Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-30


| Sanger broke his own worlds indoor
bicycle record for a mile unpaced, nd
ing the distance in one minute fat
GEN. WEYLER, in an interview pub
lished at Madrid was quoted as de-
claring that there was nc hope OF the
success of autonomy in Cubs, and that
IL Spain persisted in autonomy Cuba
would be lost in few months,
REV. w. W. BROWNE, president OF
the Grand Fountain of True Reform
ers, a powerful organization among
the negroes of the south died in
Washington from blood poisoning. He
was one of the wealthiest men of his
race in the south, being worth sl25, OOO.
CHARLES SCHMIDT nailed revolver
to an upright pillar In the store where
he was employed at Davenport, Ia,
pressed his head against the muzzle
and pulled the trigger. lie died i'm
stantly. He was but IS years of age
and killed himself on account OF love
affair.
MISS ELLA N. BREsLrN committed
suicide at the Girls Cooperative home
in Dallas, Tex, the other morning.
She locked herself in her room, got
into bed and set fire to the bedclothes.
She was burned to crisp before the
matron of the home could rescue her.
JOHN LAswELL, driller, was instantly
killed and Horace Wathen, his assist
ant, was deadly injured by the eXplo'
sion of dynamite cartridge at West
Point, Ky.
THREE boilers at shaft No. . of the
Choctaw Coal Mining company, at
Gowan, l. t., blew up and negro
fireman was fatally scalded.
EIGHT buildings in the business CEN
ter of Morning Sun, Ia, burned re-
Gently.
THE boiler Of the engine of the Bear
Creek Milling company, at Evergreen,
Ala, burst, killing three men Instant
ly, fatally injuring another and wound
ing three more.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD child of Albert
Wittenmeyer, of Emison, Ind, fell
into tub of boiling water, completely
cooking the flesh from the bones.
PETER $. MCMAHON, of Albany, N.
Y, crazed by cigarette smoking, stood
in front of mirror and fred bullet
through his heart. He was about 20
years old.
MINISTER'S in Lincoln, Neb., have be-
gun crusade against Christian Sci
entists. The crusade takes the form
of castigation from the pulpit, togeth'
er with social ostracism.
The aggregate value of Iowa crops
for 1897, at prices prevailing December
1, was given at $500, 100000.
A NUMBER of earthquakes, increasing
in intensity, occurred on the 22d around
Smyrna, Asia Minor. Considerable
damage was done and some persons
were killed and many others injured
A CHICAGO telegram said that Des
Moines, Ia, would become a member
of the Western Baseball league.
TEN years in the penitentiary was
the sentence imposed upon Thomas
Hyland by jury in the criminal court
at Kansas City, Mo-, for killing David
Fitzgerald with single blow of his
fist.
JOSIAH M. QUINCY, democrat, was re
elected mayor of Boston on the 2lst
The Auditorium theater and hote
at Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 21st
So far as known all the guests escaped
without serious injury The loss OF
the building was placed at 100000.
NOTICES have been posted at the
China, Pembroke and Webster cottor
mills at Suncocls, N. H., announcing
reduction of about ten per cent. Janu
airy 1. The cut will affect nearly 1,5O'
operatives. 1t is probable that the GU
will be accepted.
GEN. A. b. CAMPBELL, ex-adjutan
general and ex-chaplain of the state
prison of Kansas, committed suicideir
hotel at Chicago by taking morphine