Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-23

championship of the world. After ID
lively rounds the latter threw up the
sponge and acknowledged the Hoosier's
superiority.
WILLIAM CARR was hanged by the
sheriff at Liberty, Mo-, on the nth for
the murder of his three-year-old
daughter.
WHILE a herd Of sheep, numbering
10000 head, belonging TO M. 0. Muir
ply, was being moved out of Schleicher
county, Tex, TO n new range, u dense
fog suddenly came up, The herders got
bewildered and the entire herd drifted
away and were not found, although
searching parties were out several days.
CARL ScHuRz was reelected presi-
dent of the National Civil Service Re-
form league at the meeting at Cincin-
natl on the 18th. A resolution was
passed scoring the attempts of con-
gressmen to repeal the civil service
laws.
Two children of Albert Kellner, of
Muchakinock, Ia, persisted in n fire
which consumed the family's dwelling.
The mother had left the children alone
In the house.
Two children named Maggie and
Henry Carroll, aged respectively four
and six years, were burned to death at
Newark, N. j. Their mother had
locked them in the house while she
went out washing.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the'17th, ac-
cording to Bradstreets report, aggre-
gated 2s3, against $50 for the corre-
spending week year ago.
THE A. H. of l.. convention at Nash
Vile, Tenn, on the 18th adopted reso-
lutions for the government ownership
of telegraph lines, against anti-scalp-
ing legislation, for the appointment
of factory inspectors and for an amend
ment to the constitution depriving
courts of the power to set aside laws
made by the people. The proposition
to create national department of
labor was indorsed and the fedora
TONS stand against the principle of
compulsory arbitration was reiterated.
The 10th annual meeting of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform league be-
gan a session of two days at Cincinnati
on the 10th with Hon. Carl Schurz pre-
siding.
A TREATY between the United States
and the Seminole nation was concluded
and signed by the Dawes and Seminole
commissioners at Muskogee, |. T., on
the 10th. 1t provides for the allotment
of lands and division of its moneys
among the citizens after the tribal
governments are extinguished.
A MOB lynched Tom Waller, a negro,
near Bankston Ferry, Miss, for being
an accomplish of Charley Lewis-who
had been hanged day or two before
in the murder of Mrs Smith and her
four children.
A TRAIN on the Chicago e. Eastern
Illinois railroad ran into an extra train
near Clinton, Ind, the other morning
and three employees were killed and
half dozen others injured. Both en-
gines were badly wrecked, the bag
gage car was thrown down an embank-
ment and the mail car smashed.
A RECENT dispatch from Bayou, La,
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just
above the mouth of Red river. The
boat and cargo were in bad shape and
the loss was heavy.
MRS. ANNIE We'll stepped on parlor
match at st. Louis, causing it to
ignite. The blaze caught her under
skirt and she was fatally burned.
THE date for the national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub'
lie has been fixed for September 5-1C
at Cincinnati.
TIE advance guard of 10000 Croa-
tan colonists arrived in Denver the
other day. The colony will locate in
the Shenandoah valley of southwest
ern Colorado, where houses, schools,
churches and various industrial insti'
buttons will be erected, the Rio Grande
railroad promising to construct a
branch into the country.
FIRE destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, ]. T., on the
10th. The records were safe in the
vault, but valuable papers in the Offices
of the marshal, clerk and commissioner
were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also destroyed
the Cobb house, Arch Matthews feed
store and go bales of cotton in com
press yard. The blaze was believed tC
have been of incendiary origin.
AT least 1000 of the poor and un
fortunate of Kansas City will be FED
by the Salvation army on Christmas
day at Kansas City, Mo. Maj. Still
we'll, the commander, has received sui
cient money to assure dinner for al
least 1900 destitute people and he eX
, poets enough more to give an old Eng
, lish dinner to 1000.
THE wholesale grocery house o
Belts, Fletcher & Co., at Marshall
town, Ia, caught fire the other after
+, noon and was entirely destroyed.
By fire at Duryea, Pa, Two live'
were lost and nine store buildings
and four dwellings were destroyed.
THE 35 mines Of the Consolidated
and Madison Coal companies, in tn,
Belleville, ILL.,, district have resumed
operations and 1900 miners have re
turned to work. The mining compa
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