Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An unparalleled crime is reported from Seward County, Kansas. The wife of a farmer named Jacob Freimuth was assaulted and murdered by Fritz Rupin, a half-witted German, who has been for some time enjoying the hospitality of the Freimuths, being homeless and without friends. During the absence of Mr. Freimutli Rupin assaulted his benefactor’s wife, then bound her hand and foot, and cut her throat from ear to oar. He then secured an old rusty hoe, and while the woman was yet writhing in the death-struggle ho disembowlcd her with the blunt instrument. Mrs. Freimuth was enceinte, and when discovered the unborn babe lay a few foot from the body of the mother, cut in two. AYhen Mr. Freimutli returned and discovered the mutilated body of his wife ho became a raving maniac. A neighbor in that sparsely settled region who happened to be passing by found him wild with frenzy, but dared not approach for fear of his personal safety. He rode rapidly to a settlement some eight miles distant and tolM&f.terrible tale. A party was at once they returned to the scone of the outragp and found Freimuth weltering in his own blood. Ho had killed himself with a shotgun. A gravo was dug, and the remains W tho unfortunate people were buried. The posse then scoured the country for tho murderer, and found him in a small ravine several miles from the scene of his crime, near the Cimarron River. A fractious horse was secured and saddled. Ono end of a long lariat was fastened around his neck and the other extremity was attached to tho pommel of tho saddle. The horse was then started, and amid the shouting of the men and crack of revolvers and rifles the frightened animal tore madly away. After a run of nearly five miles tho beast fell exhausted and tho lifeless body of the murderer was loosened as soon as the men came up. His head was almost severed from his body. Tho body was left lying on the prairie, uncovered. The Union Pacific Road will at once begin the erection of a union depot at Omaha, to cost $400,000. A large freight house will also be built.

The explosion of a lard tank in the packing-house of Tobey & Booth, Chicago, caused the death of one man and the wounding of two others. George E. Graham, the Missouri wife-murderer, was buried in the potter’s field at Springfield Mrs. Molloy has gone to Bolivar to attend Cora Leo, who is about to become a mother. All the planing mills at Milwaukee, save two, shut down in preference to paying ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. A heavy burden of real estate caused the suspension of the Bank of Marietta, in Ohio, with deposits in excess of SIOO,OOO. At the Ohio G. A. R. encampment at Cleveland, Col. A. L. Conger, of Akron, was elected Department Commander, and Butherford B. Hayes was chosen delegate to Hie National Convention. A loss of $750,000 was the result of a fire, at San Francisco, in the furniture store of L. & E. Emanuel and the publishing establishment of A. L Bancroft & Co. A spectator was killed by a falling walk The business portion of Keystone, lowa, was entirely swept away by fire. The losses aggregate $55,060, with insurance of $26,000. C. F. Robertson, Episcopal Rishop of Missouri, died in St. Louis from a complication of diseases. United States troops are driving out of the Indian Territory large herds of cattle recently transferred there from Texas. The assignees of the Bank of Marietta, Ohio, fiud s9Join cash and SIO,OOO in personal property and notes to pay claims of $120,000. The concern owns 12,000 acres of wild land in West Virginia.