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Show I TELEGRAPHIC j I'ltiniKAL CALLKNUAU. Tlie Kentucky Jlnrder In-iHimuti In-iHimuti Ircatiueulul a Uluvk i-'lCUtl lU liUUhHH. Chicja, 27. Richard Aforlon, ex-cashier ex-cashier ol tho Allanlic J?'ire Insurance Insur-ance compauy, wbo left New York I ant August with a eliortane of i-10,000 in bia uccouuta with the company, and who siuco then remained in Uauaaa, aupeartu on mo oneeio ucm to-day, and beiug recognized by a clerk of the Chicago bancb, was taken into custody. trprinntie.Li, Ilia., 27. J. D. Mcln-tireol Mcln-tireol i. kin, known aa the king ot the wlmky ring, pleaded Ruilly in the; United Siatee court to ali ludiclments u-ainst bim. He was lined $1,000 und bia distillery was forleiltd on two pleas, and sentence waa eua-ended as to the others on condition that bo pfincala on tbo other riutfatera. Frankfort, 20. Thomas Buford, who, ihia afternoon, shot and killed Jndye Klhot, waa, later in the day, arrested and alterabiief examination committed to jail. Ho handed a letter to iiib guard, which showed ibe deed to he prenibilitiited. Tha coroner's coro-ner's jury found a verdict ol muvder. LouiBville, 27. A Courier-Journal special from Frankfort, ays a meet-, meet-, ing of tho citizens of Frankfort was ' held last nifiht, when the mayor waa requested to order all placcas of buBi- UUEO I it hid viiiy iiuatu J-uuj, .u a spect to the memory ol Judpe Elliott, whose death is regarded aa a public calamity. Governor McCreary, Obiet Justice Hiuea and other eminent public men were appointed pallbearers. pall-bearers. Tbe governor has issued a proclamation, which, after words of warm commendation (or the life and oharacter of tbe deceased, recommends recom-mends that all public ollicea ba closed from noon to-day and tbut all their attaches attend tbe funeral in a body. There has been no attempt at lynching. lynch-ing. Fort Scott, Ks., 27. Bill Howard, a negro, wbo, on Tuesday, so brutally and diabolically outraged a 12-year-old daughter of George Pond, waa discovered last night in an old mine about Bix miles from the city und safely landed in jail. Tbe excitement was intense, and about 7 o'clock in the evening a crowd of people numbering num-bering about 1,000, aicompanied by thirty masked men, in eolid Hue, with drawn revolvers in their hands, marched lo the jail overpowering all reeiEtance tore the ircn grating irom tha window of Howard's" cell and forcibly took bim out. A rope was tied around hie neck, and amid yella and shouts tbo demon waa dragged by a huudred hands a distance of five blocks, and hung to a Lamp post on tbe corner of the public square. Tbe infuriated mob, whose aDger and excitement had passed all bounds, after the body had hung there some fifteen minutes, on the Bbout of ''Burn him! burn hiral" being atarted took it down and dragged ittothti Equare, in bp lie ol the resistance and objeotion of tbe more calm and peaceable peace-able portion of tho crowd, and liter ally roasted and burned tha remains in a fire of dry goods boxes and coal oil, amid demonstrations ibat rivalled pandemonium. |