Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-14

plOyeS stockholders IN the company
and President Stickney has issued q
circular on the subject. inviting the
employees to become joint owners of
the road.
A sEvEN-FooT vein of exceedingly
rich gold ore has been struck in the
Red River mine at Acton, Cal. The
vein is sprnkled thiclSly with free
gold. The report said that there APP
peared TO be tens of thousands of tons
Of the richest ore ever struck in that
part Of the state.
THE drought around Dubuque, Ia,
was reported serious on the Sth. The
pastures were all dried up and farmers
are feeding hay to their cattle.
THE plant of the Zimmerman Pack
ing company at Portland, Ore, was
burned the other day. Besides the de-
struction of the meat in the building
some sheep were also cremated. Loss,
$50, 900.
ACCORDING to dispatches on the 9Th
the drought was general not only in
Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Ok
lahoma and Arkansas, but in all of the
central and northern states, including
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
THE result OF four-handed duel
fought on country road few miles
from Moultrie, Ca, was the death of
Henry Neismith, the wounding of his
son Nathan and an upheaval in usu-
ally peaceful community, which sent
mob of determined men and blood
hounds after those who did the shoot
ing, Henry Harris and his son Robert.
1t was believed that they were both
wounded
THE first party of rs of a number of
Mennonite colonists from Kansas were
stopped in Robertson county, Tex, the
other day by armed men, who threat
ened them with death and destruction
of property unless they turned back,
which they did, They will try to set
tie in some other portion of Texas.
NEAR Sandy Springs, Md, William
Timmons shot and killed William Hin
ton, his father-in-law, inflicted q
wound which will prove fatal to his
wife and also shot the wife of John
Hinton, his wife's brother, causing
serious but not necessarily fatal
wound. The shooting was the result
of quarrel between Timmons and his
wife.
TIE application for a hearing of the
Kansas City stock yards case was
argued on the 18th before Judge San
born, of the United States circuit court
at st. Paul, Mimi, and the lawyers
finally agreed upon stipulation for a
hearing about October IS before Judges
Foster and Thayer and the motion for
hearing before Judge Sanborn was
withdrawn.
THE forest fires that have been rag
ing in Manitoba for the past three
days have broken out more furiously
than ever Ten or IL persons were re-
ported to have been burned to death
and the fire was rapidly spreading over
the boundary line into Dakota. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
timber, grain and farm buildings have
been destroyed.
The Carnival pageant at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th was parade of all ma
tions, glimpses of the life and customs
in other countries being shown. Uncle
Sam marched at the front, being seven
feet eight inches tall and dressed in
the traditional costume.
The Seventh Day Adventists of the
southwest opened a two-weeks meet |
ing at Guthrie, Ok, on the 5th. Eight
hundred Adventists were present and
600 more were expected.
-FOUR of a crew of seven men were
recently drowned at North Long
Branch, N. j., by the capsizing of their
fishing boat. A huge wave struck it.
SIXTY villages near Tung Chou,
China, containing over $4,000 inhabit-
ants, have been destroyed by floods |
and the people drowned or forced to
flee. Chinese authorities estimated |
that $1,000 to 10000 were drowned.
SEVEN houses in North Des Moines,
Ia, recently caught fire from blaze
in barn in the vicinity. Loss about
$50, OOO
c. V. RODGERS, of East Dallas, Tex,
was probably fatally stabbed by
negro at st. Louis on the night of the
Yelled Prophets parade.
ABOUT 2S frame business houses and
residences were burned on the 9th by |
a fire which broke out in the Dexter
park pavilion at the Union stock yards |
at Chicago. Many horses also lost their |
lives in the contlagration, the number
not being known.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch stated
that Commander Darlington Booth alb
solutely denied the report that nego-
tiations were in progress for union of
the Salvation army and the American
Volunteers.
Two men were killed and ten injured |
by the blowing down of big new no
tel al Lindsay park, CharlevoiX, Mich.
The men were atworS on the structure
when storm caused it to collapse,
through not being properly braced.
CLEARINGs at the Kansas City, Mo-,
banks during the last nine months
have been enormous The record, ac-
cording to Bradstreet's, is 1891, $50, 1873.
This is S27, $50, Gal in excess of the cor
responding period of 1885,
Two factions of the congregation of
st. John Baptiste at Chicago quarreled
in church on the I'd and continued IL