Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

Dismissed Canadian Free Baptist minis
Gers have formed a new denomination.
A fire at San Francisco Sunday night
caused a loss Of 100000; insurance S6OsuOO.
The hour production the past week was
I50, COO barrels against 163, 300 the week be-
fore.
Gus Cooper, Of Portland, Conn, murdered
his wife by cutting her head open win Oh
axe. Jealousy was the cause.
Official returns from every county inPenn-
syivania show plurality for Harrison Of
1878. Blaine's plurality was o4,Ol5
It was reported that Governor Guy. Of the
ChickasaW nation, Indian Territory, had
been as5assinated. The report was not con
drmed.
The Indiana Paper and Bagging com
pany's mill at South Bend was destroyed By
IRE Thursday. Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000.
MIRA. Sarah Walter was declared insane
at Chicago and it was shown that during the
last two years she had smoked cigarettes IN
cessanty.
In Cincinnati an unknown man attempt
ed to chlOroform and abduct Mrs. j. r
Kelly, but fed when she succeeded IN CIV
ing an alarm.
The condition of Mrs. Jay Gould remains
unchanged. DR.. Baldwin, who is attending
the lady, says Mrs, Gould cannot survive
more than day or two.
report from W. II. Barnum, at Lime
Rock, Conn, shows a slight improvement
AID the physicians now have a slight hope
that he may pull through.
Captain Healy,o of the revenue cutter Real.
states that he gave no credencs to the re-
port that a number Of whaling vessels had
been caught IN the ice IN Arctic waters.
The meeting of representatives of all tho
interests concerned IN the East African
movement will be held at Cologne, Germany,
to discuss the question of recruiting colonial
forces.
The steamer Alaska, from Liverpool,
grounded IN the channel halfway between
Southwest street and Hospital Island IN the
lower bay, New York. Carter Harrison, OF
Chicago, was on board.
Near Sandy Hook, N. j., Jack Farrell
and Harry Bartlett, the latter late arriYll
from England, fought four desperate
rounds, the Englishman being declared the
winner. Bartlett weighed l24 pounds and
Farrell I'D pounds.
In the case of the city of Madison, Wis,
against the Madison street Railway com
pan the supreme court gave decision adj
V5rs 10 the company, VINO failed 10 comply
with the ordinance in regard to the proper
maintenance of the streets.
Near st. Paul, Mimi, the Fort Smelling
pOstOtice was ransacked by thieves. The
safe door was blown on and $4,000 worth of
postage stamps, bundle of registered let
tiers and other valuable matter taken. The
thieves are as yet unknown.
A tramp caused an explosion of a nitro
glyCerlne magazine near ShannOpln, Pa.
Houses and shanties IN the vicinity were
leYeled and the schOck was felt twenty-five
miles away. There is no trace of the vagrant
but, SO far as GscertaiEed, no other person
was killed.
The trial of Dit @. Hite, Evan Michigan,
Colonel BeCkham, Frank Davis and Calico
Glasere, charged with intimidating govern
ment witness, has commenced at Little
Rock. The men were sand to be members
of a. organization similar to the white caps
of Indiana and the case promises some
interesting revelations.
At LeaVenWOrth, Leon Moore, a cOlOred
man, was fatally stabbed by his wife, Matte
Moore. couple OF pedestrians passing
KiOWa and South streets shortly after dis
covered the body, and calling at MOOre's
house notified his wife. She ran to the
body, and after kissing it, acknowledged
the deed, saying she had done it in a fit of
Jealous rage and was sorry. She dlsap-
peared ana the police have heard nothing of
her.
The Southern hotel at Pine Bluff, Ark, was
destroyed by ire. There were some twenty
inmates and IL was with difficulty that they
escaped. Everything was lost. Frank Cole
man, switch engineer of the st. Louis, Ar
Ahubd5 ~ L0Ad5 1h44hey5 was DLLuCG 10
death. His heart was found separated from
his body, and, strange to say, it was not
burned The unfortunate man was from
Jacksonville, H., where he has family.
The fire Is supposed to be the work OF an
incendiary.
In the prosecution of the suit against
Henry Hilton, for alleged irregularities in
connection with the estate of A. j. Stewart,
an expert accountant, sWOre that in his ex-
animation of the dead WOman's books he
found lawyers bills for $4,000 for estab-
fishing Mrs. Stewards rights to her hus-
bands property. Among the lawyers men
toned were the late Roscoe COnkling and
William M. Evarts. Witnesses testified that
the books showed an indebtedness on the
part of Mr., Stewards widow Of 81, sos, $50.