Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-04

GEORGE II. BUTLER was arrested on
the ship Swanhilda which arrived at
San Francisco on the I'd by officers
from Australia. He is credited by the
Australian police with having muir
dered IA men by enticing them one at a
time into the interior to examine a
mining claim.
A FIRE broke out in the hardware
store of Scott So Co. at Salt Lake, Utah,
which caused damage to the amount Of
100000.
THE high school and the Stout man
ual training school at Menomonie,
Wis, were burned on the night of the
lst
ALvA AMEs, a carpenter, jailed at
Rockford, ILL.,, for an assault on his
daughter, hanged himself because he
apprehended mob would storm the
jail and lynch him.,
j. II. MITCHELL and w. S. Werth,
clerks in the Wabash railroad Office at
Chicago, were probably fatally shot by
unknown assailants at Chicago at three
u. m. on the LIST while on their way
home. Robbery was not attempted.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JAMES WILSON, Of
Iowa, has confirmed the report that he
had been rendered the Office of secre-
tary Of agriculture in the next admin
istration and that he had accepted,
CHARLES G. DAWES, of Evanston, ILL.,,
said on the LIST that the press report
that he had been rendered and had
accepted the appointment of comptrol-
Ter of the currency was true.
A CHICAGO News Washington special
on the 1st said that special session of
the senate to meet March or 5, imme-
diately on the inauguration of the new
president, was now on the cards, but
the house, it was believed, would not
meet until March 10.
AT a meeting at Lincoln, Neb., on
the LIST of the state relief commission 1t
was found that there were loaded for
shipment five cars of corn at Hastings,
one at Auro and one at Wilcox, intend
ed for the relief of the poor Chicago.
Mrs. l.. CAREw, an American, who
has been on trial at Yokohama, Japan,
since January 8, charged with causing
the death of her husband, Walter r.
Carew, secretary of the Yokohama
United club, by the administration of
arsenic, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to death.
PROF. Brooks, director of Smith OBJ
servatory, at Geneva, N. Y, announced
that the great sunspot of January,
after its passage around the sun, had
again come into view on the LIST by
rotation and could be seen with the
naked eye through smoked glass.
The Underwood betting factory and
four tenement houses at Tolland, Conn,
were burned. Loss, $4,000.
THE Kalamazoo, Mich, high school
was destroyed by fire on the list, Sew
eral fremen were more or less hurt by
the breaking of ladder.
A FIRE at Hobohen, N. j., at mid
night on the SOth destroyed black
smiths shop over which a German
family lived Mrs, Schroeder and five
children were burned to death.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was re-
ported at Deadwood, S. D., and the
Black hills over recent discoveries of
gold ore in unsupported quarters.
A GIGANTIC London syndicate has got
an option on the IS biggest breweries
in Cincinnati and the deal was likely to
go through it was reported.
WORD was received at Deadwood, s.
D., on the 31st that three Indians in the
Cheyenne agency had frozen in their
tents and number of others will die
from the recent severe weather. Thou
sands of cattle also persisted, 300 being
found in one place.
JACK DELANEY won the fight with
Australian Billy" on the S0th at New
York after Is rounds of clever boxing.
AT a meeting of coffin manufacturers
at Chicago on the Goth the old trust
was reorganized and an agreement
was reached to advance the price of
Baskets 10 to 30 per cent.
A COMBINATION of plug tobacco man
ufacturers is one of the latest proposed.
The plan was put into shape at Chit
cago at the recent meeting of the
Wholesale Grocers' association of ILL
nois.
THE well-known bantam weights,
Sammy Kelly, of New York, and Jimmy
Barry, of Chicago, had 9O-round bout
at New York on the 3Oth, the referee
declaring the bout draw.
A LONDON dispatch of the 31st said
that in spite of special denials it was
becoming generally known that the
condition of the cars health was crit
ical and that regency was probable.
GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y, on the goth, making the
third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy,
he having previously killed his mother
and brother, The sheriff left for St..
Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been
arrested.
THE Patton seminary, boarding
school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
2Sth. About 40 girls were in the build
ing and they lost all their effects and
had to be taken in closed carriages to
Dallas.
Gov. SADLER signed the bill on the
10Th permitting glove contests in Ne
vada, thus insuring the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight for that state.
THE body of tramp was found
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