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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
AFTER THE VERDICT.

| Tho States Attorney Tells How tho Gro
min Verdict Was Reached-A Cranky
Juror.
| CHICAGO, Dec. Estates Attorney
Longenecker, after a conference with
one of the CrOnin jury whose name he
withheld, told how the verdict was
reached. As was surmised, Juror John
Culver, who spent much of his spare
time during the long evenings reading
the Bible, was the influential factor.
The first incident in this connection
occurred while the trial was in progress,
the time when Mrs. Conklin testified.
That evening Mr.. Culver notified his
fellow jurors that he solemnly believed
she had committed perjury. Later he
thought Mrs. Hoertel was a liar and
MartinSen, the eXpreSsman, did not
really know Burke, while the Carlsons
were plainly telling falsehoods.
To illustrate as to the eXpreSsman,
Martinsen, Mr.. Culver told of a mis-
take made by the wife of his partner,
who one day saw man riding in a
buggy whom she was sure was he,
when, when III point of fact she was
entirely mistaken.
Culver, as the trial neared the end,
seemed to see in nearly every witness
for the State vindictive or a pur-
chased perjurer. He plainly limited
that it looked like conspiracy on the
States part. The matter of having
witnesses under the charge of detect
ives was one of the things he thought
looked bad.
Culver was not sure DIR. Cronin ever
went to the Carlson cottage, and when
asked ''How do you account for the
bloody trunk?" said: "Why. for all we
know dog may have been taken away
in it,"
The cause of Cronin's death had not
been proved, the obstinate juror con
tended, and he was impressed with the
idea that Dan Coughlin had ''goodt
face.
When the time for balloting arrived
Culver voted for the acquittal of all the
defendants. He steadfastly declared
that Beggs particularly he would not
send to Jail even for one day. The re,
suit was long struggle and repeated
ballots ending in the compromise yer,
dict announced.
Farmer Pierson had voted steadily
for the execution of all five defendants,
and was the last man to yield. 1t was
he who was holding out toward the
end, and not until an hour or so before
the verdict reached the public did he
give in to the entreaties of his COM
radeS.
The leading thought of the majority
of the jurors other than Culver and
Pierson seemed to be to prevent disa-
greement. They apparently believed
that a mistrial was what had been
aimed at by the defense.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
THE BEALES LAND GRANT.
The Interstate Land Company Gets q
Setback.

Tho Interstate Land Company Gets q
Setback.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 22.-Judge
Brewer, as United States Court judge,
has rendered a decision in the famous
Beales land grant case, the most i'm
portant land suit ever brought in the
United States. 1t involves the title to
over $4,000, 600 acres of land in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and vicinity.
The title of the case pending is: In
ter-State Land Company against The
Maxwell Land Grant Company; also
Maxwell Land Grant Company against
Vincente Pucteca and others.
Judge Brewer decided in favor of
the Maxwells.
The decision is long but cOmprehen-
sive. BY reciting the conditions of the
grant to Beales and the laws governing
Mexico, Judge Brewer finds that Beales
had no title to any land except what
was set off to him by the Mexican Gov
eminent as an empresariO. As Beales
claimed and decided the entire tract Of
land granted, his titles are void ac-
cording to Judge Brewers opinion.
1t is not believed the case will stop
short of the United States Supreme
Court. Judge Brewer cites a decision
from this court as justifying his opin-
ion. The ground on which Judge
Brewer bases his opinion is that the
Mexican Government limited the single
quantity of land owned by any one per-
son to eleven leagues square.
Charles Moonlight, of Texas, lead
ing cattle man, is the largest owner in
the Interstate Land Company. N. B.
Childs, of this city, brother of United
States Commissioner William Childs, is
also 4 member of the company. The
holding is against this company. The
company's headquarters are in this
cifv
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
THE SOUTH.

THE bank of Gallatin, Tenn, has
assigned with $4,000 assets and s4O,-
600 liabilities. The depositors will be
paid in full.
A MEETING of Virginia colored Re-
publicans at Richmond adopted reso-
buttons calling on Congress to pass a
general election law.
In fight between four unarIned
farmers and two armed robbers near
Waco, Tex, the other night. John T.
Mathes was killed and W. H. Harris Sc
verely wounded. The robbers got little.
THE commission of army engineers
appointed to select the best point along
the Texas coast for the location of
frst-class harbor has submitted its re-
port recommending Galveston.
A MISSISSIPPI CITY special says that
the whole assessed valuation of the late
Jefferson Davis property in Harrison
County in $3.50. The personal assess
ment was S5S1. Beauvoir is assessed
at 81 ,5O0.'
The Gettysburg Battlefield Associa-
ton has refused to remove the Second
Maryland cavalry monument, and de-
clares that all ex-Confederates shall
have the right to commemorate their
dead similarly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
DEFENDED HER HONOR.
The Missouri Girl Who Shot Her Fathers
Hired Man Exonerated BY the Jury.

The Missouri Girl Who Shot Her Fathers
Hired Man Exonerated By the Jury.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 1S.-A.
cording to the particulars received here
from Barkersville, Galloway County,
the scene of the Epperson-Hofe trag.
edy, the killing of Hofer was the result
Of an attempted outrage upon the
young lady, who, in the absence of her
father, avenged the assault upon her
by taking the life of her assailant.
This was clearly proved at the inquest
held by the coroner of Galloway Coun-
ty yesterday over the remains of Hofer.
Miss Epperson stated OH the witness
stand that HOfer came in from the field
about eleven o'clock with a wagon load
of corn which he unloaded and then
went to the house saying it was too late
to return to the field for another load
until after dinner. She was preparing
the meal and when she went into the
smoke house for some purpose Hofer
followed her and made shameful adj
vances, which she resented. She was
alone in the place with the man and
pleaded with him not to insult her. He
replied in derogatory way, threaten
ing to disclose relations which he
claimed he knew existed between her
and her beaux. Maddened by his man
ner and language she told him if he
did not desist she would blow his
brains out.
HOfer, the girl continued, followed
her from the smokehOuse to the kitchen
and had no sooner entered the room
than he made an assault upon her and
had chOked her almost to insensibility
when the arrival of the other hands at
the barnyard from the field caused him
to desist and leave the room.
Before the other men had reached
the house and had seated themselves at
the table. the girl continued, she recov-
cred from the fright and shock conse-
quent upon the assault and went to the
room where her fathers pistol was
kept. When she procured it HOfer had
sat down at the table with the other
men and she shot him.
The only other testimony was that of
one of the negro hands, William Cason,
who cOrroborated her statement.
The cOrOner's jury returned a verdict
of justifiable homicide.
The greatest excitement prevailed in
the vicinity when the facts became
known, and if the girls aim had not
been true and deadly Hofer could
never have escaped the wrath of the
sturdy farmers.
Miss Epperson broke down immedi-
ately after making her statement and
at last accounts was suffering Sc
verely from nervous prOstration. Her
throat is very much discolored and
shows in black marks the effect of
HOfer's attempt to choke her into sub
mission to his lustful wishes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
WASHINGTON NOTES.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent his
congratulations to Henry M. Stanley.
BREWERS nomination for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court has been
favorably reported by the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee.
SENATOR HOAR recently gave din
ner in Washington to his colleagues,
Messrs. Aldrich, Dolph, Allison, Hale,
Hiscockand Evarts.
CHAIRMAN COOLEY, of the Inter-
State Commerce Commission, has been
obliged by i'll health to leave Washing
ton for his home.
CAPTAIN L. G. SHEPPARD, COM
manding the revenue steamer Rush,
now at San Francisco, has been APP
pointed chief of the revenue marine
service.
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS HOLMES, of the
House, has appointed E. ]. Hartshorn,
of Iowa, to be cashier of his office, in
place of the defaulter Silcott.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent to
the Senate the nomination of Cyrus
Leland, Jr., of Kansas. to be collector
of internal revenue for the district of
Kansas.
THE Secretary of the Interior has
allowed 81, 402 out of the original claim
of 7. w. Glasgow, of Wilson County,
Kan, for s., $40 for depredations COM
mitted by Nisynally Indians in 1856.
IT is stated that Consul Lewis, who
has created so much trouble in Morocco,
has been recalled.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
A PERJURER'S VICTIM.
Twenty Years Spent I'm an Indiana Prison
on Conviction Of Murder Procured by
False Testimony-Was 1t Perjury or
Mistaken Identity?

twenty hears spent IN an Ind1ana PrtSOD
on Conviction Of Murder Procured by
False Testimony-Was 1t Perjury or
Mistaken Identity?
LA Porte, Ind, Dec. 1S.-George
Stottler is life convict in the Michigan
City penitentiary. He has done penal
servitude for the State since 1865.
Stottler's friends have been tireless in
their efforts to secure his release and it
begins to look now as though Stottler
was convicted on perjured testimony
| and that the State will be obliged to re-
lease from it's service an innocent man.
The crime for which Stottler was sent
up was terrible one. He was coun-
tryman near Anderson and was always
looked upon as a tough character.
The crime was committed in 1868.
Stottler, it is alleged, tried to borrow a
horse from an old man named Isanoget.
1t was refused him. He then went to
Anderson, bought a knife and got drunk.
Returning in the evening he went to tho
Isanoget residence and started a row in
the house. Isanoget had two sons,
whose ages were twenty and sixteen
years respectively. The older Of the
boys started to put Stottler out of the
house, but the young man was stabbed
through the heart. The younger boy
attempted to prevent Stottler from kill
ing his brother and started to interfere
in his behalf. Young Isanoget had no
sooner got within reach of the infuriat-
ed and bloodthirsty fiend than he
too received a stab through the heart
which killed him instantly. Stot-
tier then threatened to kill the
whole family, which consisted of the old
man Isanoget, his wife and two or three
small children. The old man, who was
an invalid, saw that it was question of
life or death for all of them, and by a
desperate effort overpowered the fiend
and disarmed HIM. He was sentenced
for life.
Stottler has protested his innocence
from the time he was arrested on the
terrible charge, claiming that he was a
victim of mistaken identity. 1t appears
that the testimony of the Isanoget girl
was what convicted Stottler. The girl
died last spring, and now comes the at
torneys for Stottler, who claim that they
have her affidavit stating that the testi-
mony she gave during the trial was
false.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily NewA
CONGRESSIONAL.


WHEN the Senate met on the 18th various
petitions were presented, and among the bills
offered was one by Senator Ingalls, for the
allowance of cumulative pensions. After an
executive session the resolution for a holi-
day adjournment on the 18th was agreed to.
A message from the House announcing the
death of Representative Gay, of Louisiana,
was received and tine Senate adjourned. In
the House Deficiency Appropriation bill
was passed and a resolution presented and
referred offering a reward of 5000 for the
capture of Silcott, the defaulting cashier of
the late sergeant at arms. Mr.. Springer
introduced a bill for the organization of the
Territory of Oklahoma. Mr.. Lacey uowa)
introduced a resolution for a rigid inquiry
by the Elections Committee and report re-
Rarding the Clayton Breckenridge contest
in Arkansas pending which Mr.. Clayton was
assassinated. The passage of the resolution
was favored in a speech by Mr.. Breckin-
ridge and it passed without division. Ad-
journed.
AFTER the disposition Of several reported
bills the Senate on the 18th passed the bill
to provide for the deficiency in printing and
binding and for preliminary printing of the
eleventh census. After several resolutions
had been appropriately referred and junim-
portant matters discussed the Senate ad-
journed.. The session of the House was
brief and entirely void of general interest
WHEN the Senate met on the 18th resolu-
tions were presented, among them one by
senator Morgan recognizing the Brazilian
Republic. No general business was trans
acted. After an executive session during
which Judge Brewer was confirmed as Asso
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court) the Sen
ate adjourned. The House agreed to the
Senate resolution for a holiday recess from
December 81 to january 6. A resolution au-
thorizing a reward of 5000 for the capture
of the defaulter Silcott was adopted. Many
bills were introduced and the death an
nounced of Representatives Cox and Nutting,
of New York, Laird, of Nebraska, and Towns
bend, of Illinois, and the House adjourned
until Friday.
THE Senate on the 18th concurred in the
House amendment to the resolution for
holiday recess. Somewhat of tempest in a
tea pot was occasioned by the debate upon
Senator Chambers resolution in regard to
organizations among naval officers to secure
Congressional legislation. The resolution
vas finally adopted. After an executive ses-
sion the Senate adjourned.
THE Senate on the 10Th debated at length
Senator Morgan's resolution recognizing the
Brazilian Republic, which was finally re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
After an executive session in which many
journed. The House passed the Senate
resolution extending the thanks of Congress
TO Chief Justice Fuller for the appropriate
address delivered by him at the recent
memorial services of the Inauguration of
George Washington. Many bills were intro
duoed, and pending discussion of a resolu
tion as to the disposition of money in the
possession of the late sergeant at arms the
House adjourned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
The Sugar Trusts Refuge.

BosToN, Dec. ia Hartford Conn
special to the Herald says: The report
from New York that the Big Sugar
Trust has prepared to transfer its assets
to new corporation if the Court of APP
paals pronounces the Trust illegal is
known here to indicate that the trust
will seek refuge within the sheltering
arms of the Commonwealth Refining
Company, which was chartered by the
Connecticut Legislature last winter.
The home Office Of the company is fixed
at New Haven by the charter, but all
the principal business may be trans
acted in New York.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
RAILWAY OFFICIALS KILLED.
Bad Accident to q Pay Car In In
diana.

o8Q AcClOeut 20 ray C3r IN IN
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE
Ohio, Indiana s. Western railway pay
car, which left this city early in the
morning, was wrecked three miles east
of Covington, Ind, by the break
ing of an axle. Five persons oc-
cupied the coach: General Super
intendent /. II. Wilson, Train
master j. NJ. Cummins, Auditor w.
w. Lynn, Cashier j. II. M. Claggett
and Frank Wilson, clerk to the pay
master. The train was whirling along
at a terrific rate when the front axle
of the pay car gave way, precipitat-
ing the coach into the ditch by
the side of the track. The engine at
tached remained on the rails and its
occupants escaped injury. General
Superintendent Wilson and Train
master Cummins were instantly killed.
The bodies of both were horribly mutt
lated
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
A rlENo,sn PARENT.


The Causes Indirectly Leading 20 the
Murder OF George Gueather by His
Young Son In st. Louis-The Old Rep
rebate We'd with the Inquisiti0n In the
Manner in Winch He Tortured His Sons
for Trivial Onenses-The Murderer u
Either Insane or Playing IL.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 1S.-Emil Guenther,
who killed his father, George Guenther,
yesterday morning, was found by his
brother George last evening and surren-
dered to the police. The boy was locked
up in cell at the Four Courts. He was
seen by his relatives and by reporters.
but not a word would he say to any of
them. If he is not insane he Stimulates
it wonderfully well.
He was visited in his cell by his brother
Charles and a reporter to-day. He was
pacing up and down his cell, vacant
look in his eyes and q meaningless smile
on his face.
81 do not think he is quite right in
his mind; he often acted queer" said
Charles Guenther. ''My father treated
all of us three boys with awful cruelty, +"
he continued. i've thought sometimes
he was crazy. One of his lightest pun
ishments when we lived with him was
to chain us up in the garnet, Overrun
with rats There he would keep us all
night without food or drink, helpless,
and every moment fearing that we
would be eaten up alive. have not
lived at home for five years l left the
house in 1884 because could stand it no
longer.
''One day. for trivial offense, he took
me up in the garnet and stripped me
naked. Then he tied me with chains to
one of the joists. He passed the chains
around my neck, around my body and
around my legs and arms so that could
not move. He then took pins and stuck
them in all over my body. The pain
was almost unbearable, but dared not
scream for fear he would kill me. You
will do that again will you, you will do
that again will you, will teach you
how to disobey me- he would say, as he
continued the fiendish torture. Nor
was this all. When my body was
covered with the trickling blood no
got some whisky and poured it
over the wounds and rubbed
it in with his hands, laugh
and chuckling at my anguish.
screamed with all my might for help,
but no one heard me, or if they did they
were so accustomed to hearing screams
and fighting from my fathers place that
they paid no attention. Then my father
got bag of salt and rubbed me over
with that. He left me there sobbing
and screaming all night. The next
morning he released me more dead than
alive. left the house, and you can be-
lieve that never had any thing to say
or do with my father since then. When
ever met him on the street by accident,
sneaked away to avoid him and pre-
vent trouble"
"Did your father treat Emile in the
same way?"
'He did and he treated George and my
sisters nearly as bad. He drove all his
sons away from home, and his daughters
left him, too, as soon as they were mar
ried."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
FATAL RUNAWAY.
A Broken Polestrap Causes the Death
One Lady and Injury of Another.

A Broken Poiestrap Causes the Death of
One Lady and Injury of Another.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 17.-An ac-
cident which resulted in the death of
Mrs. Ella Huttig, wife of w. Huttig,
Jr., manager of the Western Sash and
Door Company, and the serious wound
ing of Mrs. Laura Logan, wife of
Floyd L. Logan, an officer of the same
company, occurred shortly after seven
o'clock last evening. The two
ladies, accompanied by Mike Rab-
bit and Mrs. Huttig's two chill
dren, Hart. aged four years, and
Fred, aged eighteen months, were rid
ing in carriage on East Ninth street.
AS they approached Vine street one of
the pole straps broke, which caused the
pole to fall and strike one of the horses
upon its foreleg. The animal became
frightened and soon got beyond
the control of the driver. The
other horse also became I'M
manageable. The driver, fearing
that if he remained in his seat he
would be unable to prevent serious
accident, jumped to the ground and
sought to stop the horses by pulling
upon the reins. lie did not succeed in
doing so, and they ran at the top of
their speed. Rabbit took the two
children from the frightened
woman and jumped with them
to the ground. Neither himself
nor the children received any injuries.
The horses ran against the sidewalk.
The carriage struck tree, breaking
two wheels. Mrs. Huttig was thrown
out of the carriage. She struck upon
her head, and received fracture at
the base of the brain which caused her
death almost instantly.
Mrs. Logan jumped to the ground.
She sustained a fracture of her right
leg, Just above the ankle, and received
several bruises, none of which are of a
serious nature.
Mrs. 1luttig was twenty-seven years
of age. Her maiden name was Miss
Ella Hart. She married Mr.. Iluttig in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, six years ago.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
eRApsTREET on TRADE.

Erect Of the Mid Weather-Wheat Ex-
ports-Iron and Steel Advanced.
New YORK, Dec. 22-Bradstreet's
State of Trade says: Special kilograms
show noticeable decrease in the
volume of general merchandise dis
tributed, largely on account of the un-
seasonably mild or wet weather.
Throughout the West q scarcity Of
freight cars, low prices for produce and
the fact that many merchants have on
hand large portions of last winters
stocks, in addition to the weather, have
contributed to check trade, and COM
plants are heard from Chicago, st.
Paul, st. Joe, Omaha, Kansas City
and st. Louis, as at larger Eastern
cities.
The termination of the Missouri Pa
cific and Missouri, Kansas & Texas
controversy and the increased earnings
reported by the New York Central
quite overcame the depre ssing effects
of irregular money markets and I'M
favorable condition of the coal trade
yesterday.
Exports of wheat land flour as wheat)
are increasing rapidly, the total for
both coasts being 2,S72. 521 bushels this
week against 9, All, 2l6 bushels lastweek
and ], 4S7, 720 bushels in the like week
of 1888. Total exports July to date
amounted to SO, 1852 bushels, a
quantity equal to that exported in the
like portion of 1888, and as compared
with $4,000, 900 bushels in 1887.
Special reports of the net railway
earnings of l01 companies for October
show gain of II per cent. as compared
with 1888 and of SO companies for 10
months ended with October, 1889, an
increase of Is per cent.
Recent advances in iron and steel are
regarded with some apprehension, the
trade showing symptoms of crowding
into the market for supplies for the
season delivery. Instead of crossing
into 1890 at $40 for No. 1 pig iron, it
may thus become the price in excess of
that figure. A general advance
throughout January and February is
not unlikely. The gross rail produc-
ton for 1889 will equal 1,50O, 900 tons.
Business failures reported number
$50 for the United States this week
against $40 last week and 335 this week
last year. Total failures in United
States January l to date is 11,153,
against 10,0S2 in 1883.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-27
New Extrsdition Treaty.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-President
Harrison has transmitted to the Sem
ate the extraditiOn treaty with Eng
land, referred to in his annual mes
sage, negotiated by Secretary Blaine
and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Minister. BY its terms the number of
extraditable Offenses is largely in
creased, the most important addition
being that of ENLIGHTENMENT, so that il
the treaty be ratified Canada and the
United States will cease to exchange
class of undesirable residents who have
hitherto secured immunity from pun.
ishment.