Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-18

Col, started the ball rolling, at meet
ing of members, for the secession Of the
western states from the league, the
proposed split being on the rock of
Sunday racing.
TIE bill prohibiting, under heavy
penalty, the sale or giving away in
Alabama of cigarettes, cigarette pa
per's or any substitute for either,
passed the house and will undoubtedly
pass the senate, The governor favored
the measure and It's enactment was as
sured.
Gov. BRADLEY has fixed Saturday,
March 20, us the date for the execution
of Jackson and Walling who murdered
Pearl Bryan near Newport, Ky.
ARTHUR Question:, the millionaire
who murdered his wife and child at
st. Louis on February 10, 1894, while
in drunken frenzy, was hanged Mt
Union, Mo-, on the 10th, The prisoner
for short interval apparently real
lied his end.
TwENTY-FoUR car loads of corn were
distributed by the state relief commit
tee to the drought sufferers of north
Louisiana on the 18th.
PREsIDENT-ELEcT MCKINLEY was sick
in bed at Canton, o., on the 10th from
an attack of the grip and all callers
were denied admission to him.
FRANK WIEeAND, one of the oldest
switchmen in the employ of the c., Il.
l. g. st. p. railroad, slipped on the icy
ground while coupling cars at Rock
Island, ILL.,, and was killed by an en-
CINE.
CUBAN sympathizers at Tacoma,
Wash, recently denounced the Spanish
premier and trailed the Spanish flag in
the mud and then burned It,
ALFRED Son was convicted at El
Reno Ok, of the murder of Fred IIofr-
man, Wells-Fargo detective, and sem
fenced to 80 years in prison.
THE international chess tournament
at New York between Great Britain
and the United States was won by
Great Britain by score of So to ~.
FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos
pital at New York on the 18th and did
100000 damage. Two fremen were
hurt, but the rigid discipline of the
hospital prevented any excitement
among the patients.
THE New York Post denied that there
was any combination between the Car
negie Steel Co. and John d. Rockefeller
in regard to iron and said that there
was no foundation whatever for tho
report.
j. r. SOVEREIGN, grand master X. of
L., has written Il letter declaring that
secret revolutionary societies, known
| as the Iron Brotherhood and Industrial
Army, are being organized in every
part of the country, with their mem
bers leagued together to resort to civil
war as means of obtaining remedies
for the populace which they cannot
secure by the ballot
LEWIS MILLER, living near 0lsmulgee,
I. T., was cremated by his house burn
ing down. He had quarreled and sepa-
rated from his wife and it was sup
posed he had set the house on fire and
shot himself. Others thought it was u
case of murder.
MORTON SHEPPARD, residing near
Muncie, Ind, had his barn burned
down and 40 tons of hay, 70 head Of
sheep and lambs, IS head of hogs, two
mules, roo bushels of wheat, 1000 BUSH
els of corn and oats and all his farm
Implements burned. The insurance
policies had recently expired.
NOTICE Of a ten per cent. reduction,
to take effect March /, has been posted
at the works of the Pennsylvania Steel
Co. at Harrisburg, Pa. 1t will affect
5000 hands.
CHARLES BRADLEY, prisoner being
taken to Jail at Paris, /, T., jumped
from the train while handcutfed and
made his escape.
LINCoLNs birthday on the 18th was
celebrated by republicans with BAN
quets at GAINESVILLE, o., Chicago, In~
dianapolis, Ind, Grand Rapids, Mich,
St. Paul, Mimi, and many other places
throughout the country,
The statement that the capt.
toll at Springfield, ILL.,, is unsafe
badly frightens members of the legis-
lature. Architects have declared that
the foundation is weak and the dome is
likely to fall any moment.
The pittsburgh and western selling
ageaeleB Of the window-glass man
ufacture1s will advance prices 9]6 per
cent. beginning March in the central
and western districts.
A COMPLETE canvass of the Ohio as
sembly was made by Joe Smith, the
confidential secretary of the presidents
elect. The result was that the sup
porters Of National Chairman Hanna
were convinced that If q special session
Of the assembly is called to elect sue
cessor to Senator Sherman Hanna will
be elected by large majority.
The League of American Wheelmen
in annual convention at Albany, N. Y,
on the 18th declined to admit profess
SIGNALS, no matter Of what standing, to
either full or associate membership in
the league and also declined by
heavy vote to allow local option for
SaRday racing.
The executive committee of the ma
tional reform party has issued call
for state conference ut Harrisburg,
Pa, on June 3, 1897, for the purpose Of
uniting all reformers and preparing
plans for the calling of national con-
fPPenCA la 1908 ReformerS from all