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

| uthJs VIA aNAASnu PuulAC AhOouHRb IN
Oklahoma and attempt TO recruit vol
unteern TO aid Cuba. iu tI..s-.
A LONDON dispatch on tho 27th said
that IL was feared that the French
steamer Henri, bonnd from Swansea
for Marseilles, had been lost with 90 OF
her crew.
THE monument 70 Gen. Grant was
dedicated ut New York ON the 37th.
President Mckinley made an Appropri-
ate address. Gen, Porter delivered the
grafton and Mayor Strong accepted the
monument ON behalf OF the city. Tho
ceremonies were imposing, the land
parade being one of the grandest mill
tary parades ever seen In New York,
and the warships In the harbor fred
Balutes.
WILLIAM g. KNITPEN, who distin-
guished himself by gallant services In
the late war and who was a member
Of Grants stan In his trip around the
world, disappointed through failure
10 receive his pension money, had just
sought tho shelter Of the soldiers
home at Quincy, ILL.,, whom cheek
reached him from the pension depart
mont for Si1 ,444, with the assurance Of
good monthly sum hereafter. He
took his discharge from the homo and
went to Chicago. tr..e.. .
WILLIAM LUTz, 70 years Of age, was
recently ground to death under the
wheels of train near Brazil, Ind, His
head was severed from his body and
crushed to jelly and his body was
cut in twain lengthwise.
A LIGHT earthquake shock was felt
AZ Cairo, ILL.,, at $3.50 o'clock p. m. OF
the 9th. .,
Four young people were out akin
riding ON the river ut Parks Mills, near
Cumberland Falls, KY, and got into
the current and were swept over the
dam and drowned. ,-
AN appeal has been sent to Clara
Barton to come TO the rescue of Btarv-
ing paciflcos In Cuba, whose condition
is daily growing more heartrending.
Children are dying in the streets Of
Matanzas and babies have been found
dead In the arms Of exhausted mothers
Whole villages Of living skeletons in
bark huts are praying for death to re-
lease them from their suffering.
THREE boys, while fishing neax Web
ster City, Ia,, gathered some wild pars-
nips and ate them. As result two
were reported dead and the other at
deaths door,
Asa result Of tho warning Of the
vigilance. committee not q colored man
ia left at the town OF Davis, /. T.
A SERIES OF cloudbursts and heavy
wind occurred in and around Eufaula,
l. T., on the night Of the Gath. Farm
houses, fences and crops wero washed
away and considerable damage done.
A sEvERE earthquake was felt Of
Cairo, Ill, at ten o'clock on the night
of the 9Sth, lasting about 20 seconds
No particular damago was done.
OK Beaver creek, about so miles from
Pikeyille, KY, the home, Of Tom OAR
ben, q logging man, was burned and
his wife and four children persisted.
Tom Darbon was absent In Virginia.
The grand jury Of Cincinnati re.
turned an indictment against George
Hobson, county clerk, for emb0z2le-
ment Of SIS, 900 and misconductin Office.
FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy
Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam
weights, fight 20 rounds before the Ma
tionAl Athletic club 81 San Francisco
on tho 9Sd. The fight was for q $4,000
purse, rs per cent TO the wlRner, OF
lis pounds. Barry had the best Of 10
all through and after the 0Oth round
he was declSred the bantam champion
Of the world. th,A 3. a.-ra
ACCORDING 20 Dradstreet's report
there were 916 ,buSiness failures
throughout the United 1tateh for the
week ended the esd, against $40 in'the
corresponding week last year.
Two copyiCts In Sam Quentin (Cal.)
prison, w, R. Kelley RAd Frank Wheel
oclr, foughtwIth iute knives on the s9d
before the guards could interfere. KeI-
ley was killed and Wheelock was re-
ported dying.
LlT1LE hope 10 entertained by west.
,OFn railway managers that tho United
StaNes senate will pass the Foraker
pooling BILL, They GauliS the sSnN-
nsSHt az tho people IN AhS west lie de-
0ideAly, h0Aeile 10 . leEAliEation! Of
EallrOGd pooh. and NEST, " the. soma
tors o. the wSstSrn states, therefore,
Will refuse 70 vetS Ter ForESer's Dill. ~.
THBj extenGiyO, barn Of W, G. Law.
renee, lAoatOd a. Lexington. Ind, was
consumed by ARE. Five hundred bush
els 81 graln and many farming irAple-
ments were burned and II head Of
horses periahed. .,r..,.... 4
Ar tho. Methpdiat. church A. Craw-
fordsville, Ind, Sho minister. who was
about 70 marry Henry HumphEoys and
Anna jones, asked, Ss was custOmEEy,
X there was, any objection TO rho mar.
riage, when Miss hattie ChaviS feHped
up with IN infant In her arms and de.
clRred the groom 70 be the child'S
father, bun tho clergyman ignored her
and rushed tho ceremony Through.
later on Miss ChAvia was led Of by
the police q Ghe tried 10 enter the re.
. ception armed with . dagger.
AYIRE recently destroyed KleppiSh's
|, QueenswRrc store 81 Burlington, Ia,
causing . loss Of Ss5, 900 ON stock and
5000 on building. t-r ~ E..
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