Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-09

| JOE ANDERSON, the elephant keeper
with Wallace Bros circus. was killed
at Racine, Wis, on the Sd by one OF
the elephants that became ugly. The
animal broke away and chased the
whole police force and an excited crowd
of citizens.
A THOUSAND people gathered at
Doyline, La, on the Sd and witnessed
the burning at the stake OF William
Street, negro, who attempted the
ruin and murder of Mrs Parish, who
was reported in most critical condi-
ton. The flames were started at one
o'clock and in ten minutes the negro
was charred mass, II was u sicken-
inT sight.
WoRTHINGToN Military academy
(EpiscopaO near Lincoln. Neb., was re-
Gently burned Loss, S62, 900; insured
for about $50, 900. The building was
of brick aud stone, 50 stories. The
fire caught in the attic supposedly
from II hue, and, being beyond the fire
limits, nothing could prevent the de-
struction of the building.
THE Madrid correspondent of tile
London Morning Post says that Senior
Leon y Castillo, the Spanish ambassa-
dor TO France, at his recent conference
with the queen regent and Senior Sa-
gasta, was officially charged to ask
the powers to intervene to obtain
peace on such terms as would protect
the self-respect of Spain.
NEAR Muscatine, Cleburn county,
Ala, Kilgore and Barnes, two farm
ers, who had been at war over line
fence, shot each other and it was re-
ported that both would die Kilgore
was tearing the fence away when
Barnes shot. Kilgore fell, but man
aged to reach his gun and shot Barnes
before he lost consciousness.
THE attention of the Madrid public
on the LIST was absorbed in the condi-
ton of the Bank Of Spain, which was
considered more serious than any re-
verse of the war, inasmuch as the inn
possibility of the bank to help the
government means impossibility to
continue the war with the United
States.
JAMES UNDERWOOD, travelling Jew
elry salesman, met an awful death
while in the store of customer at st.
Louis the other afternoon. Thinking
it was drinking water, Mr.. Underwood
plunged glass into two-gallon crock
containing cyanide of potassium and
drank it off. In less than 10 minutes
he was dead.
ADvICEs from Hayti on the 3lst stated
that the American feet at Santiago de
Cuba had cannonaded the batteries of
the harbor and also had brush with
the Spanish warships there and that
the advantage appeared to be with
the American fleet Naval officials at
Washington, however, discredited the
news, and said it was almost impossi-
BILE, under the circumstances, that Com
modore Schley should have forced an
entrance into the harbor, in view of
the dangers which would have to be
surmounted.
THE story of the capture of the AL
fonso KILL, sent out from Kew West,
Fla. was mistake. She chased the
st. Paul, but the latter got away by
being the faster boat.
The Transmississippi exposition was
opened at Omaha, Neb., on the LIST.
There was grand civic parade three
miles long. President Mckinley
touched an electric button at the white
house and started the machinery and
sent telegram of congratulation to
the president of the exposition. At
night q pyrotechnic display on the
most elaborate scale took place in the
exposition grounds.
MAIL advices received from Australia
contain brief account of the cannibal
outrage in New Guinea. They attacked
peaceful village, carried off all the
women and captured and killed 10
men, ten of whom they ate.