Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-22

MRS. CHARLES DAVIS, OF Mayheld
Ky, recently gave birth to twins. She
has two other children, one was born
on Christmas day, and the other on
Washington's birthday, making four
babies in four months.
THREE men visited fortune teller
ut Cincinnati the other afternoon and
bound and gagged her and then re-
moved diamond rings aud other jewelry
from her person worth 5000.
THE Greek quarters in Omaha, Neb.
was the scene OF riot the other after
noon. When the police arrived on the
scene n number of Greeks, Turks,
Syrians and Arabians were suffering
from knife thrusts and clubs. The
trouble grew out of the excitement in
cident to the receipt of the papers con-
tanning war news from the Orient.
The women on both sides INDUCED in
the fight.
The New York assembly passed the
bill to prevent the wearing Of high
hats at theaters.
STORIES Of starvation OF whole VIE
lagos of Cuban pacihcos are coming to
Havana from every province. The
rainy season has begun and the condi-
ton of the people Is pitiable. Gen.
Weyler has directed that the crops In
the military zone of Sancti Spir4tus be
torn up and there is nothing else for
the people to eat. Yellow fever is said
to exist in several places in the into
rior and there is no doubt that great
epidemic Of that disease will soon sweep
over Cuba.
ALTA N. JONES, the cyclist, who made
some sensational rides during the re-
cent indoor tournament at San Fran
cisco, is matched for a mile run on the
Gath against Flying Jib, the great
PAGER, at Pleasanton, Cal. The race Is
creating unusual interest among horse
men.
The deep water committees from
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma mot
with a like committee appointed by
Gov. Culberson at Austin, Tex, ON
the 10th. Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, ad.
dressed the meeting and said that the
people of his state were In need Of re.
duced freight rates and that If they
could not get them, they proposed to
build state road from Kansas to the
gulf.
The Blakeslee family of misers at
Findlay, o., were robbed of $1,000 by
- masked men, who broke into the
house, bound the two men and two
women, burned their feet and tortured
them until they revealed where their
money was hidden.
ONE of the most picturesque strucs
lures in New Orleans, known as the
Moresque block, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. It's walls were
built entirely of iron, in Moorish dc.
sign.
A FINANCIAL delegate of the Russian
government at Paris, speaking in re-
gard to the American bimetallic COM
mission, said that M. De Wits fnan.
cial policy was now definitely accepted
by Russia, which is irrevocably COM
mitted to the gold standard. The
delegate added that in his opinion
Great Britain, Austria and Germany
would place insuperable difficulties In
the way of the adoption Of interna-
tional bimetallism.
Four boat riders went over the dam
at Ottumwa, Ia, the other night.
Lizzie Fird, 10 years old, was drowned.
The man rowing lost control of the
boat.
A PROPOSITION has been made to tho
Cuban junta at Washington by rep.
resentative of the American Volunteer
league, an organization with branches
in Kansas, Missouri, Texas and at least
20 western states, mostly composed Of
the militia, to put $4,000 American solo
diers in Cuba within 30 days, Ito
march from one end Of the island to
the other and to lick every Spanish
force in the way" The offer was being
considered.
A DISPATCH from New Haven, Conn.,
said that Clarence Verrill had broken
the strength record made by Charles
Chadwick, of Yale, recently. Chad
wicl's total was 1,63S kilos. Verrilps
was 1876. Verrill is scientific school
freshman, He weighs only 145 pounds.
CAPT. DANIEL HAYNES, formerly
claim agent of the st. Louis South
western railway, was convicted at Pine
Bluffs, Ark, of embezzling $4,000 Of
the company's money,
DAN CREEDoN has signed articles at
New York to box kid" Mccoy 30 to 40
rounds for the middleweight cham.
pionship of the world at 1853 pounds
weight.
THE hill Immediately over the mouth
of the Yorkville mines, near Bellairs,
o., gave way the other morning and
1000 tons of dirt and rock crashed
down completely closing up the enc
trance and breaking the archway 100
feet. A driver named Jeffrey was en'
tombed and was not rescued until sew
eral hours afterward,
Miss FRANCES WILLARD and the Chi.
cago w. G. 7. U. have declared war oD
the soda fountains, saying that some
of them dispense drinks to women
which are strong enough and varied
enough to serve as mixed drinks in any
saloon and are thus educating young
girls in taste for strong drinks
CASHIER STIcKNEY, Of the Great Falls
national bank at Sonersworth, N. H.,
was brutally murdered by two desper.
ADDE'S. who robbed the bank and eS-