Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-18

OF 30 years. were hanged in the Jail
yard on the 10th for the murder of
Bertram Atwater, an artist, on Jan
uary 23, 1896.
TIE National Editorial convention
opened at Galveston, Tex, on the 10th,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and the
Indian territory being well represent
ed Ten women were present as dele
gates, among them being Miss Har-
baugh, of Erie, Kan. After getting
through the business of the conven-
ton a good many Of the delegates were
going to Mexico, trains being placed
at their disposal.
THE woman suffrage amendment was
lost in the Nevada assembly on the 10th
| by vote of 10 to 3.
ALBERT r. GRIFFITH, agedG2, said to be
n cousin of Gen. Grant, was found float
ing in the Ohio river, near Cincinnati,
on the 10th. The only indication of
foul play was that his pockets were
turned inside out when found.
IT was reported at Grand Rapids,
Mich, on the 10Th that Edwin Il. Uhl,
ambassador to Germany, was going to
practice law in New York, the other
partners to be President Cleveland and
Secretary 0lney.
A DISPATCH from Vienna on the 10th
reported that the powers had addressed
a collective note to Greece demanding
the withdrawal of her naval and mill
tary forces from the island of Crete
within 4S hours, failing which the port
of Pir@us in Greece would be block
AIDED and general hostilities would
commence.
w, GRAYsoN, o farmer, was shot to
death in Sewer county, Tenn, by a
gang of whitecaps
WILLIAM p. ST.. JOHN, one of the
champions in the east of free silver
and treasurer of the democratic ma
tional committee, died at New York on
the 14th of complication of kidney
and stomach trouble.
ABB BROOKS was captured near Tay-
Tor, Tex, recently. lie murdered his
stepfather over ID years ago and a mob
shortly afterward captured man sup
posed to be Brooks and burned him to
death. Brooks admitted that it was an
innocent man that suffered and that he
is the original Brooks.
ALLEN ROLES was thrown through
the roof and William Eldridge through
the door by an explosion of powder at
Woodland, Pa. One of the men stirred
fire and threw the poker on the floor
and it set off two kegs of powder.
Both men were terribly if not fatally
injured.
A DISPATCH from Louisville, KY, on
the 18th stated that it was expected
that there would be division of the
bicycle racing interests of America
into two separate bodies within the
next month on account of the adverse
decision of the national assembly of
the League of American Wheelmen on
the Sunday racing divisional opinion
of the question.
RAIDERS shivered the tollgate to
pieces by dynamite near Frankfort Ky,
and aroused the citizens from their
slumbers early on the 18th by the ire
mendous explosion.
FRANK WALLER, the Flying Dutch
man." as he calls himself, won the re-
cent siX-day bicycle race at Pittsburgh,
Pa, beating Louis Gimm, the Cleye-
land rider, by two miles. The score
was: Waller, 1,2lG; Gimm, 1914;
Schoch, 1,1oo; Hall, 1,1s1; Forster, L.
III, and Ruclsctt, 1.103 miles.
Gov. DRAKE, of Iowa, wants to send
the state troops to the celebration of
the battle of Wilson creek, Mo-, to en-
gage in a sham battle, instead of hold
ing the regular summer encampments.
The waste oil from the Alexandria
oil wells, which flows into creek pass
ing through Elwood, Ind, was set on
fire by boys on the 14th and the flames
swept through the town and burned
two bridges and an elevator, causing a
heavy loss,
Two Italians fought a duel in Lake
Front park, Chicago, on the night of
the 18th and the challenger, Botiste
Melleri, was shot to death by Joseph
Bernasconi. The duel was deliberate
ly planned, the men quarreling over
the subject of anarchy
The police raided the gambling dens
of Chinatown, in San Francisco, and
arrested 500 Cinnamon.
SIX men were crushed to death in the
Freeman mine near GouVerneRr, H. ",
by cave-in. Each left large families,
r. Il. FITZPATRICK, a brakeman, was
killed by the cars at Shawnee, I. T.
He was. coupling and caught his foot
in frog.
GEORGE VoLK and his brother, An
drew, of Wanatah, Ga. were instantly
killed by being struck by Pennsylva-
MIA accommodation train. Two ladies,
who were in the vehicle with them,
escaped with slight injuries, but the
team was killed.
The cashier of the First national
bank at Salisbury, Pa, was held up at
noon in the bank on the 18th by ne
gro and made to hand over $500. The
cashier gave an alarm when the negro
left and the robber was captured and
the money recovered.
ARTHUR Z. German, Of Baltimore,
Md, who is said to be nephew OF
United States Senator German, was
married at Detroit Mich, on the 18th
to Miss Annie Waitmap, of the Wood
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