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

CHARLES N. CREwsoN, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, has received let
ter from Chairman James X. Jones, of
the democratic national committee,
urging upon him the Importance of re-
organizing the Bryan League Of Col
lege clubs and starting at once q cam
paign of education" in the interests of
free silver for the presidential election
of 1900. Senator Jones stated that he
had written similar letters to other
educational institutions in various
parts of the country.
GILBERT BROCK Drained his father
with an AK at Pineville, Ky. The
father was opposed to the sons mar
riage
In hard fought 2O-round fight in
the Broadway Athletic club house at
New York on the 18th George Dixon,
of Boston, and Jack Downey, of Brook
lyn, worked so fast that the referee de-
clared the bout q draw. Dixon was
the favorite, but Downeys showing
placed him in the front rank of feather
weights.
ANNIE BEsANT, the theosophist will
arrive in this country in March from
India to lecture six months on theoso-
ply.
AN immense tank used in rendering
tallow exploded in the packing house
of Il. Franz at Springfield, ILL.,, and
half the plant was wrecked and two
employees injured.
Mrs. REBECCA CnBIsMAN, aged rs
years, was burned to death at Normal,
Ill, while attempting to light her
fire.
IT was semi-oficially announced at
Paris on the 18th that all the powers
will firmly persist in the agreement to
maintain peace and the attempts of
Greece to disturb it cannot, therefore,
prevail The joint forces of the foreign
warships have occupied the town Of
Canea, Crete.
GEN. 10 o. Shelby, the noted ex-con-
federate general, died at Adrian, Mo-,
Cn the 18th, aged So years.
PBOF. j. EDWARDS was arrested near
Waco, Tex, on the charge of having
murdered ID. Lucas and John Day near
Blackburn, Ok, year ago by shooting
them through window at night.
Ex-CoNaREssMAN SAEDLEY DARLING
TON has been arressed at Westminster,
Pa. on charge of embezzlement aris-
ing from the financial troubles Of the
Westchester Guarantee, Trust & Safe
Deposit Co., OF which he was recently
president. Darlington is well known
i'm Kansas and Missouri. having loaned
thousands of dollars ON real estate in
those states.
THE Alabama legislature passed o
bill and the governor has signed it ex.
empting cotton factories hereafter to
be built in that state from taxation for
ten years.
A DELEGATION representing the
TranSmississippi and international eX,
position left Omaha, Neb., on the 18th
to appear before the legislatures OF
Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
and afterwards TO visit Montana and
the coast states.
Tine most malignant type of measles
has been epidemic for over q month
throughout Jasper, Clark, Cumberland
and adjoining counties in Illinois and
was reported on the nth as growing
more serious. The public schools at
Toledo and many country schools had
been closed.
PETER MAHER fought six rounds With
c. C. Smith, the "black thunderbolt,"
at the Empire Athletic club at New
York on the 18th and had narrow es-
cape from defeat The referee gave
the decision to Maher, bat it was the
general opinion that the big lrisbman
would have been out in couple mole
rounds.
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