Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-05

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Newport, off Cabanas, was brought Il
Key West, Fla, on the Goth. She hat
on board crew of seven men and
cargo of fish. The officers OF the New
port said the capture was an impor
tant one, in view OF the fact that the
little vessel was attempting to carry
into Havana news of the movements
of the United States feet.
BULL" MCCARTHY, of PHILADELPHIA,
died mt Sacramento, CAL, on the Goth.
He was knocked out In the twentieth
round in n contest with Critic the pre-.
vious evening aud did not regain con.
seriousness after
THE London Times on the 80th said
that English ''sympathies on the main
question are with the United States,
as they are held to be in the right. But
on the matter OF form we are not SO
clear or unanimous"
The American liner Paris arrived at
New York on the 30th. Fears had
been ente rtained that the valuable
vessel had been captured by the Span.
iards.
A KEY WEST dispatch said that a
sailor on the monitor Puritan had been
convicted of treason. He was a Span
lard with family in Matanzas. He
was caught filing the lock of maya
zine and was found guilty by drum
head court;martial and sentenced to
be shot A later dispatch, however,
denied the truth of the report.
JOHN AsQUITH, n years old, and his
wife Margaret, 10 years old, were
found dead in bed in their rooms at
Chicago recently. The old couple had
evidently committed suicide by as
phyxiation.
The cornerstone of the head office
building of the Modern Woodmen of
America was laid by Head Clerk C. w.
Halves, assisted by the directors OF the
order at Rock Island, ILL.,, on the 2Sth.
The event attracted about 80, 900 stran-
gers TO the city, and the parade pre-
ceding the exercises at the building
was participated in by 5000 Woodmen.
A PROCLAMATION was to be issued to
Gen. Gomez and the insurgent army
over the signature of T. Estrada Palma,
delegate from the republic Of Cuba to
this country, and Gonzales de Quesada,
secretary of the junta in New York,
urging the insurgents to place them
selves under the stars and stripes as
soon as the American colors shall be
raised on Cuban soil and to have abso-
lutte confidence in the fair intentions
of President Mckinley and his adj
ministration.
The New York correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette cabed his paper that
he learned from an Especially trust
worthy source that agreements
already exist between the United
States and Great Britain which, if the
present British cabinet continues in
Office, must lead in the future course
of events to an alliance"
GALENA, ILL.,, the home of Gen. U. s.
Grant, on the 27th celebrated the
seventy-seventh anniversary of the
great leaders birth.
JOHN GoNGRON paid the death PEN
atty at New Castle, Pa, the other day
for numbering his sweetheart, Jessie
Corrine.
Q ANNA BURDA, a bohemian woman,
accused of numbering her husband by
shooting him with a shotgun, was
found guilty in the district court of
Lincoln county, Ok, and sentenced to
the penitontiary for life. The husband
and wife quarreled over the marriage
of their daughter, which resulted in
murder.
AL TINGREY, boy II years old, at
tempted to kill f. G. Bower, a school,
teacher, II miles southwest of Chan
dler, Ok, by shooting him in the back
of the head with shotgun loaded with
wire nail heads Bower had repri-
handed the boy at school, at which
the latter became greatly enraged.