People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


of the MusSey children in Kansas
City. has been acquitted.
Thursday night a wagon and team
were found in secluded place in
the woods about three miles
east of NOwata, 1T. Yesterday it
was identified as that of Joel Mack, a
wealthy stock raiser, who owns large
tract of land near Bartlesville, but
whose family live 10 Independence,
Kas. His coat and hat were found
near the wagon, and indications we're
that struggle had taken place. Elk
element ran high and upon further
search it was found where his clothes
had been burned, and later his head,
detached from his body, was discOv-
cred in some underbruSh on the river
bank. His body cannot be found aud
il is probable that he was murdered
and his body thrown into the river.
1t is thought by sCme that he was
murdered to prevent his appearing on
the witness stand 10 an important case,
bat he had considerable money on his
person, and that might have been the
incentive.
A remarkable case has just reached
a verdict at Brynteg, Wales, by which
d Kansas man comes into possession
Of property valued at more than $780,
900. His name is r. ]. Edwards, and
his home is at Bunker Hill, Russell
county. The suit was for the recOv-
cry Of a large farm in Wales which
was being held by certain people who
claimed to be heirS-at-law of Thomas
Edwards, who died there inteState in
1895. The Kansas Edwards was a
nephew of the dead, and the nearest
in line of descent. He visited his
uncle in 1886, and it was then under
stood all around that he was to be-
come pOSSeSSOr of the property at his
uncle'S death. After the death
occurred he went to Wales to claim
his own, but other cousins set up the
claim that he was not the Edwards
who had visited the estate in 1886, but
an impOstOr. The whole case there
fore hinged on the identity of the
Kansas man. He took no less than
fifteen witnesses across from America
and proved his claim beyond any
doubt, as was admitted by the trial
Judge. Mr.. Edwards informs his
Russell county friends that he intends
to return there to live after he dis
poses of his WEIGH estate.
The real heroes and herOineS of this
world are often found in the walks of
everyday life, and when they die no
marble shaft eXtOlS their virtues,
There was funeral at Fort Scott the
other day-the funeral of a heroine
and yet two old express wagons with
chairs in them were all sufficient to
carry the people who went to the
cemetery to lay her away. Mrs. Kate
Schiller was the name of the woman,
and after she was dead and buried a
preacher who had known her in youth
told the people Of Fort Scott her
story. Years ago Kate Sallier was
the belle of northern Wisconsin, and
when she married Frank Schiller it
was made the greatest fashionable
event Green Bay had ever known.
He was the owner of line of lake
steamboats, and exceedingly wealthy,
and their home was famed far and
wide for its luxurious appointments
aud its cultured hospitality. By and
by he was stricken with paralysis, and
little by little his fortune crumbled
away, At last she gathered up her
wrecked husband, her little children
aud some remnants of their property
and removed to Fort Scott, where con-
tinued adversely reduced them to
absolute poverty. OVERWHELMINGLY
she took up the burden. What with
washing and irOning-a few board.
ers-anything honorable-She man.
aged to keep her children in school
and her helpless husband 10 needful
medicines. For fifteen years she
worked on, with no word of bitterness
or complaint; always with smile for
her own, though sometimes it was
wan and weary. Then she died. AL.
ready she is forgotten.