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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-06
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A FIRE at Colorado Springs, Col,
started probably from the sparks from
an engine, exploded a carload of pow
der and pieces were hurled through
the air distance of 21S blocks into
a lumber yard and set fire to it. A
strong wind carried the flames to
another lumber yard and then took
subdued the c., r. l. e. P. and the D. e.
R. G. freight and passenger depots, a
-four mill, grain warehouses, dozen
restaurants, 20 blacksmiths' shops, six
or eight clothing stores, etc, alto
gether between $50 and 200 buildings,
were burned and over 81, 600, 900 worth
of property destroyed.
MAN named John Hollingsworth,
of Cannon county, Tenn, killed man
by the name of Higgins about year
ago. Suit was brought against Hol-
lingsworth by the Higgins family and
a Judgment was rendered for SIS, 900
and there was to be an auction sale of
his property to satisfy the Judgment.
When the time arrived for the auction
Hollingsworth and few friends con-
cealed themselves in barn and after
wards fred upon the people assembled,
killing five men, and then escaped.
The president declared to Repre-
sentative Cannon, who called at the
white house to secure the dismissal of
the Third Illinois regiment, that there
would be no more troops mustered out
of the service for the present. The
president also refused Senator Quay's
request to have the Fourteenth Penn
sylvania mustered out.
The president has issued an order
creating the new military department
of Porto Rico, with Maj. Gen. John R.
Brooke in command.
FOUR miners were burned to death
in the Lehigh slope at Midvale Pa, re-
Gently, the fire being caused by a
miners open lamp. At the time there
were $50 men in the mine, but all es-
capped except the four
For 10 hours on the Sd the coasts of
Georgia and South Carolina were in
the grasp of West Indian hurricane,
the wind blowing from so to 10 miles
an hour. The rice crop was practi-
cally destroyed and the damage to
shipping considerable. All the low
lands along the rivers were submerged
and it was feared that much loss of
life had occurred.
WALTER ]. YATES, at Essex, Ia, shot
and dangerously wounded his wife
and her friend, Mrs. E. j. Brown, and
then shot himself through the head.
Domestic infelicity, caused by Yates
dissipation, broughtabout the tragedy.
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TOO MANY TO MARRY.
Albert Would Have to Open Hotel TO 40
OommOdate Them So He
Quit,

They we're in all the blissful trans
ports of couple who had been en-
gagged 80 hours 1t was verging ON to
midnight, but he manifested no signs
of going and she trembled lest he
should do 30. Suddenly he drew a
pencil from his pocket, tore u blank
leaf from his note book and said:
Nov, my own little loVey dovey,
let's make a diagram of the little home
we will have"
"oh, yes, let's dop she said, ecstatic-
ally.
"Our home! Don't it sound lovelyP
1t will be genuine love in cottage,
won't 1t, sweetheart"
"0h, yes, indeed! We can get along
with a dear little reception room,
double parlors, library, dining and
music rooms downstairs Then We'll
want large, sunny, beautiful room
upstairs for dear mamma"
"Yes, dearest when she comes to
visit us we'll make it as"
"Visit us2 Why, Albert, mamma in.
tends living with us, of course"
"0h, ah-I-I-"
81 know I'd surprise you, darlingP
Won't 1t be lovelyP Then Auntie
Harriet will have a room next to
mammals, and"
"Auntie Harriet"
"Why, yes, precious. She dotes on
you, and Pve always told her that If l
ever had home it should be hers, too,
and you wouldn't want your little
girly -girly to break her wordP"
"No-no--I-"
"And then we must calculate for a
large, sunny room for my dear old
grandmamma and grandpapa, who
made your little wife to be so happy
when she was little girl"
Eyes, dear, but IL"
mo butts about it, darling. Then
sister Nellie will want pleasant
room, and dear old Uncle Horace, and
brother Tom won't want to be sepa-
rated from dear mamma and me, and
I've always said that dear old Auntie
Miggs should be with me at least half
of the time, and if we could spare a
room for"
Their engagement came to an end
there on the spot, and dear Albert has
breach of promise suit on hand now.
--Iit-Bits,
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Burning the Victims of the Fires.

Rice Lake, Wis, Oct. AIN the
burned district officers of the different
towns have had crews of men burying
and burning dead animals. In the
territory between this city and Barron
and Cumberland in every instance
where homes were destroyed nothing
was saved, people barely escaping
with their lives. Many people saved
themselves by taking refuge in their
wells.
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Rain Ubeoka the Flames.

Denver, Col, Oct. 9.-Snow and rain
have checked the progress of the forest
fires on the main range in Colorado
and it is now thought that further de-
struction of timber is prevented. At
least all danger to the threatened
towns is over. The temperature here
has fallen perceptibly and dispatches
from the mountain towns indicate a
similar fortune change.
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George May Decline.

New York, Oct. Sunless Henry
George changes his mind within the
next 4S hours he will not be the free
silverites' candidate for governor
against Van Wyck and Roosevelt His
declination was written Saturday.
However, determined effort will be
made to get him to allow his name to
he used
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-06

isn't it difficult, Mrs. Jones, to get
along with girl that uses such bro
ken English?"
30, l don't mind that so much. It's
her broken China that sets me wild."-
Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-06

Wichita, Kan, Oct. 8. ALBERT Smith,
an Englishman was found on the
street Saturday in starving condition
and was taken to the hospital He is
destitute
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-06

Little Ikey-Fadder, Why did Nero
fiddle while Rome vas burning.
Cohen-So he could prove an alibi,
if necessary, mine son. up To Date.
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unnhnr1en ConAdence.

TITS always pretty safe to judge man by
the company he keeps"
"Oh, Idon't know. There are exceptions.
NY Uncle Johns business makes it neces-
sary for him 10 associate with aldermen
good deal, and still I'd trust him with every
dollar I've got in the word.-Chicago Even
ing News.
The times., 1898-12-26
PRESIDENT HART's PLAN.
He Would Lave One Big League to
Control baseball.

New York, Dec 25.-Since the baseball
magnates left town they have talked free
" of what may happen in the way of re-
ducirg the circuit to eight Clubs. While
the majority appear to favor sixteen
club organization with two sections. one
of which will contain the largest cities,
President Hart. of the Chicago club, has
come to the front with a plan which, he
says, will be the ultimate solution of the
problem.
From my point of view he is quoted
as saying. there will be one big league
that will control baseball all over the
country. 1t will probably be made up of
Boston. Brooklyn. New York. Philadel
phia, Chicago, Plttsburg, Cincinnati and
St. Louis. With Washington, Baltimore,
Louisville and Cleveland forced out by le-
gitimate means, there will be a chance to
organize two formidable minor leagues,
TO embrace all ether cities worth having.
THE Eastern and Atlantic League cir
cults are not any too strong, but combl-
nation of the best cities in these Organi-
cations. together with Baltimore and
Washington. might be the means of shap-
ing fine circuit. Providence and Spring
field are good BAN towns: so are Syracuse
and Buffalo.
"a first-class circuit could be made up
as follows: Providence, Springfield. Syra-
cuse. Buffalo, New York. Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington. In case Buff
falo wanted to stick to the Western
League. Toronto could come In and make
the circuit even more compact So far as
the Western League is concerned. another
convenient circuit could be mapped out
as follows: Buffalo. Cleveland Detroit.
Milwaukee. Louisville, Indianapolis, Min
neapolis and st. Paul"
The times., 1898-12-26
THE MOONS ECLIPSE.
An Astronomical Event Scheduled
for TomOrrow.

There will be a total eclipse of the
moon on Tuesday, December q, which
will be visible generally throughout North
and South America, Europe, Asia. and
Africa. In the eclipse the width of the
shadow through which the moon will
pass is about IA times its diameter. The
point of first contact with the shadow
can be found by reckoning from the point
on the moon nearest the North Pole, 1l2
degrees around to the east. and tho point
of last contact can be found by measur-
ing from the point of the moons disk
nearest the North Pole, IS degrees to
the west
On December 27 the sun sets at 4:39 and
the moon rises about +:30 p. m. There
is every reason, therefore, TO believe that
If the view is unobstructed by clouds per-
sons in Washington will have an excel
lent opportunity of observing every
phase of the phenomenon. The moon
will not entirely disappear during the
eclipse, but will be of a dull copper color.
The occuitations will be observed at the
Naval Observatory, as at all other Ameri-
can observatories, in response to a re-
quest that has come to all American OBJ
servatories from the Royal Observatory at
Pulkowa, Russia where the astronomers
have for twenty-five years been working
to solve the problem to the very last de-
gree of accuracy of the moons diameter
and its parallaX. These observations are
on the occultations of faint stars by the
moon.
During this entire quarter of a century
in which the Russians have been working
on the problem, astronomers all over the
world have been collecting data of which
Americans have contributed no small
share.
At Chicago University, whose observa-
tory is at Lake Geneva, few miles north
west of the city. the observations of the
total eclipse will begin at 5:07 local mean
time. At the Naval Observatory the first
observations will be taken at 4:39 D. m,
when the moon enters the shadow at that
point. But little is expected from the OBJ
servations at Lick Observatory as the
view along the Pacific Coast will not be
good and the only observations expected
are those to be taken as the moon leaves
the shadow. This occurs on the Pacific
Coast at 5:26 p. m.
OF course there will be no observations
possible as to the nature of the moon S
surface, for this naturally will be in total
darkness.
To observers at Washington the moon
will enter the shadow at 4:39 p. m.
The total eclipse will begin at o:49 D. m.
The total eclipse will end at 7:1S p. m.
The moon will leave the shadow at S:2s
D. m.
The times., 1898-12-26
Not Enough White. to Go Around.

New Orleans, Dec 25.-An attempt will
be made to induce the legislature of Mis-
sissippi to cut off a slice of De Soto
County and annex it to Tunica. Various
territorial reasons are given for the pro-
posed change; but the real reason is
found in the suffrage qualifications of
Mississippi and the Spanish war.
Tunica is a black county of the Yazoo
delta, county of big plantations, many
negroes and few whites. Although pos
sessing population of 5000, it has only
1883 white votes, and these seldom cast
more than 100 or $50 votes, and even less
IL the election is not exciting.
When the Spanish war began the plant
ers' sons all showed great desire to On
list, and it is said that two-thirds of the
white registered vote of Tunica County
IS now in the First and Second Mississippi
regiments. This leaves behind only 12O
votes for jury duty. holding the local of
fees. etc. The complaint is made that
there are not enough qualified electors in
the county to fill up the various juries
and special venues, and the slice from
De Soto County is desired to fill out the
jurles and give Tunica enough white citi-
zens properly to administer the affairs of
the county when its young men are OF
for the war.
The times., 1898-12-26
INDIANS DENY ALLEGIANCE.
The ST. Regis Tribe. on the st. Lnw-
renee. Asserts Sovereignty.


Ottawa, Dec. 25.-It will be news to
most people on this continent that there
exists in North America a community
which sets up claim equivalent to IN
dependent sovereignty and withholds al
legiance to either British or American
rule. No formal demand to be recognized
as a separate state has been put forward,
but rights have been asserted which, If
recognized, would involve the creation of
an independent nation, not a large one.
certainly, but yet a nation Independent
of all external control.
The people who so proclaim themselves
are the St. Regis Indians, occupying
small reservation below the St Lawrence
on the New York State frontier Mutt
terings of discomfort have for some time
been heard among the Indians who are
descendants of old Caughnawagas and
Mohawks. and the dissatisfaction has
been kept alive by agitators among them
who have urged them to return to the
customs of their forefathers, elect their
councillors in the tribal way and free
themselves from the restraints of the
Indian act OF the Dominion.
The situation is complicated BY the fact
that the reservation is intersected by the
international boundary line, so that, while
there i one community, there are two re-
serves under different administrations, one
being subject to the Canadian government
and the other to the State OF New York
These Indians assert their rights under an
agreement made in 1897 between the State
of New York and number of Caugh-
nawaga and St. Regis chiefs, by which
the State agreed to pay them an annuity
and set aside the land that is now COM
prised in the American reservation in con-
sideration of the REIMBURSEMENT of all
claims to Indian lands in the State of New
York.
The Indians were settled upon the Cam
adian reservation in 1I69 having been
transferred from Caughnawaga to st. Re-
gis. Under the treaty of Ghent, in 1914
the boundary line between Canada and
New York State was so fixed as to cut the
reservation in two. The Indians say that
this division should never have been made,
and that they should be recognized as a
nation, having the right to appoint their
own chiefs, to make laws and to admin
lister them. regardless of the white mans
law on either side of the boundary line
They demand the right to dispense justice
according to the ancient customs of the
lroquois.
What they have proposed to the Domin-
ion officials recently sent to confer with
them is that in the event of one of their
number being accused of crime, they
shall first pass upon the evidence, and If
a priGIa facie case be established they will
turn the accused over to the civil authol--
ties Of Canada or OF the State of New
York to be further dealt with. At the
conference held on their reserve last week
there were present American as wei as
Canadian Indians, and half a day was Civ
en- up TO the presentation of their claims.
4 careful hearing was accorded them by
taken to show them that the assertion of
independent powers was altogether incon-
sistent with their allegiance to either
country in which they lived.
The times., 1898-12-26
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA.

Alexandria. Va, Dec 25.-James Sulli-
van is locked UP at the police sta
ton, charged with burglarizing the
noco Streets. Ed Waters. d clerk. closed
the store at IL o'clock last night and went
down town When he returned, about an
hour later, he discovered that a rear door
of the building had been broken in. With
out giving an alarm Waters went to the
station and notified the police. Sergt.
Smith. with Policemen Dean, Knight and
Davis. hurried to the scene and surround
ed the premises. When Officer Knight
jumped fence in the rear of the building.
Sullivan, who had concealed himself in
the yard, attempted to escape, but ran
into the arms of officer Davis. A pistol
which Sullivan had secured from Finch's
store was found in an clubhouse in the
rear OF the building.
Fourteen prisoners. charged with being
drunk and disorderly, arc detained at po-
lice headquarters.
o. II. Daniel. of this city, and Miss
Alice Hodgskins, daughter of William
Hodgskins. were married at Falls Church
this afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel will
reside in this city.
The many friends of William Bueking-
ham will regret to learn that he was to-
day taken to the Western State Asylum,
at Staunton. for treatment. MIR. Buck
ingham has for several years held the
position of teller at the Citizens National
Bank. and his faculties recently became
impaired from nervous prostration. al
though he continued at mis- post of duty
until few day sago. Mr.. Buckingham
is popular gentleman and his many
friends hope for his speedy recovery.
Elaborate musical programs were rem
dered by the choirs of the various
churches in this city today. At Christ
Church, however, on account of the ILL.,
ness of several leading singers, the
Christmas program which had been ar
ranged was not given Solemn high mass
was celebrated in st. Mary's Church at
5 o'clock this morning, followed by con-
tinuous services until 10 a IN, with the
benediction of the blessed sacrament
The Rev. Father F. Farmer. o. p. of
New York, preached at the first and last
services. In addition to the regular serv-
ice a childrens choral service was held
in Grace Church at 9:i5 a. m. A special
feature was the singing by the pastor.
the Rev. C. L. Ball, of Gounod's ''Naz-
areth.' At the Second Presbyterian
Church this morning the Rev. J. Z.
Thacker preached an eloquent sermon on
THE Star Above the Manger." and at
night his subject was why Was Jesus
Born?"
The annual childrens celebration was
held this evening at the Emmanuel Luth-
eran Church. An interesting musical
program was rendered. followed by an ad-
dress to the children by the Rev. ]. NJ.
Eberlein.
Tomorrow will be observed as 4 general
holiday. and all public and private bust
ness will be suspended. One delivery will
be made by the postofiice at a. m. and
the office will be closed after 10 a. m.
Several of the social clubs will keep
"open house" tomorrow.
The times., 1898-12-26
DRINKERS OF PETROLEUM..
\ New Vice of Alarming Proportions
Discovered in Paris.

Paris, Dec. 25.-The Frenchmal las
gene one better, or worse. than the Ilish
drinker OF methylated spirits and seeks
delight In petroleum. The habit has
made considerable progress in Paris al
ready; doctors have chris:ened it petrol
ism" and its victims ''petro,iques." The
neighborhood of the Basti.e is the chief
urban center of the new vice. and there
are many of its votaries on the outskirts
OF The capital.
The medical men have not yet had time
thoroughly to study the effects of p tro-
!eum drinking, but their experience has
been wide enough to allow of a good
many features being determined. As
usual with all such vices, the taste grows
upon the victim until ii develops into an
irresistible passion.
The intoNication produced by petroleum
is of a melancholy nature. The drinker
is sad. discontented and despairing. rare
ly quarrelsome or pugnacious. His sleep
at night would not seem to be very in
juriously. affected by it, and, according
TO some opinions Gie general health IS
not so rapidly undermined as by alcoholic
drinks usually taken To excess. On this
point, however. opinions differ.
Some doctors hold that the gravest or
ganic changes are caused by the use of
petroleum. and that the germs OF mortal
diseases are called into being.
The manner In which the latest batch of
petroliques was discovered Is curious. 4
firm in the city furnished petroleum to
certain retail shops. The head of one of
the latter complained of short measure
The wholesale merchant denied the charge
and proved that he was right. Then the
retail dealer set himself to discover the
clew TO the mystery, but for a long time
in vain. None of the liquid was removed
from the premises nor spilled. and yet it
Continued to disappear. At last it was
discovered that their workmen drank it
to raise their laboring power to the prop
er level.
Another confraternity of tipplers was
convicted of the offense in different way.
A usually sober and Woodworking man.
who was happy. though married. began
suddenly to stagger home in a state of
half seas over. His spouse, horrified at
the prospective before her, searched his
pockets, and, to her surprise, found that
his funds were not lower than before
Neither was he ever late, strange to say.
Unable to solve the riddle. she contided
to one of her married friends The latter
had husband of her own who was in the
same boat. They pul their heads together
and, after some days OF shadowing and
inquiring, the two sorrowing matrons
learned that their lords and masters were
slaves to petroleum. This curious and
reprehensible vice is receiving careful at
tention in medical circles In Paris. The
authorities Will hardly take it up until
they are ready TO tax it,
The times., 1898-12-26
XMAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Quietly Observed by the President
and Mrs. Mckinley,

Christmas Day was quietly observed
at the White House. 1t was n holiday for
all the employees. with the exception of
the necessary doorkeepers. and no busi-
ness was transacted. Secretary Cortel-
you was in the mansion for about an
hour during the afternoon, attending to
unfinished correspondence. but his pres
ence was the only Indication of business
activity
The President had no callers. He went
to church in the morning. as usual, and
in the afternoon he and Mrs. Mckinley
went for drive starting about o'clock
and remaining out for almost an hour
The rest of the afternoon they spent
quietly together.
The Christmas dinner was almost ex-
clusively a family affair, only a few in
innate personal friends being present
The guests were James Mckinley, a
nephew of the President: George and
James Barber. nephews of Mrs McKin-
ley; Capt. Smith, of the Navy. and Mrs
Smith; Capt. Tonner. of the Indian bu-
reau. and Miss Tonner, and Miss Crum
The party dined at I o'clock.