Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-25

1elng 7,OOO TO 1000 cases in Havana
alone, according to a dispatch on the
I'D.
LoRENz HABER, a cooper at Dubuque,
la, was choked TO death by piece OF
beefsteak sticking in his throat
Six negroes were instantly killed and
everal others fatally injured by an eX-
)losion of dynamite at Murray, KY,
m the 23d. They were endeavoring to
haw out some of the stuff.
The New York World published on
bo 24th letter written by Salvador
isneros. president of the provisional
'ogernn ~ The Cubans, and coun-
eraignr ~ Gen. Gomez, the insurgent
,omman ein-chief, stating that they
would boy The independence of Cuba
from Spain at u reasonable price and
would accept American intervention,
provided the sovereignty of Cuba be
not infrinred upon.
JAMES ASHTON, brakeman, tried to
dislodge tramp, who was stealing a
ride on freight train near Hawkins,
Tex, and desperate fight ensued and
Ashton was killed.
MICHAEL GLEASON, aged So, residing
at Galena, Ind, started to transfer u
flock of 40 sheep from one lot to am
other, and was letting down the bars
of fence, when a ram dashed at him
and butted him to the ground. While
lying PROSTATE, the other sheep fol-
lowed and trampled him to death.
REV. PETER WALLACE died at Chica-
go recently, aged 81. He was for over
40 years noted Methodist preacher
and raised a company of soldiers in
1861 in Sangamon county, ILL.,, for the
Seventy-Third regiment, known as the
Preacher regiment" all of the officers
of which were clergymen.
The annual meeting of the National
Reform Press association was called to
order Mt Memphis, Tenn, by President
Paul Vandervoort, of Nebraska. Nearly
every southern and western state was
represented.
The populist editors who believe in
fusion with the democracy and are OPP
posed to Paul Vandervoort, met at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 22d, A. Rozelle
calling the meeting to order
THERE is an epidemic of hydropho-
bia among the prairie wolves and other
wild animals of Uvalde county, Tex,
and they have bitten many dogs sheep
and cattle, and stockmen of that sec
ton are greatly alarmed.
A BABY girl was born to eX-President
and Mrs Harrison at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 2lst.
A sNowsLIDE at Pitllin, Col, killed
Martin Mentley and seriously injured
j. w. Brigham while asleep in their
cabin near the Cleopatra mine.
A FIRE broke out in Beares' dry goods
store at Grand Forks, N. D., at two
o'clock on the morning of the 21st, with
the mercury 25 degrees below zero, and
did damage to the amount of 1925, 900.
There were many narrow escapes of
people in scanty clothing.
THE Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railway elevator "a" at Toledo, o.,
was destroyed by fire on the night Of
the 10TH entailing loss of $685., 900.
About 1926, 900 bushels of wheat in the
elevator and in go unloaded cars went
up in smoke.
A DISPATCH from Middlesboro, KY,
on the 21st stated that a most disastrous
flood had visited that valley, many
people being forced out of their homes.
Railroad bridges had been washed
away and trains water-bound. Near
Powelrs river James Caldwell and his
family were drowned, the flood sweep
ing away his house.
A TRAIN in two sections on the c., st.
p, NJ. & 0. road, while backing up to
recouple near Ponca, Neb., collided.
Several cars were derailed and the
wreck caught fire and Michael Waters,
a travelling salesman, was pinned under
the debris and so badly burned that he
will die.
AN electric car at Chicago was struck
by lightning while carrying a lot of
men to work and all were badly
shocked. One man had to be removed
in an ambulance.
The annual exhibition of the Nation
al Carnation society opened at Cincin-
natl with over $4,000 blooms. The
decorating committee used 1000 carna-
tions and two miles of asparagus, fern
and smilaX on the banquet hall.
Gov. BUSHNELL, of Ohio, has pub
lished a statement that when Senator
Sherman resigned to enter President
McKinley's cabinet Marcus A. Hanna
would be appointed as United States
senator in Sherman's place.
THE special reporter of the Assoc
ciated press, who has visited the
famine stricken districts of India,
, states that children are deserted and
left to forage for themselves and that
the mortality is awful at Banda, the
blacklist spot of the Bundellxund pro-
vince, where, out of a population Of
100000, 200, 900 are receiving relief and
the number is expected to reach 300,"
600.
A MOB of about $50 colored men as
! sembled at the Guthrie, Ok, depot for
the purpose of lynching Eldridge Pres
ton, colored, who shot another colored
man, but the sheriff and his deputies
outwitted them.
THE residence of Thomas Brown
owski at Iron River, Mich. was Quilted
by fire on the 18th and two young chill
dren who were in the house at the
time were burned to death The