Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-17

JOSEPH BoULANGER, quarter-blood
Usage Indian, Is to make claim to
about 80 acres OF land on the site and
in the vicinity of the Union depot in
Kansas City, Mo. He claims that his
grandfather on his mothers side re-
ceived patent to the land from An
drew Jackson and that IL was never
properly sold.
Mrs. CAROLINA LANG, aged 81 years,
and her husband, Cornelius, aged rs
years, were found starving at their
home in Chicago on the 18th. They
were both taken to the county hos
pital, where the woman soon died and
the man was said to be sinking fast,
Mr.. Lang had been out Of work.
ACCORDING to news received at Vic
toria, Il. c., from Alaska, five men
were frozen to death upon the Chilkoot
pass.
STLLwETL post G. A. r., at ColfaX,
Ind, decided by unanimous vote to
enter politics by calling a meeting OF
the ex-union soldiers Of the Ninth con-
gressional district to nominate a cam
didate for congress pledged to intro
duce and work for a bill providing for
pensioning all union soldiers at 81 a
day. The resolution of Stillwell post
also provides for making Il national
organization along these lines. The
action has caused u sensation in Grand
Army circles.
In the British house of commons on
the 18th John Redmond, the Paruellite
leader, introduced a measure granting
home rule for Ireland. 1t was defeated,
1913 to 65.
A FRlGHTFUL head-end collision of
freight trains occurred the other morn
ing near kirkland station, on the Lou
sville & Nashville road. Four men
were killed, one fatally hurt and sew
eral others received broken limbs and
cuts. The force of the impact welded
the engines together and piled the cars
upon them to the height of 80 feet.
SEVEN members of the Covington
council were in jail at Independence,
KY, on the 10th, having been incar
cerated for contempt of Judge Tar
ven's court in refusing to obey his
order to improve the court room and
provide better protection to the court
records, The judge extended the olive
branch, but all refused to purge them
selves of contempt on the advice of
their attorney,
Two Philadelphia schooners with 20
men were lost during the late blizzard
off the New England coast One was
the William johnson and the other
the William X. Park.
ABOUT 5000 trousers makers Of New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
on a strike on the 9th for an advance
in wages. They claimed that they had
to work lG hours day for from SIS to
30 a week as wages.
In the New York assembly on the
10th when the Weeks resolution, ask
ing for the resignation of United
States Senator Murphy was called up,
Mr. Weeks offered a substitute, which
censured, but did not demand resigna-
lion. Mr., Oliver (dem.), of New York,
introduced substitute calling for the
impeachment of President Mckinley
for aiding in the election of United
States Senator Uanna. The resolu-
tion censuring Senator Murphy was
finally adopted by a vote of 10 ayes
and SO nays.
A FIRE which broke out on the night
Of the 9th in the cold storage plant of
the Chautauqua Lake Ice company at
Pittsburgh, Pa, caused the loss of
nearly 81, 500, 900 worth of property and
the loss of IL lives, possibly more. as
it was rumored that there were several
men still buried under the walls which
fell from an explosion in one of the
stores burned.
EDWARD BELLAMY, author of "Look-
ing Backward" and Eugene " Debs,
late head of the American Railway
union and leader of the social democ-
racy, have united to launch new po-
litical party. The social democracy
will be taken as the nucleus of the
party. This was decided upon at a
meeting held at Denver, Col, on the
9th.
Two thousand students of the Rush
Medical college, the Chicago College of
Dentistry and the Marquette school
engaged in desperate conflict with 40
policemen at Chicago on the 9Th. The
battle ragged from noon until evening.
The trouble began by the students en-
gaging in SNOWFALL fight Several
students were badly dubbed and two
or three policemen somewhat badly
injured. When the riot was over %
students were under arrest.
The Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate, of Chicago, on the 9th contained
an appeal, which was signed by a
large number of laymen and is to be
sent to every minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church throughout the
world, that the number of lay dele
gates to the general conference from
all the conferences shall be the same
as the number of ministerial delegates.
GEORGE LORD, the Oldest mason in
the United States, and probably in the
world, and the oldest odd fellow in
this country, died at San Bernardino,
CAL, the victim of a paralytic stroke.
He was born June ~, 1900.
In an attempt at Bonham, Tex, to
arrest William Greene and Bob Hunter,
nutlpyue both men ware killed and Of.