Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-17

ment contract for $1,000 hospital tentE
THE big whalebacls barge No. !O:.
owned by the American Steel Barge
company, parted her tow line in Cleve-
land (0.) harbor during gale and at
once drifted against the west break
water. All attempts to get line to
her from the tugs were in vain and,
after pounding against the breakwater
for several hours, she finally went to
the bottom. Six men, composing the
crew OF the barge, were rescued by the
life-saving crew with much difficulty.
HUNDREDS of people were reported
sick and many cattle have died through
drinking the water from the Roaring
Fork river, which has been made
poisonous through the COMMENTATORS
at Aspen, Col, in which zinc ores are
treated, dumping the tailings into the
river. Ranchers are taking steps TO
stop the pollution of the stream.
A COMPLIMENTARY banquet to Gen.
Miles was given at the Waldorf Astoria
hotel, New York, on the night Of the
18th. Leading politicians, military,
naval and business men were present
to the number Of 700. Gen. Miles spoke
of the recent war with Spain.
AN overturned kettle of grease
caught fire in the Great Western tin
plate company's mill at Joliet, ILL.,, on
the 10th and owing to the hurricane
blowing the plant was in ashes in 80
minutes. The mill employed 275
skilled workmen. Loss, $l2O, 900; in
surance, s47, 900.
AT Rehobeth, s. c., five negroes laid
dead on the 10th along the roadside,
another was killed the previous day
and four others were thought to be
dead in the woods. One white man
was buried, three others were dying
and several more were wounded 1t
was caused by trouble on election day
in which two white men were killed.
THE steamer Australia on the 10th
brought advices from Honolulu to San
Francisco that sickness among the SOL
diers in camp there was increasing.
Typhoid fever was rampant, the milf
tary hospital was crowded and the
nursing force was entirely inadequate
to the demands made upon it.
The engine on Baltimore 81 Ohio
train ran off the rails at Mount Vernon,
o., the other night, turning over on
the side. The engineer was seriously
injured and another man slightly hurt.
THE worlds ten.shot pistol record
was broken in Philadelphia on the 9th
by G. II. Taylor, of the Massachusetts,
Rife association. He made the limit
score of 100 and placed ten consecutive
shots within 36 inches of the bulls
eye at 5919 yards. The previous rec
ord, which has stood since 1883, was 80,
by E. j. Darlington, of Wilmington,
Del.
TIE kaiser will visit Spain on his re-
turn from Palestine.
ARTHUR DOLE, young man of JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, was accidentally shot
and killed at Sycamore, ILL.,, while duck
hunting with party of friends. In
crawling through hedge and draw
ing his gun after him it was dis
charged, the entire charge lodging in
his side. His companions FASTENED to
him, but he called one by name and
said: II guess Pm shot, jim and died.
LAKE MICHIGAN, swept by north
east gale, was tearing great holes in
the sea wall and the paved beach along
the lake front at Chicago on the 10th.
The Lincoln park commissioners had
repaired the damage of the storm of
October 95, but the action of the waves
undermined the outer driveway in Lin
coin park, after displacing the heavy
granite blocks with which the beach
was paved.
The whaling steamer Thrasher ar
rived at San Francisco from the Arctic
with big cargo She had the luck
that has followed most of the recently
arrived whalers and stored away in
her hold $4,000 pounds of whalebone.
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