Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-01-26

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seating i. II. Roberts in congress.
GREAT BRITAIN has proclaimed a
protectorate over the Soudan portion
OF Africa.
The Sherwood house at Cincinnati
took fire early on the Goth, probably
from an overheated furnace, and in a
very brief time the house was 30 filled
with smoke as to endanger the lives OF
the go or more sleeping guests Very
soon the upper corridors were filled
with shrieking and hysterical women
in night robes The male guests had
difficulty in restraining the women
from jumping from the windows. They
were all finally rescued.
WRECKAGE was found on Breton
island. near Biloxi, Miss, which was
identified as belonging to the missing
naphtha launch Paul Jones and 1t was
believed that the naphtha tank blew
up, tore the boat TO pieces and all on
board were lost.
THE bank at Arthur, H., was robbed
Of 81, 900 or So, 900 the other night. Six
men overpowered the night Waterman,
bound and gagged him and tied him
IN back room. The robbers blew
open the safe with dynamite, secured
the money, stole handcar and es'
capped,
A SOLID block on South Main street
in Davis. /. T.. was consumed by fire
on the goth. The post office was en-
tirely destroyed,
THE ninety-third anniversary Of the
birth of Gen. Robert H. Lee was cele-
brated at Waco, Tex, by Pat Cleburne
camp, United Confederate Veterans.
BY invitation of the camp the Grand
Army post and the Woman's Relief
corps attended the exercises. Confed'
crate and Grand Army badges APP
peared about half and half in the au'
dience.
FIRE destroyed the Cammeyer
building at New York on the 10th and
nearly 800 people, of whom 800 were
women, were temporarily thrown out
of work. The loss was estimated at
$3.50, O0O
A FREIGHT train on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg e. Gulf railroad, while near
ing Texarkana, Ark, at full speed,
struck u loose rail, which threw the
engine wheels off and caused the cars
to jam together Six box cars and q
lot of furniture that they contained
were destroyed.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Graphic said on the 10th
that one of the principal chiefs of the
Carlists informed him that everything
was ready for rising in Spain, thai
Don Carlos was absolutely resolved tc
take the field and that all were wait
ing for the signal.
A wARsHIP has been ordered to Sa
moa on account of the trouble grow
ing out of the election OF successor
to the late King Malietoa. A specia
dispatch said that the British and
American consuls were compelled tt
force the doors Of the supreme court
at Apia, Samoa, in which the German
consul had established himself, anC
push him into the street. The situa
ton was reported grave in the islands
and may embroil the United States
and Great Britain with Germany.
FIVE small boys were drowned al
South Gibson, Pa. They coasted dowr
o steep hill on a big sled on to a ponC
when the ice broke and they wen
under,
EUGENE HALE was reelected United
States senator by the concurrent VOTE
of the two branches of the Maine
legislature. 1t will be his fourth tern
in the senate.
THREE highwaymen chose police
man in full uniform for victim a
Chicago on the 18th and held him NJ
at the points of revolvers. They robbed
him of his own weapon after making
a vain search for money and then or
dered him to hurry on and notify hi
police station.
FARMERS in the north of Madison
county, Ind, were losing fine cattle a
an alarming rate, caused by them eat
ing smutty ears of corn.
FIRE destroyed the dairy barn o
Thomas Clark near Kankakee, Ill.
recently. Thirty head of milch cows
ten head OF high.grade horses and 1
SO, 900 stallion, together with consid
cradle seed, were burned. Two EN-
ployes narrowly escaped with theil
lives. The FIRE was started by cow
horn striking lighted lantern,
A PETITION to the Illinois legislator,
to do away with capital punishment
was being extensively signed a
Charleston and other towns in Illinois
CAssIUs e. FOSTER, judge of the fed
eral court for the district of Kansas
has sent in his resignation to TAX,
effect March /.
AN imperial trade has been issued n
Constantinople ordering the purchas,
OF 1872 Krupp field guns and $4,000
schrapnel shells,
MRS. SAM SMITH, of Lamont, Ok.
blew out her brains with revolver il
the presence of her husband and chill
dren. Religious mania was supposed
to have led to the suicide.
Two thousand persons attended tn
Texas live stock convention at Calves
ton.
A FREsHET in Wood county, O., ha
done great damage.
SEVERAL hundred men and womei
employed in the big building at Is
Market street, Chicago, were throw
into panic by a fire which broke on
on the fourth floor and, although n
one was injured, many had marrow