Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-07-15
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

The president will spend the month
.of August on the shores of Lake
.Champlain.
Wu Ting Fong, the Chinese minister
ut Washington, will be transferred
soon to Toxic, Japan,
Steel and iron workers and their
employees We're unable to agree upon q
wage scale. About 20, 900 men proba-
bly, will strike.
Mrs Swift, an Eastern woman,
awolle when her train reached Oak
land, CAL, to find that 81, 700 in money
and three valuable diamonds had been
stolen from her.
Il, Silk of Moberly, Mo, has been
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment for killing boy.
jim Bing, New York laundryman,
cut prices. Now he is missing and
Highbindcrs are suspected Of the
work.
A tornado swept western Kentucky
and southern Illinois. Much damage
was done at Paducah. Three persons
are known to have been injured ia
tally.
Mexican physicians have discovered
a narcotic, which is harmless, and
which produces tranquil sleep for the
insane.
Actor Radcliffe will be returned to
New York for trial on charge of
wife beating.
Austin Pail n ,,,a,,oba,t 80 -
Tour, Mo-, and married, has mysteri-
ously disappeared.
Paul Elliott shot and killed two men
and mortally wounded woman near
Hayden, l. T., and escaped,
Chinese paid over half million for
a plot of ground near Philadelphia,
which will be used as a Chinese bury
ing ground.
Father August Talton, the first and
only negro priest in this country, is
dead, and will be buried at Quincy,
III.
Senator Quay has announced that he
will be u candidate to succeed himself
in the Senate, thus refuting reports
that he intends retiring.
Thomas Flood, one of the tramps inn
plicated in the alleged accident on the
Wabash at Wellsville, has been ar
rested and charged with murder.
Railroads continue to confscate all
coal on their tracks. A Cleveland firm
will make test case of it. The rail
roads claim as justification their con-
tract to haul the United States mail
The will is on file in Chicago of John
Spooner, an eccentric sailor by which
81, 100 is set aside for the maintenance
of his dog after his death.
Captain Francis Yorke Mahon of the
First Royal dragons shot himself to
death in London because of inability
to pay his debts.
United States Consul General Lee
reported that he had been able to use
only Sc, 900 of the $50, 900 appropriated
by Congress for suffering Americans
in Cuba.
The Bradley-Martins of New York
are reported to have taken the late
Barney Barnato's unfinished palace in
London.
In London interview, Senator
Wolcott says that prospects are good
for international bimetallism
Kansas stockmen complain of viola
tions of the new law requiring rail-
roads to furnish transportation and
meeting to demand enforcement may
be held in Topeka or Kansas City.
Services in the Senate chamber for
the late Isham &. Harris of Tennessee
were attended by the President, his
cabinet and most Congressman.
The electric light works of Okla
homa City burned, leaving the city in
complete darkness. The loss is $685.
.00O.
Minister Hoshi Of Japan says that
the Japan Herald's report that his
country will seize Hawaii is without
foundation.
Many Kentuckians have asked Gov
ernor Bradley to pardon George Din
ming, the negro who killed man
while defending his home.
Merrill Raglan was shot from am
bush near Arlington, Ill, by William
Veroy, who charges Raglan with his
daughters ruin.
Fred Washington, distant relative
of the Father of his country, was
frightfully and fatally mangled in
runaway at Sedalia.
Harvest hands in Kansas want
double pay for working 10 hours per
day and five meals.
Kansas trainmen are nimporting
tramps in Kansas and selling them to
the farmers at fifty cents and S: per
head.
A Georgia negro ate seven water
melons for a reward of fifty cents and
died.
Frank Marion, of Wichita, Kan,
while asleep, was robbed of $500 by
two companions at Nevada, Mo-
Near 500 picnickers were poisoned
by eating ham in sandwiches near
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. No deaths
occurred.
The President pardoned Robert NJ.
Allen, sentenced to five years in the
Missouri penitcntiary for mail rob-
berry.
Grasshoppers have appeared in great
in the western part of Barton
county. Kansas. Cornieds have been
damaged by them.
Miss Lou Dingley, niece of Con-