Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-13

Railroad company has been chartered.
The road is to run from Henrietta,
Tex, northeasterly through Oklahoma
and the Indian territory TO point on
the Southern Kansas line east of Che
topa, distance of 200 miles.
THREE negroes-Louis Richards,
George Washington and Foxey Morris
were hanged at Hahnville, La, on
the nth for numbering u Jewish ped
dler named Zeigler. Richards con-
fessed that he had murdered at least
nine men and one woman since 1884.
In the Portland saloon at Colorado
City, Col, II. r. Fleetwood and George
Huston, colored. were drunk and went
to sleep on the floor Some one poured
alcohol on the drunken mems feet and
lighted it. Fleetwood died in horrible
agony, but Huston may recover.
RECENT arrivals at San Antonio,
Tex, from the Indian creek gold fields
in Uvalde county reported that pros
pector had struck vein of ore which
assayed 81, 200 to the ton. There were
said to be hundreds of prospectors in
the new fields and the late find has
added to the excitement.
IT was stated on what was considered
good authority that some 80 men on
the police force of st. Louis are draw
ing disability pensions from the gov
eminent and at the same time draw
ing their salaries as able-bodied police
men.
A MAMMOTH ice house in course of
construction at Whitmore Lake. Mich,
collapsed the other day and two men
were instantly killed, five others prob
ably fatally injured and dozen more
badly hurt.
THE American Express company in
New York was robbed on the 9th of
$10 5S2, and Clark Braden, Jr., trust
ed employee, is missing The theft
gave rise to wild report which was
telegraphed over the country, to the
effect that the company had been
robbed of 81, 900, 900 which had been
given it for transportation.
A MEAGER account of the whipping
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party of farmers at Clinton was re-
ceved at Columbia, S. c., the other
night. The man had been a tenant on
farm in the neighborhood and had
violated his contract by secretly NOV
ing away. lie was caught soon after
by party of men, tied and terribly
whipped from the effects of which he
died.
AN explosion of 1900 quarts of nitro
glycerine near Booth, an oil town near
Toledo, o., killed an oil well shooter
and wiped out of existence a team of
horses and wagon. A piece of the
mans flesh and the head of one horse
was all that was found.
AT Jackson, Miss, the joint demo-
cratic legislative caucus nominated
Congressman H. D. Money to succeed
the late Senator George as United
States senator from Mississippi.
EDWARD M. HUNT, an ex-deputy
sheriff, was shot and killed at Chicago
on the 5th by w. Ray Smith, bailiff
in Judge Morton's court. The men
had quarreled over small sum of
money due from Smith to Hunt Smith
was shot in the left hand and right
leg.
IT was stated that syndicate of
business men of st. Louis had made
arrangements for buying the st. Louis
Browns and will pay 100000 for the
National league franchise grounds,
etc. They will then reorganize the
baseball club and put it on a winning
basis.
JOHN MILLS, aged 10 years, we'll
known farmer of Huntington, Ind,
was butchering some hogs, when he
dropped dead. Before he was discov-
cred the hogs had chewed off one of
his hands.
THE state headquarters of the Iowa
Equal Suffrage association has been
opened at Des Moines and plans dis
cussed to press the work in all coun-
ties for the passage of a bill in the
general assembly.
THE schoolhouse at Yeddo, Ind, was
burned on the 5th Reports from the
scene said that it was feared two chill
dren had persisted in the fire. Two
were thrown from second-story win
dow and badly injured.
A SEMINOLE Indian on the 18th killed
Mrs. Leard in the presence of her chill
dren, four miles east of Maud, Ok.
The Indian appeared at the house
early in the afternoon and was fright
ened away by Mrs. Leard with Win
chester rifle. Later he got into the
house and got the gun and struck her
on the head with the butt and killed
her. The country was greatly wrought
up over the affair.
BLooDHoUNDs were given the scent
of the men whorecently tried to wreck
a passenger train ut Murray, Ia, and
they followed it across the fields from
the Burlington tracks till it ended in
some box cars at small station on the
Great Western road. 10 miles south
1t was thought the men took freight
from there.
REVENUE officers, after destroying
two stills and capturing four prisoners
in Elliott county, KY, the other day,
tried to capture another still near
Rocky Springs, but the moonshiners
defended it and there was q pitched
battle lasting 90 minutes. The officers
finally withdrew, finding it impossible
to drive off the moonshiners. Two of