Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-30

loss.
THE four-story brick building occu-
pied by the Jaques Manufacturing
company at Chicago burned on the
oath. Loss, s75, 900. Pipeman Florence
McAuliffe was fatally injured by an
explosion.
THE management of the Mount YER
non Qll,) Coal Mining company dis
charged every union man. With a
view to cutting down expenses they
purchased FIVE coal-mining machines
and put them in operation, The in
PRODUCTION of the labor-saving devices
made the demand for skilled labor no
longer imperative.
NJ Il. WYLDER and John Pratt, two
miners employed in the Gillespie coal
mines at Carlinville, Ill, had large
room mined and were getting ready to
blast when the entire room of coal
gave way and both men were caught.
Wylder was injured internally and
cannot recover. Pratt was severely
injured about the head, but will prob
ably recover, The coal that fell on
them weighed about 40 tons.
A FEARFUL hailstorm swept through
Walsh county, N, d., on the 23d. Crops
in the pathway of the storm were
ruined and in the cities of Park River
and Grafton every window on the west
side of buildings was broken and the
trees denuded of their foliage.
CHARLEY FINCHER, aged IS years, ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed
Otto Covey, aged II years, at Maydeld,
KY, while the latter was playing bur
glar and Fincher was playing police
man.
CHARLES WASHINGTON, a colored man,
who recently assaulted Mrs. Ward near
Mine Lick, Tenn. and was captured
and lodged in Jail at Cookeville, was
taken from prison by mob and hanged
in the presence of 5000 people.
WHILE driving wheat binder at st.
Bethlehem, Tenn, Richard Dunlap
was thrown beneath the machine by a
team running away. The sharp iron
points on the blade penetrated his
head, producing fatal injuries.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Oshkosh,
Wis, on the 23d as result of the
woodworkers' strike. Several hundred
women, armed with clubs, rocks, eggs
and paper sacks of pepper, gathered
near the Morgan sash, door and blind
factory and drove back the non'union
workmen who had taken the strikers
places, not man being allowed to
enter the factory. The police were
powerless.
'IowA day" was observed at the
Omaha exposition on the 2Sd, tre'
mendous crowds from the Hawkeye
state being present John N. Bald
win, of Council Bluffs, delivered the
Grafton,
DURING n recent typhoon at Port
Arthur, China, a Chinese torpedo boat
destroyer was driven ashore and 1870
men were drowned.
A BIG gold strike has been made at
the mines in Llano county, 90 miles
north of Austin, Tex. The ore, it was
said, assayed as high as $50 per ton.
A CLoUDBURsT on the 23d near Altoona,
a few miles northeast of Galesburg,
ILL.,, caused the death of John Hubbell
and Mrs. N. A. Anderson, Walnut
creek rose A feet, washing out the
Burlington railway tracks and flood
ing the country for miles around.
THE Citizens national and the Union
-, Cit,y 10
were consolidated ON the odd under
the name of the Union national bank,
THE General Federation of Women's
clubs opened at Denver, Col, on the
22d with a large attendance, Mrs.
Ellen Henrotln presiding.
DEMOCRATS, populists and free silver
republicans of Michigan, in state con.
vention, nominated a fusion ticket
headed by eX-Congressman Whiting, a
democrat, for governor, At the request
of the populists, a plank was inserted
in the democratic platform favoring
the initiative and referendum.
BIG prairie fires in Lubbock and adj
joining counties in Texas have caused
many fine ranges to be burned over.
At least 1000, 600 acres of fine grass
has been destroyed Miles of valua-
BILE range in the great Winn pasture,
in Lubbock county, were burned.
DR. GEORGE w. RUSH, of Savannah,
Ga. shot and fatally wounded George
Dewitt, his father-in-law, at the home
of the latter at Dayton, o., the other
night. The men had been on bad
| terms.
A FIRE broke out the other morning
in the flour mill of Blodgetps Milling
company at Beloit Wis. The mill was
burned to the ground and the loss will
be over $50, 900, partially covered by
insurance. About 20 men will be out
of employment as result of the fire.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND delivered
the annual Founders day address oil
the commencement exercises of the
Lawrenceville school at Princeton, N
j., on the 21st The keynote of MS
speech was opposition to the expansion
of our territory by conquest as being I
dangerous perversion of our mission
The Loyal Brotherhood, a new secret
organization whose members are bounc
together by terrible oath, was SAID
to be establishing lodges in Sioux City
la. There are lodges in Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri, the DaSCtas anC
1 Minnesota. The object of the organ