Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-25

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Four men were killed and ave others
badly injured the other afternoon by
the collapse OF cornice on the new
building in the course OF erection at
476 and Az North Fifth street, Phila-
delphia.
A cLoUDBURsT up Sawmill run, Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 10Th caused tidal
wave in that stream, endangerIng the
lives of dozen persons. Five chill
dren were reported missing and were
supposed to have been drowned. The
great body of water did much damage,
A SENSATION was created in the Third
Missouri camp at Thoroughfare Gap,
Va, when the officers discovered that
nearly every man in the regiment had
signed petition to have the regiment
mustered out The petition stated
that the men enlisted to fight, not for
garrison duty, that the war was over
and that their families needed them at
home.
GEN. WooD has ordered the sale of
whisky, beer and wines stopped every
where in Santiago He provided Sc
we're penalties for infractions of the
rule. Restaurant keepers were greatly
depressed by the order which confined
their sale of drinks to coffee and lem
onadc.
The Second Arkansas regiment
showed mutinous spirit when they
were ordered out to drill on the 10Th,
but the prompt action of Maj. Stark
quelled it.
AN indianapolis, Ind, dispatch on
the 18th said that Frank p. Sargent,
grand master of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, had officially no.
titled the order that he will retire at
the end of his term, having been APP
pointed a member of the industrial
commission by President Mckinley.
ADvICEs from Sl1alat, in Galicia, Aus
tria, reported that 800 houses were
destroyed and 1900 persons made
homeless by fire there.
Two American ships, which sailed
from the Pacific coast early in the
spring, arrived at New York on the
18th, having been all the intervening
time on the sea, without being re-
ported and oblivious to the fact of the
war waged between this country and
Spain, making their capture as prizes
of war possible. The war began and
was terminated within the space Of
their voyage.
The American Bar association be-
gan its annual session on the 18th at
Saratoga, N. Y. There was a large
attendance of distinguished members
of the bar from all p arts of the coun-
try.
IT was asserted that 200 workmen in
the allied building trades of ST. Louis
were out as the result of strike for
better wages inaugurated some time
ago and that the suspension of work
may spread.
EIGHT deaths from sunstroke oc-
Cured at Paris France, on the 10Th.
THE surgeon generals office has de-
cided to take all the well and conva-
lescent men away from Key West,
Fla, so that they will not be in
danger from the outbreak of yellow
fever at that point
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE has declared his
intention to enter the senatorial race
in Virginia.
A FREIGHT train on the Texas &c Pa
cific was derailed and thrown from a
trestle two miles east of Fort Worth,
Tex, with fatal effect Two tramps
were killed and three others seriously
injured, the engineer was fatally hurt
and the fireman seriously injured.
SOME time ago it was said that Leo
XIII. was afflicted with progressive
paralysis, accompanied by dementia.
The statement was promptly denied,
but the papal authorities have now
been compelled to admit its truth, and
it is matter of common talk at Rome
that the pope's reason has completely
| left him, and that he is unable TO walk
any longer or to talk coherently.