Pratt County Press from Iuka, Kansas • 1

nn nnr PRESS CO PRA WE LABOR FOR THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER. NUMBER 11. TRAIT CENTER, PRATT COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1881. VOLUME VII. STATE NEWS.

kxeoutions. -Establisnia Professional 5 Business Cards, CURRENT TOPICS. It has been a prosperous base ball the dray, 1 shilling 4 pence; to a laborer that digged the holes, 8 pence; expensessetting up the same, 1 shilling; for a load of wood and for a horse to Bnrnlnic Criminals at the Statu, and How It Was Done The First and Last Ctuei of Burning; on Kecord. Burlington is wrestling with the question as to the location of their college. The Bepublican in some very sensible comment says: The old idea OIT1T JDJEtTTG- STORE season.

draw him to a dungeon. 2 shillings 3 The number of idle actors Is said to A. S. THOMSON, A-ttornoy at Law Pratt Center, Kansas. pence; paid two men that sat at the bo Increasing.

kettle and ptrboilcd bim, 1 shilling; to three men that carried his quartr rs to the gates and set them up, 1 shilling; that a college should be situated on a hill out of town, where students and teachers are cut off from the world is not now popular. If this college is located far out of town in either dhoc- There are over 275,000 school teach How few people would feci the same pitying admiration for Joan of Arc if that inspired heroine had been simply hanged in-tead of burnt by the "God-dams," as, according to her historians, she was to call the despised English. There is something in the very phrase "burn't at tho stake" PEAK BREWSTER, Prop's. ers in this country. for halters, sandwich, cord and screws.

tion, the opposite side of the town can 1 shilling; for a woman that scoured the knife, 2 pence; to him that did the Most of the mica used in stoves is SIMPSON SHINKLE, AttonieyssCoraiselors Pratt Centeu, Kansas. from the Black Hills. not be accommodated. Again, if persons come from abroad, and find that execution. 3 shillings 8 pence; total, 14 Keep constantly on Hand shillings 8 pence." wmun mis one witn horror, ana the thought that any woman would brave such a death seems almost incredible.

600 Fargo is shipping east 400 to they have to travel two miles to school, they will certainly seek a mor8 favor This punishment was not uncommon carloads of wheat daily. In Pratt Ontor Town Company1! office. The Maid of Orleans" has doubtless PURE DRUGS either in England or on the cof inem, for coining, and the law permitting it was not repealed until the time of 'Edward 1547. TnE liberals of Glasgow will erect a been in the minds of many persons all over the civilized world of lato, as well ably located school. ijUking all in consideration, the parkin the city will be the most desirable.

Then our citi- v'' zens can easily attend lectures, con- certs, public exercises, connected statue to Mr. Gladstone. as in that ot every i renchman, on ac Cases where persons were disem ROBERT ANDERSON, Attorney at Law Iuka, Kansas. Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Paints, Oils, Varnithes, Cigars and Tobacco, School Books, Also a good count of the monument recently erect Providence belles are knitting their boweled were not infrequent, but the sentence was generally mitigated, and, own black silk stockings. ed in ner nonor in her beloved patrie.

But, although it seems absolutely bar- OtRGUXiAJTllSrCSr libraby with the school. A college in tbe park will. not interfere with the beauty or usefulness of the park. This location will satisfy all, and the college will be an ornament to the town. oarous to make such a suggestion if as in the ease- burning at the stake, the condemned were first strangled.

Living in flats is becoming more and Mention is made in an old book of a Will practice in nil state and federal courts. the old records are to be credited, this burning wai by no means the agon more popular in New York. man being pressed to death, but no Competent Prescription Druggist may be found at the store at all hours, The Wichita Eagle describes a run Robert Browning, the poet, con day or night. away Where a man with his wife and two little children were in a wagon templates visiting America. instance can be given oi tnis areaoiui mode of killing, the very idea of which is enough to give any one of moderately strong nerves the nightmare for a week.

PRATT CENTER, KANSAS. partially loaded with coal. The hue- J. M. DUMENIL, Attorney at Law Il'ka, Kansas.

Practiced In nil Court nnd before the Lund Office. MortwiKes, Contraots Ac. prompt- The day schools of New York have band was so drunk that he fell out of 150,000 pupils, and tho night schools 12,000. izing oeatn it is generally supposed to have been. Indeed, in England it was looked upon as an easy death, and women were even burnt for the same crimesfor which men were bung, as being the more humane mannerof putting to death.

But, and here lies the whole secret, these same old records showed that the condemned were invariably strangled to death, or at least into a state of perfect unconsciousness, before the flames were allowed to touch them. It is claimed that death by drowning one of the easiest, but we doubt if PALACE DRUG STORE. the wagon. The team started into a run and the wife in attempting to secure the lines which had fallen, had her dress caught in one of the wheels ly nna accurately uniwn. Uollecuuun will re It is said that the expenses of the tho idea of being sewed up in a sack and thrown into the water would be ceive prompt attention.

agreeable to anyone.yet such was at one Gordon relief expedition will be per week. C. H. EAGIN, time the not unmerited doom of parri which dragged her from the wagon, breaking one of her legs, the team continuing on in the direction of home. The youngest child was thrown from cides; but still more revolting is the idea Two hundred cars are now in use SMALLEY COWDY, PROP'S.

so that in reality it was simply the. ot being put under hurdles into bogs or ferns, which was the fate reserved for the meaner criminals at one period transporting fresh fruit from California to the east. Attorney at Law Pratt Center, Kansas. Ten years experience in Kansns conrtn. Legal nd Notortal ouainosa promptly attended to.

in Irermany, while to the greater male' tne wagon and severely hurt. he runaways were not stopped until they had gone about two miles, the oldest child having clung to his position and was found unhurt. The miserable father seems to have been unhurt. DEALERS IM An apple tree at Lancaster, aeaa Dociy that was devoured by the angry flames. In proof of this a case is mentioned in an old English book where the executioner was severely blamed because, his hands becoming scorched, he failed to pull tho rope fastened around the neck of the condemned hard enough factors was reserved the infinitely preferable death of hanging.

One of the which is 125 years old, bore a good crop this season. agreeable laws of the ancient iiurgun-dians provided that unfaithful wives should be smothered in mud a threat The annual meeting of the Kansas Thursday, November 6, has been to kill her until after the flames had ppointed as a day public thanks DRUGS and MEDICINES, Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Putty, Toilet and Fancy Articles. Will also take orders at tho store for all kinds of Trees, Shrubs and Plants. one would suppose capable of putting F. E.

Gillett, C. L. Kaymond. GILLETT RAYMOND, Attorneys at Law Kingman, Kansas. reached her and caused great agony, in spite of the efforts of those about her.

an end to all such lawbreaking. giving in the Province of Quebec, Can State Temperance union will be held in the senate chamber, Topeka, on Wednesday, November 19,1884, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m. Each church, Sunday school, temperance society, or other societj holding a certificate of The Angio-baxous had all women ada. Quite a detailed accourt is given of who were convicted of stealing drown tne execution of a woman named Klea.

The people of Wyoming Territory ed, and King Richard the Lion-Heart Will practice in Btato and Federal Courts. Gnaranteed to be strictly first-class and true to name. nor Elsom in the "Lincoln Date Book," who was condemned to death ed made that the legal punishment for any soldier who killed a fellow-crusa life membership in the union, is entitled to three delegates in the convention. These organizations will please are to vote upon the 4th of November on tho question of taxing church property. for the murder of her husband and or R.

F. McGREW, Prescriptions Carefully CompiiM liy a Competent Prescription Cleri, der. Criminals were drowned in Eng land until the early part of the elect delegates at as early a date as deredtobe burned at the stake. It reads as follows: "She was clothed in a cloth made like 'a saturated PRATT CENTER, KANSAS. seventeenth century, and in Edin Attorney at Law A clergyman of Binghamton has burgh, Scotland, a man was drowned with tar, ami her limbs were practicable and forward credentials to the secretary at Topeka, retaining a duplicate copy for delegates to bring personally.

All individual members as late as 1611 "for the stealing of a denounced roller skating for girls. He says that the associations of the skating Pratt Center, Kansas. A. P. Ambrose, lamb." In other parts of Scotland F.

M. Brown, Treasurer. J. J. Enyart, Secretary, President.

rink are demoralizing. the custom was prevalent until 1685. smeared with the same inflammable substance, while a tarred bonnet had been placed on her head. She was brought out of prison barefooted, and. Will practice in all the courts of the state, Money to loan on real estate.

It would seem that as civilization of the union, whether lite or annual, are entitled to admission by virtue of their membership. A medical enthusiast has started a advances executions are being not only being put on a hurdle, was drawn on D. C. LEWIS, Oxford Beqister: Jas. R.

Jones, a sledge to the place near the gallows. much less painful, but are, In many cases, altogether disappearing. Strange peach cure near Wilmington, similar to the grape cure of Germany and the pear cure of California. Upon arrival some time was passed in who farms Hon. R.

C. Mitchell's place near Gueda Springs, was in this city last Saturday with a curiosity hard to Lawyer, Land Agent to say, many nobleman of our day belonging to old families who still own Kossuth live" in a little attic apart prayer, after which the executioner placed her on a tar barrel, a height of three feet, against the stake. A rope ran through a pulley in the stake and beat, lie bad a cluster of three sweet the feudal castles of their ancestors point with a kind of pride to the soul- PRATT CENTER, KANSAS. and Notary Public. Saratoga, Pratt Kansas.

revolting instruments of torture used ment at Turin, having retired from his business as teacher of the English language, and is feeble in his old age. was placed around her neck, she her potatoes, which when taken from the ground on his place were very lightly joined together, the two larger ones lying side by side and the other on top by their forefathers instruments that self fixed it with her hands. She was All kinds of Irani hllHinanfl nrnmntW nUATiitid We keep constantly on band a well assorted stock of to. Will practice in all State and United States probably quite dead before the fire one would imagine must till tnem with shame for the barbarians who employed them. But life is a puzzle courts.

OFFICE IN COIiHIE'8 STOKE. Ik seven years Americans have paid 1,130,000 for French paintings. The ot tne two, forming a Kind oi pyramid. The combined three measured forty-one inches in circumference and Hi XT IVE 33 at the best. St.

Louis Fost-Dispalcn. PHILETUS WAKEFIELD, M. reached her, as the executioner pulled upon the rope several times while tho irons were being fixed. The body was seen amid the names for nearly half an hour, though, through the dryness of the wood and the quantity of tar, weighed twenty-hve pounds and one purchases have steadily increased from $701,000 in 1877 to $1,750,800 in 1883. Answering a Correspondent.

ounce. They will be taken to new 25clertlc PliyMloluu nnd Wurttoon. Orleans to the World's fair. A subscriber writes to an exchange Lime, Doors, Lath, Hair, "Windows, Shingles, Plaster, Lead, Oil, Paint, Office WeBt side North Main street, Fbatt Centeb, Kansas. Mexico, according to the most re Miltonvale News: Theodore Holmes tne nre was exceedingly nerce.

asking a question based upon the lol lowing statement of facts: cent statistics, has a population of Burning at the stake was. not so The Best Mixed Raints in the Market. O. PEAK, M. I was married to a fine-looking young girl about two years ago, and 10,000,000, and the value of property in the country is estimated at very long ago, used as a punishment for heretics of both or of any left at this office the largest sweet potato we ever saw in the state.

It weighs just seven pounds and four ounces. If there is a potato in this vicinity that will weigh more we would like to see it. One year's subscription about a year ago a horse she was dnv Physician and Surgeon Will Duplicate Railroad Prices Freights Added. (SCOTT, IVIaixRBor. person accused or witchcraft.

This ing ran away and threw her from her mode of execution was kept up all dur Pratt Center, Kansas. carriage, and she was so injured that A Proposition to give the present ing the middle ages, the first case on record being a man named Alban, who she has been partially paralyzed ever to the News will be given to the per lord mayor of London a second term since, bho cannot waik except on son who first presents this office with Will attend all calls dnv nr niirlii. Offim at was burned in the year 304 A. D. was promptly snuffed out by that high crutches, and then only with great City Drug Store, ltesideuce nortli-east part of a larger potato.

Many persons were put to death for Walker Smith, functionary, who seems to have had dilbculty. 1 am very fond of society, Wichita Eagle: As an illustration of coming, which was, up to a late date, quite enough of it. regarded as an offense meriting death. DR. D.

G. GIBBONS. and especially of dancing and boating, but my income is small and my the latest case on record of burning at sister says 1 ought to save my money The horse of a Russian peasant is DENTIST. PRATT CENTER, KANSAS. and buy my wife an invalid chair, or tne stake lor tnis crime being that of a woman named Christian Murphy, alias Bowman, who was burned on "March the way real estate advances in value in this city the old Buffalo stable on West Douglas avenue, formerly owned by Dr.

Brown, was sold last June for $3,800. In August for $4,500 and we are told that the present owner was offered $6,000 for the property a few days ago. hire a carriage or take her out lor an airing occasionally, but I do not enjoy Iuka, Kansas. first in his estimation; then comes bis cowj then his dog; then his pig, and if he has any left, it is bestowed upon his wife and children. 18,1789.

No. 87 of The Quarterly lleview men All kindi of dental work done in the most ftp. her company as well as that of other ladies, since she was hurt, for she is not lively now, as she was before I tt Mi lines Ll provea runner, i win extmeteu without pain tions the case of a man who was hanged for coining, while a young girl Ai worn warranieu. Newton Kansan: We learn that Londoners who leave their houses married her, and 1 am very mucn a some twenty colored men of this place, 14 years old came very near being burned as an accomplice, as on her appointed with life. What would you advise me to dot all lathers of families, nave witnin some weeks past, taken up farm CALHOUN HOOD, for the season place them in charge of a-policeman and his wife, who receive $2.50 per week and the use of coal and person, hidden beneath her corset, were found a number of whitewashed claims in the southern portion of Ed To this the exchange replies: "Do as you please, and don't bother people DEALERS IX counters, which she had placed there gas for their services.

SEVERAL FINE FARMS FOR SALE with smb. foolish questions. at ner master bidding. She was tried and judged guilty of treason, and was to have been burnt immediately If that question had been put to us instead of the exchange, says the Prince Matohuoii, the field marshal HARDWARE Bloomington Through Mail, we should after the hanging of the man, and, in STOVES AND TINWARE. deed, the fagots were already piled of Dahomey, has been tried for high treason and sentenced to be "buried chest deep in the earth, and then shot at by the Amazons nntil he is dead." have given an answer about like this Young man, did you ever see a fel when Lord Weymouth happened to Insures Town and Farm Property Against Fire, Light ning and Wind-Storms.

ride by and mercifully interfered. low who had whipped his wife, dressed up in a shining black suit of tar and 2 he item Suffolk uarland in the year feathers, promenading on the public The demand for opium as a nerve highway astride the root of a worm stimulant during the cholera scare in speaks oi tne case of one Margaret Biddingfield, who was burnt for the murder of her husband, the crime be A full stork of everything; in Hardv kept constantly on l.a... Pratt Center, Kansas. ing designated as "petty treason." Europe is said to have advanced tho price of the drug more than twenty-live per even in British markets. fence? Well, sir, if you think for a single minute of abandoning your poor crippled wife and spending your money in dancing and boating with other women, that is the kind of transporta The acta: murderer was a man i mm wards and the northern part of Uoman-anche county, where they now are and propose to make their future homes.

Thursday morning at five o'clock, at the Insane Asylum, at a patient by the name of Mrs. Baker was found hanging quite dead in her cell. She had formed a rope of the bed sheet, stood on the bed, tied one end around her neck, fastened the other to the window grating and then pushed the bed back with her feet. The following charters have been filed with the secretary of state: Win-field Cattle company, of Winfield, Cowley county; Kansas City Life and Accident association, of Kansas City; Touzalin Town company, of Ford county Andrews Kester Land and Cattle company, of Topeka, Kan. A colored man named Daniel Cana-day, of Little Cana township, Chautauqua county, having died under suspicious circumstances, his body was exhumed, and arsenic found in the stomach.

An old man named David Bradley has been arrested as the perpetrator. Louisville Reporter: Pottawatomie county has, probably, shipped as many One of the latest names given to named Richard Binge, who was the woman's paramour, but she was held as an accomplice, and while the man was hanged, she was burnt. tion you may expect. hen you stood MOTT HORNET before the altar with that gay young girl you have described and promised lne last case of burning opposite articles with the apparent object of attracting attention to them, is "liquid bread," a food supposed to base its sustaining properties upon a malt to love and honor her, and to her only Newgate was in 1786, when a woman was hanged on a low scaffold, and after life was extinct the fire was lighted below her and the body was burned to cling in sickness and health, in adversity as well as prosperity, there was no exception made, and no proviso in the vow vou took, that in case she became ashes. Oscar Wilde will never again come "Will Keep oa Hand a Full Supply ot LUMBER SHINGLES, DOORS, LATH, SASH, HAIR, LIME, George III.

put a stop to this barbar Kansas. paralyzed you should be at liberty to leave her housed up like a caged bird, and go dancing and boating with other Iuka, to this country. An inmate of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables has ous method of execution, and provided aised and exhibits in that institution that after June 17 women should be hanged as well as men. women, while sue is pining ner uie away for a few kind words from vou, a sunflower measuring fourteen inches bull more dreadful than burning at and a drive in your company, and AH work will rereire prompt attention and In diameter. satisfaction KQarantefd.

whenever you do that sort of a trick you deserve to be struck by lightning or have the dome of the court-house The ten children of Joseph Petti- We keep Everything to be found in First-Class Lumberyard. john, of Prescott, W. are marvels the stake was the horrible idea of boiling people to death, which was at one time the legal punishment for the crime of poisoning, the law putting it into effect being passed by Henry II. in 1531. One of the few cases recorded was that of a cook in the diocese of hogs this season as any other county in tbe state, and yet there are as many hogs in the county to-day as there were Blacksmith Shop of height and weight.

A seventeen- fear-old son is 7 feet high and weighs J. HTJISTTER, Manager. Iritt Center, Hauaaa. when shipments first began, but of course they are fewer in age and size. 265 pounds.

The average height of the H. O. PEDIGO, Prop. whole is 6 feet and average weight 224 pounds. the bishop of Rochester, named Richard Roose.

'I his man had put poison in food, causing the death of two persons and the serious illness of others, and the sentence was passed on him that he should be boiled to death without any benefit of the clergy, which CORNER 3d JACKSON STREET. In Japan, the wealthy owners of eats have a high respect for them, even when they are dead. In Teddo, at a Ell Ml Nb Is "in .110 North-west of New Implement Hnosa. recent cat's funeral, the coffin was cov meant without any mitigation of the sentence such as was commonly ac PrU Center. Kansaa.

fall on you. You think it is pretty hard on you to give np dancing and beating and save your money to buy your poor, sick little wife an invalid chair, by means of which yon can take her out on pleasant evenings and talk over the good old times to ber and make ber smile, because it does her good to breathe the pure air cut of doors and know that vou have not forgotten the old days when she was well, and that yon sympathize with her and have just a little of that love which vou swore would never grow less, left. If yon will take a maul and pound your giddy head with it. until you can see what an ass you have made of yourself by asking such a question, you will come to your senses and wonder why you did not fall into a coal-mine a thousand feet deep, when such a vile and silly notion came into your head. corded to those in any way connected ered with a white silk pall, and a body of chanting priests followed the cortege to the grave.

All kinds of work la any lis sad Are Completed and Ready for Business 1 wouy som Professor Lidwio Macthner, the famous Vienna oculist, las just suc TbB PIONEER DRUG STORE Brookville Transcript: Mr. McAllister, U. P. Land agent, informed is that they had clo-ed a sale of 113,000 acres of "land in Sheridan and Grove counties last Monday, and still own 60,000 acres in Lincoln and Ellsworth counties. A stone was shipped from one of the quarries in Chase county last week that measured twelve feet eight inches long, five feet three inches wide, two feet eight inches thick, and weighed thirteen tons and eight hundred pounds.

One firm at Leonardiville is paying out from t500 to 1,000 a day for grain. Fonrtten families of DunkardshaTe recently located in Stafford county. A commanJpry of Knights Tetcp'ar has been orgai iied at Hutchison. The tcbools at Kinrin have been closed oa account of diphtheria. William of Auruta, wm shot and kii.rd We jnfdy Itiekersoa is ta hav a skatisg Howard has a bank.

Wichita tu tlx t-asi, ceeded in restoring sight to a colleague aged ninety-six. In another case he It stored eight to a patient of 102 Tears. The cases are said to be "We will rrfnd "Wheat and take cme-eigth toll We chop any kind of Feed for 6 cents per hundred pounds. Make Corn Meal foi STOKER it Prop's. 10 cents per hundred pounds.

unique in eve surgery. with the clergy, so that be probably really felt the frightful agonies of being boiled. The next person of whom we hear as meeting this hideous death was a woman, a servant, who had poisoned three families with whom she had lived. In the chronicle of the Grey friars, mention is made of a man who was made fast to a chain and let down into boiling water until he was dead. The expenses attendant on the parboiling and hanging of Friar Stone, in 15S9 are certauily curious.

The execution came off at Canterbury, and the fallowing mere the detnijs'of the -For a ton of timber to ms'ie a pair of gallows for to hang Friar Stone, hiiiings 6 pence; to a for luakiog the fallows and Its ESst KirM Pries, i Littls Mire, fir WHEAT nl CCRI WoiofB to be admitted to lecture to Ux VniTfrf.tr la Torwito, aa4 the roa put vktorv lot tlx frfccU ia C'tiiJAOf toe jVt of Tbi3 Mill is 15 south of Pratt Center, and 15 miles north of Medicine Lodge. Jills Fleet, the present premier of France, was educated for a lawyer icd first made his mark as a journalist, His early articles, writtei when liberal press was not in favor with ibe government, subjected him to con-idirable persecution. One piece won Pure Drugs, Paints, Oils, Glass, Perfumery, fKATT Center, Kansas of Ua' Cm. Cat. las CkwmI arommodatiog Camera.

We pay Kirgman prices for Wheat, wau eojoj Imtiii)? titi pcaUr sort. and a few mure for choice lot. JOHNSON DENTON, for him a fine of 12,400..