Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-20
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the elections committee, Saturday, request !
ing the privilege Of sLamiaing and answer /
ing the athdayits and pagers filed by Mr. |
Ihosbe fox the purpose OF reopening the /
casa
The Andrew Jackson league, a new /
political organization recently formed ia i
Chicago, gave its first public meeting Mon /
day night at Central Music hall. The chief |
event Of the evening was the speech by Hon. /
w. o. Coudys prominent lawyer OF that /
city. The most striking feature of the speech /
vas the advocacy OF the opinion that each |
newspaper editor, reporter or contributor |
should sign hls name to every article he l
writes. That no newspaper should publish /
line that was not reliably cridited- Mr.. /
Coudy stated that he believed the press TO
be the greatest p0Wsr in the country to-day I
greater many times than all others put
together and the public should know tbs
authority and writes Of every line that ap-
psar6d Ia the newspapers
senator Sherman. ia a Letter - John
Thompson, Of the Chase hatiQaal lauE.af
New York, expressed himself as 10 favor ~
Increasing the currency Issued by national
banks 70 the par value OF the U. s.. bonds
depozfted- Should this means be adopted
10 would increase the money circulation
$50, O00, 600, which, ii is believed, would be of
great advantage to the country at this
lime
The Kansas City board OF trade has
passed resolutions favOring the opening Of
the Indian territory TO settlement
A curious feature Of the new liquor law in
Atlanta is the blacklist When a man ap-
pears before the city. recorder on a charge
Of drunkenness for the second time, and he
is convicted. he is blacklisted and his name
IL furnished 70 all liquor dealers, who, under
penalty Of $500 fine, are forbidden 70 sell
him liquor within one year.
At ths annual meeting Of the stock holders
OF the Reading railroad IN Phiiadelphla3
Monday, the course of President COrbin and
the other officials of the company In the
Reading strike was endorsed By their
unanimous re election 10 their offices.
There was no movement Of coal on the
Reading railroad, Monday.
The attorney general Of Missouri submit
ted, Monday, a motion 70 dismiss, for wan
Of jurisdiction, the ease Of Hugh Brooks
alias Maxwell, who Is now IN prison IN st.
Louis, under sentence of death, for the muir
der Of Charles A. Prsiler. The attorney gen
oral maintains tnat the case does not present
q federal question and the supreme court
cannot take Jurisdiction OF it. Counsel for
the prisoner argues IN q VOluminOus brief
that the case does present federal questions
for the reason that the prisoner was induced
by means Of a conspiracy and a plot to Usstl-
fy against himself. contrary 20 the prohibi-
ton and guaranty OtFh6f fourteenth amend
msnt-
James Burnett, an American engineer Of
the Mexican Central railroad, vas released
from more than years unjust confinement
in a lOathsome chihuahua jail, Monday.
Mr.. Burnett was all this time awaiting trial.
which, when at last given, found him not
/ guilty. Mexican justice is very tardys and
natives, when arrested, do not expect rrIGI
| for a year or so. The Americans in Mexico
/ are general IN the opinion that there ought
/ to be treaty stipulation for speedler TRIALS IN
| Mexican courts Of Americans arrested Tor
| accidents on railroads. 1t Is believed that
| in Engineer Burnett's case there are far bet
| ter grounds for a demand for heavy lndeI1-
nifty than IN the case Of Cutting and II IS
I understood that he is making arrangements
/ for bringing his case aud just claims before
| the state department at Washington
Walter E. TFeadweII, the cattle king Of
Anthony, shot and seriously wounded
/ Charles @. CLARK, his old partner, in that
/ city, Saturday. The cause OF the trouble is
/ unknown.
A Wichita dispatch, of Saturday, states that
/ Miss Mary Sheets, a Normal school student
l at EmpOria, who my seriously disappeared
/ a few days before, was found IN that city at
l the home OF a Mr.. Oglssby. The young lady
/ had not eloped with "a drummer as was sup,
/ posed, but in a fit of mental alteration had
l saken the train for Wichita and wandered
over the streets until almost dead
Chairman Townshend, Of the house mill
! tary committee, will present the FOWel res
! DiutiOn, concerning the disposition OF The
| captured flags. The resolution mas DSen
! amended so that the inquiry VIII extend 70
AL the states.
Miss Henrietta Hulsher, of WiIksbs IRE,
Pa, deserted her home and married a CHI
naman, Wednesday. Her parents are try
ing to get her to leave her husband which
she positively declines to do. She says she
| has been in love with John two years, and
| has been waiting for him to Join a Christian
church, which he did recently.
About forty delegates, representing the
! national association of wool growers wool
manufactureEs and Wool dealers, met In con
ference in Washington Wednesday with
the stated purpose OF agreeing upon mu-
| tually satisfactory revision Of the tar1n OF
/ wool. WOolens and wool substitutes. The
| conference was called IN pursuance OF res
olution adopted at the 81. Louis manutac
turerE' convention, last May which directed
the president of the National Wool Growers
association to issue a call to the three ma
tioual associations, representing the WOO
industry, to send delegates to p Joint con
ference in Washington.
A runaway train at st. Elmo, Colorado
Thursday, killed the engineer and the IRE
man. who remained at their posts hoping
to get the train under control.
A New York dispatch of Thursday, state
| that the New York harbOr longshoremel
T. may strike.
A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch gives a
| account OF the remarkable endurance an
| longevity Of Deputy Sheriff McCloskey
| whose neck was broken by accidental shooi
ing. AIcClosksy lived three days after
| was shot, Notwithstanding he had receive
an injury which ordinarily produces lnsta1
death.
A prisoner was brought to- Nevada, Mi
| souri, Thursday, who was sentenced IN U
q ar county, Missouri. to a fine and 80 day
2 Imprisonment for stealing % cent IN
d brella-
A new York dispatch states that Boston
b twelve gas companies are IN process OF col
soHdation into a gigantic trust organlzat1ol
p covering property to the value OF s O,OO
An organization of the real estate men
I that part Of Kansas along the Inc OF z
| Rock Island road, beginning at Manhatta
and ending at Philhpsburg was perfected
/ CLAW Center, Thursday. H NJ FRAZER
- CLAW Center, was elected presidents T. Z
> Hauoweu, BelleVille, vice presidents d.
Elliott, of Manhattan 6ecreti-rys ana >.
/ Granger. OF Philhpsburg, treasurer We
fuu attendance was had and good rneetlI
held. A complete organization was foFmi
o and plan Tor The spring WofA TORN lllits
D A resolution was passed Thursday BY DO
houses of the Mississippi legislature cor
mending hIr. Lamar 70 the American Poop
III The Louisville Courier Journal printe
U struck. Thursday, The trouble arc
about tVps machines, fourteen OF when 9
now used in the Courier J5Hr1l1s ONE
The company announces tnlt u VII
more of them IN the once
A Kansas sinner Repenfst
yVhsHsaroa, ID. O., January 1O.-T
conscience fund was enriched By 81 to-da
- TIE bid came in letter from Hlnsbol
Kansas, and the anonymous send
- / wrote to the posto nee department;
Enclosed had 81, which belongs 20 {
government, and which send you 70 p
y. back for what have done wrong, as / rs
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