Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08

morning by white tramp and two
Mexicans, who then set fire TO the
house, burning 1t down on the dead
man. The charred remains, with
crushed skull were recovered from the
ruins. The rangers went in pursuit OF
the murderers.
NEARLY 1000 unemployed Germans
and Bohemians held meeting recently
Mt Chicago under the auspices OF the
American Railway union. Priests and
preachers were bitterly denounced as
hirelings Of men who are expressing
the masses.
SPORTING men in New York have
heard rumors of another probable fight
between Fitzsimmons and Corbett A
certain authority, who il very close to
Fitzsimmons, said that 1t would not be
surprise II the two pugilists met
again In the ring inside OF 19 months
in bout limited to 20 rounds, which
could come off in New York state un-
der the Horton law.
HENRY STRUIvE and two sons we're
drowned on the 9th near Frankfort,
s. d., making six deaths from drown
ing in that vicinity during the present
food.
A FIRE broke out the other morning
In the Phillips house, a hotel in Day
ton, o., and the west wing was COM
pletely Quilted and the other sections
badly damaged by water and smoke.
There were many narrow and thrill
ing escapes of the guests and several
persons were seriously injured There
was strike among the chambermaids
and it was said that one Of them
started the fire in a spirit of revenge.
Miss MINNIE LUTH was probably fa-
tally injured and her fve.year-old
niece, Anna Schniedermeyer, was seri-
ously hurt by train ut st. Louis.
They were walking on the railroad
tracks viewing the flood when the ac-
cident occurred.
A FREIGHT train, consisting Of an en-
CINE and Is cars loaded with coal and
iron, broke through trestle in lower
Allegheny City, Pa, and fell to the
street below. The fireman was taken
out dead and the engineer was fatally
hurt About 1850 feet of the trestle was
destroyed
A FIRE in George F, Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
amount of over $780,
The saith annual boat race was rowed
by the Oxford and Cambridge universi-
ties on the Sd over the course from Put
ney to Mortlake, ~ miles, the Oxford
crew winning by barely two lengths
in 10 minutes and IL seconds.
THE Richardson building, the largest
in Chattanooga, Tenn, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the Sd, and Boyd Ew-
ing, one of the wealthiest men in that
section, and s. M. Patton, leading ar
chitect, lost their lives The total loss
was about 100000
A MADRID dispatch stated that Gen.
Ruis Rivera, the Cuban insurgent COM
mander, would be taken to Havana for
trial before an ordinary court-martial,
the Spanish government so directing,
1t was said that it was not likely that
the death penalty would be imposed
upon him.
ALL records for long distance horse
back riding were broken on the Sd by
Harrison X. Gamer and Tristan Colket,
of Philadelphia, who rode about 100
miles on relays Of horses from New
York to Philadelphia in hours and SO
minutes.
A sIx-RoUND bout took place at Phila-
delphia on the 9Th between Owen Zeig-
Ter and Charles McKeever. No deci-
sion was rendered, but Zeigler APP
peared to be the best man.
The forest fires in the mountains
near Bellefont, Pa, were spreading at
an alarming rate on the 4th and many
thousands of acres of valuable timber
land were going up in smoke.
COUNT RADENI, prime minister of
Austria, rendered to the emperor on
the I'd the resignation of himself and
the entire cabinet. The reason was
that Count Radeni found it impossible
to maintain a liberal majority in the
reeently-elected reichsrath.
ANOTHER disastrous break in the
Mississippi levee occurred at Fowler
lake, near Tunica, Miss, which will
inundate, the dispatch said, the coun-
ties of Cohoma, LAHORE, Quitman and
Tallahatchie and lay waste the newly
planted corn crops. The levee near
Helena, Ark, had also broken, for
which the people had made such des-
peratc fight to save.
IT was stated at New York that all
the kinetscope pictures of the Carson
fight were practically ruined. They
were developed at the Edison works
and were so defective as to be useless.
The steamer Griggs struck an OBJ
struction on the Chattahoochie river
near Columbia, Ala, on the night Of
the LIST and soon sank. The engineer
and four deck hands were drowned.
There was panic among the passen-
gers and some jumped overheard be-
fore the boats could be lowered.
AT the Fifth Avenue Athletic club at
New York on the LIST Oscar Gardner, of
Kansas City, knocked out Jack Grant,
of New York, in the ninth round.
THE oldest veteran of the g. A. R.,
William Harding, celebrated his Tooth
birthday recently at his farm near Wa
seka, MINI. He is also veteran of both
the war of 1919 and Of the Mexican
war, and in 1862, when over 05 years Of
age, he enlisted IN the Fifth Minnesota.
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