Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — VENGEANCE OF A JILTED WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

VENGEANCE OF A JILTED WOMAN.

l Former I.over’s ltesidauce Wrecked and His Sister-In-Law Injured, Richard Juvenal’s residence in Kansas Jity, Kan., was wrecked by an explosion >f dynamite Monday night. There were in die house at iho t.me Juvenal, his wife mi her sister, Mrs. Ricketts, and her throe children. Mrs. Ricketts was struck oy a falling picture and received a severe scalp wound. 1 The other occupants revived a severe shaking up, but fortun&le!y escaped serious injury. The explosion .vas a loud ono, and the force was felt ten olocks away,many windows being broken. L’roin_all_ai!counts Ihe Jetiberate- attempt o blow up the residence was made by a .'. Oman, as she was seen to enter and leave ■jy the front gate a few minutes before the -xplosioh occurred. Mr. Juvenal, who has been twice married, said that while he vas getting a divorce from his first wife keptcompnny with Miss PfafTman, and *uat when she learned ho had marriod again she sent him threatening letters and made threats to blow up his residence. Alisa Pfaffman was arrested Tuesday afternoon, The evidence against her was very slight, but she was held in t3>o bond an tho’churgo of sending threatening letters through the A few miles north of Knights to flic farm of Robert Enright, there is lurk* mg a largo snake, of the blue racer spefies, which has been frightening the peofie of that vicinity for a week past It is iaimed by pcoplo who have seen it that t is at least fifteen feet long and ten Inches n diameter. His snakes hip successfully evades pursuit although several parties have been on the search, and only a casual glance can be had of him. •*’ ’ f ' *■