Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

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Joseph Lytle, of Findlay,' 0., Wednesday morning, fiendishly slaughtered his divorced wife and his daughter, using a hatchet. He attempted the life of a second daughter, but she escaped. Thursday morning at 1 o'clock a mob gatheredtook Lytle from the jail and hung him' When the mob made a rush on the jail, I** did not attempt to get the sheriff’s keys, but hurried back to the corridor. Lytle was perfectly game, and called the mob’s attention to his own cell as the one wanted. After working nearly an hour the cell door was battered down and the doomed man dragged out. He was taken several blocks to the Main street bridge. A rope was furnished and one end thrown over one of the top girders. Another moment and the body of Joseph Lytle swung in the all*. Only for a moment, however, as a strflty bullet cut the rope and the body fell. The mobcaught the end of the rope and dragged the victim through the street about two hundred feet, and again the rope was hoisted over a telegraph pole arm. As the body was pulled up half a dozen shots were fired,,and the end of the awful tragedy came/ The mob is said to have been of the best citizens, but was poorly organized. His victims are stil] alive, but neither will recover.

Some curious items are found in the of China's trade statististics. For instance, the report of exports from Ichang, a large city on the Middle Yang-tse-Kiang, contains* an item of 13,000 pounds of tiger bones, valued at nearly $3,000. Only a Chinese would think of putting tiger bones to any other use than that of a fertilizer, but in China tiger bones are used as medicine. They impart to the invalid some of the tiger’s strength. Another item is 9,000 pounds of old deer horns, worth $1,700 —another medical agency with whose peculiar properties Western medical science is not yet acquainted. In Aroostook county, Me., is a man who has been in jail for nearly four years because he refused to pay a debt which he might have settled easily. He declared that he wouldn’t pay, and that if sent to jail he could stand it as iopg as his creditor could, the latter being obliged to pay the prisoners board. The debtor may be liberated soon, he having promised io pay his bills more promptly in the future, but the bill for which he was incarcerated will not be paid. The prisoner was a soldier and known as a “stuffy” man.