Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

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lille. KY, on the 25th for murder.
MANY points in south and southwest
Virginia and in North Carolina expert
enced an earthquake shock soon after
three o'clock on the afternoon OF the
25th.
WILL BARNES, a miner, was empty
Ing keg of powder in house at
Isley's switch, Hopkins county, KY,
while smoking and a spark from his
pipe dropped into the can of powder.
His mother was instantly killed and
he and his sister were seriously injured.
One end of the house was blown down
and the entire building damaged.
The soap factory of the Allen b,
Wrislew company at Chicago was com
pletely destroyed by fire the other
evening. 1t was generally supposed
that spontaneous combustion was the
cause Of the fire. Loss estimated at
$10 900; well insured.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 25th
numbered l7S. according to Brad
streets commercial report against 233
for the corresponding week last year.
NEAR Kildare, Ok, che ten-year-old
daughter of family named McCray,
from Nemaha, Kan, who we're travel
ing in wagon, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of rife which her
fve-year-old brother picked up.
A TRAIN was derailed on the Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids e. Northern road
while rounding a curve near Burling'
ton, la, The day coach, containing 20
passengers, rolled over twice and land
ed right side up in a ditch, so feet
away. Two persons were fatally In
jured and several others received
bruises
SIMON GUGGENHEIM. who was mar
ried on the cath in New York city to
Miss olga Hirsh, commemorated the
event by giving Thanksgiving din
ner to 1000 children in Denver, Col,
where he lives. The tickets were dis
tributed by Parson Tom" Uzzell, of
the Peoples tabernacle, TO whom Mr..
Guggenheim entrusted the manage
ment of the feast.
MRS. THOMAS STEPHENS was burned
to death and Alex Ross was fatally
burned during fire in the woman's
house at Elkton, Mich, caused by the
explosion of an oil stove.
ACCORDING to oriental advices the
number of houses destroyed by the re-
cent fire at Hankow, China, was more
than $4,000 and $500 persons were
burned to death.
THE Official Gazette of Madrid has
published decree accepting the res
| ignation of Gen. Blanco as captain
general of Cuba.
THE Wilson bank at Utica, O., was
robbed while the officials were absent
for period of IS minutes at dinner on
the Esd of $4,000 in registered bonds,
3d. 600 in coupon bonds and IS, 900 in
gold and currency. Tramps were sup
posed to have done the work. En-
trance was effected through back
window
Two men were killed and several in
jured by the premature explosion of
dynamite at the Limestone quarries
near Middlesboro Ky.
THE commissary department on the
22d dispatched the steamer Bratten
from Savannah, Ga, with 700 tons of
provisions for the starving people of
Cuba The Bratten will leave a por-
ton OF the cargo at Havana and then
will sail to Matanzas and other points.
THE Pres byterian industrial school
(colored) at Philadelphia, Ark, was
destroyed by fire on the 22d.
THE Milwaukee Daily News on the
92d said that Buffalo, N. Y, would
take the place of st. Joseph, Mo-, in
the Western Baseball league and that
the league magnates would make the
formal transfer the next day.
THE most disastrous prairie FIRE that
ever ravaged the Indian territory was
recently brought to an abrupt close
by heavy transforms. The fire started
two weeks before in the Chickasaw
and Choctaw nations, and it is esti-
mated that property to the value of
$3.50, 900 has been destroyed An area
of IS miles square was burned over.
Mrs. s. G. SMITH left baby boy tied
in chair at Averyville, ILL.,, with a
boy of four years and girl of two
years to watch. The two latter played
with fire and set the house on fire and
the baby was burned to death. The
mother returned while the house was
burning and tried to save her child
and was probably fatally burned.
JOHN STEFANoIN was shot and killed
and John Fedorco mortally wounded
at Cleveland, O., by Sam Carr, a col
ored man from North Carolina. Carr
entered Stefancins yard in an intoxi-
Gated condition and Stefancin attempt
ed to put him out when quarrel en-
sued and Carr pulled a revolver and
began firing.
THREE thousand operatives in the
cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, struck on
account of a reduction in wages.
MRS. MAMIE STALEY and Minnie
France, her niece, were burned to death
at Huntington, w. Va. May Stanley
was also badly injured.
A BOUNTY of So head for wolves IS
offered by Bureau county, Ill.
FIVE prisoners sawed their way out
of the Jail at Joliet, ILL.,, recently.
Ed MERRIwEATHER was lynched at
Monticello, Ca, the other day. He
was taken from the Jail by number