Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — MURDERED AND PUT IN WELL. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED AND PUT IN WELL.

Aged Mnnin Kansas Robbed and Two Women Are Arrested. At Ottawa, Kan.. John Booth, an old tnan. was murdered and his body throwninto a well on the premises of Mrs. Mc--Coy. a block from his home. Booth’s, skull had been crushed with an ax and the body put into the weld bend downward. Clots of blood and a bloody ax were found near the' well and what appeared to be a blood stain was found on the kitchen floor of the McCoy house. Mrs. McCoy and a daughter have been placed under arrest. They say they know nothing about the murder and that Booth was not at their house that night. The Kansas City authorities have been notified to arrest another daughter who is believed to have left for that city on an early train. Booth received SIOO the previous day. His pockets had been rifled. BLOWS OFF HEAD WITH A BOMB. Unusual Method of Suicide Chosen by a Seattle Man. The unidentified trunk of a man was found in one of the residence districts fit Seattle, the evidence tending to show that he had committed suicide by placing a stick of dynamite in his mouth with a fuse attached. He then had lain down on the groifnd, lighted the fuse and awaited tne end. A hole fifteen inches deep marked the place where his head had rested. Nut a vestige of the head could be found. There is no clew to his identity. Ohio Bank in Trouble. The Euclid Avenue Trust and Savings Company, at 81 and 86 Enclid avenue. Cleveland, made an assignment Friday to Attorney Frank H. Ginn. The latter’s bond was fixed at $250,000 by Judge Bloch of the insolvency court. The assignee states that the bank has been unable to realize upon its assets rapidly enough to meet the unusual demands, and that no creditor will lose a dollar. American* Make Long March. The Navy Department has received the following cablegram from Rear Admiral Rodgers at Cavite: “Waller reports haying completed ten days’ march across Samar from Lanaug to Bahey. Column endured great hardships. Killed thirteen insurgents, captured captain, lieutenant and four men.’’ Sexen Perish in Flames. -Henry I’earlstein, his wife and five children, ranging in age from 1% to 12 years, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a two-story frame building in Buffalo, N. Y. Joseph Supowski, who owned the building, and Kail Bracki, hi* brother-in-law. have been arrested pending an investigation. Brother and Sister Are Drowned. Martin O’Hara, aged 18 years, and his sister Mary, aged 15. were drowned while skating on the Youghiogheny at Osceola. Pa. Their brother James, aged 8. also went under the ice, but was rescued by men who were.at work near by. City Officer* Rearreated. Former City Clerk A. B. Phillips of Ashtabula, Ohio, recently charged with misappropriating city bunds, has been rearrested under indictments charging him with disposing of $12,000 of spurious bonds of the city. Don't Want “Uncle Tom." Daughters of the Confederacy at Lexington, Ry., have petitioned the manager of opera house to forbid further presentations of “Uncle Turn’s Cabin,".* ■ Murderer Get* Heavy Sentence. Thomas Redmond, who killed Thomas Scruggs in a general fight in Kansas City, Mo., ha* been sentenced to twentyfive year* in the penitentiary. , No Continuance for Howard. Judge Cantrill at Frankfort, Ky., has overruled the motion for a continuant in the case of Jim Howard, charged with complicity in the Goebel murder. Two Killed in u Mine, Feed Krouskoupf was killed and Robert Maxwell fatally injured in Maynard's mine near Canncllsyilie, Ohio, by falling slate. Cabinet Member la Killed. Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian premier, received a cable dispatch saying that K. R. Dolyll, a member of the dominion cabinet without portfolio, had been killed at Folkestone, England. He was thrown from a horso which he wa* riding. i Mesa ba Ran ire Mine Hold. President W. L. Hill of the Eastern Minnesota road has bought the Enterprise iron mine on the Mesaba range for $160,000. it wa* owned by W. 11. Yaw key of Detroit