Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.

HE arrest of Il. Il. Freeman for the
murder of James Westbrool1 in Butler,
Mo-, October 16, 1862 was accomplished
by Sheriff E. c. Mudd and Deputy Mar
shall Lindsey at small town named
Fanshawe, about 100 miles east of Ard
more, l. T. Freeman was sentenced to
be hanged on Decem Der IT, 1869, but es-
capped two days before by pulling the
boards off the ceiling of his cell.
SOME time ago DR.. P. n. Wells, living
near Russell, Miss, shot and fatally
wounded a negro while in the act of
stealing his cattle. Since then several
attempts to assassinate DR.. Wells have
been made by negroes. This has
aroused the white people and notice
has been served to the negroes that
any further hostile movement towards
DR.. Wells will precipitate a race con-
fiict.
THE county poOrhouse at Stanwood,
Mich. was burned the other night.
The fire started in the insane ward
Adolph Murrin was burned to death
and many of the 40 inmates of the main
building narrowly escaped.
JACK MCCORMACK, of Philadelphia,
knocked out Kid Mccoy in the first
round at Chicago on the 18th. The
bout was to have been six rounds and
1t was generally thought that McCor-
mack stood no show at all.
BY an explosion in colliery in Gla-
morganshire, Wales, 25 persons were
killed and so others were in danger.
Pathetic scenes at the mouth of the
mine were witnessed as the bodies were
brought up.
Two hundred people We're poisoned
at Oregon, Ill, the other day by lem
ade which they drank at a picnic. No
fatalities were reported. The poison
ing was supposed to have been the re-
suit of citric acid in the lemonade sold
at one of the stands.
EX-JUDGE RICHARD PRENDERGAST one
of Chicago's most prominent lawyers,
died in that city on the 18th of anemia.
August 2 the operation of TRANSMISSION
of blood from John Morrissey, a young
man whom the attorney had helped to
successful career, was performed.
Mr.. Prendergast showed temporary
improvement, but in few days re-
1apsed into his old condition.
THE schooner Anna arrived from
Behring sea at San Francisco the other
day with 516,00 Goldfish, weighing 500
tons. She reported that all the fishing
schoOners in the Arctic had done well
this season. The steamer schooner
Pacific, from Copper river, Alaska, re-
ported that the salmon catch was very
large. The largest single seine haul
made this season at Karlul1 brought in
10000 red salmon, besides other fish.
Four roads have joined in the boy
colt on the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf. They are the Santa Fe, the Mis-
souri, Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas
and Rock Island. At the end of the ten
days notice specified by law all traffic
arrangements between the Pittsburg &
Gulf and the four boycotting lines will
cea Se.
Col. II. B. CASE, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, one of the five members of the
e. A. r. committee appointed to inves-
tigate the office of Pension Commits
sioner H. Clay Evans, denied emphati-
cally the report that the committee has
decided to eXonerate Mr.. Evans. Each
mans views will be sent to r. 3. Brown,
of GAINESVILLE, O.. who is chairman OF
the committee. He will draft a report
and this will be submitted to the com
mittee at its meeting in Washington,
September I Then, and not until
then, will anyone know what the re-
port is
THE democratic state convention at
DeS Moines, Ia, nominated ticket,
headed by Frederick E. White for gov
ernor. The populist state convention
also met and Endorsed the democratic
ticket. The only populist on the ticket
rs w. H Calhoun for railway commits
sioner.
Boiling democrats from every coun-
ty but nine of the 119 composing the
state of Kentucky met at Lexington
and nominated a full state ticket,
headed by John Young Brown for
governor in opposition to the regular
democratic ticket headed by William
Goebel, which was nominated at Louis
vile in June.