The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-06-30
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delivered mt Newport news, TO go 10 oahli-
ago on the Yale and the Harvard.
Francis j. Kearney, of Chelsea, Mass,
was severely injured in bicycle collision
and died at the Frost Hospital. He was
eighteen years old
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, the noted au-
thority on constitutional law, who has been
at private asylum at Pontiac for year,
has returned to Ann Arbor Mich. lie
shows considerable improvement physical
ly, but mentally he is in about the same
condition as when he first broke down.
Twenty students from Lafayette College
went from Easton to Philadelphia, Penn.
and enlisted in the volunteer engineer regi-
ment being recruited here.
More than 1000 women, delegates from
women's clubs throughout the country, in
Denver, Col. are attending the annual con
vention of the National Federation OF Wo-
mems Clubs.
The Master Mechanics Association of the
United States, in annual session at Sara
toga, N. Y, contributed 5000 for sick SOL
diers at Chickamauga Park.
Mrs Ellen Schweitzer, widow, residing
alone in the country three miles from South
Bethlehem, Penn, committed suicide by
hanging herself to a rafter in the garnet.
Before waxing her life she tied her black
Grape veil in q neat bow, with streamers,
vestigation by farmer passing, who no.
ticed the Grape, disclosed the suicide.
1t was announced at the graduation ex-
ercises of the Northfleld (Mass.) Seminary
that d. L. Moody had received gilt of
800 900 in stocks and bonds for his school
work in Mortified.
Governor Leedy has announced that the
two battalions allotted to Kansas under the
second call for volunteers will be recruited
from the colored population.
Adrian Braun, who murdered his wife.
Catherine, in the visitors room OF Sing
Sing Prison last March, was convicted Of
murder in the first degree at White Plains,
NY.
lobe Lanahan and Ed. Mckenzie colored,
were hanged at Jefferson City, Mo. Nc
Kenzie killed farmer for his money and
Lanahan murdered a twelve-year-old col
ored girl.
The flrsr-cass battleship Illinois, which
has been building in the Newport News
(Va.) shipyard for eighteen months, will
be launched about September Is.
The yacht Alfedo, first to fly the Cuban
flag, has left New York Harbor with Cap
tain "Johnny" O'Brien, the noted tilibus-
ter, in charge.
Rasmus Christoffersen, Dane seventy
seven years old, committed suicide In the
home of his son-in-law, Frederick Ezellson,
at South Amboy, N. j., by hanging him.
self. His body was found hanging to one
of the rafters in the cellar by Minnie
Ezelison, his granddaughter.
The Board OF Trustees of the Lebanon
Hospital, New York City, decided to erect
tablet to the memory Of DR.. John Blair
Gibbs, who was killed at Camp McCalla. in
Cuba.
The schooner Game Cock Of Albany, N.
Y, was sunk by the Adirondack in the
Hudson River. Captain Mason, Of the
schooner, was saved, but his brother and
nephew were drowned.
John Zimmons, thirty-one years old who
was serving sentence of two years in
State Prison for pocket picking, hanged
himself In the State Prison at Trenton, N.
J. He left letter to his mother, saying he
could no. stand his disgrace, and asking
her forgiveness.
Alice Stitzel and Mamie and Minnie Cor
ner, of Defiance, Ohio, we're drowned in
the river near the town. The young women
went bathing, and got into deep water.
A Norfoll, "nd Western passenger train,
No. 4,wasw 'led two miles west OF Shaws-
Vile, Va. Iuree were killed and several
injured. The dead are cap Horner, the
engineer, Bristol, Va; Edward sadler, the
fireman, Bristol, Va; A. S. Francis, mail
clerk, Merton, Va. Several passengers,
names not known, we're injured. ~
The Central Railroad OF New Jersey
"aver" was wrecked below Penn Haven
Junction. Penn. and three tuen were
killed. The train was running at fifty
miles an hour, when an axle on the engine
broke and the train plowed with frightful
force into n heavy stone wall. The killed
are: Charles Edmer, train boy, OF Easton;
Richard McHale, engineer, OF Easton;
Fred Youghman, fireman, OF Easton.
Twenty persons were injured.
David j. Ferris, a retired merchant OF
New York City, shot and wounded his
mother-in-law. He then killed himself.
No cause is known. ~
The coal mines in the Jehico district OF
Kentucky and Tennessee have been sold to
On English syndicate.
Answers f1led In the Ohio Supreme Court
by the Standard OIL Company In the anti.
trust suit revealed the names OF its stock
holders and the amounts held by them on
November 8, 1897.
Governor Budd, OF California, COMMITTED
the death sentence OF train wrecker Saltei
d. Worden to Imprisonment for life.
Foreign.
The Sultan OF Turkey has purchased 5000