People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — FOUND IN A BARREL. [ARTICLE]

FOUND IN A BARREL.

Mutilated Remains of a Human Being Discovered by Two Fishermen. Kansas City, Mo., April 16.—John Sullivan and John Cassidy, fishermen, found a whisky barrel lodged in a pile of brushwood in the Missouri river, onehalf mile from the bank at the foot of Lydia avenue. They rowed to the shore and notified the police of their grewsome find. The barrel was brought ashore arfft when turned upside down the arms and legs of a human being rolled out, followed by the head of a man. Securely wedged in the bottom of the barrel was the trunk c’ p, man. Coroner Redford was notified and went at once to the scene. He ordered the barrel demolished, so that the trunk could be removed. It is impossible to identify the remains, owing to the state of decomposition. In life the man was evidently about 20 years old, cleanshaven, with irregular teeth, three; of which are missing. Coroner Redford has not yet investigated the case, but inclines to the inion that the body was a student’s cadaver.

Clirl'.t'ans Draw the Color Line. St. Louis, Mo., April 16.—At a meeting of the ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church the color line was drawn in the matter of admitting tlr* colored branches of the Epworth league. The Rev. Mr. Lenig claimed that to admit the colored branches would destroy the plans of the league. The Rev. A. R. Brown, a colored preacher who was present, said that the negroes were doing all in their power for the church and if their color was-distasteful to the white brethren they would ask to be left out. Shortage in Texas Cattle. Georgetown, Tex., April 16— The last train load of meal-fed cattle for this season will be shipped from her Wednesday, and there will be no grass-fed cattle to ship this summon on account of the drouth. The supply of stock cattle on hand to be fed next winter on cottonseed meal is 25 per cent 1 "3 than last year. Prominent cattle men do not attribute the rise in beef to any combination, but to he supply of cattle, which has fallen off greatly during the past two years on account of the drouth.

Irrigation Law Valid. North Platte, Neb., April 16.—Judge Sinclair, of the district court, has rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the irrigation law. He ruled that the provision of the irrigation act granting right' of eminent domain. was constitutional. The. right of condemnation of right of way for irrigation ditches is by the decision placed upon the same basis as the condemnation of right of way for railway lines. Fort Smith to Have a Tr'pl® Hanging Fort Smith, Ark., April 15.—Charles Smith, a negro, and Webber Isaacs, a young Indian, have been sentenced by the United States court to be hanged, with Cherokee Bill June 25. Smith killed two men at Muskogee during the fair last fall. Isaacs and another Indian killed Mike Cushing, a peddler, near the Saline courthouse just after the close of the Cherokee payment. They robbed the peddler and burned his body. China and Janan at Pearo. Washington, April 16.—Mrs. John W< Foster, wife of the ex-secretary of state, received a dispatch from her husband, who is confidential advisor to the Chinese peace envoy, confirming the report that articles of peace had been signed between China and Japan. The cablegram sajid the peace agreement Was signed yesterday and that Mr. Foster will be home June 1.

Lippi rdt Gets a New Trial. Detroit, Mich., April 16.—William C. Lippardt, a member of the school board, recently convicted of receiving a bribe and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, has been granted a new trial by the supreme court on the ground 1 that the cross-examination of the co-iip ning witness was unduly restrietjed. tlood at Hartford, Conn. Hartford, Conn., April 16.—The river is risiiig two inches an hour and at midnight was 22 feet 5 inches. A temporary bridge to be used during the construction of the new iron bridge was swept away by high water and driftwood. Anxiety is felt for the old bridge if the flood continues to rise. Death Recalls a Notorious Crime. Littte Rock, fArk., April 16.—Mrs. Mary E. one of the earliest settlers of Plujomebvllle, Conway county, is dead, /t was in her house that the Hon. John M. Clayton was murdered. / ,