Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

KEILAR, the man who murdered his wife, his
county, Kansas, few days ago, was taken
from the possession Of the Sheriff on the Goth
of August, by mob of about 800 citizens, and
hanged 10 the limb of a tree. The Sheriff,
having received limitations of the gathering
of the mob, had secreted the prisoner in the
woods, but was forced by threats of violence to
reveal his whereabouts. Judge G. w. Blair
! and others addressed the mob in behalf of law
and order. and sntreated them to desist from
were composed of the best citizens of the sec
ton, listened patiently, but they were inexora-
| BILE. In response the leader of the lynchers
said he believed he had done his duty in bring
/ ing the prisoner to that place, and he was
sure The punishment about to be melted out to
him was just. The murderer was in the hands
of the people, who could decide what his pun
ishment should be. A vote was taken to de-
eide whether to leave the matter with COM
mittee of twelve to decide the fate of the pris-
oner or to the Court, and the choice fell in
favor of the committee which had charge Of
Kellar. The committee of twelve we're requir-
ed to cast ballots as to his disposal. Eleven
votes we're cast, seven for hanging and
four for trial. The fate of the pris-
oner was decided. Nothing could
arrest it, and preparations were at once made
for the execution. Twelve volunteers were
called for, and they stepped promptly forward,
among them Boyd the husband of one of the
women murdered and the father of both chill
dren. Kellar was given an opportunity TO
make remarks. He declined, but denied all
knowledge of the murder. He was apparently
unaffected by the hasty preparations going
ON. He was offered a chance of confession to a
minister, but declined The two executioners
then pinioned him and stood him on the top of
a wagon. A rope dangled from limb of the
tree already selected. Kellar was blindfolded,
when Boyd placed the rope over his neck.
The word was given. the wagon driven from
under him, and John kellar was dead.
Mayor Medill, of Chicago. has gone on a
twelve months tour to Europe. The Coro-
| ner's jury lii the case of the victims of the re-
| cent disaster on the Chicago and Alton railroad
attributes their deaths to the terminal care
lessness" of the conductor and engineer of the
coal train: and the Coroner thereupon issued
a mittimus for the two men who are incul-
pated. The engineer was already under arrest,
but the conductor has thus far euded the
efforts of the detectives. Mr.. McMu.lin, GEN
eral Superintendent of the road. offers re-
ward of Il, 900 for his arrest . 1t is reported
that the Hon. Matt III. Carpenter is about TO
institute legal proceedings against the Chicago
| Times for defamation of character. :. Hon.
Philetus Sawyer. member. of Congress from
the Sixth District of Wisconsin, committed
suicide at Eau Claire on the Goth of August,
by cutting his throat. Mr.. Sawyer had served
three terms in Congress, and was an indus
trious and faithful representative.
The South.
In Fulton county, No., last week, a mob at
tackled Sheriff's posse while conveying a con-
victed horse-thief named Peter Kossler TO the
Penitentiary. mortally wounding the Sheriff.
seriously wounding the Prosecuting Attorney
John G.. provinces, editor of the Fulton County
Press, John Watson, merchant, and young
man named Dunbar. The prisoner was secured
by the mob and hung. William Jackson
(colored) was hung at Alexandria, Va, on
Aug. Is, for the murder of his wife.
JEFFERSON DAVIS recently addressed the
Southern Historical Convention, a. White
Sulphur Springs, Va. In speaking of the late
war, he said: I'VE have been more cheated
than conquered by the declarations of the
Federal President, Congress. and Generals,
for there never could have been a surrender
had anticipated what followed. and we
would to-day have been free" He still had
hope of the South, because whatever men
might be, lie never yet had seen Reconstruct
ed women, and, while men of this cay are
mightier than the principles for which they
had struggled, he yet hoped the children who
succeed them would grow up to maintain and
perpetuate them, and redeem all that we had
lost A New York Herald correspondent has
mysteriously disappeared in the interior of
Kentucky, and it is feared he has been muir
dered.
THE agent for the Creek Indians states that
since the LIST of May, when he took charge of
that agency. twenty murders have been COM
mitted in the Slope country containing less
than Is, 900 persons, and that not one has been
arrested punished. The best men of the
Territory are in favor of putting the country
under the protection of the United States Gov
eminent.
In st. Landry parish, La, on Aug. 20, two
men quarreled at ball, and met in an open
field to settle the matter by fist-fght. They
were accompanied by a crowd of about one
hundred persons. After the fist-fght gem
eral row, growing out of an old feud, broke
out between the members of two families.
in which pistols and knives were freely used
Augustin Gulleroy killed Carroll Blackman:
Dreux Guilleroy killed Alexander Vidren. and
Aristide Ortega killed Dreux Guilleroy. After
being shot down, Blackman fired three shots
at Augustin Guilleroy, who is between Go and
20 years old, MORALLY wounding him. The
Baltimore Ame,-icdn celebrated its one hun
dredth birthday on the Goth of August.
Washington.
The project for the annexation of Alexan-
dria to the District of Columbia is again re-
vived. The following appointments of
gaugers have been made: B. s. Hood, for
the Tenth Illinois District; Lewis c. Frint.
for the First Ohio District, and l.. r. Cotton,
for Kansas. Treasurer Spinner, in recent
letter, says: Resumption of specie pay
ment has been, and think will continue to
be, put off until the time when the balance of
trade shall be in our favor. When that
time arrives resumption will be easy: in truth,
it will from that cause come Of its own accord
The conversion of Government stocks from
higher to lower rate of interest is now pro-
crossing quite fast as the available force of
the Treasury Department can comfortably
manage it, and the prospect of the continuance
seems to be pretty certainly assured"
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
circular giving notice that the principal and
accrued interest of the 500 bonds below desig-
mated will be paid at the United STATES Treas
ury, Washington, on and after the 10th of
November next, and that interest will cease
from that day. Both the numbers specified of
the bonds called in are inclusive, aud are
known as the third series, act of Feb 25,
1862, dated May /, 1862, as follows :, Coupon
bonds-S50, Nos. POI to 10, 200: 500, Nos
20, o01 to 80, $50; $500, Noa 10.7C1 to II, 800;