Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-28

JOHN MCCREA, farmer near Prince
ton, Ind, heard noise at his chicken
house, and going out he saw q figure
moving about in the darkness. lie
raised his gun and fred and was hor.
rifed to hear his 12-year-old son cry
out in agony. The boy was probably
fatally wounded.
THE worlds w. G, r. U, convention
formally opened at Toronto, Ont, on
the night Of the 22d with n banquet &c
the delegates,
FOUR unknown men we're run down
by an engine on the Pennsylvania rail
road near Johnstown, Pa, and ground
to pieces,
Mrs. CARRIE CoRBETT, aged 30, a
widow, was awarded $5i,333 damages
at Danville, ILL.,, for breach of promise,
John Gernand, aged II, retired CAPT
talist, being the defendant,
The 15lst birthday Of Princeton IN.
j. university was celebrated on the
22d, ex-President Cleveland making
the principal address on "The Self
Made Man"
THE Iowa supreme court has decided
that contracts for grain, where the in
tention is merely speculation on the
chances Of the rise or fall of the mar
ket and no delivery is intended, are
gambling contracts and void,
THERE were 2O5 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 22d, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 299 for the corresponding
week last year.
NEAR Saltilloville, Ind, Green
Slaughter shot and killed George
Slaughter, his uncle, and John Holsap-
pie during a quarrel over lawsuit
CHARLES j. PETERSON, an aeronaut
and high diver, jumped from Brooklyn
bridge the other day, He wore a pair
of parachute wings and he sailed away
for fully 1000 feet before the water
was struck. lie was picked up by a
waiting boat and said he could have
gone any distance.
THE Pittsburg & Gulf railway met
with its first serious accident to pas
senger train on the 2lst, when the Port
Arthur express, which left Kansas
City the previous night, ran into a
northbound freight train which was
standing on siding at Sulphur
Springs, Ark. Both engines were
wrecked and the engineer, fireman and
mail clerk slightly injured.
In dark cellar at Chicago officers
unearthed what they claim is one of
the largest liquor counterfeiting
schemes ever operated in this country
and S25, 900 in labels, representing all
of the leading brands of liquor, bottles
and cases were found. Five express
wagons were filed with the confscated
goods,
The twin sons of the late George M,
Pullman, the sleeping car magnate,
have been disinherited, it is said. The
story is to the effect that the strokes
of Mr.. Pullman's pen that made bar
rier between his sons and his money
were made only ten days before his
death.
AT the national session of the Chris
tian church at indianapolis, Ind, re-
Gently the statistical report showed
gains for the year as follows: Churches,
499; communicates, 47,4O7; Bible
schools, 627; scholars and teachers in
Bible schools, 36,4Is; ministers, 400.
The total number of communicates is
1,O51, 079; the value of church property
is SIG, $50, ST..
AT 1880 q. m. on the 21st the Luet-
CERT jury at Chicago was called into
court and discharged, there being 10
possibility of an agreement. The jury
stood nine for conviction and three for
acquittal. The jury was out over sc
hours.
JACK MCAULIFFE was defeated by
Jack Stelzner in 15-round contest at
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 10th.
FIRE broke out in the coal supply of
the Boston &c Albany railroad in Wor-
cester, Mass, the other day. There
were 20, 900 tons of soft coal in the sup
ply, valued at about 100000, and it
was thought that it would all be lost.
FIRE on the Goth destroyed the bust
ness portion of Osceola, Ark.
GEORGE YOUNG, a farmer residing
near Blue Earth, Mimi, shot and killed
his wife, his two boys, aged two and
four, and himself. They were found
weltering in blood by the hired man,
Business and domestic troubles form
the only explanation for the deed.
In u head-end collision between a
freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamil.
ton & Dayton railroad near Dayton,
o., on the goth, two men were fatally
hurt and five persons were more or less
injured.
LORD SALISBURY on the Goth sent tc
Ambassador Hay at London the reply
of the British government to the pro.
posals of the American bimetallic spe.
cial commission headed by Senator
Wolcott His lordship regrets his in
ability to accede to the proposals Of
the American commissioners and does
not see the desirability of an interna.
tional monetary congress and showed
that the financial department of India
was against reopening the minis in
that country.
GRACE CLARK, 14-year-old school
girl of New Brunswick, N. j., by the
death of her grand-uncle, finds herselt
heiress to the greater part of fortune
made in the gold mines of Australia