Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.


fersonville, Ind, ate some apples for
supper and soon after they were all
taken i'll and three OF the children
have died and the others were in n
dangerous condition. 1t was thought
the apples contained strychnine.
SEVEN fremen and two spectators
were badly hurt by the walls falling
and the roof collapsing at fire at the
williams block In Chicago on the Goth.
Total loss, $3.50, 900.
WHILE the crew of a lifeboat was
trying to rescue some fishermen in the
North sea, off Marlboro, Jutland, the
lifeboat was capsized and all hands, IL
in number, were drowned.
THE 99th annual convention of the
National Suffrage association opened
at Des Moines, Ia, on the Goth, Miss
Susan B. Anthony presiding. She de-
livered the address and was given an
ovation.
ANsoN GREGORY was on the 25th or
dered by the coroner's jury ut Gales
burg, ILL.,, to be committed to jail for
the murder Of his wife. While drunk,
he beat her to death while holding her
on stove. There was some talk Of
lynching.
A MAN, supposed to be a hunter, was
found frozen to death near Prairie du
Chen, Wis, on the 25th. 1t was sup
posed he got lost in the blizzard
THE first thing the Oklahoma legis-
lature did on the 25th was to slaughter
the woman suffrage BILL the election
committee of the house unanimously
recommending that it do not pass. A
vigorous effort was made to pass the
bill, and lobby composed of ladies',
headed by Mrs. Laura M, Johns, of
Kansas, was on hand to stiffen up the
lawmakers.
THE residence Of Charles j. Barnes,
at 223S Calumet avenue, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire at two a. m. on the
25th and Mrs, Barnes and four servants
had to flee from the flames in scant at
tire while the mercury was 10 degrees
below zero. Mr.. Barnes library, the
finest in the United States, was de-
stroyed. Loss, over 100000.
THE story published recently in a
San Francisco paper to the effect that
the island of st. John, in the South sea,
was inhabited solely by women who
were pining for husbands, has borne
fruit in the incorporation of the United
Brotherhood of South Sea islanders
Over 80 men have subscribed to the
capital stock,
THE planning mill and lumber of the
Colorado Lumber Co, at Hartshorne, l.
T., has been destroyed by fire.
A RIOT was precipitated at Urbana,
ILL.,, on the night of the 91st by the
sophomores OF the university of Illi-
nois attempting to break up the annual
sOciable Of the freshmen. The sopho-
mores were finally squelched by the
fire department playing an icy cold
stream Of water upon them and then
the police arrested them.
MINGo JUNCTION, near Steubenville,
O., was nearly wiped out by fire early
on the morning of the 99d, over dozen
stores being destroyed.
The Jail at Jeffersonville, Ga, was
broken open by a mob Of masked men
and two negroes, William White and
Charles Forsythe, implicated in the
murder of Mrs. Rowland, were taken
out and hanged 10 limb and their
bodies riddled with bullets.
A SPECIAL from Bellevue, Neb., on
the 18th said that man was found mn
der haystack near there so badly
frozen that he may die. He was dis
charged from o hospital in Omaha and
started to walk 10 the southern part OF
the state. Being refused shelter by a
farmer, he crawled under the haystack.
DANIEL O'CALLAHAN, q well to dc
farmer OF Exeter, N. H., was given
$500 by his son to mind while he went
away, and the old man, distrusting
banks, hid the money in the hog pen.
The hogs scented the greenbacks and
succeeded in roofing them out, and,
finding them palatable, devOuFed the
whole $500.
ARNOLD TREUTHART, farmer, was
found frozen to death near his home al
Nauvoo, III.
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