Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-24

GRANVILLE, w. Va, special: AT
q lonely place near Minor, in WASH
lngton District, forty men raided the
cabin OF q lone woman named Sis
King, OF doubtful reputation. and drag
ged the terrified oma from her bed
in her night clothes. The raiders
strapped her, and while one mar held
her hands the other thirty-nine took
turns at giving her two blows each
with hickory switches over her bare
back. No attempt was made to gag
her, the whippers saying she could
stand it better if they let her squeal.' -
After she had been given seventy
eight cuts she was left senseless on the
| ground. The outrage has created u
great commotion and the prosecuting
attorney is already moving to bring
the matter before the grand jury in
an effort to indict the assailants, a few
OF whom arc known. 1t is said that
q number of business men who stand
we'll in their respective communities.
The people living in the lonely cabins
within hearing of tho wOman's shrieks
say they dared not interfere. as they
had some intimation .of what was be.
ing done and who was doing it.
TULSA, 1, r.. special: The Shawnee
war dance, which has been running
for five days on Hominy Creek. eleven
miles north of here, has been the scene
of a double tragedy. Frank sennith.
q business man of Sennit, Oklahoma.
and Lon Kennedy of Oolaga, Cherokee
Nation, began %Quarreling over a lug of
whisky which Sennit had broken by
shooting into it. After some time
Sennit mounted his horse and started
of, when Kennedy fired two shots at
him, both of which Went through his
heart. After both shots were fired by
Kennedy Sennit cooked his Winches-
ter and with a we'll directed shot kill
ed Kennedy, Immediately falling off
his horse dead. Sennit was we'll con-
nected and q citizen OF this place for
ten years. Kennedy is supposed to
have been a whisky peddler.
FRANKFORT, KY, special: Mrs. Mar
tin Nolan, q white lady, vas raped by
u negro. Many citizens armed Them
selves and ubegan u hunt. Marshall
Boston, who Tailed with the descrip.
tion given by Mrs. Nolan, was arrested
and identified. He was brought to
this city under guard. Boston was
taken from the county Jail at midnight
and hung on a high beam of the iron
bridge which spans the Kentucky
River. after which his body was rid
died with bullets. To gain admission
to the man severaldoors leading to the
Jail were battered down. the taller re-
fusing to give up the keys. just before
Boston was swung up he confessed to
the awful crime.
ST. LOUIS special: The Post-Dis-
patch's Hermosillo, Mexico, dispatch
says: The forces of government sold
iers e II against the Yaqui Indians
are meeting with defeat in all the at
tacks so far made, and the Indians,
emboldened by their successes, are
committing depredations Upon unpro-
tected ranchmen with greater fire.
quency than ever An encounter
which the soldiers had with a band of
Indians near C%hiltepines resulted in
fifteen soldiers being killed and q
large number wounded. The Indians
lost about ten killed. The Govern
ment will be asked to send reinforce
ments against the Yaquis.
NEW ORLEANS special: The British
steamer Architect. from Liverpool has
arrived after detention of seven days
for fumigatiOn ut quarantine. Since
reaching here q suspicious case of sick
ness developed, and the board of health
experts declared the ease sufficiently
suspicious to warrant the return of the
vessel, crew and sick man to qusran-
tine, apd the steamer has started
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