to live till the good peo-
j pic realized the injustice done me,but
j I am prepared to meet my (rod, and 1
! now wing my way to the great un-
known. There I believe every one is
has broken down from overwork and j properly judged.
.. .1— v mi ..,.| |1qpe my friends will all meet me
in heaven. I believe 1 am going
after a vacation in Kurope will retire.
Howard I*. Frothinghuin, a broker
on the New York stock exchange,
offers to but anywhere from 51,000 to
f.'.'i.ooo iu sums to suit, that McKinley
will be nominated and elected presi-
dent of the I'nited States.
An Illinois Central train with vis-
itors to the State G A. R. encampment
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was ditched by
a washout just east of Raymond Sev-
eral cars were telescoped and four-
teen people injured, but none seri-
ouslv.
Senator Gray of Delaware has intro-
duced a bill for the reorganization of
the Indian Territory.
A bill has been passed by the House
to relieve ex-Postmaster Shipley of
Springfield, Mo., who was robbed of
815<>.
Judge Theodore Rrace, ch.ef justieo
of the Missouri supreme court, has
announced that he is a candidate for
renomination.
Dick ( use of Washington knocked
out Rob Thompson of Salt Lake City
in the forty-fifth round.
A big consignment of bicycles has
been shipped to Cuba for use by the
insurgents in the war.
Atlantic Refining company'* big oil
warehcuse at Pittsburg burned. Lota
IOo,0tft.
The Cuban junta has chartered
seven vesse s in American ports to run
between New York and Cuba.
Su Mackenzie Roweli, Canadian
premier, has resigned.
Hal four sa vs Ycncruelan negotia-
tions are proceeding satisfactorily.
Three hundred employes of tho
Chicago ship Rnihliug Ooin|*any are
on a strike against child labor.
\ tornado cut a wide swath through
I atilkner count\ Arkansas, killing
cattle and wrecking fence-' and ouV*
buildings.
there.
"Good bye all.—W. 1'. Taylor."
When the execution was over tho
crowd, which had been kept at bay
by the militia, was given access to
the stockade. They cut off numerous
mementoes from the scaffold.
After the final scene was enacted,
many who expressed regret at
George's escape said they were glntl
he succeeded in getting away, and
that they did not want to sec another
execution in this city.
Nwltrerland'ii K spoilt ion Opened
Gknkva, May 2.—The nutional ex-
hibition was opened to-day by Vice
President Deueher in the presence of
the government officials, members of
the diplomatic corps, many foreign
visitors and a large attendance of
people.
Mr. (irenhaurii !.*«( Itenlinu I'lace.
Washington,May -. -Arrangements
have been made for the removal of
the body of ex Secretary Greslmm
from its present resting place In Oak-
woods cemetery. Chicago, to Arling-
ton cemetery, this city.
Ilelleven the I'opv lit* Intervened,
Mahkid, May 2.— Despite the denials
from otlicial circles that the Pope,
through the nuncio here, has urged
Spain to accept American mediation
in Cuban affairs, there is an impres- j
sion, especially among military man
and Cuban representatives, that the
report ii true
I'ublle Debt Statement.
Washington, May L\ -The monthly
Statement of tho public debt. shows
that on April .0 the debt, less cash in
the treasury, was 670, an in-
crease for the month of ^">|045,4RI. |
The Populists aud Republicans of
; Alabama have fused on the State
ticket. The Populists named the Gov-
ernor.
The Democratic State convention of
Pennsylvania instructed its delegates
for ex <Governor Pattison for President
on a sound money platform.
The Cleveland wing of the Nebraska
Democracy met in convention at Lin-
coln, indorsed Cleveland's administra-
tion, roasted the free si'ver men and
A. P. A. and clected sound money del-
egates to the Chicago convention.
The Mississippi Democrats declared
for free silver and for Senator Wal-
thal of that State for President.
The Illinois Republicans nominated
John R. Tanner for governor.
Vermont Republicans chose McKin-
ley delegates.
Georgia Republicans split The
regulars elected three McKinley and
one Reed delegate at-large. The bolt-
ers indorsed one Reed and one McKin-
ley delegate and named two contest-
ing delegates.
senator Wolcott of Colorado declares
he will remain loyal to the Republican
party, no matter what action the St.
Louis convention may take on the
money question.
John T. Cowan of Pittsburg, who j
left friends to mourn a 9:200,000 loss,
has been captured in Guatemala.
Silver Democrats have put forward 1
the name of Senator Isham G. Harris
of Tennessee as chairman of the Chi- j
cago convention.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Carl Feigenbaum, recently executed 1
at Sing Sing, is believed to have been
the Wbitecltapel, London, Jack the *1
Kipper.
John Hoag, a Huffalo, N. Y., farmer,
found the head of a woman with a
bullet hole in it iu manure he was ->
hauling from the city.
Trial of ex-City Treasurer Henry
Rolln of Omaha for stealing 9115,000 j
resulted in a hung jury, three men 1
holding out for acquittal.
It is believed in Lngiund that a war |
with thcDutciiiu South Africa ia inev-
itable.
Rock Island railroad company has i
paid $o,500 to the heirs of John Mo-
Roberts and wife, who were killed by
a train at Topeka recently.
John Aiello and Robert Mackey of
the Rerwind Coal company, Trinidad,
Colo., were robbed of 9*,000 by musked
men while en route to pay off their
miners.
A telegram ordering a I'nited States
warship caused Turkey to release in
short order Rev. George P. Knapp.the
American missionary who was ex-
pelled from Ritlis.
Grass on tho prairies of Southwest-
1 ern Kansas is thicker than ever before
known at this time of the year.
Western horsemen are unable to
I find animals that come up to Uncle
I Sam's standard for cavalry service.
Maggie Wagner was found dead in
bed in St. Louis, and her paramour, a
Chinese gambler, is under suspicion.
There were two big failures in
leather trade at Roston, involving
9450,000.
Rookies are said to have lost $18,003
to 325,000 at Louisville since the racing
season opened.
Burglars stole the silver communion
service from SL John's Episcopal
church at Decatur, III.
Ouuti Yick Nam, a Chinaman born
in this country, has made application
for appointment on tho New York
police force. His prospects are good.
He is hated by the highbinders.
Cripple Creek officers believe that
the fire was started by thieves, who
intended to loot the banks.
The census of Paris 011 March 30
showed a population of 2,511,455.
A London cab driver ran down and
injured Prince Christian.
England has decided to withdraw
her invitation, as Kruger has refused
to accept it.
At Topeka Georgo Woodruff was
found guilty of robbing the postoftlce
at Gaylord, Ivan., and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary.
Rallington Rooth allows his soldiers
to ride bicycles Sundays
Sir Henry Parkes, ex-premier of
New South Wales, is deud.
General Greusel, a veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, is dead at Au-
rora. 111., of cancer.
Every reform that comes to stay,
begins in the heart.
Great Britain's National Lifeboat
Institution had 303 loats in 1895. They
launched 4.17 times, saving 533
lives. The average cost of a station is
S.V.'.V) and the cost of maintenance
j S500. There are two steam lifeboat !
| and a third is lieing constructed.
1 A two-year old elk drawing an ordi-
nary buggy with a man driving, trot*
I ted into the town of Aberdeen. Wash.,
| a year ago. The elk was harnessed in
I the usual way, was in every way as
I tractable as a horse, and stood quietly
; when tied up to the hitching post.
One big farm of ranchers, near Miles
City, Wash., employs all the year
round two hunters and a pack of fif-
teen Russian wolf hounds to keep the
range free of wolves and coyotes, which
are a pest to stock raisers all over the
region. So far this year the hunters
have taken the scalps of 233 wolves
and many coyotes.
That
Extreme fired feeling afflicts nearly every-
I body at thi3 season. The hustlers cease to
push, the tireless prow weary, the cner-
! getic become enervated. You know just
j what we mean. Some men and women
: endeavor temporarily to overcome that
Tired
! Feeling by great force of will. Rut this
is unsafe, as it pulls powerfully upon the
nervous system, which will not long stand
such strain. Too many people " work on
their nerves," and the result is seen in un-
fortunate wrecks marked "nervous pros-
tration," in every direction. That tired
Peel-
lr.ff 13 a positive proof of thin, weak. Im-
pure blood; for, if tho blood is rich, red,
vitalized and vigorous, it imparts lifeand
energy to every nerve, organ and tissue
of tho body. The necessity of taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla for that tired feeling
is, therefore, apparent to every one, and
the good it will do you is equally beyond
question. Remember that
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood l'urifier. All druggists. $t.
Prepared only by C. I. Rood & Co., Lowell. Mass.
-j ,, r**ii are easy 10 ,;lk*' ca*y
nOOCi S Pi llS to operate. 28 cents.
One of the health-giving ele-
ments of HIRES Rootbeei is
sarsap.irilla. It contains more
sarsaparilla than many of the
preparations callcd by that name.
HIRES—the best by any test.
HOW folAHV
different advertisements of
COLUMBIA!
BICYCLES
HAVE YOU SEEN?
The variety of Colum-
bia Ricycle advertising
is great. All the pood
points of Columbias, y*
all the delight of riding
thein, cannot be fully
described in any one
advertisement, nor in
a hundred.
We wish to know how
many announcements
can reach any one person, and so offer a
COLUMBIA PQ|7r
BICYCLE as a W H I Mm Ka
to whoever shall send us the greatest
numljer of different Columbia Ricycle
advertisements clipped from newspapers
or magazines issued since Jan. 1, 1896.
Many advertisements differ only in a word
or two; others in the style of type; distinct
variations only, however, will be counted.
Each advertisement must have plainly
attached to it the name and date of the news-
paper or magazine from which It is clipped.
Separate entries cannot he combined.
Entries must be received by us at Hartford
on or before Tuesday. June 30.1896. In case
of a tie, the award will be made according to
priority of receipt and entry. Address
e Department of Statiatios,
POPE MFC. CO., Hartford, Conn.
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Waterproof
SLICKER
The FISH BRAMD PI.ICKF.lt It warranted water-
f f, and will keep you dry tn tho harden mora. Tha
' l*OMMF.ti Sf.K'KEU U n perfcct rl.llug coat, and
rratheer.tireenddle. BewnruofImitation*. Don't
m coat If the " Full Bran<t" Is not on It. IUuitr*>
tr- A. J. TuWI.lt, It'-atop, *"
Minnie Allen, a female convict in
\\ isconxin, has confuaaed to the kill-
ing of Attorney Clibbs of Huffalo, New
York, for which t'larence Robinson
and wife are serving time.
Parties of Westchester, Pa . holding
#„•,800,000 defaulting bonds of the In-
vestment Company t>f America, of To-
peka. have asked that a receiver be
appointed for the company.
Secretary Hoke Smith has recom-
mended to tlifc .attorney general that
the suit upainstthe Hurlington Mis-
souri River Huilroad ' Company to re-
cover ".0,000 acres of laud in IvansTiS
and Nebraska l e dismissed in order to
quiet title of scttiers,
WE HAVE no agents.
w """but «rll direct to tho ron-
punier at "hole**!* priced,
•hip anywhere for cxamin-
m i lull hefoie pale. Kvt-ry-
thlii'f warranted. lOOntylc*
of CarrUcr*, V0 styles «i
Harari«, II ntj li-g Killing Had
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