Burned At The Stake

Ttler, Tix.. Out. Pi.- On a scaffold crected in th public square and in the presence of 7,000 men, women and children, who yiewed tho horrible spoo.tacle from grand stands and balcouios, Henry Hilliard, a negro murderer, was burned at the stake. ïhe murder was committed four nnd a half miles oast of hcro, tho vietim beiiif; Mrs. Leonard Bell, the 19 yearold wifo of a farmer of that neighborhood. Tyler is the county sent of Smith county, Tex., on tho northern división of tho International and Great Northern railroad. It has a public library of 15,000 volumes, a Bubstantlal courthouse, a bankiag house, the public eduoational lnstitution known as thu Charnwood institute, one daily and throe wcekly newspapers, Beven churohes and s(;veral mañufacturing interests. lts present population is estimated at 7,000. The county has a population in excoss oC 30,00) and a va'.uation in real and personal estáte in excess of Ï3, 00 J.OU t.