Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John McGinnis was hanged at Philadelphia, for the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Reed. An earnest written appeal had been made to Gov. Pattison to either remit the death penalty or grant McGinnis a long reprieve. The plea for Executive clemency was based on the fact that the culprit had been declared insane by a commission appointed by the Governor, who was not satisfied with its results, and therefore refused to interfere with the execution of the deathwarrant. Four members of the Salvation Army have been sent to jail for parading the streets at Bridgeport, Conn. A boiler explosion at Lawrence, Mass., killed one man and fatally injured two others, all workmen in a dyeing establishment. A band of boys, emulating Jesse James, and occupying the Concord Street School at Boston, has been broken up and two arrests made. One urchin in his flight turned and fired at a policeman. Mrs. Carrie Kilgore has been refused admission to the bar in Philadelphia. The Commercial Advertiser, of New York, was sold by the widow of the late owner to Parke Godwin, H. G. Marquand, Henry Sedley, and Robert Sewell. Stephen Raymond, of New York, has been sent to the penitentiary for life for forgery.