Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-05-06


Paris, France, presided over by lead.
ing society women, an alarm of fire was
given and there was wild rush for the
exits and the weaker persons were
borne down and trampled upon. The
roof soon fell In, burying numbers Of
those unable to get out Of the building.
Over 100 charred corpses were taken
out of the ruins and it was thought
that 100 more bodies were buried In
the debris.
REPORTS from many towns in south
western Michigan said that an earth
quake shock was recently felt for sew
eral seconds. At Holland the front
of brick building fell into the street.
PROF. E. A. ZUENDT died at Jefferson
City, Mo-, of general debility. He was
elected poet laureate Of the National
Association Of Turner's and was one OF
the most accomplished German sohol-
ars in the United States. He had also
been connected with the st. Louis
Westliche Post
A COLLISION has occurred off the coast
of Scotland between the British steam
ers Coldynee and Gringoe. The Colby
nee sank and II of her crew were
drowned.
TWENTY-FIVE car loads of corn and
$40, 900 in cash were subscribed at
meeting at the Auditorium in Chicago
for the relief of starving India. Rev.
DR.. Talmage was the principal speaker.
ALBERT G.. PORTER, ex-governor OF
Indiana and minister to Italy under
the Harrison administration, died at
his home at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
Sd of paresis, aged "A years. He had
been confined to his room almost con.
stantly for two years.
REV. EDWARD FAIRFAX BERKELY, the
Oldest Episcopal minister in the mis-
souri, diocese, died at st. Louis on the
Sd. He was 81 years of age, 40 of which
he had passed in the ministry.
THE town of Pulaski, Va, and vicin.
ity was shaken up by an earthquake
soon after noon on the Sd. No damage
resulted, but the people were terribly
frightened.
The Atlantic & Pacific railway was
sold at Gallup, N. M. on the Sd for
$l2, 100000. The only bidder was Aldace
T. Walker, chairman Of the board OF
directors of the AUchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway.
IT has been given out that the amount
of Cashier II. II. Espe's defalcation from
the Savings bank of Radcliffe, Ia, was
about $4,000 Espe has disappeared.
JOHN V. CRUM, the famous Splinter,
died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Sd as
the result of an operation for appen'
dicitis.
FRANK WILLIAMS, an 1S-year-old
newsboy, met his death by drowning
at ST. Louis, He attempted to board
moving cattle train on the trestlework
Of the Eads bridge and lost his footing
and fell into the river below.
A HEAVY snowstorm. prevailed In
southwest Virginia on the night Of the
I'd and its effect on small fruits and
garden truck was disastrous.
A PARADE of the unemployed had
been largely advertised for the Sd at
Detroit, Mich, but of crowd of 1900
idle men who gathered at the rendez-
vous in front of the city hall only
about 500 or 900 consented to be mar.
shalled into the possession. They car
ried rude banners, declaring 1--WE want
work, not charity"
THE Tennessee Centennial exposition
was formally opened at Nashville on
the list. There was a parade through
the city to the grounds, where, after
prayer by Bishop Gailor and speeches
by President Thomas and Gov. Taylor,
at given signal President Mckinley,
at Washington, touched an electric
button, and as the band played "Hail
Columbia" the machinery began to
move and the exposition was opened to
the world.
A MAN named Ray, desperate char.
acter, had been arrested by the sheriff
in Mitchell county, Va, when two
friends of Ray attempted to rescue him
and the prisoner and one of his friends
were killed and the other was fatally
wounded by the sheriff and his deputy.
AUGUST NORMAN stopped at the house
of Knute Hillstead, a farmer near Lar.
imore, N. D., while Hillstead was abb
sent, and during the night he attempt
ed to break into Mrs. Hillstead's room
to assault her, but she barricaded the
door, and because she would not ad-
NIT him he threatened to kill all her
family and did cut the throats of four
of her children, two of whom will die.
He afterwards assaulted the woman
and escaped.
A TERRE HAUTE, Ind. dispatch stated
that there was no truth in the report
that the Debs cooperative common
wealth idea is to be put into practical
test by starting a marching army to
Utah this year. 1t is true that Debs
desires to establish cooperative COM
monwealth in some one of the western
states and that he looks favorably on
Utah, but it is not the purpose to get
men there by Coxey sort of move
ment.
A BOILER explosion at Alderman'a
sawmill in the Kanawha valley, w.
Va, killed two men and seriously In.
jured five more, three of whom will
probably die. The mill was badly
wrecked.
GEN. LLOYD BRIcE, chairman of
special committee of the New York
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