Cherokee County Teacher from Galena, Kansas • 2

END OF A MURDERER. NEWS NOTES. MISSOURI VIGILANTES STRING UP A FOUL WRETCH. Hepler, the Barton County "Woman and Child SUrer, Taken From Jail at Nevada, Carried to Lamar and Strung Up In the Courtyard. MARMADUKE IN THE FIELD.

Darwin W. Formally Announce Himself a Candidate fur Governor. Sweet Springs, Jun 21 The Herald of this city in its issue to-day says: "It affords us pleasure to announce authoritatively that the Hon. Darwin W. Marma-duke has decided to cater tho race for governor, subject to tha action of the democratic state convention.

This decision has not been reached hastily. Ever since mention of his name in connection with this office Mr. Marmaduke ha3 received assurances of a support that is eratifying and a just tribute to his fine ability and high character. His acquaintances in every county in the state recognize in him a fearless, honorable man, who will faithfully discharge any trust and well equipped to fill the position of chief executive in a satisfactory manner to the people. As warden of the penitentiary during the administration of the late Governor John S.

Marmaduke he was intimately associated i with his lamented brother and thereby became well Informed as to most of the public institutions of the state. He is a Democrat heartily in sympathy with the idea of administering the government on the lines of simplicity and economy which charac-ized tho earliest days of tho republic." ARBITRATION BEFORE WAR. Chill 8a Id to Favor It at a Last Kesort for a Settlement of D'flivultie j. Santiago, Jan. 23.

As coming from tho Chilian foreign office, the New York Herald says it can state that when, within the coming week, the entire papers in the Baltimore case are in the hands of the government it will submit its views to the government of the United States. Then, if the two governments cannot come to an agreement between themselves, arbitration will be asked by Chili. Secretary Boscunau, who throughout all this trouble has done everything possible to prevent a rupture between Chili and tho United States, assures mo that from advices sent by Minister Pedro Moutt it can bo asserted positively that matters between the two countries aro in an extremely fair way. He looks for a speedy arrival at an amicable conclusion. Secretary Blaine, he says, has acted throughout in a conciliatory manner.

MRS. SAM WOOD HONORED. The First Woman to Hold Ofllce In'the State Historical Society. Topeka, Jan. 21.

Tho State historical society held its annual meeting last night and elected cx-Govornor Thomas A. Osborne president and Judge B. F. Simpson and the Hon. A.

R. Greene vice presidents. Judge F. G. Adams was re-elected secretary.

Judge Adams has been connected with the historical society since its organization. Mrs. Sam Wood was elected a member of the board to fill tho vacancy caused by the death of her husbaud. Mrs. Wood is the first woman ever elected to membership on the board.

Cherokee County Teacher, Published by Th8 Galena Publishing ANNA WIDMAN, Editor. Subscription Price, BO Cents Per Annum, It has been the experience of all Bges and lands that disease and crime have been reduced just in proportion that sanitary knowledge and conformity to sanitary laws and true education has prevailed. Admitting that the academic education is the highest and best, that it alone offers the fullest development of mental powers and the training that gives to the world its best thought, the question still remains whether that idea should dominate in arrangement of courses of study for the use of the children of the people. The Welsh are remarkably gifted in public speaking. Ko inconsiderable proportion of our clergy, lawyers, and politicians have a Celtic strain in their blood.

Some years ago one of our leading magazines had an article on the eminent revolutionary fathers who were in whole or in part Welshmen. The showing was a remarkable Dne. No more hazardous associations are encountered than a chance bout with Bome critic who assumes to judge the novel of deportment by the same vulgar standards which he would apply to a romance having no loftier purpose than to depict, as faithfully as that modern prudishness which Thackeray deplored, will permit a man his struggles, triumphs, joys, and sorrows. Very little in history can bo called final. The histories even of ancienu Greece and Rome need to be rewritten every year or two to keep them up to date.

What Irving and Prescott wrote about Columbus sixty or seventy yearb ago needs almost as much revision as the ideas that Columbus had about the land he found on this side of the ocean. And one of the queer things about Columbus in our time is the small amount of really accurate and unquestioned information there is about him. If you can once get men to take an interest in science practical science and in the beauties of literature you have one of the very best preventatives of crime; you make them better citizens; you make them better husbands and fathers; you make them happier men. See how miserable are the rich without education, when old age and lingering Illness come upon them. Ask any one of them in such a moment whether he would not willingly sacrifice part of his fortune for the education which would enable him to find pleasure and consolation at such a time, and his answer would not be doubtful.

There need be no elaboration oi manner, no effusiveness, but there ought to be in every public office, as in all the courts, a substantial politeness. In our great American hustle we are passing from the merely rude to the decidedly rough. Instead o2 calling upon certain border-ruffianly lawyers to mend their wajs the chancellor, remembering that ihe stream does not rise above its source, should himself command the reform. No one on the bench is better fitted to bring it about. Shepard, says the Chicago Times, is blessed with suaviter in modo, but he is also well equipped with forfiter in re, all of which, being interpreted, means that he is mild on smiling occasions, but whes blows are called for he strikes from the shoulder.

The proposed fight between Myer and McAuliffe is off. The first rainfall in four years has just occurred in Durango, Mexico. Senator Stanford has been offered $70, COO for tho stallion Advertiser. "Gopher Moll," a notorious half breed sorceress, died at Babylon, L. I.

Five thousand ounces of gold shipped from Colorado to England has been lost. Ex-Supervisor Soucy of Cahokia, 111., is on trial for an alleged shortage of $13,000. Jack McAuliffe has found a backer, and a fight between him and Billy Myer may bo arranged. A. Poleman, Wilkesbarro, has been sleeping for thirteen months and shows no signs of waking.

The daughter or Millionaire Pattison, a heroiue in the Mexican war, is destitute ia Sioux City, Iowa Ex-President Cleveland is enjoying fine sport hunting on Joseph Jefferson's plantation in Louisiana. General Robert E. Lee's birthday anniversary was appropriately observed throughout the South. B. W.

McCullough, general passenger agent of tho Texas and Pacific railroad, died at Hot Springs, Ark. The proprietors of the Beaver, Pa, Star havo beeu convicted of libel in a suit brought by Senator Quay. In an interview Senator Power of Montana predicted Blaine and Hill would be tho nominees for president. Over 200 members of the Western Re tail implement dealers' association mot in session at Kansas City, Mo. 41 Jim Burwell, a desperado, locked up his jailer at Leuora, stole his revolver and a horse and got safely away.

Will Long a young blacksmith of Fair-view, had his, left eyo put out by a piece of red hot steel flying into it. The Presbyterian General Assembly committee on the revision of faith eliminated the doctrine of infant damnation. The senate has passed a bill relieving the Missouri state university of liability for ordnance and ordnance stores burned. The Dcadwood, S. court cut down Mrs.

J. G. Blaine's alimony allowance and attorney's fees, her husband pleading poverty. The dry goods store of J. J.

Flannelly of Chetopa, was totally destroyed by lire with a stock of dry goods, boots and shoes. At Heltonville, a boy found at the roots of a tree some counterfeiters' tools and the revolver of a man lynched fifteen years ago. It is claimed by friends of Dr. Graves that they have found that one of the jurymen who found him guilty expressed an opinion before tho trial. While sleeping in a bed near the fireplace Mrs.

Jason Smith, living near Neosho, was fatally burned, a spark setting firo to the bed clothing. M. B. Puryear, the white man who was leader of the negro l'ioters in the late troubles at Linwood, received a sentence of twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Mrs.

Fanny Van Dover of Poplar Bluffs, was sentenced to life imprisonment for planning the murder of her husband by her paramour, Martin Long, last spring. Governor Francis of Missouri, has appointed Phineas H. Holcomb a regent for the Warrensburg Normal School, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Joshua Ladue. Charles Hill a Sedalia, merchant announces that he married Miss Minnie Blatterrnan in secret a year ago while waiting for proof that his first wife had secured a divorce.

Bud Cork, of Neosho, a noted desperado, and four times a convict at Jefferson City, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for attempted rape about four months ago. Captain M. C. Broneugh of the Missouri ex-Confederato home, reports $7,000 collected to date from the Twelfth congressional district. He intends to make it $10, 000 in this worthy cause.

Carnegie at Pittsburg, consummated a deal involving The firm contracted for the delivery of upwards of tons of iron ore, to be delivered to the Bessemer works. The Missouri river at Jefferson City has gorged, and for the first time in five years is frozen over. The icemen, for tho first time in three years, have gathered a splendid crop of ice. The ice is about 12 inches thick. George W.

Stranahan, a tailor of Atchison, was convicted of forgery and will be sent to the penitentiary. Stranahan up to eighteen months ago was a prominent prohibitionist and worker in the Baptist church. Lamar, Jan. 2a Hepler, the Barton county double murderer, who was taken to Nevada to avoid mob law, was secured from the jail at that place last night by a mob of 200 men, brought hero at 1:30 o'clock and hanged in the court house square. The mob went to Nevada on last night's train, marched straight to the jail and demanded the prisoner.

The sheriff of Barton county was at Nevada, and as soon as news of the mob's arrival reached him he hastened to the jail and attempted to spirit the prisoner away. He had hardly got the man out of the jail before the mob had surrounded the building. He then retreated into an outhouse, but was soon fouud and his man taken. Tho mob was well organized and seemed disposed to do their work with as Jittlo trouble as possible. They secured their man and were out of town before a hundred of Nevada's citizens were aware of their action and the officers were entirely unprepared to make any effort at resistance.

Not a shot was fired during the time. As soon as their man was secured tho mob marched up Main street, across the square and down Cherry street to the depot at Nevada. As they marched on the moans and cries of the wretched victim could be heard above the noise. On arriving at tho depot the mob took the railroad track toward Barton Center. It was supposed that they intended to take the prisoner to the railroad trestle, a quarter of a mile south of Nevada, as a convenient place to hang him.

But they marched over it without a halt and kept on their course. As soon as the alarm was given Captain Mitchell called out Company of the national guards of Missouri, and they set out in pursuit. With the militia was Sheriff White and a posse. Tho pursuing forces overtoolc the main body of the mob at Nassaua junction, two miles south of the city. Hepler was with tho vigilantes who reported that he had been sent away in a wagon.

Thi3 was untrue for as soon as the militia left, he was. brought out, put on the train and carried to this place and quietly lynched. Sheriff Garrett of Barton county yesterday had a talk with Hepler in jail, and the prisoner confessed to having murdered the woman and child, but said he did not know what he did it for. The crime of Hepler was a peculiarly brutal one. Last Sunday afternoon he went to Mrs.

Goodley's house about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and crushed her head with a chair. The head of the boy, six years old, was mashed to jelly and the little girl was struck over the head with a poker and left for dead. Two of the children who were away from home made the discovery and gave the alarm when they returned. The little girl, who was hurt recovered consciousness and said that Hepler had committed the deed. ROBBED BY TWO MEN.

Tho Express Cat on tha Missouri Pacific Held Up at Midnight. Lamar. Jan. 23. Two very bold men robbed the express car of the Missouri Pacific train which reaches here at 12:30 a.m.

The men held up the occupants of tho car, keeping them covered with revolvers while the train traveled the ten miles between Sheldon and Lamar. The two men of whom the most meager descriptions are attainable boarded the train at Sheldon. In the baggage and express car were Express Messenger Houck, Baggagemaster Hall and Traveling Passenger Agent Charles Barrett. All were covered with revolvers and their pockets ransacked. From Hall $75 was taken, from the others small sums of money and some jewelry.

Houck was forced to give the combination of his safe and this also wa3 robbed. The amount taken from the safe was small. To Settle the Sealing Dispute. New York, Jan. 25.

Sir George Baden Powell was among the passengers who arrived to-day from Etruria. He comes as a commissioner of the British government to endeavor to bring about an amicable settlement with the United States on the Behring sea fishery question. He will probably go to Canada and after conferring with that government proceed to VVashlngton. Oratory at the Kansas University. Lawrence, Kan.

Jan. 25. Six contestants took part in the ninth annual oratorical contest at the state university last evening. E. F.

Robinson, a junior, spoke upon "A Story of Conquest;" F. A. Lutz on ''The Individual's Idea of Life and Its Social Influence;" D. M. Challis, a junior, on "Shylock and Justice;" R.

D. Brown, a senior, on "The Spirit of Dissent a Factor in Progress W. W. Brown, a "senior, on "Christ, or Napoleon," and W. H.

Riddle, a junior, on ''The Voice of the Middle Ages." Garfield County May lie Ended. Topeka, Jan. 23. Steps were taken by the attorney general yesterday to disorganize Garfield county. Tho county has a population "of less than 2,000 and is $90,000 in debt, while the assessed valuation, of property is only $4:0,000.

The Aransas Pass Strike at an End. San Antonio, Jan. 23. Chairman Ed Miller of the federation board at Yoakum has formally declared the San Antonio Aransas Pass strike at an end, and there is now no obstacle anywhere to freight and passenger traffic. ITTaiiy Cattle Lost in the Strip.

Fort Worth, Jan. 2 J. Private advices from the Chei'okee nation say the streams and pools are frozen over. Cattle are di'owned by venturing out in search of water, Winfleld Scott having lost 40J in the Arkansas river in this way. Death of Detroit' Oldest Priest.

Detroit, Jan. 25. The Rev. Peter Hennaert, vicar general of the Detroit diocese, and the oldest priest in the point of service in this city, died last night of the grip at St. Mary's hospital..