Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-25

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and n Mrs Brown received injuries
from which they cannot recover. Hum
iston was arrested.
JOHN BEATTY, n wealthy farmer near
Oklahoma City, Ok, was found dead in
his bed having been choled to death.
The murder was supposed to have been
the result of feud engendered over a
contest for IA homestead.
For the brutal murder Of his para
mour, Venie Bell, George Western,
alins Devil Winston, colored, was
hanged at Paducah, Ky, on the 10th.
lie met his death without u culver,
warning all people, black and white,
TO beware of bad company and whisky.
A MOST disastrous conhagration oc-
Cured in Lon don on the 10th, $50 large
warehouses being Quilted, according to
the official report. The damage was
estimated at S25,O0O,000. Nearly all
the British insurance companies were
involved in the fire and fire insurance
shares were practically unstable on
the stock exchange on the 10Th.
The boiler in Milton Artley's wood
working factory at Carleton, Mich,
exploded the other morning, killing
the fireman and injuring three other
men. The explosion wrecked the fac
tory and shook every building in town.
THE conferences of the general Off
GERS of the national W. c. Il. U. held at
Chicago have been closed The keynote
of the work for this year, it was an
nounced, is statutory prohibition in
states"
THE Georgia legislature passed the
bill prohibiting football and the bill
has been sent to the governor to be APP
proved.
HARRY GILMORE, burglar with so
confessed robberies to his credit,
walked into the police station at Dan
bury, Conn, and gave himself up, say
ing that he had been plying his trade
for month, but was starving with it.
He located the hiding place of stolen
goods to the police and was held for
trial.
GEORGE BoGART, eX-city clerk of Ev-
anston, ILL.,, pleaded guilty on the 10th
to having embezzled funds from that
city amounting to Ss,S9l.
THERE were 235 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 10Th, according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 800 in the corresponding
week last year.
The executive committee of Tam
many hall, N. Y, contributed $780, 900
to the starving people in Cuba.
WHILE performance of wild beasts
was in progress at village near Ko-
vono, Poland, the lion tanner was killed
by lion. A fearful panic ensued in
the audience and eight persons were
crushed to death, many others being
seriously injured.
AT Carrollton, Ala, Leona Barnes,
an ls-year-old white girl of progresses
ing appearance, was convicted of
miscegenation and was given two
years term in the penitentiary. Last
March Miss Barnes eloped with Andy
Beard, a negro laborer on her fathers
farm. The affair created big sensa-
ton and mob pursued the couple and
overhauled them and Beard was shot
to death in sight of the girl.
Two policemen were recently detailed
to guard the residence of p. D. Armour
at Chicago The reason for the precau-
ton was a rumor from Minneapolis
that a Spectator who had lost money
in wheat had gone insane and had left
Minneapolis with the avowed purpose
of killing Armour.
The Havana correspondent of the
Heraldo, of Madrid, has cabled his
paper saying that, in spite of the con-
cessions made to the Cuban autono-
mists and in spite of the appointment
of autonomist projects in the different
provinces of Cuba, there does not exist
single sign of approaching submits
sion of the insurgents.
WHILE gambling for pecans negro
named Gen, Chatham was stabbed
twice and killed near Bryan, Tex. An
other negro, Tom Sweat, was arrested
for the crime, but was taken from his
guards and strung up to the limb of a
tree. The vgilantes were said to have
been negroes.
THREE children lost their lives in the
burning of an old frame house near
White Oak, Ala, the other night
Their parents, Louis Brown and wife
went to church meeting leaving the
little ones locked in the house.
julius EGGERT shot and killed his
father, Joachim Eggert, and then shot
himself in the temple Mt Saginaw,
Mich. The trouble arose over trifing
matter, but the young man had Il furi-
GUS temper.
Two brothers, George and Homer
Brewer, aged II and 10, respectively,
were drowned while skating on Big
Stone lake, near Horton, MINI. One
broke through the ice and the other
was dragged under while trying to
save him
A CONVENTION of horse, sheep and
swine growers and breeders of fine
stock all over the United States has
been called to meet at Denver, Col, on
January 25-27, 1898, for the purpose of
organizing a national stock growers
association and to discuss measures for
the betterment of the stock industry.
THE Marietta glass works at Red
Key, Ind, burned the other morning.
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