Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-09-04

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 and death will occur shortly. The
 appropriation for this year only per-
 mits the agent to issue two or three pounds of bad flour per week, which
 is entirely inadequate to the support
 of well people. The governor re
 ports this unnatural and inhuman
 state of things, and calls upon the secretary of the interior to assume the responsibility of issuing full
 rations until congress meets in De- ! cember.
 ERFECTLT RIGHT.
 GALvEsToN, Sept. 2-The cz ami
 nation before Con missioner Spann
 was begun Friday ill the conspiracy
 case of Emil Francois against Gov
 eInor John Ireland, pcnitentiary
 superintendent Gore and five peni
 tenIiary guards. The testimony in he case had proceeded so far as to
 show that Francols has been con- victed and confined in the peni.en- tiary for something over four years, when the proceedings were cut short | -lly the appearance of United Siates District Attorney Stratton, who dis missed the cn ire proceedings and
 the prIsoners were at once released. Stan On had communicated with the
 Attorney General at Washington ID reference to the prcce' dIngs, and received instructions from the acting attorney general, stating that sec> tion 5510 of the revised statutes, did not apply to the case as submitted to the department of justice. Upon this ground the case was dismissed. ANOTHER KANSAS STATE TICKET.
 TOPEKA, Sept. 2-The State con ventien of the anti-monopolsts of he Green back labor reform party nominated the following State ticket. For Governor, H. L. Philips, of Miami county; Lieutenant Gov crnor, John w. Breidenhall, of La brelte; Chief Justice, H. P. Vroo- man, of Shawnee; Associate Justice, J. D. McBryan, of Chautauqua; Treasurer, D. H. Hiffclbower, of Miami; Auditor, w. H. T. Wake field, of Dickenson; Attorney Gener> al, H. L. Brush, of Elke; Secretary of State. J. C. Hubbard, of Shawnee; Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion. Miss Fannie Randolph, Of Lyon. After the selection of elec> tors and members of the State cen- 'ral committee the convention ad- journed.
 THE HURRICANES TRACK.
 EVANSVILLE, Sept 2-The loss of | the transfer steamer Belmont and 1 the drowning of ten or fifteen per sons is confirmed. A hurricane this afternoon capsizsd the boat at | Stanley's, three miles above Tender son, turning her completely over. She was going to Henderson with a barge containing the passengers Of i the Louisville and Nashville rail- road. The boat separated from the barge, all on the latter were saved | and all on the boat, except four or fl ve were lost. Among those lost were Capt. John Smith, E. C. Reach and son, prominent merchant of Evansville, Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant, a teacher here, and her mother, also Mrs. ,Woodtree, of Henderson, and lady and babe, with a satchel with card in it Miss Hattie Murray, Brook field, Alabama" The bodies of the three were found. The boat is total loss; s15,OOO marine insurance. The telegraph and telephone to Henderson is broken.
 FATAL AFFRAY
 OAKLAND, III Sept, 2.-This afternoon Taylor Doane and Tom Brown, both hard characters, went o the residence of Edward Me conkey, young farmer, and avows ng the intention to "ciean him up.' While rough and tumble fight was between Doane and dcC onkey, Brown attempted to Ielp his partner, seeing which, a { alf wilted employee of McConkey amed Dean, braii ed Doane with l
 scantling. Brown immediately { mptied three chambers of his re- S oliver into Dean, when he was bim~ | If f,lled to the ground by shoi : v