Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-10


I. A. CocKBuRN, one of the proprie-
tors of two large ostrich farms in
southern California, will establish an
ostrich farm near San Antonio, Tex.
OWING to slack business there has
been general reduction Of employees in
all departments of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway at Denison, Tex.
Altogether about 200 employees have
received their walking papers.
TIE Sawyer g. Goodman sawmill at
Marinette, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
The loss amounted to $50, 900.
A MAIL train and freight train coll
lided on the Glasgow e. Southwestern
road near Troon, Scotland. The en-.
gineer and fireman and five workmen
on the freight train were killed and 36
persons injured, some fatally.
EX-Gov. THOMAS A. osborn, of Kan
sas, died suddenly on the 4th at Mead
vile, Pa, OF hemorrhage of the stom-
ach while on visit to II lady to whom
he was engaged to be married in April.
He was born October 20, 1896.
A DISPATCH from Tahlequah, |. T., on
the 4th stated that d. w. Bushyhead, a
leading Cherokee, was dead. lie was
IS years old and had filed every office
in the nation, Recently he was on the
Dawes commission, representing the
Cherokee nation.
The highest price ever paid in the
northwest for hog was reached at
sale at Quinby, Ia, when j. II. Van
Buren, sold Poland China boar for
49, 500 A herd of So porlsers disposed
of the same day brought an average of
500. 80 per head.
The explosion of cinematograph
films caused the burning of the hand
some Y. NJ. c. A, building at Scranton,
Pa. Loss, S225,OOO.
A HORRIBLE crime took place in
Franklin county, Ark, recently. While
engaged in a heated religious discus
sion Sol Aubrey killed his aged father,
mother and his own ten-year-old son
and seriously wounded his wife and
three remaining children, two of whom
were expected to die.
A SCHOOL building at Columbus, O.,
burned on the I'd, but the 800 children
were marched out safely and in an orr
derby manner by the teachers. Books
and wraps were burned.
ALL the biscuit and cracker COM
panies between Salt Lake city on the
west, Portland, Me-, on the east, st.
Paul on the north and New Orleans on
the south have been combined under
one management. The name of the
new corporation, which was incorpor-
ated in New Jersey with capital of
S25, O00,0 900 of preferred and $50, O0O 900
Of common stock, is the National Bis
cult company. The new company con-
trolls 1879 different plants, which is
about 80 per cent. of all the large bak-
cries in the country.
Bob DOUGLASS, of St. Louis, and
Tommy Tracy, of Chicago, engaged in
a lively eight-round boxing contest at
St, Louis, which was declared draw.
SYSTEMATIC pension frauds, it is ale
legged, have been unearthed by the
pension bureau in Oakland City, Ind,
in which leading physician and a
prominent church deacon were said to
be leaders. Both were pension attor-
neys and swore to each others claims,
affidavits and legal papers.
A WOMAN who wished to conceal her
identity donated to the Volunteers Of
America an orange orchard of 20 acres
situated at Thermalito, Cal, valued at
$4,000.
MORE than 800, 900, 900 of government,
state and railroad bonds were sold in
New York during January, compared
with S9S, 1888, 900 for the same month
last year.
The Cleveland, O., Leader stated
that an American wire and nail trust
had been formed with capitalization
of $s7, 900, OOO The huge concern owns
all the establishments in the country
with which wire rod mills are con-
nected.