Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
GENERAL NEWS.

JUST as Francisco Borrego, Antonio
Borrego, Lauriano Alarid and Patricio
Talencia were on the march to the gal
lows at Santa Fe, N. M, to be hanged
for the murder of Sheriff Chavez, dis
patch arrived stating that President
Mckinley had respited them for ten
days to look more fully into the case.
AN earthquake shock was felt at
Montreal, Que, at 6:O7 p. m. on the 29d.
THE Tennessee house of representa-
tives passed the senate bill declaring
whitecapping felony and fixing the
punishment for the violation of the
law at Imprisonment for not less than
three nor more than II years in the
penitentiary.
CYNTHIANA, Ind, was recently visit
ed by a tornado, which did much dam
age. The opera house, one brick build
ing and one dwelling were demolished.
Barns, chimneys, fences, orchards, and
other property went down before the
gale.
WILLIAM MCGUFFEY was taken to
Atol5a, 1. t., on the 23d to receive SEN
tence. The jury had previously
brought in a verdict of murder in the
first degree and given him 90 years in
the penitentiary. Judge Lewis set
aside this Verdict and gave McGuffey
ten years and fine of $1,000.
A DISPATCH from Perry, Ok, on the
ESD said that Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians had been visiting the Otoes
and indulging in ghost dances. Many
Indians had danced until they tainted
and some, it was reported, will die from
their exertions
JOHN WILLIAMS, a railroad man, was
recently found laying in front of drug
store at Brennan, Tex, unconscious,
with two CHASTITY stabs in the body.
He recovered sufficiently to tell that he
had been held up by negro who de-
manded his money, and, upon his refu-
sal to give it up, the negro stabbed
him.
A SPECIAL from Lima, O., said that
william r. Mott, freight clerk, and
William R. Jones, telegraph operator,
were struck by lightning on the street
and both fatally injured.
A MATCH was said to have been ar
ranged by the Greater New York
Athletic club in Brooklyn for fight
between Maher and Sharkey. 1t will
probably be brought off in May for a
purse of about $4,000.
THE national w. c. T. U. has sent an
appeal to President Mckinley, entreat-
ing him to call upon congress to pro-
hibit In the District of Columbia and
the territories the reproduction by
means of the kaleidoscope of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight. A similar appeal
has also been sent to each of the gov.
ernors of the various states, asking for
legislative action.
A MOB tried to break into the Jail at
Scottsboro, Ala, to lynch a negro min
lister named John Smith, who was con.
fined there for an assault on a woman.
All the efforts of the mob to get in,
however, were fruitless, but the negro
was espied fearfully watching them
from his cell window and several men
opened fire on him and killed him.
HEART disease caused the death OF
John Parshall, of Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th. He was one of the six
men deputed and sworn to dispose OF
the remains of John Wilkes Booth, the
murderer of Abraham Lincoln, in such
manner that the secret of their rest
ing place should never be known.
DETECTIVES killed Walter Hughes as
he was in the act of entering the house
of Frank Dunn, a wealthy resident Of
Houston, Tex. The police received in
formation that scheme was on foot
to kidnap Dun's little daughter, keep
the little girl in captivity and then de-
mand $4,000 for restoring her to her
parents.