Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27

Inere are now SlAGy-5lA smallpox
patients at the hospital on North |
Brothers island New York, and new
ones are constantly being reported.
J. S. Simon, the defauIting ex-treas-
urer of Darke county, has been sen
fenced to six years in the Panitentiary
and to pay a fine of S48, 600 and costs.
A Moorhead, Minn,, report says the
Red river is rising steadily, and two
feet nine inches more viii submerge /
that part of town known as the Point.
By the explosion of the boiler of
Fink's sawmiu at Baldwin, Illinois,
Wednesday, James Mitchell and Isaac
Holden We're killed, and others injured.
Frank Schwender, alias Myers, a
painter, was fatally stabbed by Frank
TinOr in a quarrel over a woman, in the
Mascot saloon at Kansas City Thurs
day.
The Oregon Improvement company
is suing the Roach estate for 800, 900
damages for breach of contract in the
construction of the steamer Santa
rosa"
The postmaster general has sub
mitted to the house an additional esti-
mate, which aggregates 81, 300 for sal
aries of employees in the postottice de-
partment.
John Buchanan, prominent citizen
and stock raiser, of Mexico, Mo, has
! been missing since last Saturday.
Search being made, he was found dead
under a fallen tree.
The Mississippi river is raging, and
railroads in the vicinity of La Crosse,
Wis, are inundated West st. Paul
flats are also suffering, many houses
having foated away.
The Southern Minnesota division of
the st. Paul road is badly washed out
by a flood in the Root river. 1t viii
take at least ten days after the floods
subside to put the railroad In order.
A freight train on the Erie was
wrecked one mile east of Carrollton
Monday. Brakeman Powell was in
stantly killed. Several other trainmen
were slightly hurt Many cattle were
! killed.
John L. Wilson, one of the Chicago
pioneer settlers, died Friday morning
of apoplexy, in the 10th year of his
Page. For four years after 1861 Wilson
was publisher and business manager of
the Evening Journal.
A construction train on the Kansas
City, Memphis & Birmingham railway
vas wrecked sixty miles west of Birm-
ingham Thursday evening. Four work
men We're killed, one injured fatally
and nine others seriously.
NeIs Olson Holong was hanged at
Fergus Falls, Mimi, Friday afternoon.
/ The crime for which he suffered death
was the murder of a young girl Of six
| teen, whom, it is thought, he raVished
! before committing the deed.
The secretary of war has derected nu-
merous transfers of troops, the move
ment to commence not later than June
! 1 next. Among others the Sixteenth
/ infantry viii move to the department
of the Platte, with headquarters at
/ Fort Douglas.
The MASTERS at the Taylor brewery
quit work Friday at Albany on the re
fusal of the firm to sign the agreement.
| Old Oak assembly of cOopers have de-
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| ever the brewers go out.
The developments in the Sergeant
Sherman cigarette picture case show
! that the business has been carried to a
! greater extent than was at first sup
posed. Many girls in immodest cos
/ tune have had their pictures taken by
the signal service officer.
The Ohio senate has passed what is
known as the Sunday closing bill It
take from the council of municipal cor
pOratiOns the power to decide whether
| Intoxicating liquors shall be sold or not
on Sunday, and leaves the law prOhib
iting all sales of liquor on Sunday.
In the trial of Louis BuIling at St.
Joseph, Mo, charged with killing his
young wife at the Herbert house last
January, the testimony clearly pointed
to the guilt of the defendant and Wit
nesses We're introduced in an attempt
to prove that BulIing was insane.
The First National bank of st. Johns
Vile, n. Y, was robbed Friday morn
ING. The burglars blew off the vault
and safe doors and carried off less than
SO, 600 in cash, $500 in unsigned bills,
q gold watch and chain valued at S115
together with other jewelry left at the
bank for safe keeping.
Robert Van Brunt was hanged in the
Jail yard at Warsaw, New York, Fri
day morning. The crime for which
Happy Bob" as he was called, was
hanged, was the murder of a half
brother of his sweet heart, Eva Roy.
Van Brunt was a prominent member OF
the Salvation army.