Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-11

GEORGE DAVIES, a commission mer-
chant mt Cleveland, o., was shot and
instantly killed by his wife on the 9th
after quarrel.
NEAR Abingdon, Va, two brothers
named Taylor shot and dangerously
wounded young Carswell and the two
Taylors were in turn fatally wounded
by Carswel's father. The quarrel was
over 30 cents.
The steamer Angloman, from Boston
for Liverpool, was reported ashore on
the Skerries, off the coast of Ireland.
All her passengers were safely landed
The steamer had cargo valued at
100000, which will probably be lost,
but it was fully insured.
THE lower house of the Nebraska
legislature killed the bill providing for
constitutional amendment for woman
suffrage by vote OF SO to 80.
BY the negligence of switchtender
the Union Pacific flyer was derailed in
the yards at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th
and Engineer Van Noy was picked up
unconscious and taken to the hospital
and Fireman Krause was caught under
the overturned engine and scalded to
death.
/ AN open letter to the women of the
United States, urging them to use all
means in their power to further the
passage of the arbitration treaty with
Great Britain, has been issued from
New York. 1t is signed by number
of we'll known women.
THE boiler of the county Jail at
Frankfort, KY, exploded on the 9th,
utterly wrecking the Jail Office Sew
eral men were injured and three may
! die.
Two masked robbers held up the
! Santa Fe westbound train near Peach
/ Springs, Ariz After uncoupling the
mail and express cars the engineer was
ordered to take them up the road a bit.
1t was then stopped and they ordered
the door of the mail car opened. The
clerk opened it and shot one of the rob
bers dead and the other robber grabbed
a bundle of registered letters and made
good his escape.
THE shops of the Louisville, Evans
vile & st. Louis railway in Princeton,
Ind, were destroyed by fire on the sth.
Loss, SIS, 1000 to $500, 900.
PATRICK X. BRENNAN, aged go years,
was found dead from starvation in his
home near Yardley, n j., on the Sth
Sitting beside his body was his aged
and insane wife, who was dying from
the same cause.
THE 25-round bout between George
Lavigne, the lightweight champion,
and KID Mcfarland at New York
on the Sth resulted in favor of the for
mer, although Mcfarland made Won
derful showing.
EMANUEL LowENsTEIN, manager of
the Interstate Live Stock Commission
Co., of Kansas City, was found dead in
his room at New York hotel on the
Sth from the effects of escaping illumi-
mating gas. 1t was believed his death
was the result of accident
Two freight trains collided on the
Illinois Central railroad, near Tolono,
ILL.,, during dense fog on the 9Th.
Both engines, Ave car loads of mer-
chandise and three box cars were de-
molished. In one car were 30 head of
horses and they were all killed. The
trainmen jumped in time to save them
selves.
THE cowboys at Shelby Junction,
Mont, terrorized the members of the
Columbia Opera company which arrived
there on the 18th. For three hours the
cowboys fought with the men, insulted
the women and fred off their revolvers.
TEMPLE HoUsToN, of Woodward, Ok,
son Of Col. Sam Houston, has been in
vited by the state of Tennessee to de-
liver the centennial address at the
opening of the exposition at Nashville
on May 1.
AT the worlds skating championship
races at Montreal, Cam, on the 9th the
result showed that j. Nillssen, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, is the professional
champion skater of the world and j. X.
McCulloch, of Winnipeg, Man, is the
amateur champion.
W. A. LICHTENwALTER, wealthy
farmer near Mason City, Ia, committed
suicide by hanging. He was stock
holder in the City bank, of Nora Springs,
which recently failed and hearing that
he would be financially ruined he pre-
ferred to meet death in this way.
THE Northwestern national bank OF
Great Falls, Mont, on the 5th posted a
notice announcing its suspension.
The board of directors and officers
charge that the trouble is due to a
defalcation on the part of the cashier,
Benton D. Hatcher, of $1s0,OO0.
The number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
3O5, according to Bradstreet's report,
as compared with 1876 the previous
week and 33S in the corresponding
week of lastyear
JUSTICE RICHARDSON at Chicago on
the 18th held Wong Chin Foo, editor OF
the Chinese Daily News and president
Of the League of Americanized China,
men, to the criminal court on the
charge of being the keeper of gam.
bling house.
The Oklahoma house passed the
marriage contract bill. 1t prohibits
the intermarriage of whites and ne,
groes or Indians, and especially pro
hibits that no man shall marry his