Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dr. IL NJ. Bolton has resigned as
professor OF bacteriology of the State
university at Columbia, Mo-, to become
becteriologlst of the New Jersey
health board at a salary Of SO, 00Q per
year. Dr. j. X. Hickman will be his
assistant.
Nebraska National Bank of York,
Neb,, failed,
r. G. Heydlauff, an Ashland, Wis.
forger, killed himself.
President Mckinley has TO cancel
his Chicago engagements.
The w. G, I. U, is in danger OF los,
ing its temple in Chicago for debt.
Cleveland's order consolidating PEN
sion agencies has been suspended.
Mrs, Belinda Lull, of Roxbury,
Mass, left $lOO 900 to charitable insti-
buttons
President Faure of France is now
closely guarded when he appears in
public.
Jerry Simpson IL after the sugar
trust and wants Congressional inves-
tigation.
David B. Hill may run for Congress-
next year
American agricultural colleges will
make an exhibit at the Paris exposi-
ton in 1900.
The British parliamentary commit
tee censures Rhodes, the South Afri-
can magnate.
Eight tramps were killed in wreck
on the Chicago q Northwestern near
Boone, Iowa.
Foreign relations committee of the
Senate has reported favorably on Ha-
waiian annexation.
Spreckels has brought a second mill.
ion dollar libel suit against the San
Francisco Examiner
Governor Drake OF Iowa fell on the
capitol steps and hurt his hip, aggra-
waiting an old war wound
Two reservoirs bursted near Matte
wan and Fishkill, N. Y, and five per-
sons were drowned and three are
missing.
There is talk of England, France,
Germany and the United States chip
ping in to dig and control the Panama
canal
The Senate foreign relations com
mittee favors prompt and decisive ac-
ton for release of the Competitor pris-
oners by Spain,
The Senate has voted to allow but
$500 per ton for armor plate, and If not
obtainable for that to start govern
ment factory.
The Republican league, in session at
Detroit, elected L. j. Crawford of
Newport, Ky, president and voted to
meet at Omaha next year.
George +. McCulloch, chairman of
the Republican state central tommit-
tee of Indiana, will lose his left leg
because of being burned by X rays.
Mine owner Nicholas c. Creede,
after whom Creole, Colo, was named,
committed suicide to get away from
his wife, who sought reconciliation.
His friends claim death was due to an
accidental overdose of morphine.
1t is rumored on Wall street that the
Standard Oil combine is rapidly alb
sorbing the sugar trust
August Wehrheim. Chicago real
estate man, was robbed by card sharps
of $1,000 in brace faro game
William Reynolds, q laborer, was
killed by cavern while working on a
county bridge near Joplin, Mo.
George Decker smoked seventeen
packages of cigarettes Mt church pic
mic in New Jersey and fell over un-
conscious
The Central block, the handsomest
Office building in Pueblo, Colo, was
damaged S50,0O0 by fire, caused by
electric wires crossing.
Harry Lansing, of Lincoln, Neb,
has replevined the presents he gave to
Grace Oakley, who announced her en-
gagement to another man.
After protracted debauch Tom
Ginger, young farmer near Nixa,
Christian county, Mo-, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the abdo-
men.
A small house was blown into the
Hudson river at Verplancks, N. j.,
during wind storm and a woman and
two children drowned.
Another big gas we'll has been
struck at lola, Kan. with an estimated
capacity of 100000 cubic feet daily
1t will furnish fuel for a smelter of
200 retorts being built at lola.
A 2-year-old daughter of L. j. Town
ley died at Atchison, Kan, from an
overdose of patent medicine.
A Georgia mob of 1000 men lynched
the negro assailant of the 6-year-old
daughter of State Senator Campbell
Texas sheriffs have raised $3.50 to
defend ex-Sheriff Cunningham of Tay-
lor county, Texas, charged with the
killing of Mcmahon, the circus man,
at Wichita, Kan.
Frank Wray, a boy living near
Maryville. Mo-, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of shotgun in the
back of a wagon in which he was
driving.
Mrs. King, an aged woman living
near Bronaugh, Mo, was accidentally |
shot by her son who was handling a
gun carelessly. She will likely re-
cover.
A Washington, D. c., woman mar
ried man named Veit, who was una
BILE to leave his work for a bridal
tour, and left alone for Atlantic City, |
N. j., on wedding trip.
Mrs. Mary Jane league whipped |
John Colwell, a business man of Perry, |
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