Cherokee County Teacher du lieu suivant : Galena, Kansas • 6

STRUNG UP BY A MOB, Cherokee County Teacher. Published by Tha Galena Publishing ANNA WIDMAN, Editok. RICHARD CULLEN LYNCHED AT MARSH FIELD, MO. Taken From Jail at Midnight by 150 Masked Men and His Career Speedily Ended The Cowardly Crime Which Cost Him His Life. STRANGLED BY A WRESTLER.

Fierce Contest Hetween Two Meu Thtf Kansas Dp jium" Nearly Killed. Buaufokd, Feb. At the Wagner opera house last night, W. E. Gibls, the ''Kansas demon" and Dennis Gallagher of Buffalo, engaged hi a wrestling match, Gracco-Koman style, strangle hold not barred.

The men were in prime condition. After twenty minutes of hard work, with honors even, Gallagher got a strangle hold on Gibbs. "Don't murder him!" "Foul!" "Let go of him!" and other exclamations camo from the horrified spectators. Gallagher continued his choking until Gibbs became unconscious and lay upon the floor in a neai-ly lifeless condition. He was carried to his room by two men and after working over him for a long time was revived.

The match was awarded to Gallagher, although he did not throw his man. The strangling of Gibbs was the most brutal spectacle that has ever been witnessed on a stage in this city. S'litHcrintion Trice, SO Cents Per Annum, Boston, it is said, is abandoning the bean as an article of tliet. Fare well, then, to simplicity, to plain living and high thinking. Tho nex thins that wo hear from the "Hub" it will have a 400 and a 'Ting." A False mind is faiso in everything; just as a cross eye always looks askant But, one may err once, nay a hundred times, without being double minded.

There can never bo mental duplicity where there is sincerity. Do not seek easy ways, for easy ways lead to rust. Do not seek to get rid or responsibilities, but bo anxious to assume them. See to it that, as you draw near to the later years of life, you draw near fully equipped. In almost every decade 6ome novel is written that does its work excellently well and many hundreds that give pleasure and instruction to tho great multitude of readers.

Let us therefore, welcome the practice of tho novelists' art. always waiting in patience for its highest and best specimens, trusting that the general popular taste may sift the chaff from tho wheat, but certain in any event that the wheat will be produced, and knowing that it is as necessary now as ever in the history of the race. Without renewing the controversy GARZA ALMOST CAUGHT. United State Troops Capture the Rebel Fugitives' I'itttol ar.d Diary. Omaha, Feb.

27. Mrs. Captain Bourke has received a letter from her husband telling of a lively brush he and his fellow captain had with Garza, the Mexican bandit, and two members of his band. The letter was dated at Garza's ranch. Captain Bourke and Captain Chase had a squad of troops locating a new post when they met Garza and gave chase.

The revolutionists fled and were so closely pressed that Garza dropped his ivory handled revolver, his spurs, his saddle, and finally his personal diary. These were taken by Captain Bourke, who holds them as trophies of the chase. Captain Bourke states that Garza's diary was filled with fulsome notes of Garza's greatness. MARsnriELP, Feb. 23.

Ii'chard Cullcn, tho young man arrested charged with the murder of the foster child of Cullen's step-father, Henry Shaw, was taken from the jail by au armed mob at 10 o'clock last Friday night and hanged. At 9:15 150 quiet and determined men were halted on the west side of the square. The rope was asked for, and when produced the men were marched to tho jail and the sheriff was quickly overpowered. Then the mob forced themselves into tho jail, and after an absence of ten minutes reappeared with the doomed man in their midst, dressed in his shirt and drawers and with his hands bound. He was quickly marched over to tho court house square and at the eastern entrance of tho court house was asked if he was guilty of murdering the babe.

With stolid indifference he replied that he was innocent, whei'eupon he was asked about the guilt of his mother, to which he replied that he knew nothing at all about her, aud said: "Pull your damn rope." "Enough replied the leader, and placing one end of the rope round Cullen's neck, the other was thrown over a limb nine feet from the ground, and the. command was given to "Pull away, boys!" A score of hands grabbed the rope aud Dick Cullen's soul passed into eternity. By direction of the leader his body was left hanging to be taken down by the coroner. The crime for which he suffered is one of the most heinous ever committed in this section of the country. Four years ago a babe 10 days old was found at.

his stepfather' 3 door, and was taken in. and soon became one of the family. Young Cullen lately thought that it was meant that the child become an heir by adoption, and to rid himself of that possibility last Monday night he tied a car link to tho neck of the babe and threw it into an unused well. As to his guilt it is settled beyond a doubt that he was guilty. The footprints leading to tho well fitted his boots exactly and the hole in his boot heel for clariiping on skates was clearly reproduced in the soft mud about the well.

A BIG MORTGAGE CANCELED. The English Stockholder Give the St. Joseph Stock Yard a Doom. St. Joseph, Feb.

29. At noon today President France of the St. Joseph stock yards company paid to the Tootle estate $175,000, the principal of a mortgage on the yards held by that estate. The money was furnished by the Jarvis-Conklin mortgage company of Kansas City, acting for the English stockholders of the plant. The payment of this mortgage allows the company to float its bonds, which have been issued to the amount of i4 million dollars.

Negotiations are now under way with a half dozen laige packing concerns to build houses here. NEWS NOTES. The trouble at Coal Creek, is still on. Another grain blockade is threatened at Kansas City. Boonville, citizens are again stirred up over defective titles.

The public school superintendents the of North are in session at New York. Two Chinese lost their lives in a burning match factory in San Francisco. At pair of negro twins, less than a year old were burned to death. The largest paper and pulp-making plant in the world is to bo built near Niagara Falls. Lewis Asher, a prominent merchant of Springfield, Ohio, died from the effects of a hog bite.

Jailer Nixon of Owingsboro, drove back a mob which had battered down the outer door. William Brown of St. Louis narrowly-escaped lynching in Chicago for assaulting a little girl. A series of meetings are being held in London to interest workingmen in the world's fair. "Major Atom," the midget, is to marry Miss Bertha Carnahan, also midget, of Benson, Minn.

The postmaster at Dillon, Iowa, is uuder arrest charged with embezzling f8J0 of Uncle Sam's funds. No street cars are running in Indianapolis. The authorities continue to refuse aid to the company. Secretary Blaine has requosted Lord Salisbury to mako Canada conform to the copyright agreement. W.

L. Coleman, a prominent citizen of Lenox, Iowa, has skipped with over $3,030 of other people's money. Iowa jobbers are trying to get the Wabash to join the Union Pacific in fighting the Omaha bridge tolls. It is said that Ben Butterworth will soon resign the solicitor generalship of the world's fair and return to Ohio. Minister Ryan, of Mexico, reports that Garza's followers have been dispersed and traveling is safe in the republic.

A bill has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature to make the birthday of Jefferson Davis a legal holiday. A curious phenomenon was witnessed at Queenstown harbor. A storm cloud fell into the sea with an awful crash. Governor Markham of California has decided to declare labor day, the first Monday in September, a legal holiday. Fred Douglass has been appointed to represent Hayti at the World's fair.

An appropriation of $25,000 has been made. Governor Gilpin of Colorado seriously advocates the construction of a railroad from Denver to Paris via Bering Straits. William Anderson shot his step-brother, Mortimer Shockley, probably Frazer, after a quarrel about property. Samuel Sloan has just been elected for the twenty-fifth time ri'esident of the Delaware, Lackawanna Western railroad. Charges are openly made that Russian relief authorities are extorting pledges from the starving peasants before offering relief.

Treasurer Lyman and Secretary Sutton of the Irish National league dissent from President Gannon's address calling for funds. Maitland Francis Morland, a law tutor, is on trial in London on a charge of endeavoring to blackmail young lords at Oxford. The experts who have gone into Pennsylvania to make rain have all the farmers against them and are having a serious time of it. George Carsie, a young farmer of Sumner, 111., committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. He pulled the trigger with his too.

Chauncey M. Depew denies the rumor of a Vanderbilt consolidation which takes in the St. Paul, Northwestern and Union Pacific lines. The president and other officers of a bank at Corriutcs, Argentine, have been put in jail for robbing that institution of 9 pesos. Wyman institute at Alton, 111., has been sold to Willis Brown of Lawrence, for 30, 000.

The present management will be continued. It is reported that Gideon W. Marsh the fugitive president of the defunct Keystone National bank of Philadelphia is in Buenos Ay res. An appeal for fund3 has been issued by the National Irish League of America for expenses in the coming general elections in Great Britain. A dispatch from Gibraltar states that the Italian bark, Nina Schiailino has been wrecked at Capo Spariet.

Seven of the crew were drowned. THE KREBS HORROR'S CAUSE. Facts Ascertained by Mine Inspectors in Kegard to the Disaster. McAlester, I. Feb.

29. Walton Rutlidge, D. C. Woodson and J. T.

Stewart, state mine inspectors of Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, who were appointed to make an expert examination as to tho cause of the disaster in shaft No. 1 of the Osage coal and mining company's mines at Krebs, January 7, have made their report. They found the disaster duo to the disobedience of orders by three entrymen Ed Kibble, J. B. Williams and L.

Hunt in firing shots before 5:80 p. m. On the day of the explosion these entrymen commenced firing at 5:03 p. m. befoi'e half the miners were out of the mine.

The rule that powder should be kept at only one place in the mine was also disobeyed. Canada Alter American Settlers. Ottawa, Feb. 9. The department of agriculture has decided in view of the success which attended the emigration movement from the Dakotas last year, to renew th3 propaganda vigorously this year.

confined to the Dakotas, for it has been decided to carry on an active campaign in the border States of Michigan and Minnesota, as well. The object of the movement is to furnish all possible information as to the resources of the Canadian wheat-growing belt lands available for occupation.and the cheapest and best routes to travel thither from the States mentioned. Her Fourth Attempt Successful. Lawrence, Feb. 27.

Last evening Mrs. Jager, wife of a prominent farmer of Willow Springs township, this county, committed suicide by hang.ng herself in the cellar with binding tn'ine. She had been partially insane for some time. February 3 she attempted suicid9 by drowning and again yesterday morning twice tried to end her life in the same manner. A Farmer's Wife Hangs Herself.

Spkingfield, Feb. 29. Near Stony Point last night, the wife of James T. West, a wealthy farmer, hanged herself. She had suffered with la grippe.

1 between short and long words, which still remains open, we may call attention to the fact that more than one hundred monosyllables which have been in constant use since Chaucer's vtime are ot Latin lineage, not English, nor Saxon, nor Anglo Saxon, and that among them are to be found many of the words which we associate properly with the ideas of earnestness, simplicity and power, and that tho number of words of two syllables of similar character is very much greater. A rAPEit once supervised by one Horace, differing from another Horace not in all things but somewhat because the latter' name was Greeley, pronounces r'eading Browning and listening to reading of him "an eccentric amusement, and admit3 that it is apparently enjoyable. People -whoso ears are not sensitive to the racket of uncouth words and consonant sound.s are able to listen and fancy they are hearing poetry." But why, asks a pen, "why not a selection from some other It is not unusual to hear people complain that they do not have good sleep, and in the same sentence explain that they are taking sulfonal or any one of a dozen other concoctions, that are held up as being perfectly harmless and generally beneficial. It is difficult to restrain an almost equal indignation and regret for the ignorance of the human system which complacently resorts to these dangerous and pernicious drugs, or the strange conception of medical responsibility that prescribes them. That there are conditions under which narcotics must NO MONETARY CONFERENCE.

Treasui-y Officials Deny That England Has Agreed to Take Tart in One. Washington, Feb. 29. The report that Great Britain has consented to take part in an international monetary conference and has indicated that the Bank of England is willing to hold one-lifth of its reserve in silver is denied at the treasury department in the most positive terms and one prominent official made no attempt to conceal his opinion that the present agitation of the question is for the-sole purpose of influencing favorable action on Senator Teller's bill now before the senate providing for an international conference and thereby effecting a postponement of action at this session of congress on tho question of free silver. The Czar and the Kaiser.

Pakis, Feb. 29. The king and queen of Denmark, without any desire to weaken the Franco-Russian entente, but apprehensive of the danger which continued coolness between the czar and Emperor William might prove to the peace of Europe, aie making every effort to effect a meeting of the two emperors in Copenhagen on the occasion of the Danish golden wedding, and it is almost certain that Emperor William will go. Another Mexican Concession. Washington, Feb.

26- President Diaz, under authority granted him by congress, has given Albert K. Owen, representing a S3'ndicate of capitalists in Kansas City, and New York, a concession to build a railroad from Topolobampo harbor to Presidio del Norte on the Rio Grande, crossing the Mexican Central railroad south of Chihuahua City. The Concessionaire has ten years to complete the line under very favorable conditions, and involves something like acres of land. be used is no apology for this frequent use, which is becoming more and more habitual, and whose effects are seen in disordered nerves and a multitude of evils. Proper attention to a rational quantity and quality of food, a walk in tho open air, and a glass of hot water on retiring, will be found effectual sleep-producers, with increasing good effects rather than disastrous ones afterward.

Tahnage's Church to be Sold. Brooklyn, N. Feb. 25. The Rev.

Dr. Twlmadge's great Tabernacle in Brooklyn is to bo sold under mechanic's lien, the trustees having failed to raise the debt. Chicago, Feb. 27. Dr.

Talmago says the mechanics' lien on his Brooklyn Tabernacle is not causing him any worry. Ho says the church does not owe the money and that the case will be fought to a finish in the courts..