Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-04

fiddler.
A LETTER received In Boston from
London stated that Charley Mitchell,
the pugilist, was coming to this coun-
try with the intention to challenge the
winner in the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight.
Tom YEARaAN, a negro in Lamar
! county, Tex, in quarrel, knocked his
father down with an iron wedge and
afterwards cut the old mans throat
and then covered the body with hay,
setting fire to 1t and burning the house
down.
THE state house at Harrisburg, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the I'd while
the Legislature was in session. Thou
sands Of dollars worth of records were
loss which can never be replaced. The
loss was placed at S1,0OO,OOO, with in
surance Of 100000. The fire was sup
posed to have been caused by an cleo
trio light wire.
} A FIRE broke out in the North
Tamarack mine at Houghton, Mich,
on the ID and four miners were re-
ported missing and it was thought that
all were dead from breathing the con-
fined gases.
! THE boilers Of the large sawmills at
Brogue Chitto, Miss, exploded on the
I'd and three men were killed and four
men and woman were terribly
scalded.
THE safe of Bradley's bank at Eldon,
Ia, was blown open on the 1st with
nitro-glycerine and all the funds stolen.
HENRY HAUeH was found in the ruins
Of the Hotel Switzerland at Nashota,
/ Wis, with revolver with two empty
chambers by his side. He had pre-
viously written to his wife from whom
he was separated, that he intended
to burn the hotel and perish in the
flames.
THE residence of Charles Russell at
North Baltimore, O., caught fire and
/ Russell was burned to a crisp and his
wife was SO badly burned that she can
not recover.
THE goth was President-elect McKin-
ley's saith birthday.
Miss OLLIE SULLIVAN was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Frank
Lauer at one a. m. on the 1st at Chicago.
Lauer then fed from the house and his
dead body was afterwards found In the
street. The shooting was the result Of
jealous quarrel.
EMPLOYEES of the Illinois Steel Co. at
Joliet, ILL.,, received notice on the list
of the reduction of from ten to twenty
per cent in their wages. The feeling
among the men was one of general dis
satisfaction.
AT Apollo, Pa, James Shelhammer
killed Grace Clark and then shot him
self. Shelhammer admired Miss Clark,
but the sentiment was not returned.
GEORGE TAYLOR, the murderer of the
Meeks family, who escaped from the
Carrollton, Mo-, Jail on April 10 while
under sentence Of death, has been cap.
tured and lodged in the Hanford, CAL,
Jail and the Missouri authorities
notified. b. F.. Lane, Missourian,
was the man who identified the pris-
oner.
GEN. A. j. SMITH died at St. Louis on
the 3Oth. He was famous as com.
mander who was never defeated. He
drove Gen. Price out of Missouri and
was instrumental in destroying Hoods
army and encompassed the surrender
of Mobile.
WILLARD Cotton, of Cleveland o.,
came home at three o'clock on the
morning of the Goth, quarreled with
his wife, shot her dead and then shot
himself through the head.
ACCORDING to reports made to the
state board of transportation so to 70
per cent. of the farmers of Nebraska
are burning corn for fuel instead OF
coal.
A POWDER magazine at the Crystal
Ridge collery, near Hazleton, Pa, ex-
ploded about midnight of the 2Sth, do
ing considerable damage. The night
Waterman was the only person injured.
The heat from stove was thought to
have caused the explosion. Hazleton
was considerably shaken up.
The tugboat Myrtle exploded her
boiler at Turnbulls island, La, and
the fireman was blown into the river
and deck hand fatally injured.
Two colored servants at the residence
of Henry Daspit, at New Orleans, made
charcoal fire in their room to keep
warm and one was found dead and the
other dying from the fumes.
ALBERT CUNNING, coachman, shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Benning at
Chicago and then attempted to shoot
her two boys, but failed. He after
wards shot himself in the breast. Cum
ming had an undue liking for Mrs.
Benning and she had forced him to
leave her house.
JIM JACKSON, negro farm laborer,
assaulted girl at Six-Mile, Ala Two
hours later posse went after Jackson,
who had in the meantime got hold of a
mule, and the chase was kept up for 20
miles, when jackson was picked off the
mule by shot and the mob caught
him, strung him up by horses bride
and riddled him with bullets.
THE National Woman Suffrage asso.
citation had heated debate at their
convention in Des Moines, Ia, on the
2sth about a proposition for a plan Of
work. At the afternoon session the
following officers were reelected: Pres
ident, Susan b. Anthony; vice presi-
dent-at-large, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,