Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-31

Os one OF the Wabash leased lines but Is IN
! the hands of the original company.
/ At the meeting Of the council of Kansas
I City, Mo-, Mayor kumpf sent IN com
I municatiOn asking the aldermen to pass an
/ ordinance compelling telegraph and tele-
phone companies 70 put their wires under
/ ground instead OF str1ng1ng them on poles.
/ The movement has never been inaugurated
/ at Kansas City, although discussed more or
less for the two or three past years.
/ A special engine eollided with the regular
I train on the Louisville g. Nashville railroad
near Duck river, forty-eight miles south Of
] Nashville, Tenn and seven men were IN
/ stantly killed. The collision occurred IL a
/ deep cut with a sharp curve, making IL i'm
/ possible to see each other. The collision
] took place while both trains were running
at full speed. Both engines are tota
| wreck.
/ A convention Of men employed BY the new
/ mining syndicate, which operate the major
| ity of the mines IN Southern Illinois, was
I held in EastSt. Louis. 1t was decided to de-
mand that they be paid cents per bGshei,
[ top weight without truck stones. The de-
mend viii be submitted 70 the directors. and
I III not granted a general strike is threatened.
/ 1t is believed that trouble viii be averted by
! concessions being made on both sides.
A dispatch from Fort Scott, Kan, says:
heavy rain has fallen throughout the cOuu-
ty. it began raining in the morning and
continued throughout the entire day. For
hours the water came down in torrents.
| The streams and rivers are rapidly rising.
. Adv1c6s indicate that the rain Is general
Z throughout this section Of the state. A
splendid corn crop IS now a certainty. Tbs
I yield will be the largest for several years.
I The board Of managers of the national
! home for disabled soldiers held their closing
/ session OF the regular quarterly meeting, in
/ New York city, besides distributing the
amounts for the ensuing quarter, the board
/ appOrtiOned $1,000 which will be used to
EIfH
/ LeavenWOrth, Kan, and Milwaukee, Wis.
| These barracks Will provide for about 1000
I inmates. The appropriations for the quar-
! ter aggregate over $4,000 The next meet
/ ing will be at Dayton, Ohio.
! The recsiver of the Provident Savings
bank, OF st. Louis, has petitioned the circuit
court for advice and directions relative to
/ the settlement with the boudsmen of Almon
Z b. Thompson, the d5faultlng cashier. In
] the petition the receiver states that he has
| received from Richard NJ. Scraggs a prOpO-
sition from the bondsmen, Of which he is
one, which proposes to cover the entire
amount Of the dsfalcatiOn, provided that
there shall be returned TO them all evidences
of ThOmpsOn's Irregularities. It is believed
that the court Will approve the plan, so the
/ depOsitors can be paid in full.
The section of the oleOmargarine bill as to
I penalty as amended by the senate and
| passed by that body reads as follows: ''Ev-
/ cry person who knowingly sells or offers for
/ sale or delivers or offers TO deliver, any
Ol6Omarggrlue in any other form than in
new wooden Or paper packages, as above de-
scrlbed5 or who packs IN any package any
Ol6Cmargar1n8 IN any manner contrary to
law. or who falsely brands any package, or
au1es stamp on any package CenOtlng
ess amount of tax than that required by
aW, shall be fined for each offense not more
than $1,000 and be imprisoned not more
than two years"
The great rolling mill strike, involving
/, 800 men in the i've largest establishments,
or Philadelphia fa.5 was settled IN
favor of the employees. The terms upon
which the meu returned to work involve the
concession of the . cent minimum card rate
as the basis of wages. The adoption of this
scale gives the iron workers an advance of
20 cents per ton. By the terms of settle
uent when the selling price of bar iron
drops below cents per pound there viii be
no reduction in wages but for every 10 of
cent advance or reduction IN the selling
price from that basis, there viii be q cOrres-
pOnding increase or reduction in the ages
Of the iron workers.
Judge Bridgeman, American consul at
PasO Del Norte, received dispatch from
Secretary Bayard#tO demand the immediate
and unconditional release OF A. ID. Cutting,
an American editor, who has been confined
in prison for the publication of an article
IN the Fl PasO papers referring to Mexican
cities. The consul has already demanded
his release and was rldlcuied by the court
officer. The eXcitementis high, threatening
TO raise a TuOb to release him The town is
rejoicing over the action of Secretary Bay
ard II Is impossible to get anything
authentic of the result of Consul Bridge
hams demand. 1t is rumored that the
Mexican Judge refused to. release him with
out bond.
The evidence in the Sells murder case
which has been on at Erie, NeOsho county,
is now all in. Willie Sells when placed on
the stand swore that be awakened in the
night on which the murder was committed.
de felt bad, as If his hands and feet were
asleep. He saw man IN his room, who
went out. He got up and went into the
other loom and then saw his father lying on
the floor covered with blood. He tried to
raise him up but could not. He then no
tlced his mother and sister and everything
became dark to him. The remainder Of the
evidence was the same as before. During
the cross examination the witness tainted,
creating quite a little excitement. In the
afternoon the jury viewed the Sells place.
Lincoln SproIs, a white man, and Calvin
Jones a negro, were hanged at Fort Smith,
Ark, for murders committed in the Indian
Territory. Sprols killed Benjamin +.
CLARK, a white man, and his fOurteen-year-
old boy, Alex Clarke, near lane's Valley, IN
the ChickasaW nation, on the 25th day OF
May, 1885. He and Clarke had a difficulty,
and on the day Of the killing when Clarke
and boy went to White Bead Hill with a
wagon after supplies, Spr0ls concealed him
when they returned, fired and MORALLY
wounded Benjamin Clarke, with his Win
chester rifle. The noise caused Clarke's
horse TO run away. Alexander Clarke jumped
out to catch the horses, when SprOls shot
and killed him also.
Albert Griffin, chairman Of the orgaulz-
ing committee of the anti saloon repubH
cans, has issued a cah for a conference, to
be hel d In Chicago on September 16. 1t
says: each state Is requested tn elect four
times as many delegates and alternat6s as
il has senators and representatives IN con-
gress, and the territories can send as many
as thay would be entitled to if they were
states" The promoters of this movements, [
the call says, believe that as the democratic
party has become the protector of the sG- |
10 on interests, the republican party uugh /
to become the avOWed champion and de- /
The call further says that more than one !
half of the republican members OF the Z
senate, and large number OF congressman I
and party leaders, have expressed themselves 1
in favor of this policy. During the past /
two months arrangements have been made ]
that insure delegations from nine states, to- ]
Wit: Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, New Jer- /
sey, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hamp- .
shire, Maine and Rhode Island, and it is I
hoped that all the northern and some Of the 4
southern states will be represented.
The case against Willie Sells, charged /
with the murder of his father, mother and I
brother, on the Sth of last March, is now oc- l
Of NeOsho county. The interest in the case !
ia intense. The murder occurred a few miles I
north OF Erie, NeOshO county. Jacob Sells. /
the father of the prisoner, was a well-tO-dO I
and three children, Matty, Willie, and a I
daughter Ina, The eldest son, Watty, at
tended the normal school at Emporia, last I
winter. On the morning Of March 8, about