Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — TAR AND FEATHERS AND HEMP [ARTICLE]

TAR AND FEATHERS AND HEMP

A dispatch from Kansas City, on the llth, says: Harry Dent, agent for a Kansas City liquor house, Thursday, opened up at Ottawa, Kansas, under the sign “Kansas City Original Package.” A warrant was sworn out for him on the charge of inciting a riot, and he was taken before County Attorney Smart. Then every effort was made to force him to leave the city, threats of tar and feathers and a hemp rope being made! He agreed to take down his sign and was released. In the afternoon he was again arrested and put under SSOO bonds, failing to give which he was put in jail. In the evening two of Dent’s assist ants were arrested as vagrants and were locked up. William N. Whiteley, the reaper king, whose shops at Springfield, 0., the largest in the United States, we now deserted, half erased by the loss of millions, has had his mental trouble augmented by the lose of his only daughter. He would not lei the emb&lmer touch the, body, but had i coffin made plainly in his own shop. He would let no crape he placed on the door, end was only .prevented at the last moment from haoliag the body to the grave in i dray. The girl was most beautiful and i fine linguist, tv ■