Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-06

A GAS explosion In the cellar of a
grocery at Peoria, ILL.,, resulted in the
death Of Mrs Mary Smith, serious in.
juries TO Mr. Hudson, the proprietor,
and painful injuries TO w, II. Gerter.
The people of Pana, ILL.,, had a ter
rorizing time the other night, In some
cases the residents of block spent tho
night in one house, expecting an at
tack TO be made on them by Alabama
negroes, imported to take the place Of
striking white miners, The train con-
veying the imported negroes was, how
ever, held up by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
started on an eastbound train TO In
diana. The militia were sent to Pana
by Gov. Tanner.
THE Dawes commission has issued
orders that all intermarried white
men were intruders and would have TO
leave the Indian territory. The orders
have created sensation and will af-
feet 20, 900 white men. Indian Agent
Wisdom will comply with the orders
OF the commission. His mounted POI
lice are under orders to eject the in-
truders.
HALF ton Of powder exploded at
Linds Road building camp, II miles
north Of New Whatcom, Wash, and
killed three people. Two others were
seriously injured.
The Transmississippi Sunday school
congress opened at Omaha, Neb,, on
the 9th with a fair attendance from
all parts of the country.
A SPECIAL from Fort Reno, l. T., said
that orders have been received there
to get the posthospital in proper shape
to receive number of sick regular
soldiers who have been doing duty in
Cuba.
The triennial conference of the Ger.
man Baptists OF the United States and
Canada at st, Louis was concluded
after a session extending over a week.
1t was decided to meet in 1907 at Ber-
lin, Ont.
A SPECIAL excursion train on the
way to the Halifax On. S. exhibition
from Pictou crashed into working
train near Stellerton. The two engi-
neers, two fremen and passenger
were killed.
A CLAREMoNT, Mimi, special stated
that that village was wiped out by fire
the other night ~ buildings being de-
stroyed.
Gov. SMITH, of the soldiers home at
Santa Monica, Cal, was shot twice on
the 2Sth by an inmate of the home.
He was badly injured, but the injury
was not believed to be fatal. Smith
was formerly commander of the home
at Leavenworth, Kan.
MADRID officials believe Cuba will be
evacuated within three months.
THOMAS +. BAYARD, eX-United States
senator, ex-secretary of state under
President Cleveland and exam bassa-
dor to England, died on the 2Sth, after
an illness of six weeks, at Dedham,
Mass, aged 70. His body will be
buried in Delaware, in which state his
family was conspicuous long before
VIC IGNOluLlOus
COLORADO is being swept by forest
and prairie fires and ranches and min
ing camps are threatened with destruc-
ton.
AT the insane asylum at st. Louis
William Kerens, an inmate, went to
the bunk where Benjamin f. Bevan,
his cell mate, was asleep and attacked
him. A fierce struggle followed, in
which Kerens dashed Bevan violently
to the floor and kicked him until his
body was almost reduced to pulp.
Kerens then turned on the guards and
itrequired dozen men to restrain him.
STRIKING union coal miners and inn
ported negroes had a pitched battle at
Pana, ILL.,, on the 9Sth. Several hum
dred shots were fred and the negroes
were driven from the city to their
stockades. One negro was reported as
having died of his wounds.