Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-22

chuBnJ Hrc, DuJ every one was rescued.
The tower fell with crash just as the
last line OF pupils passed out.
Word was sent to Natche2, Miss, on
the goth from Bayou Videl, asking that
boats be dispatched there ut once, as
many people were drowning the water
from the Biggs crevasse having caught
the people unawaros.
WILLIAM HAAS and William Wiley,
two convicted murderors, were electro
cuted in the Ohio penitentiary at Co
lumbus on the Goth. They were the
first persons TO suffer the death penalty
by electricity in that state.
CLINTON DEWITT TAYLOR, the oldest
national guardsman in America, re-
nowned during the civil war for his
deeds under the name Of Milton, the
scout" died at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the Goth, aged SO.
A SPECIAL session Of Sons Of the Rev
olution was held at Philadelphia to
consider the proposed consolidation
with Sons Of the American Revolution.
The vote stood l6 for consolidation and
IA against, Virginia refusing to vote.
Thirty-one states were represented.
A TRAIN struck vehicle while it was
crossing the railroad tracks near South
Lyon, Mich, and Harry Clark, u stu
dent of Ann Arbor university, and Miss
Sarah Fisher were killed and Miss
Ethel just had one foot crushed
A DISPATCH from Council Bluffs, Ia,
said that about so physicians Of Iowa
and Nebraska made post-mortem eX-
animation of the body of Judge John
Rudd, who ate a hearty meal on
Thanksgiving day and had been UNI
able to swallow since. The eXamina-
ton revealed that wooden toothpick
had lodged in his throat. The man
had wasted away from 9lO pounds UNI
til he was little more than skeleton
at his death,
MRS. CoRNELIA RAISING, a midwife,
and Christopher o 3rien were charged
by Ellen English at st. Louis with
making away with the latter's child.
The midwife confessed that she had
buried the child, as it was dead when
she received it, in the back yard, and
then, fearing exposure, she dug it up
and burned it. The mother claimed
that the child was not dead. The
prosecuting attorney decided to have.
warrants issued against Mrs, Kassing
and OBrien.
A. ConN's chestnut colt Bucl1videre
won the Tennessee Derby at Memphis
on the 10th. Typhoon II. finished sec
ond and Algol third.
The annual egg rolling took place in
the white house grounds at Washing
ton on the 10th. Fully 5000 children
enjoyed the fun.
The mill dam at Pinckncy, Mich,
broke on the 10Th and carried away
eight bridges and many buildings
along the stream.
The Brooklyn Eagle published an
interview with Lieut.. Peary on the
nth, in which the arctic explorer said
that the $l5O,OO0 needed for the new
polar expedition was all raised and a
trip would be made this summer to ar
range all the necessary details.
MAIL advices from Honolulu stated
that japanese soldiers have been pour
ing into Hawaii in disguise as immi-
grants. 1t was asserted that Japan
was scheming to secure control of the
islands.
Il. FRANK BUTTS, of Kansas City, Mo-,
who assisted Rev. j. b. Culpepper, the
evangelist, in religious meeting at
Sherman, Tex, was ordered to leave
that town by a delegation of citizens,
because he made some remarks reflect
ing on the virtue of southern women
The plague of buffalo gnats was re-
ported spreading throughout the lower
coast counties in Texas and it was
estimated that the pests had caused the
death of over 1000 horses and other
farm animals in the counties east of
Rocl1port
The body Of Gen. Grant was trans
ferred from the temporary tomb and
put into its final resting place within
the huge granite sarcophagus in the
mausoleum at Riverside cemetery, N.
Y, on the nth.
FOLLOWING the news of the incursion
by the Greeks on Turkish territory,
the council of ministers at CONSTANT
nople declared that war had broken
out and recalled the assembly, gave his
passports to the Greek minister and
ordered the Turkish military command
er to take the offensive. On the 18th
half dozen battles ragged between the
Greeks and Turks and it was said that
the Greeks got the worst of the Skin
mishes.
WHILE tapping blast at the Repub-
lican iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
the other morning, the molten metal
boiled over into pit of water causing
an explosion. Five men were badly
burned, two of whom will probably die.
WILLIAM KAUFMAN, of Wright coun-
ty, Ia, was attacked by hiccoughs the
other day. He was a man of strong
constitution, but was compelled to take
to his bed and succumbed, passing away
in terrible agony.
THE grand jury in Franklin county,
KY, returned true bill against DR..
w. Godfrey Hunter, republican nomi-
nee for the United States senate, and
several other prominent politicians,
charging them all with conspiracy to
bride.