Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-15

TWO extra fast freight trains on the
Southern Pacific railway collided near
Langtry, Tex, on the 18th. The fire.
man was killed and one or two others
injured.
AT the Allegheny Heating Co. IS plant
at Pittsburgh, Pa, James Charles,
night Waterman, and John Steele, a
friend who spent the night with him,
were found dead. II was supposed
that they were asphyxiated by an ex-
plosion of natural gas, as their faces
and hands were burned.
THE fve-year-old daughter Of John
Scott, groceryman at Mayfeld, KY,
recently died rs a result of being poi
soned by eating canned gooseberries.
The whole family was more or less af-
fected.
THE New York assembly on the 18th
passed the Greater New York charter
bill over Mayor Strong's veto by n vote
of 100 to 81.
A LETTER has been received by the
Transmississippi exposition authori-
ties at Omaha Neb., asking for $40, 900
feet of space to exhibit an airship
which the writer says will carry 90
people to height of from 10000 to 30
900 feet.
JOHN SwERINe was fatally shot by
Henry Erb in a saloon at St. Louis on
the 18th. The killing was caused by
quarrel over politics Erb was jailed.
AT Yuma, Ariz,, the celebration Of
La Grand Fiesta wound up on the
night Of the 18th with an extra exciting
bull fight. The bull caught the re-
nowned bull fighter, Capt Carlos Gar
ella, upon his horns and ripped open
the mans jaw, the wound probably
being fatal. The bull then broke out
Of the place and charged into the
crowd, injuring many. The enraged
animal was finally subdued.
SHORTLY after noon on the 18th two
men entered the savings bank at
Yonkers, N. Y, and covered the cash
Ter with revolvers and stole $4,000 and
escaped. The treasurer of the bank
was in an adjoining room at the time.
c. r. FoLTz was run over by loaded
wagon at Ponca City, Ok, and fatally
crushed. He was jolted from the wagon
as 1t crossed the railroad track.
THE government steamer 0gemawa
was sunk in about 10 feet of water on
the 18th near Grand Forks, N. D., by
the rapidly-moving ice in the river
She was on an expedition to relieve
the flood sufferers.
WHILE the family of John Atchison,
Of Arapahoe, /. T., was burning trash
in the garden the wind blew the fire
upon three-year-old son and he was
burned to death.
WHILE workmen were placing in po-
sition the upper section of the granite
monument to the confederate dead at
Dallas, Tex, the chain broke, throw
ing the piece, weighing so tons, to the
ground, breaking it in two.
Two children of widow, name I'M
known, were carried away by the high
water and drowned near Grand Forks,
N. d.
THE beginning of active work on the
Transmississippi exposition at Omaha,
Neb., will be celebrated April 90 by the
laying Of the corner stone Of one of the
largest buildings and military and
civic parade and speeches by distin-
guished men.
BY fire in Chilpancingo, Mex, near
ly 200 business houses and dwellings
were burned. Two children were also
burned to death.
A DISPATCH from Wapakoneta, o., on
the 9th said that the ground was COW
cred to depth Of five inches and it
was still showing. Fears were enter
tanned that the fruit crop would be
damaged and the wheat crop ruined,
as 1t was growing colder.
DENVER Ed SMITH and Joe Choynski
are matched to box 20 rounds at New
York May II.
Hon. w. j. BRYAN was injured at st.
Augustine, Fla, on the sth by the cav
ing in of the piazza from which he was
speaking. Nearly 400 men and women
we're precipitated 90 feet to the ground
and many of them were injured, but
none fatally. Mr.. Bryan was picked
up unconscious and removed to ply
sician's office, where an examination
revealed that he had received no in
juries Of a serious character
THE Greater New York charter was
returned to the legislature with the
disapproval of Mayor Strong, of New
York, and Mayor Wuerster, of Brook
lyn. Mayor Gleason, of Long Island
City, approved the charter.
SEAMAN KLINE, of the cruiser Phila-
delphia, died at San Diego, Cal, on the
9th, and two other sailors were nearly
dead and several more were in pre-
carious condition from drinking wood
alcohol. They broke into the medicine
chest.
A sENn-oFFIcIAL report comes from
Mexico that q retaliatory measure to
Offset the Dingley tariff bill is to be
introduced In the Mexican congress.
Two men named George and Ben Fox
were shot and killed in the eastern part
Of Oklahoma county, Ok, by Bailey
Isabel in quarrel about girl.
THE 2O-round bout between Billy
Murphy, the Australian, and Oscar
Gardner, the Omaha kid" at New
York on the 10th was rafting good
one, but Gardner gained the decision.
In view Of the suffering from pro-
tracted drought the government of
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