Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-02
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panic-stricken.
THE steam canal boat J. c. Austin
ran on the rocks off Norwalk, Conn,
and sank, together with her consort,
the David B. Fisk, loaded with coal.
Five persons lost their lives.
THE Commercial hotel at Hillsboro,
Tex, was destroyed by fire and two
men were cremated. 1t was feared
also that another man was under the
ruins
SIMON POKAGoN. the last chief OF the
Pottawatomie Indians, died at Benton
Harbor, Mich, on the eth, aged SO
years.
THE Chicago packers, Swift s. Co.
and Libby, Mcneil 6 Libby, as a re-
suit of the criticisms made against the
fresh meat furnished during the war,
on the eth announced that they would
jointly pay 100000 to anybody prov
ing that chemicals were used to pre-
serve the beef packed by them.
JUDGE e. NJ HUGHES, of the Audrain
county circuit court at Mexico, Mo,
has decided a test case in reference to
war tax law, declaring it was not the
intention Of congress to require a
stamp upon certificates of a judicial
character, because 1t would be uncon.
stitutional lie said that the states
did not delegate to the federal govern
ment the power Of taxation over its
officers or courts or any other machin-
cry necessary for the support and main
tenance of the local state government.
II. G. DUN & Co.'s weekly review OF
trade reports 244 failures in the United
States for the week ended the 27th,
against 342 for the corresponding week
OF last year.
WESLEY Lyons, madly in love with
Miss Mary Davis, at Shawnee, o., who
rejected him, shot her escort from a
dance party and then killed himself
The escort may recover.
THE lower house of the Nebraska
legislature has gone on record as OPP
posed to the seating of Brigham IL.
Roberts, ongressman.elect from Utah.
THE citizens of Asheville, N, c., were
startled by the fearful jar and noise Of
a dynamite explosion that occurred in
the blacksmith shop of the city quarry,
demolishing the shop, killing one per-
son and dangerously, perhaps fatally,
injuring two others. One of the work
men had been directed by the foreman
to thaw some dynamite on the smithy
forge and the explosion followed.
THE seat of N. b. Scott, the new re-
publican senator from West Virginia,
will be contested by his opponent,
John Z. McGraw, on the ground that
two of the men who voted for Scott
were Ineligible because they held COM
missions in the United States volun-
teer army.
The steamer Aorangi from Austria
lasia brought to Victoria, b. c., details
of terrible cyclone which swept the
south seas, devastating villages, wreck
ing shipping, uprooting cocoa planta-
tions and leveling yam patches, Over
500 natives were reported to have been
killed in the Solomon islands alone.
A TRAIN on the Big Four road, while
running 40 miles an hour the other
night instantly killed an unknown
man and woman who were walking on
the track few miles west Of Cleve,
land, o. The bodies were mangled in
a horrible manner.
THE Second and Third battalions OF
the Twentieth United States infantry
arrived at San Francisco on the Goth
from Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and
sailed for Manila in the evening.
The non partisan statehood conven.
ton met at Guthrie, Ok, on the 25th
and was largely attended. A resolu-
tion was adopted urging the present
territorial Legislature to provide for q
constitutional convention. commit
tee was appointed to memorialize con
gress for Oklahoma's admission as q
state.
THE county clerks room in the stone
courthouse at Carlinsville, ILL.,, was re
Gently burned. The papers were all
destroyed.
IT was reported at Louisville, KY,
that the whisky combine, which has
been in formation in Kentucky for
about year, had been consummated
WILLIAM M. STEWART was elected
United States senator on the oath by
the Nevada Legislature
ALL the rivers in East Prussia have
overlooked and immense damage has
been done in the region inundated, nc
cording to dispatch from Berlin Or
the cath.
SEVERAL sharp shocks of earthquake
were felt in Mexico City on the gath
and people rushed into the streets anC
prayed. The national palace was
cracked in many places, the street cal
stables fell in, killing number Of
mules and child, and much other
damage was done,
The death rate in Lincoln, Ill.
caused by grip was said to be appall
ing. Death in most instances wa.
AMONG old settlers and children. The
epidemic has been spreading since De
cember 1 and the health department
calculates that 90 per cent. of tn,
population has been afflicted.
GEORGE BEREsFoRD FoYLE was ar
rested at Davenport, Ia, charged will
having seven wives scattered through
the cities of this country and Canada.
THE osterbout building at Phila
delphia was burned on the cath, entail
ing loss of S225,OOO Many persons
asleep in the structure were rescued il
their night clothes,
Ex-Gov. C. A. CULBERsoN was elected