Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — RAIDER IS SHOT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

RAIDER IS SHOT DOWN.

Badly Wounded While Smashing Joint in Topeka. J. W. Adams was fatally wounded during a raid on the Curtis wholesale liquor house in Topeka, Kan. A carload of beer had been unloaded during the day and about fifty armed men with sledges and revolvers broke open the door and splashed the cases. Adams says he was shot by a policeman. The Rev. F. W. Emerson was also hurt, but not seriously. The police nppenred upon the scene after half a carload of beer had been destroyed, and after a fight in which thirty shots were fired arrested the Rev. F. W. Emerson, pastor of the First Christian Church, as leader, and all of the raiders, who were men. Dr. M. R. Mitchell, excity physician, was arrested as a member of the mob. The place raided was a wholesale supply house, where Kansas City breweries keep from two to three carloads of keg and bottle beer with which to supply joint trade in the city. Mr. Emerson was Mrs. Nation's manager on her recent lecture tour. A new plan has Iteen proposed for utilising the forest reservations thnt Pennsylvania Inis been acquiring of late years. Physicians are urging that places or shelter be erected in the mountulnous lands, where pulmonary invalids, too poor to go to regular sanitariums, may at little cost get the benefit of pure air and outdoot life. Ber. F. W. Cunsaulus. Chicago, has brought out * book of poctna. Among them are eight formerly credited to Eugene Field. The preacher says he wrot« and gave them to Field.