Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-16

Iowa Is enjoying boom such as II
never knew before. Several large COM
panies have been organized this fall
and at least ten large mines will be
opened near Des Moines during the
winter and spring.
SOME of the ore from claim being
worked by John Finley at Alpine, Tex,
which was sent TO Scranton Pa, TO be
assayed, ran SO, 800 to the ton.
THERE were 292 business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the 10th against 1881 for
the corresponding week last year.
BROWN SMITH, farmer in Simpson
county, Miss, left his family at homo
to go to town for shopping purposes.
When he returned he found his wife
and five children weltering in their
blood and apparently all dead, An
alarm was raised Immediately and the
entire ncighborhood turned out to
hunt for the perpetrator of the crime.
One of the little girls, supposed to have
been dead, revived enough to say that
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a negro.
AT the last annual convention of the
International Typographical union it
was decided to make fight for a work
day of nine hours in all book and job
printing shops as soon as possible,
This fight will be started in New York
January 2, and will involve 5000 men,
as the employing printers have re-
solved to oppose the demand.
WELTERING in his own blood, and
literally hacked to pieces with an AK,
which was found in the next room,
the body of Roy Erickson, maker OF
wicker baskets, was found shortly
after midnight in shanty at Sioux
Falls, S. d. In the next room sat two
men who are now behind the bars for
the murder.
A PLATE glass factory at Elwood,
Ind, has closed down in all depart
ments and 800 men were thrown out of
work. The factory suspended opera
tions through the polishers refusing
to work on piece work.
The national fox hunt opened in Har-
rison county, Tex, and will close on
December H. More than 100 mounted
hunters and several hundred hounds
started. The chase will extend over II
scope of country approXimating 100
miles around Marshall as center.
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and In
dian territory are we'll represented at
the meeting.
MYNATT LEACH was hanged at Clin-
ton, Tenn, on the 9Th for the murder
of j. d. Heck.
The National Prison congress met at
Austin, Tex, the other day. Many in
teresting papers were read and there
was considerable discussion on the sub
ject of the health, industrial training
and management of prisoners. War
den Starke, of Missouri, claimed that
the Missouri prisoners were treated as
humanely as in other states. He APP
proved the custom of pardoning three
men each Fourth of July and Thanks
giving day for good behavior, as an in
centive to convicts.
The 9th annual meeting of the
American Association for the Study
and Cure of Inebriety began at Boston
on the Sth.
THE epidemic of measles at Spring
field, o., was admitted to be beyond
control on the Sth. total of 1,1SS
cases has been reported in the past six
weeks, but there has only been one
death.
JOHN D. LEoNI, young Italian who
has mania for breaking plate glass
windows, has been arrested by the po'
lice at Chicago 1t transpires that he
has broken over 1000 worth in that
city alone.
CONSTABLE MURRAY was found dead
by the roadside near Jenny Lind, Ark.
He had been lynched by mob of coal
miners while taking one of their com
rades to prison on a warrant.