Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-27

Turing Will Robbing and George
Broyer. Jerrel was blown about 30
feet and was badly mangled.
A NEWSPAPER published in English
has appeared at Havana.
THE Santa Fe railroad, 1t was re-
ported at San Francisco, will be ex-
tended to that city.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 2lst
numbered 2i3 according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 9O5
in the corresponding week of last year.
THREE men we're terribly mangled
at Duluth, Mimi, by an explosion OF
dynamite. They were working on q
scow on the government canal, blow
ing up an old hulk The diver was
thawing dynamite over a small engine.
Twenty-Five pounds exploded, blowing
the engine and boiler to pieces and
literally tearing the bodies of the
three men to atoms
ACCORDING to decision of Federal
Judge Springer at Muscogee, |. T., in
the case of William Tiger, a Creek con-
victed of murder, "there is no court in
the universe that now has jurisdiction
to impose the sentence OF death upon
him" This peculiar condition OF az
fairs was caused by the Curtis bill.
JOE OFT, who pleaded guilty of kill
ing his wife, was hanged in the Jail
yard at Granite Falls, Mimi, at 1877 a.
m. on the goth. This was the first exc
cution in the history of Yellow Medi-
cine county.
BILLY WALKER, the puRilist, who
was knocked out by Andy Dupont the
other night, died at Omaha, Neb.,
after having been unconscious SO hours.
The charge against Dupont will be
changed from prize-fghting to murder.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY on the goth
went to the First regiment armory at
Chicago, where he spoke briefly to q
meeting of railroad employees and
afterwards held an informal reception,
shaking hands with them as they filed
by him. The president then went to
the Auditorium, where he was pre-
scented with memorial In favor of i'm
ternational arbitration, to which he
replied favorably after hearing it read.
At night the president took the train
for Washington.
The extensive plant of the Texas
Drug company in Dallas, Tex, burned
on the goth. Loss estimated at $500, OO0.
WILLIAM II. BRANTON, grocer at
Youngstown, o., on the night of the
10th shot Constable Jenkins, then sent
q bullet through the brain of his wife
and afterwards shot himself. The
tragedy was caused by Mrs. Branton
leaving the murderer on account of ill
treatment and the constable replevy-
ing her clothes.
The liberal congress of religions con-
vened at Omaha, Neb., on the 10th.
AN agitation has commenced in Ger
many against the high duties and
numerous restrictions by which the
government has nearly stopped the
importation of live animals and greatly
increased the price of meat products
A LODGE of the Order of Elks, com
posed of colored men, has been organ
lied in Cincinnati. Grand Exalted
Ruler Calvin will take no action un-
less the new lodge undertakes to use
the name B. P. o. <.
THE tunnel on the Cincinnati South
ern at Hartman, Tenn, caved in or
the 10Th, stopping all trains
THE grand lodge of Kentucky ma
sons, at its session at Louisville on the
18th, unanimously adopted the resolu
tion reported by its special committee
which recommends non-intercourse be
tween the grand lodge of Kentucky
and the grand lodge of Washington
because of the action of the latter il
recognizing negro lodges.
A STORM at Trinidad, Cuba, swep
many houses away and drowned eigh
people and many animals.
THE Vermont Legislature on the 1871
reelected United States Senator Proc
tor by an overwhelming vote
COMMANDER BALLINGTON Booth, o
the Volunteers of America, announced
at Cleveland, o., that he has abou
perfected plans for new organization
TO De KNOWN us JuS pGueTb GlOu "
Christian Workers, which will be com
posed of branches organized all ovel
the country The members are to b.
Christian workersin the churches, whC
are to be banded together and thei
especial talents for doing some kind o
q religious work developed.
=. A WET, binding snow began falling
:. at Kansas City, Mo-, early on the It'll
:, and continued with undated fury al
? day. Telegraph and telephone com
municatiOn was considerably damaged
but the movement of railroad train
was not materially interfered with
The storm caught many poor peopl
without fuel and much suffering wa
9 reported. Reports from the surround
: ing country showed that the storr
= was quite extensive.
WILLIAM LEoLIN and his ten-year
old son were frozen to death six mile
west of Florence, Col.
d, AT a medicine dance held at Mil
;, creek, l. t., by full-blood Indians, Be
y Lewis was killed and Charley and Wi
\ liam Brown were mortally wounded
The participants in the tragedy wer
drunk.
q PRESIDENT MCKINLEY witnessed tn
great jubilee parade at Chicago on tn
!. 10th. 1t took three hours to pass
I fprht ha ne