Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-21


THE bodies OF ten victims of the
water works tunnel disaster at Cleve-
land O., were found by rescuing
party on the 18th. The bodies were
brought to the shore end, about o, 600
feet from the tunnel head, in hand
car. The scene when they arrived at
the surface, where an enormous crowd
had assembled among whom were
many relatives and friends of the vic
Tins, was indescribable. The police
had all they could do to control the al
most frantic people
THE City of Puebla and the Peru, car
rying the fourth military expedition to
Manila, left San Francisco on the 18th.
Gen. Otis was on board the City of
Puebla
Hon. A. S. McKENNoN, OF Che Dawes
commission, has gone to Wewoka, /.
IT,, for the purpose of completing the
census of the Seminole Indians. When
this work is completed the Seminoles
will be ready to have their lands al
lotted.
FIRE destroyed seven business houses
In Murfreesboro, Tenn, the other day,
causing losses estimated at more than
500, OOO
The transport Seneca left Siboney,
Cuba, on the 14th for Fort Monroe.
She had on board IS sick and wounded
American soldiers.
Nuv nNu faya,. bau hrn1yaU out a t,,nuc.
the American troops in the vicinity of
Santiago. Full dispatches to this
effect were received by the secretary
of war and by the surgeon general of
the army on the 18th. Hospitals and
n special quarantine camp were estab-
lished and the most stringent precau-
tions taken to prevent refugees from
coming into contact with the troops.
WILLIAM SEINE, aged As, millwright
at Dayton, o., in a fit of jealousy,
gashed his wife's throat terribly with
a razor the other morning, chased his
daughter with the bloody weapon and
then cut his own throat, dying in
stantly. Sixty stitches were taken in
the wfes throat to close the wounds
inflicted and it was said she might re-
cover.
FIRE on the 18th destroyed the large
building of the Malleable and Wrought
Iron company at Racine, Wis, result
ing in a pecuniary loss of 100000 to-
gether with three lives and serious in-
jury to score or more of persons.
The National League of Republican
clubs convened at Omaha, Neb., on the
18th and President Crawford delivered
his annual address.
IT was stated on good authority that
Adrian c. Arson, eX-manager of the
New York team, will have control
ling interest in one of the Western
league clubs next season and also man
age the team himself.
JOHN HENRY JAMES, a negro, was
lynched by mob of 200 men near
Charlottesville, Va, the other morning
for assaulting white girl.
A RECENT dispatch to London on the
18th stated that in spite of official de-
malls a desire for peace practically
prevailed in all classes in Spain, but
the government was afraid that the
revolutionary parties might take adj
vantage if the government should open
negotiations.
GEN. ToRAL formally surrendered
Santiago de Cuba to the American
troops under Gen. Shafter at three
o'clock on the afternoon Of the 14th on
the understanding that his troops
were to be transported to Spain by the
United States government.
THE marble and granite dealers of
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas and South Dakota at the con-
vention at Council Bluffs, Ia, organ
lied the National Marble and Granite
Dealers Association of the United
States, with James A. Graham, of Des
Moines, Ia, president and j. N. Kill
dew, of York, Neb., secretary and
treasurer