Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-11

While Harry May and Charles
Mutchler, two miners, were engaged in
tunneling in the Big Mountain mines
at Shamolsin, Pa, the dualin they were
using exploded and Mays body was
torn into shreds and Mutchler was fa-
tally injured.
A FIRE broke out in one Of the wings
of the house of refuge on Randall's is
land, N. Y, on the morning Of the 9th.
There were 800 children of both sexes
in the building, but they were all got
out without any casualties.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
stated that a Spanish column in Cuba
raided an insurgent hospital in the
swamps in Matanzas. There were 20
i'll and wounded soldiers In the hos
pital and they were all killed by the
Spaniards.
Mrs. REBECcA MITCHELL, of Idaho
Falls, has been elected chaplain OF the
Idaho Legislature
A FREIGHT train on the Santa FO
road was crossing bridge near Wylie,
Tex, when the structure gave way and
the entire train with the exception
of the caboose, went into the stream.
One man, said to be u tramp, was
killed.
A New York special from Indianapo.
lis on the Sth said that the appoint.
ment as minister to Mexico had been
given to Powell Clayton, of Arkansas.
WHILE Constable Lawyer was at Jo-
seph Whites farm in Allegan county,
Mich, making an investigation OF
cruelty to animals, White became in
dignant and made an attack upon Law
yer with saw, when Lawyer drew a
revolver and shot White dead. Law
yer was seriously wounded.
AT the dance given at the wedding
of Henry Wood and Carrie PEBBLES,
near Jacksonville, Fla, Albert Thur
man, a rejected sutton, insisted on
dancing with the bride and he waltzed
in such a manner as to excite the jeal-
ousy of the groom, who shot Thurman
down as he waltzed past him.
CHARLES LEWIS came into Pierre, s.
D., the other day with the bodies of his
wife and one child, who were killed by
the falling of the dirt roof of their log
house. Lewis, two children and two
hired men were In the house at the
time and managed to crawl out.
In q fit of desperation, after quar-.
rel with her husband, the wife of Rob-
ert Cort, a rancher near Big Timber,
Mont, picked up her three small chill
dren and rushed to the Yellowstone
river and threw them in and then
jumped in herself. They were all
drowned.
| A HEAD-ENp collision occurred be-
tween two freight trains on the Louis
vile &c Nashville railroad near Mont
gomery, Ala, on the 18th through a
mistake of the telegraph operator and
the engineer and brakeman were killed
and the fireman fatally hurt. The
operator has disappeared.
! MONROE JOHNSON was hanged in the
Jail at Charlotte, N. c., on the Sth for
burglary in the first degree.
/ SEVERAL frame store buildings, two
barns and an ice house were destroyed
| by fire at Liscomb la.
Mrs. WHITING FELLOWS, of Leando,
Ia, was recently arrested for sending
cancelled stamps through the mails.
A PASSENGER train ran into tree
which had rolled on the track at Wood
house, Pa, and the engine was thrown
across the track and the rest of the
train rolled down an embankment into
a creek. The fireman was fatally
crushed and several others were badly
injured.
Gov. BRADLEY recently ordered out
so members of the state militia to pre-
vent the lynching of negro prisoner
named Black at Lebanon, KY
Two sections of freight train coll
lided on the b. e. o., near Davisville,
w. Va, and Engineer Richardson was
killed, Fireman Hughill fatally injured
and two bral1emen badly hurt.
AN ice gorge IS feet high and 30 miles
long gave way at Louisville, KY, on
the 7th Several New Orleans and
Memphis packets were caught in the
ice and heavy loss by damage was
feared.
THE ship yards of the Fairfield Ship
building Co. at Govan, near Glasgow,
were destroyed by fire. The damage
done is estimated at $25O,OOO Four
thousand persons were thrown out OF
employment.
The 1OO-mile bicycle race at Cleve-
land, o., between Louis Gimm and
Teddy Hale was won by Gimm by
about Is feet, the time being 5 hours
and Is seconds.
NICHOLAS SHAFFER, of Burlington,
N. j., shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 5th. Mrs. Shatfer it was thought
would recover, while the husbands
wounds will prove fatal.
ANDERSON PARKER, q farmer of Rock
castle county, Ky, in a drunken rage
fractured his wife's skull with club
shot his son through the wrist and in,
fiicted scalp wound and killed his
father with revolver The rest oil
the family escaped during the fight.
A REPORT was received at Vienna on
the 9Th of the massacre of 1900 Chris
tians in the villages of the islands Of
Crete by Turkish troops.
WALLACE HARRISON and Charles Lin
uuist skated into air holes on Lake
Michigan at Chicago on the 4th and
were drowned. Assistant Cornoratiou