Hide Article Text (OCR)
KILLED IN HIS TRACKS.Je»e Junes, the Sovereign Brigand, Shot Dead in a Shanty at St. Joseph, llo.,By a Former Confederate In Crime Who Sought But Feared to Attempt His Capture.Review of the Train Robber’s Bloody Career, With His Memorable Reverse ill Minnesota.St. Joseph, Ua, April 3.—The tolas! Jesse James was killed bore this morning, at Thirteenth and Lafayette streota, at about 10o'clock, by two brothers named Ford. They had been hero a week lotondiug to arrest him, but were afraid to try it, and concluded to kill blui without taking the chances on the arrest. Charles and Robert Ford are their names. Charles was In tho B'.tio cut robbery, and ts the man tvbo killed the expressman. Robert was in the Wlusten robbery. They say Jesao James waa in tho Blue cut robbery, but not iu the Winston robbery. The wife of Joeee James was soon at the scene of the killing, and wept loud aud long over the fate of her husband. Sho has two beautiful children, a boy of seven and a girl of fonr years. The Ford boys bare surrendered to tbe officers, and are now in the marshal's custody. There soems to be not a doubt that this is the veritable Jesse. Men who know him say thoy recognized tho body at at onco. Many here know the two Ford bovs.ST. Joseph, Mo., April a—The $50,000 reward offered by tho Slate for Jesse James, dead or alive, will probably go to Robert Font, who killed him. Tliero Is little doubt that tho killing wis the result ot a nluu formed by Robert and Charles Ford several months ago. Charles had been an accomplice of Jazao Jnraca since the 3d of last Not ember, and entirely possessed Ills confidence. Robert bis brother. Joined Jesse near the house of Mrs.' gunnels, jno'ber of the Janies brothers, last Friday a week ago, and aecompauied Jesse ami Charles to this city Sunday, March as. Jesse had his wife and two children removed from Kansas City—where they had lived several months potll they feared their whereabouts would be inspected—In a wagon to . this city, arriving here November 8. 1SS1. accompanied by Charles Ford, aud rented a house on the comer of Lafayette aud Twenty-first sir.—r. where they stayed two months, when they secured I ho house No. 1318 Lafayette street, paying $14 a mouth for it and giving the name of Mrs. Howard The house is a one story cottage, painted white with green shutters and romantically situated on the brow of a lofty eminence east of the city. Last of the house Is a deep gulch like ravine, aud beyond a broad expanse of open country backed by u belt of timber. The house, eicept from the west side,can be seen for several miles. There Is a large yard attached to the cottage aud stable where Jesse has keeping two bursas w Lich were found there WATCH1NO THEIR CHANCE.Charles aud Robert Ford hare beeu occupying one of the rooms in the rear of the dwelling, and have secretly bad au understanding to kill Jesse ever since last fall. A short time ago, before Robert had Joined James, the latter proposed to rob the bank at Platte City. He aid the Rtirgess murder trial would commenceuuother companfon * to ____ _ _____the situation of the Platto City hank, and while arguments were betas heard in the murder ease, which would engage the attention of the citizens, boldly execute one of his raids. Charles Ford approved of the plan, andsuggcstedhis brother Robert as a companion worthy of sharing the enterprise with them. Jcsae had met Robert t the tatter's house near Richmond three years ago and consented to see him. Tho two men accordingly arrangedwltli Robert to accompany them to Platte City. The : liree came to Hr. Joe on Sunday. Thoy remained at the house alt the week. They had Used upon tonight to go to Platto City Ever since the boys had been with Jesse; they htul watched for an opportunity to shoot him, hut he was always so heavily armed that it was .lMTOSStllLE TO DRAW ut-on himwithout his seeing it. They declare they bad no idea of taking him alive, considering the undertaking suicide. Tbe opportunity they had long wished for oome this morning. Breakfast was over and Ford and Jesse James had been in the etahlos currying the horses preparatory to tho night ride. On returning to the room where Rob-ort Ford was, Jesse Bald; It's an awful hot day. Ho pulled off his coat and vest and tossed them on the bed. Then Le said: “I guess 1 willjjtakooff my nlstola for fear somebody will seo them If I walk in the yard. He unbuckled the belt in wbich ho carried the fotty-ffve calibre revolvers, one a Smith Wesson aud the other a Colt, and laid them on tho bed with his coat and vest. He tbeo picked up a dnstlng brush, with tho intention of dusting some pictures which hung on the wall. To do this he got ou n chair. Hla back was uow tamed to the brothers, who silently (tenDid between Jeyse and his revolvors, and at a motion from. Charles, both drew their guns. Robert was quickest of the two. Iu out motion - ■ -weapon to tho level with with the muzzle uo more than four feet from the back of tho outlaw's head. Even iu that motion, quick as thought, there was something Jhat did not escape the acute ears of the hunted man. He * made a motion a9 It lo torn his head to ascertain the canse of that suspidonssound. But tor. late. A nervous pressure on the trigger, a quick flash, a sharp report aud the well directed ballCRASHED Tlf flOPOH THE OUTLAW'S BEUI.L.There waa no outcry, Jnst a swaying ot the body, and ft fell heavily back upon tbe carpet. The shot had lieen fatal aud all the bullets iu tho chamber of Charley's revolver, still directed at James' head, could not have more effectually decided the fate of the greatest bandit and freebooter that erer Bgnred In tho pages of the country's history.ants, jaueswas In the kitchen when the shooting waa done, divided from the room In which the bloody tragedy occuraed by u dining room: she heard tbe shot and dropping her honsehold duties ran Into the front room. She saw her husband lying on Ida back and his slayers eacli Uoldiog lilt revolver In Ids baud and making for tho fence In the rear of tbe house. Robert had reached the enclosure and waa in the act of scaling It when she atenned to door and calling to him Robert, yon have done this; come back. Robert answered: I swear lo God I did not. They returned to where she stood. Mra James ran to the side of her hnaband and lilted up Ids head. Life was not exlin.'t and when asked If he waa hurt It seemed to her that he wanted to say aomethlng. hut could not.THE INQUEST.At 3 o'clock tho remain* were moved to the circuit coott room where the Inquest was held. Mrs. Jsmes also accompanied the ctUoirs te the city hall, having previously left her two children, agedtragedy, and her heart rending moans and presalon of arlef were sorrowful evidence of the love she bore the deaperarto-Nolhtng In tbe appearance ot tho tremens Indicated the desperate character of the man or the insuy bloody scooee of wbich he bed been an actor. Only the lower part ot the face* the aqdore cbeok bonov, the a'.out, prominent cliiu covered with a soft sandy beard, and thin, flrmly closed Ups In a measure betrayed the determined will and Iron courage ot the dead man. A further Inspection of the body revealed two large bullet lioloe on the right side ofUnger of the loft hand. After vtewlug tho remalus.tho coroner repaired to the court room, wither eoon after Mrs. James In custody ot Marshal Crelg end the two Ford boys, both heavily armed, followed. They were kept In separate apartments until the Jury announced themselves ready to hoar testimony. The wltnesees eiamlned were Mrs. James, the Ford boys and Jamas Little. The Inquest wilt be continued to-morrow.The Jamee bove were reared lo Clay county, within twelve miles of Liberty; the Youngers In Jackson county, within four miles of Independence There la something suggestive In tho names of Iholr homes, for liberty and Independence with them have been carried beyond the limits ot criminal license. Frank Jamee was born In KentuckyIn 1811: Jesse in Clay county, Mistonri. In 1845. Their father wis the Rev. Robert James, a prominent and eloquent Baptist minister, a ploasant aud courteous goatleman, possessed of more education than waa common with the ministers of his church in the frontier days of'18-13 in Missouri, when the Jamea family moved from Kentucky to Clay county. He was one of tbe first trustees of the William Jewell college, located at Liberty, and, though a resident of that vicinity only from 1843 to 1849, he has left ■ kindly remembrance of himaelf amougihe old set tleft in me latter-uametr year 8«vrent To California, and there died in 1851. To Ihle day the old settlors about the James' home say. and It has become a tradition, that the Rev. Robert Jamee wat driven from home by lifc wife. The Jamea boys' mother is atill allvo and vigorous, and resides on a wcll-cultiratcd farm four miles east ot Kearney, a station on the Hannibal A 8t. Joseph railroad, seventeen miles northeast of Kanara City. She was a Mis* Zerelda Colo of Scott county. Ky.. and. although sho hsa attained the advanced age of llfty-elght, the worn tho traces still of whit In heryoung womanhood must hevo made bor the femod beauty In all tho country ronLd about Her neighbors say that Aunt Zuiel, as sho was commonly called, ha* transmitted to the boys” all the deviltry they possess. If so, what an exuberant abundance she mast have bad In her day. She Is fifty-eight years old, well preserved, rigorous In body *“firm, determined expression about tbe mouth, marked by a few lines of age and Unshed with I ruddy glow of health. In figure she Is a commanding woman, weighing fully 170 poumjj. anddisplays a devotion for “the boys that can be likened lo nothing but a tigresa aud her cubs. After tlx year* of widowhood ahe married Dr. Reu-beu Kamuele, a respectable cllizeu, end ha is still uuder her dominion. At the breaking out of tb* rebellion Frank and Jesse JamesJOINED QOANTKELL'S RANDThey were ubsulntely regardles* of lifo, either Ibeir own or that of any one else, and in con-sequcuca uf their ability aud darlug they were each promote! (o the command of a company. After the killing of Qusntrell aud .the disbanding of bit force In 18tiu. Ilia James boys returned to their borne In Missouri, where they lived quietly lor two years, when, having effected a sort of psrtecrship with the Youoger brothers who w»-re else with Qnnnlrell, and others of that itk, they entered the business of wholesale robbery on a magniltcient scale. In the fell of 1808the party went to the Lexington (Ky. ) races. On their Journey home they stopped at Russellville, Ky., where they robbed a baufc of $14,000. and woutto Texas, where they Invested iu stock, and remained qulee-ceut until the fojowlng year. In 1804 the bank of Gallatin, Mo., was robbed of $7,000 by the James and Younger boy* Tho follawiug spring the James end Yonuger hoya aud others rode luto the towu of Corydon. Ia., iu the forenoon, dismounted, walked into the bauk and while three of their uurn-her kepttlie cashier, tl.e only person In tho bauk quiet, the others went through the safe for several thousand dollars. The robhera wore pursued Into Missouri hut ^uone wore caught They againmilling several murders they wereOblJOED TO FLEE FOR 8AFETF.In the fell of 1870 they robbed the Columbus bank in the day time, murdering the cashier, fu 1873 Jesse James r.dU.ed the treasurer of the Kansas City fair. The money was placed In a sack carried by one of tite party, and they rode calmly down Twelfth atreet in full view of the populace. The cheek displayed can only be appreciated wlieu the fact is tukett into consideration that there were at the least calculation 30,000 people on the grounds, aud men were passing Iu aud out the gate every minute. Their next exploit was the robbery of tbe bauk at Siinte Genevieve which waa entered iu broad daylight, tho officers corerod witli revolvors and the safe emptied of its contents The next month, June 1873, the James boys left Kansas City where thoy hail been several weeks, and wout to a nwall towu this side of Council Bluffs, where they were Joined by tbe Younger brothers. On the 31 s: uf tho mouth thoy displaced a rail, threw the train from the track, creating terrible confusion. Tbe engineer aud lireman were botli killed and several paseongera severely injured. Every dollar in the express ear, beside a quantity of bullion woro carried away. Officers of the lew a con rod tho country fur-weeks with the customary result. The next December the boys again showed up iu front of a stage which ran botweeu Malvern aud Hot Springe. Tho paeseugere. instead of going to Hot Springe, returned to Malvern to telegraph for remittances. Two week* afterward. In January, 1874, an express trsin was stopped at Gad's Hill ou lhs Iron Mountain road, the ordinary formality gone through with, and $11.000 taken trom tho safe. Noons waa killed. Pinkerton waa to work up the case, and a Germau detective named Witcher detailed for tho duty. Witcher went to Clay county In ths disguise of au emigrant and applied for employment aa a farm hand un Mis. Samuels' farm. Ho was refused Work and the following day waa found phot full of holes, a card on his breast bearing the following Inscription: This eball be the fate of all of Pinkerton's detectives who como Into Missouri. Shortly afterward Capt Lull, one of Piakerton's men. together with several others, ran the Younger brothers to earth In Monaghan's woods In southwestern Missouri. A desperate battle followed. In which John Younger was killed and Jim aerioualy wounded. Sheriff Daniels of Bt. Clair county was -hot dead and Lull mortally wounded.Shortly afterward Daniel Askew, of Liberty, a well knowo and popular young man, who had guided the detectives to the James farm, was carried from his house and shot dead by Jease James.In the spring of 1873 the Mnncle robbery, tlx miles ont of the dty, on the Kansas Pacific road, occurred. The express car was entered, the messenger intimidated, aud the safe robbed of upwards of $'25,000, while tho train was Iu motion. Alter securing the wealth the robhera pulled the bell cord. Jumped off, and got away as usual. July 7, 1870, a Missouri Pacific train was robbed at Ottervllle, Pettis county. Fifteen thousand dollars were taken from the safe aud the robbers, with their usual good foriUQA. escaped.THE NORTHFIELD RAID..In August, 1878, the James buys, the Chreo Youngers, and three of their compauiuna went lo Mankato, Minn., where they remained for seme time, purchasing tbe best saddle horses that were to be found In the neighborhood. They claimed to he upon ■ hunting expedition. Bill Chadwcll, who waa recruited to tbe ranks of tho Missouri band from The Indian Nation, was an outlawed horse thief from Minnesota, and waa undoubtedly the originator of the fatal Journey which ended jn ths almost total extermination of the entire patty. There were plenty oMianks In Missouri and Iowa as easy uf access as the one at Norlhfleld, and Chad well must have used some powerful incentive to draw the Jamea boys and Youngers ou thut fated trip, so far from home. Into a country of the topography of which they knew nothing. Chad-well aud one ot the Youngers were lent In advance ot the others several days to recounoiter, the maiu body of the expedition leaving Clay connty. Missouri. some time during August, 1870. Cole, Jim. and Boh Younger, Jesse and Frank James, Cietl Miller, Charlie Pitts, and Chad-well comprised the party, tho same who operatud so successfully at Otterrille. At a little statlo* near Northfield the eight desperadoes held a consultation on September (I, and on the afternoon of the 7th they entered tho lust named town at a furions pace, shooting their revolvers right and left in order to Intimidate the people on tho atreets. Withtheir ahersos on a dead tun, tho party halted directly in front of tbe hank. While Frank and Jesse James and DobYonnger entered, the other five remained onteide to guard against attack. J. L. Hayward, the cashier, and two clerks were In the Institution at tho time. For refusing to open tite tlino lock Jesse James sent a ball Into nayward's brain. Meantime the citizens on the street realized what wai going on, aud opened lire on tho robhera. Chadwcll was shot from his liorse by a man from the court honse window, just opposite the hank, and in a few seconds Clcll Millet, who had escaped dozen* of times iu Missouri, was also killed. ByTHEFTRTNO BECAME GENERAL and Jessa James was- in th» tightest place of his Younger bad a bullet in bis mouth and sea one through his left 1tire six succeeded in mounting the!___capiDg from the town. Then became a flight and pursuit which for persistence and enduranco is almost without a parallel. Tho robbers were In a Strange aud unknown country, followed by fifty aimed men. When it was seeu that the chase waa to be to the death a proposition was made to separate. Before Hits lime Jesse James wonted Bob Younger killed as the blood fromhis wound made a plain trail, but Cole Younger would not allow It. and said lie would kill thelftrst mau wto dared lay a finger On hit wounded bfother. Jesse and Frank James went off iu a northerly direction, while the three Youngers aud Charlie Fids remained Iu a body. Aa ou all previous occasions luck followed the James boys, for wliilethoy escaped after being pursued nearly 500 miles, the Ycnngers were shot down aud captured, and Pitts was killed. The three former were terribly irouoded before they would surrender, aud are now serving life sentences in tbe Minnesota pstdtentiary atBtlllwater.Jesse and Frank James, after being chased for weeks, succeeded in reachlug Texas, and at Waco Frank had a surgical operation performed on his leg In consequence of the bullet he received at Northfield. The wound was so many day* without care that it mado Frank a cripple for life.THEIR LATEST EXPLOITS.On the 7th of October, 1n 1879,three yeatsafter tho famous Glendale robbery occurred, the spoils cetimated from $ifi,O00 to $40,000. After thisby James, to secure the rexrard offered for James, and tho two worthies had a body fixed up for that purpose. During 1879 and 1880 It Is thought the bandit brothers were In Baltimore. In the fall of 1880 the robbery of a coach near Mammoth Cave, Kg., was ascribed to Ihein.bnt Blncetho Empire City affair, which flashed In the pan. uolh-ing definite ba« been known of them until tbe Wiu-eton robbery, and the robbery of the tralo et Blue Cut ' ' ‘ .....The Dead Outlaw.Kansas Citt, April 4.—The death of Jesse lames, tho real great Missouri bandit, ia now beyond question a fact Gov. Oriltendon arrived bero this morning aud save positively that it ia ho, and that hie death is the result of an understanding between the au-thoritiss and Bob Ford who killed him, andDick Little whotCrrendered te Sheriff Timber-lake at tho same time Ford did. Tbe inquest at St Joseph waa concluded at noon to-day. Mrs. Samnels, mother of Jease James, bin wife, Diok Littlo and Sheriff Timborlake identified the body, and dnring tho proceeding! Mrs. Janies anil Mrs. Samuels made a highly sensational scene, attacking Dick Little at$l calling all manner of curses down upon him for having conspired to betray his leader. The coroner’s Jury returned a verdict ofUURDER IN THE FIRST DEOREEagainst Ford, and tho authorities of Buchanan county roftise to give him up. Tho body of Jesso James will probably bo taken to tbe old farm near Kearnoy, Clay county, for burial. The confirmation of James’ death has created a profound sensation in western Missonri, and farmers near this place and Independence, who baro not yet been iu either place for years, rode into town this morning in the rain to investigate the rumor. Somo denounce Ford aa au assassin whose only object was blood money, whilo others excuse him upon the ground of cxncdiency. The governor will not go to St Joseph, but will return to Jefferson City to-Dight, whore some steps will be taken to protect Ford, who is thought lo be in clanger from the friend* of tho dead robber. All Cracker Neck was up on horseback this morning and some throats of vengeance are said to have been mado against tho lives of Ford and Little. The Hannibal A St Jo Railroad cotn-Sany havo tendered their conrtesie* to Mr*, tines and her mother-in-law.STILLWATER, Minn., April 4.—The news of the murder of Jesse James was of peculiar interest to tbe Younger boys, especially Col*. An interview waa assured with the wily and reticent Cole, whoae familiarity with (he dead robber chief may never be knowu. After a few briof remarks break-iug the general tenor of the nows, a copy of tbe Pioneer Press was bands'. Colo who read tbo article through carefully aud with evident intereet Hia first remark was that there would be uo trouble in identifying tho body if it was Jos, for (pointing lo his right breast) lie has s bullet wonud here that would tell ho waa shot twice iu tbe same place, and was attended by Dr. Wood, of Kansas city, for a long time. For aix or eight months he was lying at Kansas City hovering between life and death, and continued underthe doctor’a care for four or five years, uutil he went to California in 1808. tie lost the use of that lung and consequently lias nut one uow, which would lie revealed by a post mortem The story is a very plaiiaible one. and uo doubt true. That would bo about the only opportunity anv one could get lo kill him. Cole said he hatl no sympathy with any of those persons, and if they fell out among themselves and killed each otherHE BAD NO OBJECTIONS.They were nothing to him. He did not knew ths Ford brothers, but did not kuow but what they might be sous of a roan of that name who was associated with him Goring the war. llo spoke of tho rocout train robbery, whero Dick Little turned Slate's evideuce, and said that ho eaw nothing that answered to the description or actions ol the James bovs, and thought it nioro than likely that aome'of the Kansas City sharps had put up the job got l.ittio and llio others into it by giving them the idea that the James boys woro at the head of it. Anothor fact which leads him to think thcr are a new gang is that if they were old nietids of his they Would never have gone into the neighborhood of his friends, knowing that his uncle and aunt wero endeavoring to do sor.iothing for him here, and commited the robbery aud murdered the conductor in cold blood, becauso that would counteract everything that had been done for them. In regard to couehlerablo of that purporting to be a history of their doings, annexed to ths account he said that it was all humbug.THE DEADLY CYCLONK.A cyclone swept • Oakland connty’ Midi., Thursday nigh*, the tub ii.st Enough ia known to 6s'ahlisli the destructive charao.ur of the tornado. Several pirst us were killed and many were maimed, tad a large amount of properly destroyed. At HigbLod, Oakland county, Lafayette Crandall, his six rear old hoy and hie wife a eieter named Taylor, viei’iog from Furtiao, were instantly killed. The little girl had mi arm crushed oil Uexr the elbow and it wat amputate.!. Several others received slight injuries. Ita severity in Charlotte county was at a point ten rnllea from telegraph.aud few details r re received yet, though it is Known Iba' several persons were killed acd Injured whose names sro not vet ro-ported. Many houses and bains were demolished.Tae whole family of Horace.S.c:man of Ksls-muwera biowtiintoaswetap many rods from the hones, bhorman’s risttr.an idi-t. wasinetantiy kllied. Iu the neighbor boot of East dsginaw sn 1 Csilsmszoo, there was sgood deal ofdsui-A cyclone started eon it: of the Arkansas teat Raymond. Bice county, Kansas, and moved in a northerly direction. John Wilson’* honeo was blown do mi, killing Mrs. Wilson, and so injuring Mrs. Parker, who was staying there, that there are no hopes of her recovery.l’.oseedtnj ndktk, the destroyer struck the new, thriving towu of Cba-e, and demolished twenty nntof twenty.six buildings in the place, anti threw cats from the track. Mr. I! ei a hotel keeper, waa killed and bis wife fatsllv injured. Another woman snj child were a'ao killed st about the eamo lime.Among the loser* by tke waterspout io Rice county, Kansas, ate Keklea Bros., etore room destroyed with $2,000 worth-of goods; Ed. Stutter.- storeroom sud residence, lose, 5-3,000 Sutton, Hwisetr A Dnpiee, store roouie and lumber, siveral thousand dollars; Geo:go F. Miller, new two-etor? buritiuaa buns . $1,51)0: Congregational church. $ 1,230. Reid’s hotel was blown down. The Methodist church, dedicated last Sunday, waa twirled a quarter round and badly wrecked.The Keokuk,lows, Cjtti Ituti ou special from Keossuqua, county seat of Van Bttren c-nntv, stales that the buniMne wrecked a great deai of Property and plated lunch havoc in the borer Des Moines valley. At Keosacquaa large new house in which a locomotive was kept was demolished.HAITI•AT EXPLODED.Haifa Dlt; 7.en lien Kliled Near Pi'ownaviile Minnesota.The raft host Bells Mac, of tlia Macdonald lino, was almost totally destroyed by an t splosh®, two miles above Brownsville, t n the Mis oissippi, below La Grotse,Friday morning, last.The oogineera had just changed watches, xml the capt-iu woe at tlr, wheel. Every mau was at Lis post, and the steam gauge registered only 13 5 pounds. Tho craw consisted of seventeen men, of whom all hut eix wero asleep. The csptisf says he was just thinking of Increasing sited, when t'ie pilpt hnueo sud tho entire works shot into the air, and he fsucied he was falling some distance. Re thinks he was iu. sensible for amiuntu or two, and first remember* endeavoring to maw! out of the wreckagemen who were iu the waler or buried' beneath the wreck. The following aro the dead or missing: Frauk McIntyre, pilot; Swift Belfc common baud; John Nilan, flrc-mon; Wm. MeConnish, common band; Goo. MeConnish, soeondcook; Chas Martin negro rnnner, dead.The wounded aro as follows: Thom is i’tc negro runner; MorrisLasuenr, fireman; W. V, Gordon, csp-ain; Jsmes and Henry Talley, theformer first onginoor and the latter a second engineer; David MeConnish, clerk; Wm. l.-iJi bender, cock; Chas. Monahan, fireman; Louis Soelfon, mate; Richard Wagner, lireman; Louis Lxanetir, a little boy. Arm hurt slightly.Northwestern Postal Matters.* Washington, April 7.—Now postollices have beeu established at F.bert, Polk county, with Erick Benson as postmaster, and Maxwoll, Ijtc-qni Parle eouuty, Minn. The star mail servicn on the route from Cambridge to Harris, Minn., bas been increased to eix times a week. The postofiice at Angola, Becker county, Minn., has liooii discontinued. New postofficos are established in Iowa as follows:At Newball, Benton cotmty. Hardy, Hnmboll eouuty, Melbourne, Marshall county, Minerva, Marshall connty.Ia Dakota at Elkhorn, Hamlin connty. Parsons. Aurora connty. Thomas Nichols. Io Witt C. Baker and Jotu B. Foley hare lieen appointed postmasters at the newly established offices at Minerva, Melbonrnand Hardy, lo., respectively.Dakota * insane Atylnmn Ranted.Tho Territorial Insane Aaylnm at Yankton wss burned last Tuesday afternoon.It waa a temporary wooden building nsod while tBe brick koildiug, now nearly completed waa constructed. There wore flfty-fcnr patients in theaaylum, sud of thosa the following were horned to death;George Iverson of Yanklon county.Pater Peterson of Cass county.Oran Lynch of Union county.Joseph Hannerly of Lswrenoe county:Ths property loss is about $10,001) including the temporary building* and ita contents, comparatively nothing being saved; ioaurance $800. The origin of the fire ia a mystery. It. was firat s'en iu the icor,and spread with such rapidity that there was no lime to save property. Tho patient* burned were once removed from the building but ran back intothe flamce after escaping from cnelolv. The new aesylum is not completed bnt con be used end the survivors have beeu moved in.'oPromt, $1,300.To Bum up six long years of bedridden sickness, ostjng $200 per year, tola! $1,-'200—allot this expense was stopped by tbriobottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my wife.She Lrs doco her own honsoworh for n p air since, without the loss of a day, and I w nt everybody to know it for their benefit. —.V. E. Farmer.When Mr. Justice Field, of tbs United States supreme court, is troubled xvith sleeplessness, be drives it off with a scree-cher” of hot claret and water.Cast-Iron Feilutv-.Jen of ondurauce have healthy kidney* and liver. No aches in tho bsck, no di1s or con-isarion. Tho cure for these diiv*-es is Ki ney Wort. This great remey lie-ps up n • •one of the whole body by euebliug .ne lirr oowels and ki Inays to perform their funct-u s rfectly. -Both tbe Liquid and Dry are solo oy druggists.—Pioneer Press.Forty-two oounties of Kansas raised over mas million bushels of com each, and oi^ht counties harvested each over five hundred thousand bushels of wheat. *
Newspaper Details
The Worthington Advance
Worthington, Minnesota, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1882
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Joplin P.
MO, USA 19 Sep 2024
Other Publications Near Worthington, Minnesota
The Worthington Advance
The Western Advance
