Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.


CHARLES YAGER, aged 40 years, of
Brandt, Pa, while temporarily insane,
murdered his three small children by
cutting their Threats and then commit
ted suicide by the same means. He
was a widower.
JOHN MAXEY, a negro rapist, was
hanged at Van Buren,, Ark, on the 4th.
UP to the 4th 10 applications had
been received at the Office of County
Judge Evans at Bonham, Tex, asking
for pensions which were granted by
the last legislature to ex-confederate
soldiers and their widows.
THE New York commerce commits
sion, appointed by the legislature to
investigate the commerce of New York
state and report as to the means of re-
Vival, convened at Whitehall on the
4th.
DISPATCHES from Pine Bluff, Ark,
said the intense heat had caused the
cotton in that vicinity to shed and,
unless weather conditions were soon
changed and rain fell, the result to the
crop would be disastrous.
PRESIDENT DONNELLY, of the Inter
national Typographical union, COM
pleted his annual report to be submit
ted to the convention in Detroit, Mich,
August IA. 1t shows a mem bership of
about $4,000, with something over $19,-
900 in the treasury. There were 10
strikes during the year, Of which seven
were won, three were lost and nine
were pending.
A WOMAN at Bletchley, Eng, had six
children at one birth recently.
MRS. VINCENT RoTTER caught fire
while near her gasoline stove in her
kitchen at Lincoln, Neb. She died
from her injuries. Fastened in high
chair by the table was her four-months-
Did baby. The blaze was commune
gated to the chair and the child's ear
was burned off and other wounds that
caused death in a short while after
they were inflicted. The house was
also consumed.
JOE KENNEDY, the California boxer,
who has aspirations for the heavy
weight championship, has been matched
to fight Peter Maher at the LenoX Ath-
letic club, New York, where the men
will meet on September &c.
MAJOR TAYLOR, the colored profess
sional cyclist, rode a mile, paced by a
steam motor, at Garfield park, Chicago,
on the Sd, in the phenomenal time of
1:22 2-5, thereby beating the worlds
record by SIS seconds.
Two of the assassins of President
Heureaux were captured and shot at
Santo Domingo.
IT was learned from Hermosillo Mex,
On the Sd that three regiments of cav
airy, four regiments of infantry and
two battalions of artillery will con-
stitute the army to fight the Yaquis in
the Batucco mountains The YaquiS
were moving in small detachments from
place to place, ravaging the country
and headed for the Batucco noun tains.
HENRY GILLUM and wife have filed
two suits in the United States district
court for the Eastern district of Texas
for 16 leagues of land in jefferson coun-
ty by virtue of grants by Mexican states
in 1885. The 16 leagues contain II, S4S
acres of land, the present value of which
is easily Sis, $50.
BY the parting of cars Panhandle
freight train was wrecked at Kolzomo,
Ind, and Brakeman Marion Kephart
was killed.
WORK has commenced on another
railroad in Oklahoma. It is an extern
ton of the Rock Island from Enid to
Tonkawa, Al miles. The first dirt has
been thrown. Several new towns will
spring up on the new road. At Tonka-
wa connection with the Santa Fe and
Frisco will be made.
THREE men were at work in a log
cling camp in Dickinson county, Va.
They prepared their breakfast and sat
down to eat, but before they had half
finished one of them fell dead at the
table and the other two died soon after
wards. Their sudden death was
caused by Internationally boiling a
eopperhead snake in their coffee.