Woodruff Budget from Woodruff, Kansas • 2

A. J. CASSATT DIES SUDDENLY. WOODRUFF BUDGET BY JOHN A. BARKER.

of Kansas 1 WOODRUFF, KANSAS. LYNCH A WHITE MAN. MRS. CALDWELL NOT GUILTY. Lawrence Leberg Mobbed for Murder 'of Henry Levenmeyer.

Lawrence Leberg was lynched at Las Animas, for the murder of Henry Levemneyer, by a mob of masked men. About forty men entered the jail andv easily overpowered the sheriff, under sheriff and, two other officers and locked them securely in a rom in the building. Then the men went to the cell occupied by Leberg, struck the shackles from his limbs and took him from the President of Pennsylvania Road Passes Away. President Alexander J. Cassatt, of Ihe Pennsylvania railroad company, died at Philadelphia, December 28th.

The announcement of his death was made from his office shortly before 2 o'clock in the following bulletin: "Mr. A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, died suddenly of heart disease, at 1 p. m.

today. The symptoms were those known to the profession as the Stokes-Adams syncope and as is often the case, under the circumstances, death was instantaneous." Mr. Cassatt died in his city residence surrounded by the members of the family. He had been ailing ever since he returned last September from his summer home at Bar Harbor, where he had contracted whooping: cough from his grandchildren. This attack left him weakened and he did not go to his office for several weeks, but remained at his country home at Haverford.

BILLS IN CLOTHES PROP. Farmer Had Carelessly Tossed Around Two Boards Concealing $500. After throwing a couple of boards, nailed tightly together, around the yard for eight months or more, using them as a clothes line prop and for various other things, Ben Bannon, a farmer living near Derby, while Jury Makes Decision in Noted Kansas Murder Trial. Mrs. Susan Caldwell was declared not guilty of the crimevof murdering her husband by the jury in the d'strir- court at Salina.

Mrs. Caldwell, her son, Harry, who has been her constant companion during her trials, and her attorneys each shook hands with the jurors and thanked them. When seen by a reporter immediately after the announcement of the verdict, Mrs. Caldwell was weeping with joy, and her son, Harry, who was the only member of the family in the court room, was weeping splitting the boards for kindling, found $500 hidden between them. Bills to the amount of $290 were mutilated almost beyond recognition.

These, with the pieces of board to which they jail. A large body of men and boys were waiting outside the walls and when the prisoner and his captors appeared they formed a procession and proceeded a short distance from the jail and hanged Leberg to a telegraph pole." The self-confessed murderer made no resistance and made no statement. were attached, were shipped to the treasury department at Washington for identification. The balance of the bills were in good condition and wen MRS. SAGE TO BE LIBERAL.

at once to swell Mr. Bannon's bank account. The mob offered no violence and no "I feel like crying, but I won't' said Mrs. Caldwell to the reporter, Just then two large teardrops rolled down her cheeks. She wiped them away and said in a trembling voice, "I will not cry any more." He is of the opinion that the boards were collected by him at the time the floods last spring when he gath ered a quantity of driftwood from Spring creek and the Arkansas river.

BANK ROBBER WANTS PARDON. shots were fired during the entire affair. Before the mob reached the jail Leberg heard them coming. He arose from his cot, dressed himself coolly and awaited the coming of the avengers of Lavenmeyer's death. The leader of the mob made no effort to disguise -himself and it' is declared that the ringleaders are known to the jail the junction of which is near his farm BRCJTHER SHOOTS BROTHER.

Kansas Young Man Told His Mother Says She Will Distribute Her Husband's Fortune. Mrs. Russel Sage, widow of the financier, has gave out a statement in which she declared that it was not her intention to distribute immediately the money left by her husband and much less does she intend to distribute it everywhere and to everybody. She declared thta she has at her own doors plenty of cases of need which have a nearer claim than the people of other cities whose needs she believes can and should be met by philanthropic persons in those states. The earliest date at which her husband's estate can be closed up, she says, is one year from his death, and therefore present applications to her are premature.

of Intended Crime. At Ellsworth, Yancey Carpen ter shot his brother, Chris Carpenter BROTHER KILLS HIS BROTHER. and dangerously wounded him. Yancey Great Bend Bandit Promises to Be Good Hereafter. Governor Hoch has received an application for a parole from Joseph S.

Kearns, the young man who has been sentenced to an indefinite term of from ten to twenty-one years in the penitentiary for robbing the Great Bend bank, December 8th. Kearns says he expects to lead a good life. He believes he could live a good life if released now and asks the governor to give him a parole. He says he intends to "make reparation to those who have lost by his acts and retrieve his once spotless had been visiting his father's family. He took his wife home from there, loaded his revolver, told her that he was going to kill his brother and returned down town.

He went to his father's house and asked for Chris He left there and met his mother com TWO MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS. ing home from church. He asked where his brother was, telling her he wanted to kill him. He walked up reputation. SOWED KANSAS'S FIRST ALFALFA Lansing, Man Shoots Him and Injures His Wife.

Elbert Conklin, a stone mason, was shot and killed in his home at Lansing, by his brother Melvin. They had quarreled over property matters. Melvin came to Elbert's house at midnight, called his brother to the door and wounded him with a charge from a shotgun. He then pursued him into his bedroom and fired another charge into Elbert's abdomen, disemboweling and killing him instantly. Mrs, Elbert Conklin ran from the house in terror and Melvin fired one snot at her, slightly wounding the woman in the arm.

Melvin is under arrest and apears to "be insane or feigning Insanity. the street to a restaurant where his brother was and when Chris went Thawing Out Dynamite Proves Hazardous Operation. Two men were killed and a third so badly injured that he has since died, by the explosion of dynamite which was being thawed at Muskoday, fifty miles east of Fargo, N. D. The out he followed him and shot him.

Death in Emporia of Harrison Park-- man, Who Introduced the Plant. Harrison Parkman, who introduced He is under arrest awaiting the result of the shooting. A SHOOTING IN OAK MILLS, KAS. alfalfa into Kansas, died at his home in Emporia. He was 73 years old.

The body was taken to Philadelphia for burial. Two Wounded in a Mixup in a School Mr. Parkman first saw alfalfa grow Northern Pacific company is cutting a big hill near Muskoday, and the men were working with a steam shovel. Near where they were at work a fire had been built over which sticks of dynamite were being thawed. These suddenly exploded and the men were blown almost to atoms.

house. Simon Watson was shot and danger ing in Chile. He brought seed to America and in the late '70s he came COL. MANN IS ACQUITTED. ously wounded and Lawrence Watson to Emporia to live.

He sowed alfalfa received a flesh wound in one arm in Frees the Jury In seed on a farm which he bought and Perjury Case New Yorker. a fight at Oak Mills, in Atchison coun the plant prospered. It was slow ty, Kansas. The trouble occurred at MORE MONEY FOR CHINESE. in gaining popularity in Kansas but Sunday school exercises in the school house.

Charles. William and John Mr. Parkman always insisted that it is the ideal forage crop for Kansas. Gladden had an old grudge against the doorkeeper and one of them struck him. Simon and Lawrence Watson, Mystery in Kansan's Death.

Monroe Morgan, a farmer and stock brothers, went out to try to quiet the The jury in the case of Col. Mann, of Town Topics, charged with perjury, returned a verdict of acquittal. The charge against Col. Mann grew out of the Hapgood libel suit. During the case Colonel Mann testified that the letters W.

D. appearing on a letter received by him from Count Reginald tH. Ward of London, had not been written by him. It was charged that Col. Mann committed perjury when he denied having made the letters.

man, who lived in Eureka, died in St. Mary's hospital, Emporia. He had Chinese of San Francisco Raising Funds for Sufferers. Additional subscription for the Chinese famine sufferers amounting to has been received by the American National Red Cross society, making $6,000 to date. The Chinese min-isted thanked Secretary Root for the evidences of good will and friendship given by the American government and uic people towards the sufferers.

He said the Chinese of San Francisco had notified him they would at once been found in an unconscious condi- ion, and near him was a small bottle Gladden brothers, who wrere drunk, and the shoot.ing followed. The Gladdens escaped. Two revolvers, one of which had not been fired, while the other contained five empty shells, and a pair of brass knuckles were found a short distance from the place of the shooting. and a jar, both of which had contained carbolic acid. He was a wealthy man, and his death is a mystery, as there was no evidence of his having swal- All Nationas Have Ratified.

With the arrival at Madrid, Spain owed poison. send $4,000 to the relief committee at Shanghai. Struck Oil Near Madison, Kas. Madison, Kansas is now in the oil belt. The Madison Drilling company A Wife's Tears Won a Pardon.

A pardon was issued by Governor Hoch to Orrin Beauchamp of Elgin, who is serving a sentence for criminal carelssness in handling a revolver. The pardon was recommended by Judge Aikman, who sentenced him, but the tears of Mrs. Beauchamp, who with recently brought- in a 180-pound bar rel oil well. The well is 2,300 feet of the official notification that the United States had ratified the Algeciras convention about Moroccan reforms, notices of ratification from all the powers concerned have been received. It is announced that regulations governing the international police force in Morocco will be drawn up by the French and Spanish delegates, the Swiss colonel who is to command the force, and the Moorish minister of war.

Violated Child Labor Law. Five merchants of Alton, 111., were fined $5 and costs each by Justictf Nathan for violation of the child labor I law. J. J. Rieb, clothing merchant, was fined for keeping May Quinn, under 16 years of age, at work later than 7 p.

m. The others were fined for employing children under the legal age. deep. Oil was struck at 1,180 feet, but was heavy. The oil is now 150 feet deep in the well.

The oil stbne has been penetrated only six feet. Madison two destitute children made a personal appeal, was the greatest factor with the governor. is in Greenwood county..