Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-09

| Sd, 600 Britons and Americans holding
q regular love feast, the former being
the host and the latter the guests.
Many famous men and women were
present
Coll WooDs' regiment o. rough riders,
officially known as the First United
States volunteer cavalry, went into
camp on the 3D. at Tampa, Fla The
men, fully armed and equipped, made
a magnificent appearance and many
favorable comments were passed by
veterans who watched the wcsterners
as they rode by on their bronchos.
THE London weeltlies dwell upon the
difficulty of following the war opera
tions through the maze of uncertain
ties All agree that Il prolongation Of
war means Americas ultimate triumph
and Spain's utter ruin.
AN Atlanta, Ga, dispatch stated
that State Senator Carter will lead a
company OF giants in the war against
Spain. The senator says this company
will be the tallest in the United States
and physically will hold Il distinction
similar to that of the queens horse
guards in England No person under
six feet will be taken.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Sd num-
bered IFS, according to Bradstreets
commercial report against 1872 for the
corresponding week in last year.
PRIVATE ROLAND MCDONALD, COM
pany M, First Missouri regiment, was
drowned in Chickamauga creek, half
mile from the regiments camp at
Chickamauga Park, Ga. The body was
recovered.
BRAINERD, Mimi, was recently Wis
tied by a tornado, accompanied by.
rain and hail, which did thousands OF
dollars of damage to property. The
wind swept through the residence por-
ton of the city, wrecking outbuild-
ings, uprooting shade trees, demolish-
ing glass store fronts and tearing off
roofs. No fatalities were reported.
LOUIS MARTELs, who was released
from Jail on the 3D. at Alfred, Me-, hav-
ing completed term to which he was
sentenced for misdemeanor in which
Mrs. Joseph Glendon was involved,
was shot and probably fatally injured
as he was leaving the Jail by the hus-
band of The woman. Glendon then
placed the revolver against his own
breast and fired bullet through his
heart, dying instantly.
THIRTY-NINE Spanish prisoners, cap
tured on the Spanish steamship Rita
off Porto Rico on May s, arrived at
New York on the Sd on the Clyde line
steamship Seminole. They were
turned over to the Austrian consul for
shipment back to Spain.
A DISASTROUS freight wreck occurred
on the Illinois Central railroad five
miles south of Ashley, ILL.,, l3 cars and
contents being demolished, consisting
of oats, hay and whisky. Several men,
beating their way, were injured.
In quarrel over a 5O-cent pocket
knife at Galveston, Tex, Pete Peter
son shot and killed Henry Williams, a
negro fisherman.
The tug Record, one of the stanchest
on the lakes, was run down and sunk
on Lake Superior, near Duluth, Mimi,
and three of her crew were drowned.
JUDGE SUTHERLAND, of the Wisconsin
superior court, decided that specif-
cation in contract requiring the con-
tractor to use only union labor is void.
ONE thousand men of the Singer
sewing machine works at South Bend,
Ind, struck on the 3lst for an advance
in wages.
THE Woman's National War Relief
association has been organized in New
York with Mrs U. S. Grant rs presi
dent.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
tar paper factory of Tobias New e.
Co., at New York, in which number
of persons were seriously injured, the
entire plant wrecked and thousands of
dollars of damage done. No one was
killed, but it was feared that some of
the injured may die. The tiremen
think the explosion was caused by ac-
emulation of tar gas,
A SPECIAL from Victoria, b. c., said
that the schooner Lady Jane Grey
foundered 90 miles west of Cape Flat
terry on May 22. Only 27 out of 81 pas
sengers were saved.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad completed its line into Fort
Smith, Ark, on the LIST,
The car barn and 1870 cars of the
Consolidated Railway company at Bal
timOre, Md, was burned, entailing a
loss of S25O,OOO; fully covered by in
surance.
JAMES REID, who shot and killed his
sweetheart, Susie Blallely, at Kansas
City, Mo-, was sentenced by Judge
Wofford to be hanged July 10. Both
parties were colored.
INDIAN AGENT WISDOM, OF Muscogee,
l. r., who was instructed by the in
terror department to investigate the
reported restitution on account of the
recent floods in the Arkansas and Ca
madam river bottoms in this territory
stated that an appropriation of $40, 900
will be required to relieve the wants
of the stricken people. Near Red
land, /. r., at least $50 people were in
destitute circumstances and for 80
miles west of Arkansas along these
rivers there were many people who
were in need of food and clothing.
J. r. SOVEREIGN was deposed as ma