Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — PERLSHED BY THE SWORD. [ARTICLE]

PERLSHED BY THE SWORD.

Exeeutien atHalle of Two of the Niederwald Celebration Anarchists. [Berlin dispatch.) Reinedorff and Kuechler, the anarchists, were bAeaded by the sword of the executioner at Halle yesterday for attempting to take Bee life of the German Emperor and others at the Niederwald celebration. Kuechlhrih were full of tears and he tottesedwa he was being led to the block. From ffee time of leaving his cell until his dee&h he did not utter a word. He was assisted by a Protestant clergyman, to whom fee l&quently turned. When Reinsdorf w handed over to the executioner, he exritoaned. with a loud voice, “Down with barbarisori Long live anarchy!" Immediately bfiCoro he had been singing tbe popular driidring song, Stiefel' mnsst sterben, bikt natdx a* jflng.” “Stiefel,” literally a boot, is the German equivalent for a “sdhdotier” ot beer, and as the Teuton tosses down the-iiqnor, he joyfully sings, “Boot, you tmufl die, young as thou art. ”