Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-05-13

by the powers and has accepted the of
fer of mediation of the powers for the
settlement of the complication with
Turkey.
THE tea importers at New York have
not waited for the passage of the tariff
bill, with its proposed duty OF ten
cents pound upon that commodity,
but have advanced all grades of tea
from three to Ave cents pound.
WHILE an ice cream festival was in
progress Mt q church at Longstrath,
o., drunken man entered and raised
a disturbance. Upon being ordered to
leave he pulled his revolver and fatally
shot two men and then escaped. A
posse was after him to lynch him.
The four-year-old daughter of John
L. Kersey, of Fairview, Ok, was burned
to death by her clothes catching fire.
THE fourth international congress Of
Christian scientists began at st, Louis
on the 18th. Rev. D. L. Sullivan, Of
st. Louis, delivered an address of well
come and the chair was occupied by
Mrs. M. q. Cromer, President Daniels
being unable TO be present. Mary
Whitney Densmore gave an address on
the Christ plane of consciousness.
FARMS near Warren, Ark, have been
invaded by millions of grasshoppers,
who have eaten the crops and done
other damage. Much alarm exists In
the community.
Two masked robbers at one o'clock
on the morning of the 10th entered the
home of Father Joseph Flache, the
Catholic priest at Dyer, Ind, and
struck the cook on the head, inhicting
dangerous wounds. The priest at
tempted to shoot, but his revolver
failed 10 work, and he was roughly
handled. The house was ransacked.
THREE children, Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padilla, werc recently
burned to death az Fairbank, Ariz.
The parents had gone to dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children, 1t is believed a lighted lamp
exploded.
HENRY SMITH, a member of the Mary
land Century Cycling club, finished a
94-hour road race against time on the
10th at Baltimore, Md, during which
he established new set Of American
road records. At the end of 70 hours
he covered ITO miles and when he quit
at the end of the "a hours he had
reeled off 314 miles. The figures have
been submitted to the Century Cycling
Club of America for ratification.
h. 1n1r ~
cago Matthew Roche and his little
nephew, Harry Flynn, attempted to
exchange seats and the boat capslzed
and the boy was drowned. Albert
Mattarl, who was in the crowd at the
waters edge, suddenly pitched for
ward dead, owing to excitement in
watching the drowning boys strug-
giles.
A SENSATIONAL shooting affray, in
which a woman shot and seriously
wounded four men, occurred at Lowell,
Ark, on the 9th. The shooting was
done by Mrs. Duerling and was the re-
suit of religious excitement, caused by
a series of "holiness meetings" in the
neighborhood. The men wanted to
run the women holding the meetings
out of the county.
AN order Of the district court to open
a street in Auburn, Neb., was appealed
and the mayor ordered the town mar
shall and street commissioner to remove
the wire fences inclosing the street
and the property owners had the three
city officers arrested for destroying
private property. The officers refused
to give bond and said they would re-
main in jail until the court convened
in June.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and IS cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
The whisky escaped and filed the gul.
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
all got intoxicated.
WfTH box con tanning 200 pounds OF
dynamite on fire ten feet away from
him, John Thomas, the boy who runs
the compressed air hosting engine in
the Tamaracl1 mine, near Houghton,
Mich, stuck to his post and saved the
lives of the men at work in the mine
by his bravery. Ten seconds after he
had hoisted the men to the level the
dynamite exploded
The first case of prostration from
the heat this season occurred at Chi
cago on the 9Th Charles Wilson, a
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious The weather bureau
thermometer registered so degrees
during the day. On the streets it was
three to five degrees warmer.
THE London afternoon papers were
bitter at the rejection of the arbitra-
ton treaty by the United States SEN
ate.
A DOUBLE, and what may yet prove
quadruple murder occurred at the
farm home of Alexander Harris, who
resided in the township of Waukesha,
Wis. The victims were Mr.. Harris, his
wife, hired girl and hired man. The
crime was committed, it was supposed,
by farm hand named William Pouch,
who had been sheltered by the farmer
over night.
Both houses of the Iowa legislature
passed resolution making the wild
rose the official flower of the state.
FIRE destroyed the Spring Mountain
coal breaker Mt JeanSville Pa and 500