Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — IOWA OUTLAW SLAYS. [ARTICLE]

IOWA OUTLAW SLAYS.

JUSTICE AND CITY MARSHAL MORTALLY WOUNDED. Bad Man Resists Arrest at Farmington. lowa, but Is Riddled with Ballets in Revolver Fight—Naval Officer Loses Big Sait. George D. Stillwell, a desperate character, resisted arrest at Farmington, lowa, fatally wounded two men, and ikd, .but was overtaken by a posse and riddled with bullets in the battle that followed. Robert Coulter, the city marshal, went to serve a warrant on Stillwell, who had for some time terrorised the Community. As Coulter started to read the warrant Stillwell drew a revolver and shot him twice in the abdomen. The desperado then made his way towards home, anti two blocks from where he shot the marshal he overtook Justice of the Peace A. E. Musgrave, against whom.be had a grudge for having twice committed him to jail. He again drew his revolver and shot Musgrove through the head, the bullet entering under the left ear. The justice fell to the ground face downward and Stillwell put two more bullets into his back. The desperado then proceeded to his home, secured a rifle, another revolver. and ammunition. Half a mile' ont of town he was overtaken by a posse. When the posse overtook the fugitive, he took a position behind a tree in the' cemetery and held the citizens at bay for nearly an hour, Stillwell was wounded several times and dropped to his knee, but continued to shoot until a bulht struck the barrel of his rifle. The posse closed in on Stillwell, riddling him with bullets. Stillwell was deputy fish commissioner and had been at outs with several local officers.. Coulter and Musgrove are not ex|>eeted to live. They are wellknown citizens. LOSES SUIT FOR $1,000,000. Naval Officer Fail to Get Prize Money for Destroying Spanish Ship. Federal Judge Edward B. Thomas in Brooklyn declared invalid a claim of sl,000,000 against the United States which had been entered by Lieutenant Commander William H. H. Sutherland of the navy. The amount was asked as prize money, the commander and his crew of the Eagle, a converted gunboat, having destroyed the Spanish steamer Santo Domingo during the Spanish-American war. Sutherland demanded the value of the sunken vessel and its cargo, the contention being that Admiral Dewey and his men were granted large booty prizes in Manila bay for similar work. The government maintained during the trial that only $l,lOO could be recovered by plaintiff. Aidermen Guilty of Boodling. The joint trial of five former members of the St. Louis house of delegates ended in a verdict of five years in the penitentiary for each man. The defendants, John—A. Sheridan, Charles —J, Denny,, Charles Gutke, Edmund Bersch arid T. E. Albright, were convicted on chtftges of bribery in connection with the passage of the suburban street car bill. Double Tragedy in Office Building. In a desperate fight on the fifth floor of the Granite building in St. Louis, T. M. Martin, bridge engineer for the St. Louis, Santa Fe and Southwestern Railway, cut J. W. Barriger, Jr., to death with a pocket knife. Martin took poison immediately after the murder and is not expected to survive.

Guilty of Killing Mr. Fish. The jury in the case of Thomas J. Sharkey, accused of the murder of Nichlas Fish, the banker, returned a verdict in New York of manslaughter in the second degree and recommended that the mercy of the court be exercised. Two Chicago Fires. The four-story Salinger flats, Fortyfifth street and Evans avenue, burned in Chicago. Explosion of gas range caused Quick fire; twelve families escaped with loss of goods; Acorn brass plant, Peoria and Fulton streets, was also destroyed. Talka Across the Sea. Wireless telegraph system across Atlantic Ocean has been successfully started by Marconi; messages sent from Glace Bay, N. 8., to Cornwall, England, 2.300 miles; Edison and other friends received announcement. Methodists Kais? Great Fund. Twentieth century thank offering fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church, amounting to S2O,(MMMMM). is now filled, according to announcement made by Secretary Mills, of Rochester. Twenty Killed in Wreck. Twenty persons were killed nnd twen-ty-seven injured in the collision between the southbound Los Angeles Owl limited train and the Stockton flyer on the Southern Pacific at Byrdu, Cal.'

Jusuxcd Man Slain. It developed the next day that 11. C. Whayne. a Louisville business man, v. ho «an found dead with a gunshot wound in his breast, carried $350,000 life insurance. Landlord Held Responsible. A SL Louis hotel keeper has been held responsible for the death of a guest who perished in a fire, and widow awarded F 5.000 damages. Birthday of Mrs. Livermore. At Melrose, Mass., Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore on Friday observed the <dgh-ly-second anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Livermore is still very active. Freed of Murder Charge. The jury in the May case at Bismarck, N.D., brought 4u a verdict of acquittal after being out only two hours. May was charged with killing Harry Hibbs last January'. May was discharged from custody Immediately upon the return of the verdict. Con<reM(nan nt the Altar. Representative Edmo*gl Spencer Blackburn of North Carolina and Miss Louise Lev nun Parker, daughter of Col. Myton M. Parker of Washington, were married