Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-08-22
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CflDo Record.
THE MOUNT PULASKI MuRDRRs.
Mount Pulaski, Aug. 2.-Charles Nc.
Mahon, the farmer who with his hired
men fell victims to assassins near here,
was the owner Of splendid farm, where
he dwelt in quiet and retired way, as
becomes man Of forty, and had aocum.
ulated large fortune. He Was Q abachel-
or and did his own housekeeping, John
Carlock, aged eighteen, and Bob. Ma.
theny. aged twenty. being the only other
men about the place. Both were quiet
and industrious. and like McMahon much
esteemed. They were last seen on
Thursday last week stacking wheat. The
neighbors observing their absence
searched for them Saturday and Sunday
and finally found all their bodies fostering
and ofensively odorous in the rank weeds
about the house. kcMakon's throat
was cut from ear to ear and his head al.
most severed from his body, the gash ex.
tending clear down to the spinal column
and there was no shape to the battered
head. about which . cloth had been tied.
The bodies of Carlock and Matheney
were covered with clotted gore and their
throats cut rs their employers had been.
Their limbs were bound securely
with twine taken from the
roofing machine, gagged and blindfolded
with cloths. Everything pointed to the
most fiendish determination and delibe.
rate purpose. The house was ransacked,
$4,000 in money taken and the house.
hold goods broken. A coroner's jury de.
cided that the murder was committed by
unknown persons, but the whole country
ls ablaze and on the alert. Lynch Law
will be inevitable if the murderers can be
secured. Suspicion rests on man who
worked for the farmer some months ago,
who was seen on the farm Thursday.
Foot prints. as of two men, walking in
single file, were discovered and followed
two miles across lots until the trail was
lost in the main road. There are no
other clues, as the assassins had watered
and fed the horses and taken other pre-
cautions to prevent discovery Of the
CRIME. They were no novices in the
dreadful work. jake, who is suspected,
Is tramping farm hand and quarrelled
with Mcmahon about year ago.
LYNcHKD.
Denver, August 22-Rymer, who stab
bed to death McGarvey near Fort Lyon
last Friday, was taken from the Jail ct
west Las Animas on tho night Of the
twentieth and hanged by mob Of forty
or fifty masked men, supposed TO be sol.
diers from the fort. Thus ends the sec.
ond chapter in the killing Of McGarvey,
and the end not yet, IS Major Brayton
commander Of the fort, u exercising al
the diligence in his power to ferret out
who composed the mob.
Railroad Accident.
Littleton. N. H., Aug. 2a.-As the fas
White mountain train was running
through dark hollow on the Boston
Concord & Montreal road near Woods
vile yesterday, and was rounding curv,
on twenty-feet embanknent, the en-
gineer, Geo. Pebbles, diccovered an oh
etruction on the track and reversed tn,
engine and applied the brakes, but th,
train struck the obstruction-s chail
placed there by design. and plunge,
down the embaukment. By miracl
nobody was seriously. though severa
we're severely hurt, and the cars and 10
comotive badly damaged. Robbery va
the evident purpose of the wrecken.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
| Esston, Pa, Aug. 22.-An engine o.
the Hampton branch OF the Deleware
Lock & Weston railroad collided with
coal truck at the crossing over the trsel
at Washington, N. j., last night. Th,