Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — FIVE NEGROES HUNG. [ARTICLE]

FIVE NEGROES HUNG.

I THE RESULT OF AN ARKAKSAS MURDER. ■■ 5. Mob TakN Vengeance for the Aeaaa- . aination of a Merchant-Guilty Wife ■ Suicide—Figures on Kanaaa Crops for Twenty Years. Wholesale Lynching in Arkansas. Fire negroes hanging from the limbs of trees near the railroad track and the widow of John T. Orr dead in her cell, are f the tragic denouement of the assassination of John T. Orr. a wealthy merchant at Clarendon. Ark., a few nights ago. The wife died from a dose of poison self-ad-ministered. while the negroes, her assoi ciates In crime, were strung up by a mob J of citizens. Three women (one pt them the cook in the Orr household) were hung. Miss Morris, a Jewess, implicated in the , assassination, was not hanged, she having disappeared. The lynched are: Manse Castle, Dennis Ricord. Ullia Weaver, Susie Jacobs, Will Saunders. A few nights ago John T. Orr was assassinated. A ; coroner’s inquest resulted in the arrest of the fire negroes and Mrs. Orr and a warrant for Miss Morris. It was charged | that the wife had hired the negroes to do Orr’s life was insured for and it developed at the inquest "that Orr and his wife lived unhappily. Mr. |r. Orr was formerly a theatrical man. In ?. 1890 the couple eloped to a summer resort in Wisconsin and were married, loiter 1 they settled in Clarendon, where Orr pros- ? pered in business and was considered wealthy at the time of his death. f- Twenty Years of Kansas Crops. ; Secretary Coburn of the Kansas State Department of Agriculture has issued a pamphlet giving the results of “Twenty Years of Kansas Agriculture.” From 1878 to 1884 the report shows a gradual Increase in the value of farm products. In 1879 the value was $72,528,0(52. and in 1884 $147,1174,01d, when exceedingly low 5 prices prevailed. The wheat yield inI creased from 20,518,055 to 40,(181,521 i bushels, while the corn yield increased f from 89,324,971 to 190,870,870 bushels, p In 1897 the value of the products of Kansas amounted to $136,335,208, and the wheat crop was 50,040,374 bushels, while the corn crop aggregated 152,140,003 bushels. Standing of the Clubs, i Following is the standing of the clube tn the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. it Cincinnati . .65 35Pittsburg ... .50 44 ■v Boston 01 35 Philadelphia. 43 49 Cleveland ...50 35Brooklyn ....30 57 1 Baltimore .. .52 38 Louisville ...30 <sl New York.. .52 42 Washington. 32 58 | Chicago 54 44 St. Louis 28 09 «... Following is the standing of the clube In tbe Western League: W. L. W. L. t Kansas City.o3 38Columbus ...50 42 | Indianapolis. 50 37 Detroit .38 58 Milwaukee ..58 428 t. Joseph... .33 01 St. Paul 57 43Minneapolis. 32 (58 Killed in His Own Door. Frank H. Cheeseman, a painter living : in South Berkeley, went to the house of Henry Brooke in Oakland, Cal., to cull on Miss Ktta Payne, who is Brooke’s » stepdaughter. Brooke opened the door and S: refused to admit Cheeseman, who at once i drew a revolver and shot BroOke dead. | Tin* murderer then entered the liouse and By passed into the kitchen, where he shot | Miss Payne through the thigh. The raothft er attempted to interfere, when Cheese- | man fired a shot at her, the bullet passing I' through her dress. The murderer eseap* I: ed, but later was captured.