Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-13

GEORGE SMITH, d culored IT,
hand on the Iron Mountain railroad.
while attempting TO board moving
freight train near Fairfield, Ark,
slipped and his legs were crushed to
pulp, resulting in almost instant
death.
A FIRE broke out at Patoka, ILL.,, and
destroyed II buildings, causing a heavy
loss, as there was little or no insur-
ance. Eight of the buildings were
business houses.
Two negroes, named Jim Watts and
Sam Cole, who were paying visit to
relatives at Pea Ridge, Miss, were
lynched by other negroes for being too
thick with their kinsmen's wives.
w. II. T. DURRANT, generally known
as Theodore Durrant, was hanged In
the prison at Sau Quentin, CAL, on the
morning of the 18th for the murder Of
Blanche Lamont in Emmanuel Baptist
church in San Francisco, April 3, 1895.
He was received into the Roman CATH
Ollie church short time before the end
and was marvelously cool on the scat
fold, his last words being: 81 am in
nocent."
BURGLARS broke into the Office of
the Standard Oil company near Alton,
ILL.,, the other night and blew up the
safe with dynamite. The explosion
was terrific, the safe door being blown
open and almost the entire Office
wrecked. There was only $50 in the
safe and this was all the robbers got.
The mission school building of the
Presbyterian board of home missions
at Tahlequah, l. r., was recently
burned by incendiaries.
In fit of insanity Alexander Carter,
a white citizen of Greenville, Tenn,
Drained his wife and l9-year-old daugh-
ter with an ak while they slept and
then shot himself. He was said to
have been mentally unbalanced for
some time.
PETER MAGNEs and his wife, of Rose
dale, Col, were cruelty beaten by rob-
bers, whose purpose it was to get open
a large safe in Mr.. Magnes' house in
which it was thought he kept large
sums of money. A nephew, however,
summoned some neighbors and the
robbers ran off.
CHARLES E. KEARNEY, q Kansas City,
Mo-, pioneer, died at that place on the
Sd of Brights disease.
AT Viewer, Ia, an ice house, black
smith shop, warehouse and the new
lodge room of the Modern Woodmen
were destroyed by fire.
THE 14-year-old daughter of Enos
Builderback, who lives near Morris
City, ILL.,, was burned to death by her
clothing catching fire from fireplace.
A DISPATCH of the 5th stated that
there was general feeling in England
and on the London stock exchange
that the situation in China was i'm.
proving. 1t was believed that the
Chinese loan of ZIG, 100000 would be
guaranteed by the British govern.
ment
AT Bandana, KY, Henry Reed, a
wealthy farmer, and his wife went out
to dinner and left seven-months-oldI
babe in the sitting room in rocking.
chair, covered with quilts near fire.
place. The live Goals fell from the fire.
place and ignited the clothing over the
chair, burning the child to death.
WILLIAM BAKER, who assassinated
his brother and his brothers wife at
Fairbury, Neb, few days ago, was
run down by bloodhounds, and as the
crowd grew near to the barn in which
he had taken refuge the hunted man
shot himself to death.
ATOrlinda, Robertson county Tenn,
Duke Brewer was accidentally shot by
Alex Harmed while returning from a
rabbit hunt and bled to death before
medical aid could arrive.
FREDERICK ZINniER, ex-police COM
missioner of Rochester N. Y, was in
the act of throwing some parcel from
the window to his coachman when he
fell out and was killed.