Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-11

said: There Is rumor in circulation
here that the operators at Carbon Hill
are planning to import Chinese labor
ers to take the place Of the strikers in
the mines. The company will build q
stockade TO inclose both houses and
shaft. AS soon as the company can
get ready to receive them 800 China
men will be shipped, and IL this ex-
pertinent proves n success other oper-
ators will follow it,
The Georgia senate on the 9Th de-
feated measure which, If passed,
would have had the effect of making
Georgia prohibition stute.
THE official count Of the ballots cast
in the election in Maryland leaves no
room to doubt that the republicans
will control both branches of the legis-
lature and that a republican will sue
coed Arthur =. German in the United
States senate.
AT Golden, ILL.,, James Saddler, a
boy partly deranged, attempted to
shoot his mother, but the breech pin
of the gun blew out and struck him in
the forehead, inhicting fatal wound.
JAMES BOSWELL fatally shot Mrs.
Smith and James Barton and then
blew his own brains out at East Dali
las, Tex. Jealousy was the cause.
The agreement entered into between
the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Dawes
commissions at Atoka last April has
been ratified by the Choctaw council
at Tushkahoma, l. T., and approved
by the governor. A bill was passed
creating commission of six members
to wind up the affairs of the Choctaw
nation.
EDWARD HAMILTON at Worcester,
Mass, shot and killed his wife and
young daughter, wounded his infant
son and then fatally shot himself. He
had been suffering from neuralgia and
had practically lived on opiates for
many weeks and was supposed to have
gone insane.
A MAN rang the door-bell at the resi-
dence of Thomas Hoebler, q contractor
at Vanceburg, KY, the other night
and when Mr.. Hoebler came to the
door the man broke bottle of vitriol
over Mr.. Hoebl head, terribly cut
ting him and burning his eyes out.
The villain escaped.
Two car loads of Missouri mules left
Kansas City on the Sd for Johannes
burg, South Africa.
AS the Buffalo, New York and Bos-
ton limited express on the Wabash
railroad left Litchfeld, H., the other
night two men without masks boarded
the chair car and at the muzzles of
cooked revolvers demanded that the
passengers give up their valuables.
The robbers got between $40 and $40
and a gold watch and then escaped
WHILE Mrs. John Henry, wealthy
woman was alone in her home in
Clifton, o., the other morning, Lind
say Neighbert, a gardener whom she
had recently discharged, entered the
room and began firing. Neighbert
then fled to the woods, where later he
was found dead with bullet through
his head.
PNCoNNING, Mich, was visited by
destructive fire on the Cd. Buildings
on both sides of a street for three
blocks were wiped out. Loss, $50, OOO
THE Seventh-Day Adventists of Bat
tie Creek, Mich, were said to be ex-
cited over the prophesied coming of
Christ. They have received a special
communication from Mrs White, the
prophecies" and they are commanded
to go out into the highways and
hedges and give the last call to sup
per-"
THE Cook County Business Mems as
ISOLATION was organized at Chicago on
the Sd. They are banded together not
only to fight department stores, but to
resist unequal taxation, suppress child
labor and cooperate with trades
unions for the betterment of wage
earners.