Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24


Wash, for Africa with wheat
A MO Gre occurred at the Merrill
Chemical company's building at Louis
Vile, KY, on the 18th.
JOHN w. KELLEY, the inventor OF the
Kelley motor, died at Philadelphia on
the 18th from pneumonia, aged Oh years
AN extensive timber shed Mt St.
Petersburg was destroyed by fire and
ten persons were burned to ashes,
WAGNER, /. T.. was visited by a
sac, 900 fire on the night OF the 18th, IL
stores being destroyed.
ABOUT 200 lepers escaped from con-
fnement at Manila through the neg
lect of Spanish officers unbeknown TO
the American officials. Orders have
been issued TO the effect that all lepers
will be arrested and sent TO one OF the
uninhabited islands in the Philippine
groups and fed and cared for at the ex-
pense of the government
A DESPERATE attempt was made by
two convicts to escape from the peni-
Tertiary at Columbus, o., on the 18th.
In the battle which ensued one guard
was killed and the two convcts re-
ceived injuries of a serious nature.
AN electric street car at Tacoma,
Wash, was derailed by the controller
refusing to shut off the current on
heavy down grade. The car was
smashed to splinters and the seven
persons aboard received injuries.
THE bill providing for treaty COM
mission was lost in the Cherokee SEN
ate by tie vote, Tahlequah H. IT,
dispatch said. The Cherokees will
now be governed by the Curtis bill.
BY the terms OF the hill the tribes were
given their choice OF treating with the
Dawes commission or accepting the
provisions of the Curtis bill
The village of Prairie City, ILL.,, was
almost destroyed by fire. Five store
rooms were burned, together with
their contents. There was no means
Of fighting the fra except by bucket
line.
THE largest judgment ever ente red
In the United States district court at
st. Louis was handed down by Judge
Adams on the 18th. The case was that
of the Mercantile Trust company of
| New York, trustee for bondholders,
against the St Louis & San Francisco
Railway company. The amount was
SIT $50, 1852. The Frisco road was sold
at auction over two years ago under a
foreclosure sale and the amount of the
Judgment was the difference between
the proceeds of the sale and the face
value of the bonds held by the fore
closing parties.
THREE miners were blown to atoms
by the explosion of dynamite in the
Berkeley shaft at Butte, Mont.
Al st, Louis, at a meeting Of repre-
sentatives Of the white and yellow
pine industries of Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Indian territory, Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi, resolution
was adopted urging the establishment
ota, bureau of timber and lumber sta
tistics as part of the division of
forestry of the department of agricul-
ture.
Two electric cars on the Cairo Qll.)
Electric railway collided, seriously
damaging the cars and injuring q
number of passengers, who were
thrown violently down by the shock
and cut by flying glass.
MRS ELIZABETH EASING, the mother
of five children, chopped her husbands
head with an AK at St. Louis while he
was asleep. She was driven to desper-
alton by his cruel treatment
KINs HUMBERT opened the Italian
parliament on the 10TH
MRS. LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS was
elected president of the National w.
G, Il. U. at the meeting at ST. Paul,
Mimi, on the 18th. Mrs. Susannah M.
d. Fry, of Minnesota, was made CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Clara c. Hoff-
man, of Missouri, recording secretary,
and Mrs Helen NJ. Barker, treasurer.
A resolu ton asking congress to stop
the destruction of song birds for mil
linery purposes was carried
A COLLISION between two Pittsburg
& Gulf freight trains near Mena, Ark,
caused the death of two tramps and
the total wreck of one engine and six
freight cars.
The rumor was current in Wall
street, New York, on the 18th that the
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad had been
sold to the Southern Pacific.
The Santa Fe railroad has secured
terminal facilities in San Francisco.
AT Marlboro, Mass, the joint execu-
tive council of the boot and shoe work
ers' unions on the 14th ordered out
1900 employees in seven factories.
In Brown, Rock and Dixon counties
Neb., thousands of acres have been
swept by prairie fires and much grain
hay, barns and several houses de-
stroyed. In Gregory, Todd and TRIP
counties, S. D., the range was on fire
and many cattle were reported lost.
THE national quarantine convention
assembled at Memphis Tenn, on The
nth. A majority of the delegates
were from the southern states more
affected by the visitation of yellow
fever as they were asked to send &
larger representation than the Other
sections. The subject with which the
convention was to deal with was how
to provide an efficient quarantine t.
protect the states from invasions o.
infectious and contagious diseases.
CAPT. GEN. BLANCO, in a recent let