Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — MURDER BY SOLDIER. [ARTICLE]

MURDER BY SOLDIER.

REGIMENT’S BAD I RECORD AT SAN FRANCISCO. \ An Inoffeiisi.vc Clerk Is Shot Head by I a Drunken Trooper-Murderer Well Connected in the South-Great Gain j for Kansas Farmers. Drink Causes.a Crime. [ When Walter Rosser, the Tennessee i volunteer who murdered Henry Hildebrand, a clerk in the Spreekeis tua.rkvt, [during a drunken spree, was booked at i the San Francis' o city prison lie began ' to sober up. He handed in a lady’s gold i Match and SOS in coin and asked that the. [' valuables he cared for. Rosser was walking up Market street, and seeing some confections exposed to view, it is alleged, started to help himself, and was told by Hildebrand to move on. Rosser, instead Of complying, drewTlis revolver and tired, killing Hildebrand instantly. "My father and mother are alive,” he said, “and are living in Stevenson, Ala. My father is superintendent of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.” Lyewit nessev, of the affair state that Rosser fired the fatal shot without lie fought against arrest and almost succeeded in escaping in the excitement, having slipped one band through the steel handcuffs. Col. Smith of the Tennessee regiment deeply regrets the odium whieh the crime has cast upon his command. He •will compel all the men to surrender their weapons, and may restrict their liberty in the future. The regiment has achieved at) unenviable reputation since its arrival in San Francisco, some of the members having been concerned in a recent brutal assault on a negro near the l’residio, and others having been arrested for various, offenses.

Volne of Kansas' Live t tock Products Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture has completed the compilation of Kansas’ live stock statistics from the returns of the tnwn-sliip assessors, and the result shows a marked increase of products over the returns of last year. For 3897 the value of animals slaughtered or Bold for slaughter was #57,781,078, and for this year it is $49,125,517. The increase in value of poultry and eggs sold is $294,750. A decline in the wool clip from 782,404 to 054,708 pounds brings down its value from #91,495 to #75.112. These values, together with those of the cheese, butter and ntilk sold, comprise the year's income for tin- products of live stock and aggregate #59,595,915. us against #40.985,922 the previous year. Standing of the Clubs. Following is tin* standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. 1.. W. L. Boston 81 45 Philadelphia. <ll 59 Baltimore .. .70 40Pittsburg .. . .05 05 Cinoinnulj -. 79 48 Louisville , . .54 75 Cleveland ...71 51 Brooklyn .. .40 71 Chicago .... .70 58 Washington. 41 85 New York .. .00 58 St. L0ui5....,54 89 Following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City.B4 50St. Pau1.,,.-, .72 58 India tin polls. 80 48 Detroit. 49 81 Milwaukee ..79 5.4 Minneapolis. 45 89 Columbus ...72 52 St. Joseph... .41 89