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CHARITON, IOWA.Wednesday, May (9th, 1875.MORE .HOB LAW.A STAN IN STORY COUNTY JlIiUTA'II.YrMUKDKRKD IIY A MOH.'l'hc Slate Jleg inter of (lie 11th inst. contained tlio particulars ofthe hanging of a man in Story county by a mob. It was a brutal, fiend isliYmd disgraceful affair,thatshould call, for the sternest possible measures from the authorities. We condense the following as giving something of a history of the affair:Early Sunday morning, (May Otli) coroner, Mr. C. # P. Ro! inson,was notified that Mr. George N. Kirkmnn had been hanged by a mob, at his residence, in Indian township, the night previous. The Coroner cm-pannelle.l a jury ami repaired to the scene of the tragedy and proceeded to hold an inquest. They found the body badly bruised and mangled, and that he lmd come to his death by hanging at the hands of a moh, only four or live of whom directly participated, but as to whom the guilty parlies arc nothing was developed.George N Kirkmun, the deceased was one of titn pioneer settlers of Story county, having settled on thefarm on which lie resided at the time he was murdered in 1852, before the county was organized, lie was then a poor man, but by hard knocks and dose attention to busi-s he amassed property to the valuetie of *25,000. Me was reputed to be prompt and strictly honest in all of his dealings. To his friends.who were many, he was kind-hearted and generous; to his enemies, who were comparatively few, he was outspoken and bitter.lie had of late years turned his attention somewhat to line stock,ami took a great pride in his shorthorns. The cause that led to the com*murdering him in the f uttercst cold blood and ferocity, without chanco of defense—V 'cowardice - .which shames manhood-and mankind, and puts a.stignia and infamy upon our Stalo and our people, which not even the prompt arrest, conviction, and punishment of the twenty niur. (lerers can cither efface, palliate, or excuse.Only one thing in decency remains. That is, for the State to unito with Story county in forrot-ting out those Vigilantes, arresting, and punishing them. Gov. Carpenter may be expected to display at once to the last degree of its power the strong arm of the State. As an Executive of a State in which mob law and mob murder have risen so defiantly and so alarmingly, lie has a plain duty to perform which lie is not the man to shirk.Jol.ii tt \ iruioron War ami the dim c’ips,The Boston Globe publishes the following letter of Mr. John G. Whittier, written to his friend, Rev. J. B. Miles, D. D., general secretary of the association for the reform and codification of the law of nations :Alisshuuy 14, 4th Month, ’lt;5. To James JJ. Miles, Secretary, *e. My Dkak I'kjknj) :— It is eminently fitting to connect the centennial anniversary of the opening wattles of the revolution with the growing sentiment of civilization that there is “a more excellent way” uf settling the disputes of nations than the ordeal of war. It is cheering to note the very general favor with which the plan of arbitration lias been received by statesmen and civilians in this country and in Europe ; but there arc other signs of the times well calculated to occasion solicitude on the part of every lover of peace. The menace of danger now seems to come from the professed church of Christ. At this moment the peace of nil Europe is threatened by the secret plots and monstrous public pretensions of eo-clesiastieisin. If war comes in consequence, if the fairest harvest fields of the world are made ani- l tn i • iUn rile 11
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Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa, US
Wed, May 19, 1875
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