Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-04

killed outright and three sustained
probably fatal injuries.
REV. GILLIAN, of the Christian church
at Mintonville, KY preached SER
mon in which he affirmed there is no
devil. The congregation took offense
and the reverend gentleman was eject
ed from the house and about 20 pistol
shots fred after him.
DIR. JACOBS and man named Smith,
bridge builders of the Chesapeake &c
Ohio railway, were struck by a train
just below Russell, KY, and instantly
killed, They were on railroad veloc'
ipede, and were run down before they
could jump from the trestle.
A POSTAL clerk named Walter r.
Houghton has been arrested at Chey-
enne Wyo,, for stealing registered
package containing $4,000 mailed by
n Chicago bank. IIoughton confessed
and offered to return the money II the
prosecution was dropped, but threat
ened thati the officers would not agree
to that the money would be burned.
A COURIER arrived at Steamboat
Springs, Col. from Game Warden Will
cox to Sheriff Nieman asking for help
against the Indians in Routt county,
who were threatening to pillage and
murder the settlers.
The number Of business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the Goth were 2lS, against
946 in the corresponding week of last
year.
THE grand jury at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
returned true bills against Sheriff
Martin and his deputies for the shoot
ing Of striking miners at Lattimer.
The true bills included 10 for murder,
one for each man killed and one for the
victims considered collectively. Thirty
six true bills were found in the same
way for felonious wounding against
the same defendants.
A FLYwHEEL in the Alabama rolling
mills, at Gate City, Ala, burst while
going at the rate of 100 revolutions a
minute and piece flew out into the
yard over 100 feet away, where Lind
say Dorliins and George Washington,
colored, were unloading iron from a
truck Both men were horribly
bruised, DorlSins dying two hours later.
A BOY named Adolph Johnson, while
digging fish bait near Clinton, Ia,
dug up an iron box containing S5O,0OO
No clew to the owner.
MRS. CLEVELAND, wife of the ex-
president, gave birth to son at
Princeton, n. j., on the 2Sth.
EDDIE MCDUFFGE, at Philadelphia,
established new worlds record for
one mile, paced, covering the distance
in 1888 2-5, three-ffths of second low
err than the record made by Jimmy
Michael on the same track several
weeks ago.
A DPHTuERIA panic was reported at
JShubert, Neb., and all the city and
country schools have been closed.
A MEXICAN named Juan Madra was
arrested and locked up at Morenzi, a
mining camp near Clifton, Ariz., on
suspicion of numbering two other Mex
leans, when several hundred MeXicans
stormed the place and riddled Madra
with bullets.
ELLA BARNES and Bessie Thomas,
two 16-year-old cotton factory opera
tives, met at friends house at Bir-
mingham, Ala, the other night and
quarreled over their mutual regard for
the same youth. The Thomas girl adj
vanced on the Barnes girl with a pair
of scissors. Miss Barnes threw a
lighted lamp at her adversary. The
lamp exploded and Miss Thomas was
burned to death before rescue came.
THE Congregational council at Chi
cago has completely eXonerated DR.. G..
0. Brown from the charge of immoral
ity found against him by the San Fran
cisco council.
BEULAH PRESTON, an eight-year-old
daughter of Charles Preston, a farmer
living 20 miles northwest of Enid, Ok,
was returning on horseback from
school when the horse threw her and
her foot caught in the stirrup. The
horse dragged her to her home, rum
ming through several barbed wire
lCHtCS' W hSh OiS puLShb 70 iOuhN tiiS
child she was simply a mass of LAGER
ated flesh and broken bones.
AN attempt was made the other
night to hold up the northbound Chi
cago, Rock Island & Texas passenger
train near Boyd, Wise county, Tex.
Ties were placed on the track, but the
engine pushed them off and proceeded.
The engineer noticed two men at the
point with Winchesters and two sticks
of dynamite we're afterwards found at
the spot.
A LIGHTED cigarette dropped by a
clerk was supposed to have caused a
fire which Quilted the building at st.
Louis occupied by the general offices
of the Wabash railroad. Every record
in the chief engineers Office was de-
stroyed An officer of the Wabash com
pany estimated their loss at $500, O0(
and real estate men placed the valua
ton of the building at 100000.
MAYOR JONES has signed the ordi.
nance creating Greater Kansas City
and the measure now awaits only the
sanction of the people to become oper
alive. BY the extension of its limits
to the boundaries fixed by the annex
alton ordinance Kansas City will an
mex 10 square miles of territory to its