Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-04

Union street crossing at Martinhville,
Ind, killing the driver, Oscar Neidigh,
and both horses, and making kindling
wood OF the wagon.
HENRY GEORGE, the noted single tax
advocate and Jeffersonian democratic
nominee for mayor of Greater New
York, died from an attack Of apopleXy
in New York at 4:45 o'clock on the
morning of the Goth.
THE Union Trust building ut Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the goth. One fireman was killed and
several had narrow escapes. The loss
was estimated at from $780, 900 to $780,
900; insurance about half.
THE directors of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg e. Gulf railway decided at u
meeting to eXpend S2,50O,0O0 for per-
manent improvements at Port Arthur,
the Gulf of Mexico terminus of the
line.
MERTON ALLEN died at Sioux City,
Ia, from swallowing the composition
filling of tooth. The stuff contained
poisonous ingredients, for peritonitis
soon set in.
THE decision of Amos M. Thayer,
United States circuit Judge, in tho
Kansas City stock yards case was read
by Judge Foster ut Topeka, Kan, on
the 2Sth. 1t sustains Judge Fosters
decision and is sweeping victory for
Attorney General Boyle and the state
of Kansas on every single point at is
sue, Judge Thayer declares that the
state has n right to legislate to con-
troll the stock yards company. The at
torney for the stock yards company
gave notice of an appeal to the SUI
preme court
A DAUGHTER, aged three, and one
year-old girl belonging to John Kuhne,
of Miltona, Mimi, were left in the
house while the rest of the family were
working in u field, when the house was
burned down and the two children
were cremated.
HENRY CAST, capitalist and banker
of Nora Springs, Ia, was riding in u
buggy when four masked men pulled
him out and numerically beat him.
The charge was that Cast ill-treated
his wife and children.
BOHEMIAN, Mont, was recently great
ly stirred up by the fatal poisoning of
a man named Garlock and an attempt
to destroy the lives of two other men
by the same means. The three men
had camped close to the city with an
other man and, as the victims had
some money, it was thought to have
been plot to kill them off and get it..
The First national bank at New AL
bany, Ind, will go out of business be-
cause there is no profit in it, owing to
the glut of money. The banks de-
posits amounted to over 100000.
Mrs. ANNIE G. MEYERS, chairman of
the board of lady managers of the
worlds fair, was brought before JUS
tice Martin at Chicago the other day
on the charge of stealing some stenog-
raphers' purses. She is slave to CO.
caine and begged to be eXiled from the
city. Judge Martin said he would hold
her to the grand jury.
DECEMBER wheat sold at $1.01 a at St.
Louis on the 9th, making the highest
record of the season.
THERE were seven new cases of yell
low fever reported in Memphis, Tenn,
on the Goth; 80 new cases and seven
deaths at New Orleans, and ten new
cases and one death at Montgomery,
Ala. 1t was also officially announced
that the fever had broken out at New
Albany, Miss, and that the town was
almost depopulated by the people go
ing away.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco ON
the 9th said that nearly all the whal-
ing vessels had been caught in the ice
and that wholesale disaster threatened
them. Fourteen vessels were known
to be in the pack and provisions on
board were short.