Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-04-14

at Columbus, o., in hot fight on the
night OF the 18th, died from tho effects
of the blow the next day. Gardner and
his seconds have been arrested by the
police.
THE towboat Stella blew up at Ten
Mile Kanawha, a dispatch from CALI
polls, o., stated, and the captain and
pilot were seriously injured, The
boat was wrecked and the crew had to
swim ashore.
RATHER than be punished by The
United States court, Forester Fobes, a
full-blood Choctaw, about2s years old,
who was confined in the Jail at Antlers,
l. T., for double murder, cut his throat
from ear to ear with pocket-knife.
AT Commercial, Ky, the three-year-
old son OF Vat Corbin, while playing
about fire in the yard, was burned
TO death.
r. ID. MosELY's barn at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and ten head of stock, includ-
ing five blooded horses, burned the
other day A thousand dollars worth
of feed implements were also destroyed.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
A POOL room in the open Board OF
Trade building al Chicago, which is
patronized by women exclusively, was
raided by the police on the 18th and 20
women, who were betting on the races,
taken into custody. Many of them
were richly dressed and two had babies
l., thni,, fHhn,y II
on bail later in the day.
AN audience of between 5000 and g.
900 people greeted Bryan the other
night at Indianapolis, Ind, when the
second convention of the League Of BIZ
metallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley
ended. Mr. Bryan was rendered an
ovation.
PROMINENT horse buyers at San An
tonic, Tex, claim that there is scar
city Of cavalry horses throughout the
United States, and that in the event Of
large force Of mounted troops being
required it would be impossible to sup
ply the men with suitable horses.
IT was reported at Madrid that the
basis of an armistce in Cuba had been
arranged on the 9th and that Spain
was prepared to give all that America
had asked for, although the concession
must be gilded to suit Spanish palates,
THE carpenters strike at Chicago,
which began on the 4th, came TO a
sudden end on the 9th when all the
large contractors signed the union
carpenters agreement. This was a
victory for the strikers.
A New BEDFORD, Mass, telegram on
the 9th said that the great cotton
mills strike, which had been in pro-
gress for three months, was about
ended and work would soon be re-
sumed in all the mills,
The Ohio senate passed the Riley bill
appropriating 100000 to put the
Ohio national guard on war footing,
The gunboat Diogenes, recently pur-
chased in England. has been renamed
Topeka, after the Kansas capital.
A BLAST of 5000 pounds of powder
was recently fred at Morena dam near
San Diego, CAL, and the explosion dis
lodged 30, 900 tons of rock.
MINISTER'S of Kansas City, Mo-, are
working to have Sunday funerals done
away with.
AN unprovoIed murder was commit
ted at Mine Lick station, eight miles
west of Cookeville, Tenn. Clay Bros
well and William Bradford were fight
ing and Giles Bradford, young farm
err, attempted to separate them. Bros
wells father and brother came to his
assistance and in two minutes Giles
Bradford was a dead man. He had
been struck with brass lSnuckles, shot
and stabbed.
FRosTs on the 9th and 18th badly dam
aged fruit and berry crops in Tonnes
see, North Alabama and North Geor-
gia. In many sections the peach crop
was entirely killed and early vegeta-
bles were completely destroyed.