Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — PERISHED BY THE SWORD. [ARTICLE]

PERISHED BY THE SWORD.

Execution at Halle of Two of theNlederwald Celebration Anarchists. [Berlin dispatch.] Reinsdorff and Kueobler, the anarchists, were beheaded by the sword of the executioner at Halle yesterday for attempting to take the life of the German Emperor and others at the Niederw.ild celebration. Kuechler’s eyes were full of tears and he tottered as he was being led to tbe blook. Prom the time pf leaving his cell until his death he did not utter a word. •He was assisted by a Protestant clergyman, to whom he frequently turned. When Reinsdorf was handed over to the executioner, he exclaimed, with a loud voice, “Down with barbarism! Long live nnareby!” Immediately before he had been singing the popular drinking'song, Stiefel mnsst sterben, bist noch so jung.” “Stiefel,” literally a boot, is the German equivalent for a “schoonor” of beer, and as the Teuton tosses down the liquor, he joyfully sings, “Boot, you must die, young as thou art. ”