Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-19

A DISPATCH from Madrid on the 18th
stated that all the broad supplies In
the city bakeries were exhausted.
THE Spanish flying squadron was
said TO be OH Martinique, w. l., on the
18th and Adm. SIMPSONS fleet was on
the lookout for it and great naval
battle was expected In n day or two.
Commodore Schley's fleet received
sealed orders to sail and it was thought
his squadron would either go to help
Adm. Sampson or maneuver around
the coast of Cuba.
PETER MAHER was knocked out by
Joe Goddard in less than two minutes
in fight Mt Philadelphia on the 18th.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States during the week ended the 18th
numbered $50, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 25l
for the corresponding week OF last
year.
FIVE lives we're crushed out and sew
eral men were terribly injured by the
collapse of two five-story fiat buildings
in course of erection at New York.
ACCORDING to accounts received Mt
Nassau, N. p, by the British cruiser
Talbot, the blockade OF Havana was
pinching the inhabitants dreadfully
Nothing in the shape of supplies was
entering the city and the residents
were gloomy and depressed. Orders
had been issued by Gen. Blanco pro
hibiting dealers from selling more
than one days supplies to the same
person at one time. Fresh provisions
were very scarce, and meat was selling
at rs to so cents, gold, per pound. The
lower classes of the people were suf-
fering greatly.
LLoYD's agent at Manila cabled to
London on the 18th from Hong Kong
that the blockade of the capital Of the
Philippine islands was strictly main
tanned by Adm. Dewey and that the
cable was aboard an American vessel.
ENocH Cox, night Waterman at the
Rogers foundry at Belleville, ILL.,, was
found dead the other morning. There
was heavy windstorm the previous
night, which knocked an electric light
wire from its fastenings and it was
supposed that Cox came in contact
with the live wire.
A Hong KONG special on the 12th
said that trading vessel from the
Philippines reported having witnessed
the destruction of n Spanish warship
by the United States gunboat Concord
at Iloilo. The fight is said to have
lasted two hours, at the end of which
time the Spaniard went down with
colors flying. There were no casual
ties on board the Concord and no dam
age was done the gunboat.
ONE person burned to death, one IA
tally injured and over dozen others
more or less seriously hurt were the
result of clearinghouse fire at 925
LaSalle avenue, Chicago, on the 18th.
John Cornell, the clerk, who lost his
life was found on the third floor
burned to a crisp. The fire originated
in the basement and it was thought to
have been caused by oiled rags left
there by painters.
GRAIN elevator I'D" at Chicago, be-
longing to the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Losses on building and
contents aggregated about $1,000, 600.
The elevator contained 1,115,O0O bush
els of grain valued at $s0O,OOO, the
property of P. D. Armour. The grain
was fully insured.
A REPORT from Port-au-Prince on
the 18th stated that Adm. Sampson
had bombarded San Juan de Porto
Rico and in few minutes had reduced
Moro fort to heap of ruins Thou
sands of the population and the for
eign consuls, it was said, had sought
refuge in the interior of the island.
OWING to prolonged drought in Cali
fornia the outlook for the wheat crop
is decidedly gloomy one in that state.
A DISPATCH from Mobile, Ala, on
the 18th stated that dastardly at
tempt to poison the drinking water of
the infantry regiments at Camp Mo-
bile had been made by Spanish spies.
A DUBUQUE, Ia, dispatch stated that
County Supervisor Pillard had bunch
of 40 fine hogs attacked with the chol-
era and half of them died. He wrote
to Washington and obtained the gov
eminent cure and the result was that
he saved 10 out of the remaining 30
head, all of which had been attacked.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Shanghai
said that it was reported there that
Adm. Montejo, the commander of the
Spanish fleet, who escaped from Cavite
by running along shore to Manila with
his two sons, was killed by the popu-
lace of the latter place.
THE convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Chiefs of Police opened at
Milwaukee on the 10th with delegates
representing the largest cities in the
country. President Jannsen, in his
address, referred to the vast and in
creasing number of criminals as one
of the problems to be dealt with. He
spoke of the advantages of the system
of measurement and photographing
criminals, advocated the adjustment
of the laws governing the eXtradition
of criminals and favored hard manual
labor in the open air as preferable to
the present prison system.
The levees broke at Hardwood,
Ark, and near the Pitts place and in
undated several plantations. Reports
came from many points of incalculable