Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25

10 4:24 in the two-mile professional
race and defeated Mcfarland, Eaton
and Jones.
TWENTY-FIVE freight cars were on tho
2Sd piled in a mass on the Ohio South
ern track at Springfield, o., by tho
breaking OF coupling between two
Of the cars. Four tramps were badly
injured and four others were supposed
to be buried in the wreck.
JAMES CoLvILLE, Of Boston, who was
Corbetts timelseeper in the recent con-
test at Carson City, New, is one Of the
eastern syndicate who wants to back
John l.. Sullivan against Bob Fitzsim-
mons for the championship. Colville
said If the champion would fight Sulli-
van he can have chance for a large
stake, that Sullivan had begun to get
himself into shape and that his friends
meant business and have posted for
felt.
AN engine and five cars Of a mixed
freight and passenger train, crashed
through bridge across the Big Muddy
"a miles south of Murphysboro, ILL.,,
and the engineer and fireman were
drowned.
AL ENGLISH, mine engineer, was in-
stantly killed at Hartshorne, l. T., by
falling from the shaft cage. lie fell
100 feet to the bottom.
AT Andrews, Ind, two grocery
stores, meat market, warehouse and
residence were destroyed by fire on
the 22d. One man was fatally burned.
The fire was supposed to have been in
cendiary.
AN epizootic of glossitis recently
broke out among the horses of st.
Louis. Thousands of horses were af-
fiicted and the veterinarians reaped a
rich harvest in consequence.
AT the recent meeting of the Central
Labor union at New York delegate
from the BARRIERS union offered a reso-
luton urging congress to impose tax
on wbiskers. The resolution would
have been adopted but for the interior
ence Of the chairman, who advised
against such action.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over a sec
ton of Georgia and Alabama on the
22d. The town of Blakeley, Ca, was
almost lifted out of existence and many
people were injured by falling timbers.
The academy at Arlington, Ga, was
wrecked and eight children were taken
out dead and Ave other persons were
mortally wounded. The scenes around
the school were heart-rending. A
family Of five was also reported killed
near Geneva, Ala,
DAVE PENNINGTON, of Odebolt, Ia,
started out to kill a number of persons
who had incurred his enmity. He killed
Luther Traver and dangerously shot
Mrs. johnson and Mrs. Stolt, and after
daring policeman who had cornered
him to shoot he committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off.
IT was reported from Camaguey,
Cuba. recently that Salvador Cisneros,
president of the Cuban republic, was
dead; that Vice President Bartloeme
Masso has succeeded him as president,
and that DR.. Capott, ex-professor Of
Havana university, was to be appointed
vice president.
DAVID j. SACHsEL, the treasurer of
the Christopher Columbus Building
and Loan association at Chicago was
reported missing on the 22d and his
accounts were being investigated,
RICHARD MANSFIELD, his wife and
six children were drowned in Henry
county, Ala. They lived on the river
bank and the waters rushed into their
cabin and all were lost.
AT Philadelphia on the goth Edward
Gibbons died from the effects of blow
over the heart by Samuel s. Perry DUR
ing friendly boxing match and Chris
tian Kielnecker also died as the result
of q boxing match with Frank Connol-
ly. Arrests will be made.
A DISPATCH from Memphis, Tenn, on
the 21st stated that many breaks in the
levees along the Mississippi river had
occurred between that city and Osceola,
Ark, and that the rush of the waters
at Sans Souci could be heard for miles.
LII hhElOui AEh', all JIl6 HOUSES WCE6
surrounded by water,
A PAPER at Copenhagen, Denmark,
on the 29d asserted that an agreement
had been made between Russia and
Turkey by which the former guarau-
teed the integrity of the Ottoman em-
pire in consideration of the cession
by Turkey to Russia of an island in the
Mediterranean and the peninsula of
Mount AthoS on the Egean sea.
A SEVERE windstorm struck jackson,
Miss, on the 10th. Heavy trees were
uprooted, outbuildings destroyed and
much other damage done.
RECENTLY two men entered the homo
of D. Jones near Wymore, Neb., and
frightfully tortured him by burning
him to make him tell where his money
was. Jones crawled the next morning
to neighbours house, where he died in
horrible agony.
GEN. j. T. FULLERTON, of st. Louis,
was killed in the wreck of the express
train near Oakland, Md, ON the 9Oth.
He was an officer In the confederate
army and was member of the Chicka-
manga park commission.
A YOUNG woman, who was descend
ing from window of hotel at New
York by means of patent fire escape,
lost control of the apparatus and fell
to the ground, suffering internal i'm
iuries. The inventor of the fire escape
was arrested to await the result of
the girls injuries.