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Show Scandinavian Excursion to I'rovo. The Scandinavian residents of ftah county are hereby invited to a i d re-im'on re-im'on in (he royo I'ark-G-odens. Saturday, Sat-urday, August 1". 1V.)1. Tien' will ! music on the grounds, an. 1 both i:rl roads will 'ssue tickets for one fare for the round trip, good iic-iu ting Sunday. J. l II. Johnson', O. II. I'.K'.G. Loirs I'. N'Fir.soN-. Thko. M. Samuei.so.v. I AM NOT GUILTY. A Dooniotl "Man's Final Wonls on tlu Gallows. Little TjOuUa Bn?in:rS n'3 Swin!wr Atones At-ones For His Fiendish Crime with His Life. St. Loos, August Id. Jam-M T!t or oughgond was hanged in Dover. Del. to-day for assaulting a child of s wars. Thoroughgood was taken from his cell moaning and shouting and loaning heavily on (he arms of in- spiritual advisers, ad-visers, tiie Kev. Drs. Cihsnii and Ja-k-son. IIj w;ts scarcely able to w.ilk to the s.Mi'fdl. U-:"or (r-bson read the services for the dead, hut his vn'ce was drowned in Thoroughgood's piteous appeal to heaven. A he walked he kept bis eyes straight above him, shouting, '"(dory to (jod!" He was assisted up the steps to thsca;r--ld and averted his eyes from the noose. After every preparation had been made for the drop I'ev. Jackson asked: "D; 1 you do it you know what I mean?" The negro, on the verge of eternity, replied re-plied : "I am nt guilty." Just as ihe b!a -k cap was drawn over his head Thoroughgood shouted: "I am not guilty, thank (r-id.and as I stand here on the scatlbld I declare to (rod I have never done injury t man or Woman living. O od have ncrcy on my soul." Scarcely had the words died away when the hatchet fell, and as the j doomed man shot, through the trap there were some muscular contortions, but his neck w is broken and he was pronounce'! dead in six and a half min- i ntes and cut down in (ilt-en minutes. The hanging was witnessed only by the jurymen, the legal witnesses, and the press representatives. Thorotighgood's victim, little Louisa Butiington, came in from Viola with her mother during the mopong but could notle indueed to enter the jad though efforts were made to g-t her to confront Thoroughgood. When she came n-ar enough to hear his vi ice she become so terror-stricken that it was necessary to remove her. miles of difficult overland travel on foot. Her porters were carrying her al ng a foot path which skirted Ihe extreme edge of a steep river bank. One ot the nen slipped with I lie result that Mrs. Sheldon was overturned and site was precipiiatc't thirtv feet flown the bank into the river. Mrs. Sheldon was nearly near-ly drowned as well as severely injured by her fall. Too Sick t" Talk. London', August 11. Mrs. French Slfldon will not be well enough to address ad-dress the geographical society fin her next (rip (o the Kihmangoro region. Since her arrival in Hamptons she has-been has-been under the care of two eminent London physicians who have forbidden her to talk with anybody about her experience in Africa. Mrs. Sheldon is in a very precarious condition yet. but her doctors say that h 'lute fpiitt for a few weeks will probably lead to her recovery. So far she lias been too i-o,.l- t,. lr..,-u VL.f l.,l If c,,..,,. tl,.. from what little Mrs. Sheldon has been able to tell members of her family the severe fall 'o which she attributes i it-r illness did not happen while she was making ner perilous decent to the surf; ce oi Lake Chain. The accident in-cured on the homeward journey alter Mrs S aeldon had covered nearly a thousand Having got their victims in the iciise, they murdered them and rol he I them. Ourying the bodies in the cellar. The police were put on the loi.koir by a servantfwho lunl been :.ssa-:lted by ihe Schneiders, but had been fortunate enough to escape alive. An investigation investiga-tion followed and seven bodies were found buried under the house occupied by the murderers. The criminals crim-inals are under arrest. The above se- ; rb's of crimes and the mode id' commission commis-sion recalls a similar series cominii ted ; by the Mannings, man and w ife, in England years ago, and for whvh thev were hanged. lucid -n'ally it may be mentioned that Mrs. Manning hating been hanged in a black satin dress, black satin gowns subsequently went out of fashion in England. |