The Adair County News, 1900-03-07

execution and murdered accord J ing to the laws of this State You wicllls by asking the Lord toren have mercy on my soul I will close by solemnly asking God to open your blind eyes to the truth to your individual responsibility so that you will cease to give your support to this hellborn traffic WANTEDas Reliable man for Manager of Branch Office 1 wish to open in this vicinity Good opening for an energetic sober etman Kindly mention this paper when writing A T Mounts Cincin usnati Ohio taillustrated catalogue 4 cts postage oftie Bootsho hisThe exConfederate telegraph opera operator - tor operator whose name I do not recall but who died at Nashville last week ivpenit ishis hand on the key had many adsden mey mend myyesterday tnat she knew him well and he was incidentally the promoter ot other H - her other marriage One of her brothers waS in Morgans command and as the family lived in Nelson county he and some of his friends often paid stealthy 25 visits to the house and got food a ndce firinformation On ohe occasion a well 111 ICknown Southern sympathizer was about to send a lot of supplies to the tha Confederates and this fact becoming CCJ tou le in graphed ordering his arrest The Cc holadys brother and the young telegraph operator heard of this and hastening S to the railroad they cut the wires andto to saved the Southern sympathizer who ilng Hogrs subsequently met and married the slsC3 ter of his preserver This young sol soldier - dier soldier was once captured and taken toIn hisH cons ered a desperate character able in con neDr triving prison escapes While here Dr Mary Walker was curious to see him and secured a permit to do seef sohi his When she saw the desperate raider was Faa beardless boy of seventeen she was to much touched and asked what she the could do for him Well Dr WalkcrJ T said the boy looking at the top bootshie hie hieshe she was wearing I would be mlh1lter ter y obliged for those boots of yoursIng He got them and can boast that he thatlag has stood in Dr Mary Walkers shoesaD aD1attler Tattler in Louisville Times G A FIendish Attack of Ch F thr Collier of Cherokee Iowa that nearly team proved fatal It came through his kid cau neys Ills back got so lame he could A 1 ldit not stoop without great pain nor sit death a chair except propped by cushins A No remedy helped him until he tried COli Electric Bitters which effected such a at ywonderful change that he writes he Nash feels like a new man This marvelous Ha medicine cures backache and kidney newly trouble purities the blood and builds surrey up jour he 1thOnly toc at T E ford Paulls Drug StoreTh JOPPA year and There are more preparations be 1 ° ga made in this community for tobacco a 51 raising than for a number of JeursTh Miss Nancy Cravens Russell Springs count visiting Mrs Mary Montgomery ragsh Mrs Susie Holladay who has b enTh sick for some days is no better at this gall wrJtlngche Messrs A Willis Jas Willis II P ed Barger and W W Brockman were ju tiel rors 0 nth e Parter Redman ca Ctortnutioa forIJamestown JamestownMiss MissDirs Mrs Mollie Holladay has been 5Urria1 ferlng for the past week from aspsAt wrist A Mrs Mattie G Hurt has been vi sitnegra Mrs W W Jones of Columbia for PhI the past week dally The farmers of this neighborhood He have lost quite a number of sheep dui only ing the recent cold spell lIe Bottom Robinson Perry vllle pass the through this place last week with A head of cattle which they purchased acedfight hon urIn a Anderson Holladay engaged 161Har cattle to Bottom S Robinson at4c Harp AbnIt cane ndpr COlI pullicg last Tuesday night in honor of frige 23rd birthday Misses Mary and arm Fanny Holladay of this net hbor hoodpany attended and reported a jolly thQeA At Whats Your Price Vortla1m agaislid in I have a sallow complexion a Jaundev dev diced look moth patches and blotchesIses cises Iseson agrem Clear Skin Rosy Cheeks Rich Com money ComI plexion Only 25 cents at 1 E Pa alls riage serts Drug Store their Mrs Depoysterj recently married Hunt diM at turgJS i pI it meal > IHtls fafnilp o

NMNNNNNNNNNNf MN NNNMN NNNNN but as long as thejopen saloon was in my pathway my weak diseased willpower was no match against the fearful consuming antagou izing appetite for liquor At last I Bought the protection care and orspathy of tho church of Jeeus Christ but at the communion ta table - ble table I received from the hand of the pastor who sits there and who has testified against me in this case the cup that contained t hetor very same alcoholic serpent that is asfound in every bar room in the enInnd It proved too much for fork my - wea k fork humanity and out of that holy place T rushed to the A athe debauch that ended with the murder der of my wife For one year our town was without a saloon For one year I visitwas my wife and children were BU premely happy and our little inhome a perfect paradise isI was one of those who signed a remonstrance against reopening the saloons in our town The names of onehalf this jury can oneto certifying to the good mot alto character of the rumsellers and falsely saying that the sale oft liquors was necessary in our town The prosecuting attorney on tLou case Louwas 7 pleaded with this court for li license E - cense license and the judge who sits on 1 this bench and who asked me if I 1bad tence of death was passed on me 1 granted the license a The impassioned wordof the prisoner fell like coals of fire upon the hearts of those present and sa manyof the spectators and some s the lawyers were moved to teat sly ifo toHe stop any further speech on the part of the prisoner when the udspeaker hastily said No Ino I your honor do u ofAn close my lips I am nearly through and they are the last words I sit Allproved speak on earth ncyitli a saloon bar legalized and pro protected in - tected protected by the voters of this Com monwealth which has received an uually a part of the bloodmoney W0from poor deluded victi m sfeels After the State had made me a m Thedrunkard and a murderer I atnble taken before another bnrthe bar Arup justice 2 by the same pow erPaulls law that legalized the first band fir now the lawpower will con duct me to the place of execution hasten my soul into eternity I shall appear before another barthe judgment bar of God < there you who have legalized is e traffic will have to appear with me Think you that the 51 Great Judge will hold methe wr poor weak helpless victim of your trafficalone responsible for theBarger murker of my wife Nay I inrocs drunken frenzied irresponsi ° condition have murdered butferiak but you have deliberately and ed wilfully murdered your thousani ders the murder mills in f arc full ing operation today with your con t1 sent f All of yoti know in your hearts hI that these words of mine are not In raving of an unsound mind tenthnot The ed liquor traffic of this nation is rei12 sponsible for nearly all the muror s bloodshed riots power tYof misery wretchedness and wote Itto breaks np thousands of hn PPYMr homes every year sends the h nepu11t1g band and father to prison or to the his pt gallows and drivescountless moth Fa seers and little children into the att world to suffer and die It furnishes hass nearly all the criminal business of and every other court and blasts every community it touches you Yo legalized the saloons that di made me a drunkard and a mur on derer and purses guilty with me Bt before God and man for tho mur Cl r of my wife II pi Your honor I am done I am Di ready to receive my sent euclt rtab ledfiiith i to the H place ° tdl t

STATE NEWS OilTames M Davidson a farmer of Bar atill Springiield Mo John Cohen an aged bachelor wa boardinghouse house In Louisville 0 Mr George Davie a prominent 1aw per of Louisville died of sarcoma last week in New York Miss Lula Farris of Graves counthe was thrown from a vehicle and poM bly fatally injured Charles Schilling Chief of Police at Newport fell dead In his ollice Death was caused by hemorrhage ot the lungs Elijah Brewer of Jackson county while taking a raft of logs down a creek was thrown into the water and drownedWarden Warden Smith of the Eddyvi lie penitentiary refused to release Gol Golden - den Golden Trotter a convict pardoned by weekme The twelveyearold daughter of P Copeland at Mayfield accidentally shot and killed herself while toying with her fathers pistol Miss Maggie Duff of Greenup fig adW years was subject to fits and in the absence of the family fell Into the firetry and was burned to death bfhe fir eloperag rag couple from Louisville were married edhe Lexington Sunday afternoon by the County Judge 1Patents issued Kentuckians Wm gDyclts and W E Peay Kuttawa tobacco truck Morris W Vetaw Bow h0Gress assignor to M E Womas baital In a quarrel over cards W J Bros vnthree Harlau county was stabbed and perhaps fatally injured by DeGrady inere Citye Samuel G Boyle Louisville has solde Steas ckshot Farm Publishing Company Lexington Desha Brcckmridge manager of benhe Thomas Shy rock aged 45 years s hotPolls himself through the heart Sunday af afternoon - ternoon afternoon at his home in Tyrone Wash WashIngton - ington WashIngton county He had been drink A wes Ire seven children J Marcum a prominent farmer Wayne county was killed by being thrown from a wagon by a runaway he was driving His body was caught between the wagon and a tree leg was torn from his body and his was InstantaneousM R Nash charged with passing counterfeit money made a statement of Beaver Dam implicating Arthur his nephew Both are in jail atn Hartford A sack containing fourteen made dollars was found in thThe which conveyed Nash to Hartford rtArk the The tax levy fur Menifee county t leisal will be about 20 rents ad velar emGa 20 cents poll tax The county has surplus of auou LJS900 from last ye arAt claims allowed for the wh why oicsold - y why expenses were less than 1500 h Includes the salary of all duct ISmoney Thirteen Danville women have or w wokhis alcheAmerl after the Old St Asaph fort or set settlement - tlement settlement which dates back before theKallBAa formation of the State of Kentucky llE Nannie Green was elected Hit to al of the chapterin tinTw appeared before JudgehI County Judge Phillips and declared himself to be le elected Governor of Kentucky ye said he needed no bodyguard but by asked that he be given his right ny was adjudged insane and sew t to W theasJlum St withAhaaingtragedy resulted from Dr ht which arose over a game of craps war Geeead rge p was shot and killed by Lie ut G er Early of the Corbia militia W Sulndp at were each + wounded in the left be Early recently returned withmerit company from Frankfort thAt Franklin Miss Sallie E Win am GJ filed a breach of promise suit W suitcges against William D Hunt Shealleges cxhioitetvgaun tea Ci devotion for her nuel made many prom crIses teledble and J11 ed to marry him She expended ne theCora mar ro Ninhainalls as hCJ that hunt refused to carry out iu agreement and she wasts 5000 bl1 2t rnl YiiiNI has mmey4 11 Y

RNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Prisoner at the bar have you innth ofon death shall not be passed upon you 1 A solemn hush fell over the crowded courtroom and ov pry person waited in breathless exp ors IntntIol for un answer to tho judges question Will the prisoner answer answers - s answers there nothing that will m n kehas him show some sign of emotion p Will he maintain the cold in indifferent - different indifferent attitude that he has daysshown through the long trial even to the place of execution holySuch passed through the minds of those who had followed the case fr omder dayy The judge still waited in dig aj Red silence silenceI Not a whisper was head any anywhere - where anywhere and the situation had bee 1 I come painfully oppressive he11I the prisoner was SHeD to move his j i remma clinched and the blood had rut ihjtha ed into his pale careworn face i 1 his teeth were firmly set and into ibe his haggard eyes came a flash of Ic light Ic Suddenly he arose to his feet j stirch let IJ voice said jTheI I have I Your honor you t f c have asked mo a question and lily now ask as the last favor on cart 1h CI that you will not interrupt my Attthis ewer until I am through Ib I stand before this bar con tE victedj of the willful murder of my gl wife Truthful witnesses hit eThe testified to the fact that I was ap loafer a drunkard and a wrote h aI tJ that I returned from one of mvUJ eli lt of atvg o rnThe love cherish and protect 1Yh tiestop h ave no remembrance of com p mitting the fearful cowardly andSI inhuman deed I have no right to complain or condemn the verdict c the twelve good men who have an acted as jurors in this case for their verdict is in accordance with evidence at evidenceBut But may it please the court wish to show that I am ntitul ono responsible for the murder of nv wife I fr wifehis This startling statement ere xt A a tremendous sensation The dru judge leaned over the desk thetakes lawyers wheeled around and faced of ofprisoner the jurors looked a tof tilele and spectators could hardly updust press their intense excitement and prisoner paused a few seconds then dse bar continued in the snmeblJ m distinct voice and 1 I repeat your honor I am not the only one guilty of the murder wfc m y wife The judge on thisGreat bench t11N jury in the box the poo lawyers within this bar and most trai the witnesses including the mu pastor of the old church are also my guilty before Almighty God and ble l have to appear with me beone the Judgment Throne where wil e nil shall be righteously judged and If twenty men conspire to OJ gether for the murder of one per seu tho lawpower of this land willarreBt the twenty and each tba l be tried convicted and exe the cuted for a whole murder and not but tweutteth of the crimelie I have been made a drunkard 8P law Jf it had not been for ders tolest vn > m never would have been a drunk Dre ardmy wife would not have b eanhomes murdered I would not bo b ereband ready to be hurled into eternity gal nitmarl ad it not been fur the human ore imps set out with tho consent of wo e government I would have nej au a sober man an industrious this workman a tender father and ablasts loving husband But today myYou myhome ms dered my little children God dej ss and cafe for themc tonbefore thetoercy ofa coldand cruel der bon o murdered by the strongarin of the fate now God kboar j I tcieqtb ref orbit arid 7r i d7t e

GENERAL NEWS lenderat atof the Populist party in Arkansas is dead ngBenj Wood proprietor of tho New York Daily News died last weeka woThe at Honolulu and other cities of Wefy Martial law has been declared isat atected from Nicaragua bSDan Rice the veteran circus clown died in Now York City at athe ago of 77 Floyd Merrill two weeks marri married - ed married committed suicide at Scotts lieburg Ind by taking morphine Suuol themare for which Rob ert Bonner paid 41000 was sold at public sale in New York city for 4000 William Holbrook Beard a well known painter of animals died in New York recentlyH Washingtons bithday WAS cele celebrated - brated celebrated in many parts of the coun country I - try country with appropriate ceremonies originator tor of the gold cure died sud suddenly - denly suddenly at Los Angeles Cal heLife imprisonment is the pun ishment meted out to Glay Lark Larkin - in Larkin a baseball player who killed a 0wa Convicts on the Marlboro coon try S Ccham gang killed Amos I s Curter a guard with an ax and three of eight prisoners escaped Near Benton Harbor Mich Al len Geisler a welltodo German farmer and fruit grower shot his wife and then drowned himself in A Lake Hichigan Mrs Geisler was shot in thehead but may recoverTaut promiof bent steamboatmau died at GaJli polis Ofrom blood poison result ing from wearing colored hose Since the outbreak of the South African war and before Gen Rob erts took command the British Qloss etwounded and missing I Wn Ting Fan the Chinese Min Minister - ister Minister was the principal orator at the dedication of the new law school of the University of Penn sylvania last week weekL Mrs Musa Marcus daughter of former Circuit Judge McBrayer f Kentucky was divorced iu New York from Henry Marcus son of Baltimore millionaireC The Southern Baptist Conven Convention - tion Convention will meet at Hot Springs y Ark the second week in May II Southern Presbyterian Gener Assembly willDleet at Atlanta k1 Mayins tin At Mead Neb Lee Johnson gut sold his store and received about ers 7000 in payment He left theI money in his trousers pocket heor woke in the I3 clothesof and money were gone A jury iu the Criminal Court at H Kansas City gave Ed Simins a negro footpad a forty year sent mice in the penitentiary for snatch a white womans pocketbook Two jurors wanted to give him ay sentence Regarding the rumors of inter R veution in the South African war the United States and Germa announcement is made at Washington that the Un atA tl tlStates IIStates States will not intervene unless requested by both parties to the 110000 damage suit of ArthurAs Asse AsGrissom Woods of Kansas City for alien alienating - ating alienating his wifes affections has been compromised by the pay payment me - ment payment of 80000 to Grissom and rate will granting of a divorce to Mrs j > 0 Grissom who is a daughter of Dr you Voode The Convention Hall in Kansas Gl City where the National Demo Democratic loan - cratic Democratic Convention will be held in ues ueJuly nearly 80000 and with standing room the building is capable o fo two twns arena alone seats 4000 The Cla building was erected at a cost of j 225000 which was raised entire ad Ur pabiio teblolripibn

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