Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-30
KANSAS.

While New York express train, |esi
bound. on the Pennsy iTanis road, was near
ing COnemaugh, Pa, Gre broke out IN the
Pullman sleeper AragOn, causing the pas
6engers to rush half clothed to ADJOINING
cars. Half the coach was DESTROYED, togeth-
er with the clothing of many Of the travellers
but no person was injured.
In Custer county, Nebraska. William
Ashley and Hiram Rotten went to the house
OF Albert Houston, whose children had
been suspected of stealing some furniture
from the school house. They did not re-
turn, and friends began to search for them,
with the result that they found their dead
bodies in a hay stack on the farm OF BOus-
TEN, who had fed, taking the team driven
20 his place by the murdered men.
At Leavenworth, Leon Moore, a colored
man, was fatally stabbed by MS wife, Matte
Moore. A couple of pedestrians passing
KiOWa and South streets shortly after dis
covered the body, and calling at moore
house notified his wife She ran to the
body, and after kissing it. acknowledged
the deed, saying she had done it IN t1t Of
jealous rage and Was sorry. She d1sap-
peared and the police have heard nothing OF
her.
Father James Cullen, Catholic priest 81
years Of age, was fatally injured at Chicago
by a switch engine of the Chicago and East
ern Illinois railroad. Father Cullen was
crossing the track at Twenty fourth street
on his way to All Saints church, when the
engine suddenly approached him, and ~
his efforts to get away, he slipped and fell,
his head striking the rail- while two RIBS
were broken BY the locomotive.
The Southern hotel at Pine Bluff, Ark, was
destroyed by fire. There were some twenty
inmates, and it was with difficulty that they
escaped. Everything was lost. Frank Cole
man, switch engineer OF the st. Louis, Az
kansas az Texas railway, was burned TO
death. His heart was found separated from
his body, and, strange to say, 1t was not
burned. The unfortunate man was from
Jacksonville, Ill, where he has family.
The FIRE Is supposed to be the work OF an
incendiary.
The National Educational association is
to meet July 1920 at Nashville, Tenn.
Tramps who attacked a train on the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad have been arrested
Dispatches of November Is renewed the
rumOr Of pending war among the Chicka-
saws.
Democrats as well as republicans Of Da-
kOta are now asking for admission OF thai
territory into the union.
Judge Bennett, in Wisconsin, has decided
that reading the Bible in pnblic schools lie
not sectarian and therefore not contrary to
statutes.
The New York World has dispatches from
editors all over the south rendering cOndi-
tiOnal friendship to Mr.. Harrison admins
UraGlOu.
The body of II. ". King. IT., who was
murdered by his second wife at Omaha, has
been sent east. The murderess is in custody
at Omaha.
A Washington dispatch says thht there are
rumors that President Cleveland is to be
rendered the presidency of the Baltimore q
Ohio railroad.
The third national convention of the
Boys and Girls National Employment as
ISOLATION convened Monday, November 10,
at Indianapolis.
The steamer Umbria Queenstown has Just
arrived at Queenstown six days, two hours
and twenty-five minutes from New York,
being the quickest eastward passage across
the Atlantic on record.
A joint convention of the National Butch
ers' Protective association and the Interna-
tiOnal Range association is to be held at st.
Louis, Mo-, next week.
San Francisco experienced an earthquake
On November 18th which is said to have eX-
tended through central California. Nothing
more than big scare has as yet been heard
from it.