Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-15
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IT was 30 degrees below zero az Val
entine, Neb, on the 9th.
REP oRTs received at Dallas, Tex, on
the 9th stated that a severe blizzard
ragged all over Texas.
THE total loss by recent Are in the
works of the Standard Oil company at
Los Angeles, Cal, amounted to $685.
900.
POINT PARK, on Lookout mountain,
in Tennessee, has been transferred to
the government as a part OF the Ghicka-
mauga-Chattanooga national military
park,
DR.. ]. ]. WALTER, pastor of the Cen"
tenary Methodist church of Portland,
Ore, has been appointed missionary in
charge of all Methodist work in Alaska.
THE steamer d. +. Young ran into
submerged rock near Decatur, Ala,
and sunk one of her barges with 1000
tons of coal.
JOHN ANDERSEN, the Swede, who
while cook of the schooner Olive Peck
err murdered the captain and mate off
the coast OF b rail August 8, 1897 was
hanged at Norfolk, Va, on the 0 tn.
The river Neva suddenly rose nine
feet the other night, inundating the
lower quarters OF St Petersburg, and
communication was carried on by
boats The inhabitants were panic
stricken and there was great loss of
life and property.
THERE was said to be great scarcity
Of soft coal throughout Iowa.
THE steamer John N. Hardin, plying
between Memphis, Tenn, and Pine
Bluff, Ark, struck a snag near Swan
lake and sunk before landing could
be made. All on board were safely
landed in skiffs. Most of the cargo
was also saved.
THE farmers near Knottsville, KY,
were said to be alarmed over an cpl
demic by which they lose from one to
five horses each. They were affected
with sort of blind staggers.
THREE men were killed and eight
injured, three of them probably
fatally, by the explosion of press
mill and four grinding mills in the
Hagley yard of the Dupont powder
works at Wilmington, Del.
AT Dexter, l. T., William Lot fatally
stabbed John Shaw. The men quar-
relied over trivial matter
THE citizens of Chicago held mass
meetings on the 9th in various parts
Of the city to protest against franchise
extension.
JORDAN WEBB. colored, was legally
hanged at CORTLAND, Va, for an as
sault on an aged woman.
THE explosion of gasoline stove in
Tabitha hospital at Lincoln, Neb,, the
other evening resulted in Mary Stein
aker, a nurse, being burned to death
and Or. Wilmeth and medical stu
dent being badly burned.
AMONG the 800 people in Bedford,
Pa, there were said to be about 200
cases of smallpox ON the sth. The
spread of the disease was said to be
due to the doctors making wrong
diagnosis, not one of the physicians
in the town ever having q smallpox
case before. Many of the people
stricken with the disease had been
walking the streets and visiting houses
thinking they had only a harmless
skin disease.
AFTER an orderly trial by Benton,
La, citizens it was decided that two
negroes, Hearn and Richardson, were
guilty of the murder of Henry Lance
and they were taken half a mile north
of town and hanged by citizens.
FOUR men were killed and several
severely injured at Fort Independence,
on Castle island, in Boston harbor, by
the explosion of mine which had
been removed from the channel by a
diver.
The strike on the Dallas (Tex) Con-
solidated Street railway was settled
on the 9th by the men being taken
back to work and their union recog'
nized.