Good Old Days: August 1, 2019

8 years ago

The Commoner

Aug. 3, 1894

The people of the southern part of Spokane county are intensely excited over the kidnapping and murder of Charles Gloystein, a prominent farmer and republican politician of Mica. Gloystein was dragged out of his bed at midnight Sunday, and has not since been seen. His hat, cut with a blunt instrument and covered with blood and hair, was found yesterday by a search party. The missing man had incurred the enmity of the populists of his neighborhood and the feeling against him in that party was intense. A short time ago he was hung in effigy, and a number o...