Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — LYNCHED BY ANGRY CITIZENS. [ARTICLE]

LYNCHED BY ANGRY CITIZENS.

Johnson, the Burglar Who Killed an lowa Marshal, Strung Up by a Mob. Johnson, the burglar who shot the Town Marshal, at Missouri Valley, lowa, was lynched Monday night. City Marshal Adna Whitney, of Missouri Valley, was shot and killed at 5 o’clock Saturday morning, while searching for stolen goods in a suspected man's house. Two strangers, Johnson and Davis, were sleeping upstairs. The officers had no trouble in quieting all disturbance below, but as they went up-stairs Davis and Johnson opened fire with their revolvers. One of the first shots fired took effect in the cheek of Marshal Whitney, killing him instantly. .. Another struck J. b" Lyon, inflicting a flesh wound in the side. Johnson was struck by four bullets. In the meantime Davis made his escape into the woods a short distance from the house.

Overflow ot News. Fire at Shanghai, China, according to advices received at San Francisco, destroyed COO houses. Anthony Sweeney, a wealthy insurance agent and real estate owner of Denver, died at Hot Springs, Ark. President Peixoto’s fleet has captured Paranagua, Brazil, the last of the rebel forts there offering resistance. C. W. Carpenter, a New York traveling salesman, ended his life with morphine at a hotel in Richmond, Va. Montgomery Briggs, a prominent young lawyer of Buffalo. N. Y., was shot dead in the street by unknown persons. Robert Salmons, of Dallas, Texas, and James Howard, of Butte, Mont., were arrested in Kansas City, Mo., for counterfeiting.