Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-29
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GEORGE WITTIcH, supervisor Of phys.
zeal culture in the public schools Of ST.
Louis, will have grand rehearsal OF
the army of 1000 children, who will
take part in an exhibition number on
the first day of the coming funniest In
that city.
The Hunt levee on the Illinois sido
ten miles below Keokuk, Ia, broke ON
the 9th and threw the inhabitants Of
the district into the widest alarm.
Much stock was in danger Of being
drowned and thousands of bushels OF
corn may be swept away.
WHILE an electric car was crossing
the railroad track at Tampa, Fla,
fast mail train ran into 1t and three
persons were killed and many others
injured. The street car was smashed
into splinters. The motorman was en-
gagged in fight with some passengers
and did not see the train. He after
wards fled to the woods.
BUFFALO gnats are invading Nc
Cracker county, KY, and other locali-
ties and are killing horses and cattle
in large numbers.
THE discomfort in Athens was said
to be growing on the 9th and the king
of Greece will be made the scapegoat
for the defeat of the Greek troops.
Popular feeling was said to point to
revolution in favor of a republic. The
king of Greece was said to be having
his castle in Denmark fixed up in case
he had to quit Greece by abdicating
the throne or being deposed.
FIRE broke out on pier five at New
port News, Va, on the 9th. Three
ocean steamers were entirely de-
stroyed. The total loss was placed at
$4,000, OOO Several persons were badly
injured while trying to escape from
their ships.
CHURCH circles at Americas, Ca,
were recently agitated over a China
man. The white Baptists recently
converted the celestial and took him
into full communion. He soon after
wards married a negress, and neither
the whites nor the blacks will now
give him their trade. ts.
A CAR load of food supplies and
clothing was recently sent from Bur-
lington, Ia, to the flood sufferers ut
Oakville, la. They were badly needed,
as many persons had to camp on levees
and knobs, the district being SUBJ
merged.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected
at Fort Worth, Tex, for battle Of
flowers and flower carnival in conjunc-
ton with three days Mayfest, begin
ming May 10.
HARRY A. CAss1N, the cashier OF the
Georgia, Loan & Banking Co., at At
lanta, Ca, has confessed to being a de-
fau1ter to the extent of S45, 900. The
astonishing discovery was made that
the bank, which was supposed to be
one of the most prosperous In the state,
had hardly cents worth of assets,
Instead of the shortage being $4,000,
it will be several times that sum, and
it was believed that at least one other
official will share cell with Cassin.
AN extra freight train was running
at high speed on the Iowa Central near
Steamboat Rock, Ia, when the front
trucks of the engine gave way, send
ing the entire train of IS cars into a
ditch, wreclking some of them badly,
The engineer was thought to be fatally
injured.
JOHN RAAP, q wholesale liquor deal
err at Chicago, was shot and killed by
his former confidential clerk, D, w.
Braunschweig, who afterward put the
revolver to his own temple and killed
himself. Raap had got warrant out
for Braunschweig for being short in
his accounts.
AT Alexandria, Va, the negroes at
tackled the whites and police and one
policeman was killed. The FIRE de-
partment trucks were used to trans
port troops and citizens from one point
to another as the negroes had formed
bands throughout the town. The race
war was caused by the lypching Of
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