Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-04

at Fort Smith. Ark They wore tvsnty-four
in number-seyenteen white men, Eve No
groee and two Indians, ono Of them q full
blooded Cherokee Who could neither speak
nor understand the English laneuaoe.
They were all strongly shackled and hand-
cuffed and under care of Deputy United
States Marshal ]. c. Pettigrew, sssisted Inv
i've guards: The prisoners were a tough
looking lot OF citizens, all young, a s'iike-
ly" lot of convicts. Heretofore the limited
States prisoners from the Indian tarr;torv
and Arkansas have been sent to the house OF
correction at Detroit, but for somo same rea-
son change has been made, and the SOUTH
ern Illinois penitentiary at this place. will
get them hereafter.
The cause of the sudden death If Martin
Connolly, OF st. Louis, is not at all certain,
as the statements made by the relatives of
the deceased are conflicting. Mrs. Connolly
stated TO dlnerent persons that the cause of
her husbands death was the result of blow
lnhlcted by her nephew, William Fox, q
young man IL years of age. Young Fox she
stated, had difficulty with his cousin early
in the morning, in regard to some buttons
which were lost or misplaced and belonged
70 nm. he became angry at his cousin, and
high words ensued, in which other members
OF the household joined. Mr.. Connolly,
hearing the noise, and being annoyed by
the disturbance, interfered and attempted
to act the part of peace making between the
Two dls putants. His nephew, became angry
at this, grappled with him, and fight took
place. in which it is said, Connolly received
blow from Fox, his nephew, which felled
hin, and from the effects of this blow he
soon died.
The Ohio republican state convention con-
vened at Columbus. Some delay was caused
by the failore of the Hamilton county dele
cation to reach the hall, owing to fight in
the delegation. Chairman Lowry, of the
state committee, delivered quite lengthy
address. reviewing the work of the party
during the past year. and concluded by in
Producing General E. F. Noyes, temporary
chairman of the convention, who was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause through
out quite long speech. General James n.
Robinson was nomins ted for secretary OF
state by reclamation. Ticket was completed
with nominations as follows: Supreme Judge,
clerk of the supreme court, q. II. Hester, of
Vanwelt county; school commissioner, Eli
I. Tappan, of Gambler; member of the
board of public works, William Hahn, of
Mansfield. The platform declares the ad-
ministration of President Cleveland a
failure; in favor of pensions for all disabled
soldiers; protective tariff; laws protecting
labor; in favor of diminishing and eradi-
eating the evils of intoxicating liquor: en-
dorsing Parnell and his advocates.
At the farmers congress in session at St.
Paul, Mimi, T. s. Coffin of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, read an interesting paper on the
'Great governing power in fixing freight
rates on railroads in America" He closed
by urging tho appointment of national
railroad commission. At the close of the
address the committee on resolutions pre-
scented a report which was read by the sec
rotary. The resolutions adopted asked con-
gress to create the Office of secretary of agri-
culture, and to make the officer cabiret
member. They also ask the extension of the
signal service to all places reached by tele-
graph. They request congress to regulate
interstate commerce in such manner as to
protect the productive industries of the
country. They recommend an appropria-
ton of So, 100000 to stamp out contagious
diseases among domestic animals, and re-
quest the secretary of state to instruct the
ministers to Germany and France to use all
proper means to prevent restrictions upon
American farm products properly inspected
and shipped, and urge upon congress the
necessity of speedy development of the
system of waterways, Including the Missis-
sippi river. the resolutions also recon-
mend the restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and the maintenance of the tariff on
rice end sugar.
Rob. Haron, living near Schumpert's mill,
South Carolina, beat his wife numerically
for hours, sitting astride of her, beating her
first with the leg of bench, and then with
the bench, amid the most pitiful appeals to
him ana regardless of the appeals of
his ntsighbors, who had been attracted for
hale mile around by the woman's calls for
help. She began begging for water. He
would neither give her any himself nor Per-
NIT any one else to do so. He threatened
the life Of any one that would step inside of
his door. When asked what he was whipping
her about, he said that he had been talkin g
and talking to her and now he was going to
convince her or kill her. Next morning he
drove her from her house and her two chill
dren, beating her as he followed her limping
down the road. One of his neighbors again
pleaded for her, but was wnrred to move
on. When she was last seen alive by any of
the witnesses he had her thirty yards from
the road and again lie warned them away.
Later he came stealing in from the woods
near the back of his house with his wife up
on his shoulders. When he arrived home he
found neighbours wife there. He came in,
threw her limp form on the bed. and said
that no did not know what to do for her. He
could do nothing. He had beaten her to
death.
The body CT woman was discovered near
Springfield, o. The features we're horribly
distorted and black az a negro from expos
ure to the elements. Decomposition had set
in, and the CHASTITY expression of the face
and the terrible stencil made most sicken-
ing case. On close examinationI.t was found
the victim had been apparently beaten ter
ribly about the head and body. The skull |
was crushed in on top and back of the ear,
and blood and fetid matter was oozing out. |
Several clews were followed up but failed to |
identify the woman until the news came to |
the ears of friends of Mary Ackerer, a Ger |
man girl who disappeared Friday night |
from the boarding house of Emil Thisse, on
East Main street, where she had been for |
several weeks. Her brother soon appeared |
with a photograph which answered in gen.
eral the description of the corpse. Late at
night the coroner took the key found on her |
to the Thisse boarding house and found it |
the door to her room from both |
sides. A dress found in the deserted room |
also cosresponded exac ly with the one in
the photograph. She was an innocent and |
creature, and it is believed