Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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8 years ago The Commoner November 15, 1895 (continued from Nov. 19, 2020 issue) All this took but the fraction of a minute, and the prisoners at once unlocking the heavy iron door of the jail, and afterwards of that leading from the jailer’s room to the courthouse corridor, were prepared for their run. Short time as this took, Jailer Newcomer, aided by Wm. Peak, who is serving a term for petty larceny, released himself from the gag and bonds, and reached the outer door of the jail, just as five of the escapees had disappeared through the f...
8 years ago The Commoner August 9, 1895 War broke out among the farmers in the vicinity of Johnson on Friday evening last, resulting in the going away of Chas. Parks, Owen Horton, W.H. Gillespie and James Ellis, who were camped on the Lewis farms about three miles from Johnson, as agents of C.A. Leighton. To tell the story from the beginning, on July 20 the sheriff sold over 600 acres of land belonging to George W., Jesse H., and H.J. Lewis, on foreclosure of mortgage, for about $700. The land was bought in by the mortgagee, C.A. Leighton....
8 years ago The Commoner August 2, 1895 Wm. Marsh, of near Endicott, on Wednesday afternoon, met with an accident that narrowly escaped being a fatal one. As it is, the wound received will probably result in partial disablement. Just after dinner, Mr. Marsh, who lives about three miles west of Endicott, while working about a pig pen, caught a good-sized porker by one leg with his left hand. In the right he had a large keen knife. In his struggles, the pig, kicking out with one of his feet, struck Marsh’s right arm violently, driving the k...
8 years ago The Commoner July 19, 1895 Thursday morning Prosecuting Attorney Canfield moved that the case of the state vs. G.M. Eddie, charged with grand larceny, be dismissed and the defendant be discharged. This action was taken after one of the hottest legal contests enlivening justice court proceedings in Colfax for a long time. G.M. Eddie, well known in Colfax as a painter and decorator, for several months past has been following the business of photography. During June he was located in Elberton, and having given the inhabitants there...
