Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-18

wooden structure and the flames licked
it up so rapidly that the guests barely
escaped with their lives and lost most
OF their clothing and valuables.
WALTER GRAY, of Lomax, Ia, while
hunting on the Mississippi river, was
knocked from skiff by the recoil of
his gun and drowned.
JOSEPH KELLEY, one of the Great
Falls bank robbers and self-confessed
murderer of Cashier Stickney, was sem
fenced to 30 years Imprisonment at
Dover, N. H., on the 18th.
IT was reported by the Indian agent
Of the five tribes on the 18th that the
Creek Indians, who refused to allow
the Dawes commission to enroll their
names on the new citizenship rolls,
were focking to the towns to meet the
commission.
AT the meeting Of the general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor at Louis
Vile, KY, on the 18th James r. Sover-
eign was retired as general master
workman and Henry A. Hicks, of New
York, was chosen to fill his place, 1.
D. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col, was
selected as general master foreman.
Mr. Sovereign made his annual adj
dress, taking for his theme the great
miners strike and the court injunc-
tions against strikers.
WHILE watching some stock being
loaded at Girardville station, Pa, the
other night Enoch Davis, Henry Jones,
Edward Davis and Frank Grady, all
young men, were struck by an engine.
Enock Davis and Henry Jones were
killed and the other two seriously in
jured.
THERE were 273 failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th, ac-
cording to Bradstreets report, against
25S for the corresponding week last
year.
A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
anderson e. st. Louis road struck a
freight car which had been blown on
to the main track at Lewisport, KY,
and the engine, tender and combina-
ton car were overturned. The stove
in the combination car set fire to the
infammable matter around it and be-
fore the trainmen could remove the
cars the other coaches were destroyed.
The passengers escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakers in
Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on strike on the 18th by order Of
their union. Fifteen hundred opera
tives in outside shops supplying Freed
man Bros. also struck.
JAMES SIMPSON, engineer and John
Robinson, fireman of freight engine
on the Burlington &c Missouri River
railroad, were blown from their cab
near Crawford, Neb., by the explosion
of the engine boiler and both instantly
killed. The engine, which was pulling
out double-header, was completely
wrecked.
c. p. JOHNSON, president of the In
terstate Association of Live Stock San
itary boards, has called a conference
of live stock sanitary boards and state
veterinarians of Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa and other states at St.
Louis December . for the purpose of
agreeing upon quarantine line with
reference TO Arkansas and Tennessee.
MISS ALICE e. LowREY, of Noble
county, Ind, the organizer of ma
tional society for the suppression of
the tobacco habit, is going to wage
war against the weed in Missouri. She
will form organizations in the state,
composed of young women pledged
against tobacco and sworn that they
will never marry a man addicted to its
use.
1t was said at New York that Chief
Hazen, the head of the secret service,
had been asked to hand in his resigna-
ton, to take effect November Is. Chief
Hazen, it was rumored, will be sue
ceeded by Thomas j. Porter, secret
service operator stationed at Chicago.