Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — A KANSAS LYNCHING. [ARTICLE]

A KANSAS LYNCHING.

Samnel Fryer, the Murderer of Jrflm Pennington and Wife, Hanged at Marysville by a Mob. [Marysville (Kan.) Dispatoh.] Intense excitement has prevailed bore for some days over the trial of Samuel Fryer for the murder of the Pennington family, whieh has been iu progress here. Thursday evening tho Jury returned a verdict of “Guilty,” and the prisoner was taken back to jail. It being expected that trouble would ensue, a strong guard was placed around the jail, which is a flimsy oonoern. Last night twenty-five or thirty masked men rode up to tho jail, took Fryer out, and, going to Spring Creek, a small stream half a mile from town, threw a rope over the boom of the bridge, and he was swung off into eternity. When the rope was placed around his nock, he was asked if be had anything to say. He said, “Yes,” and proceeded to give a full, detailed aooount of the awful and cold-blooded murder of John Pennington and his wife, which be committed about the middle of Febri ary noar Frankfort, Kan. It will be remembered that the victims were found dead in their barn several days after the murder. They had been robbed, and Mrs. Pennington had been assaulted in a most bru al manner and afterward killed by the inhuman brute, who paid the penalty of his orlme last night at tba hands of a mob. William Cline, of Westvllle, N. J., a few days ago killed a bog of Cbestor white breed, which, althouvb only a few months overt years old, weighed 1,010 pounds. It was considered the heaviest hog ever raised in New Jersey. According to Japanese oustort, age is counted from the first day of tho January succeeding birth. At that date a child is 1 year old, whether born the previous January, at midsummer, or on the 81st of December. A wild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarryiewn, and it was s dose raoej tor two miles, but just before rcaohiiur Irvington the bird forged ahead of the engine. A panther measuring ten feet from tip to tip and weighing 200 pound* was reported killed near Hartland, Wash. Ter., reoently. Benedict, Md„ has 100 Inhabitants, of whom seventy are sick with typhoid fever.