Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-22

TO tremDle ana dlBheB 10 rhJJle on Lhe
shelves for about 80 seconds, 1t seemed
to travel eastward. At Yanltton the
shocks were unusually severe and last
ed minute.
FAILURES for the past week were ia
in the United States, against 2O4 last
year, and 23 in Canada, against 40 last
year.
A DIsPA from Camp Meade, Pa,
said majority of the men are becom-
ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be mutiny in some Of the
commands.
THE transmisslssippi exposition at
Omaha is success financially. The
receipts thus far are more than S8s,OOO
in excess Of the expenditures. There
is balance in bank of $4,000 over
and above expenses and obligations.
A CREAMERY company at Belvidere,
ILL.,, claims to have discovered pro-
cess of manufacturing from milk what
Is claimed to be a perfect substitute
for eggs in all cooking.
ALL free soup houses in Havana,
which had been feeding the needy over
80, 900 rations daily, were closed by
order of the governor general. 1t was
predicted that additional distress
would follow the closing.
THE boundary dispute between Chilli
and Argentine will be submitted to the
arbitration of Queen Victoria.
A MADRID dispatch said the queen
regent was paying daily visits to the
sick soldiers who have returned from
the colonies. She ordered that the
convalescents be conveyed in the royal
carriages to the Cosa del Campo, in the
royal park, and she was paying from
her own purse for proper food for the
invalids.
The third and last day Of the ma
tional currency convention at Omaha,
Neb., began with paper in support
of an unlimited issue of irredeemable
currency by the government by Gen.
A. ]. Warner, president OF the Ameri-
can Bimetallic union. A reply was
made to him by Congressman Fowler,
of New Jersey, who supported bank
currency. Mr.. Fowler said the only
logical position the silver men could
take was that of Gen. Warner; that if
they could legislate value into silver
they could legislate value into paper
and make it redeem itself.
THE steamer OLDHAM sailed from New
York on the l4th for Ponce, Porto
Rico, having on board the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania regiment, which will do
garrison duty in Porto Rico. The OBJ
dam also carried $4,000 worth of deli
caces for the army hospitals.
A sEMI-oTFICIAL note issued at Paris
on the 14th said Capt Dreyfus would
be granted new trial.
The almost universal expression in
the public press of Japan is in favor
of the United States permanently hold
ing and governing the Philippines.
THE council of the so-called pro-
visional government of the republic of
Cuba met at Santa Cruz and issued
manifesto ordering that an assembly
be convened to decide upon plan for
an independent government for the is
land.
GEN. LAwToN received a report at
Santiago that Gen. Gomez had rendered
his resignation as commander-in-chief
of the Cuban army, being dissatisfied
with the action of the Cuban govern
ment in yielding control of the island
to America
REV. JOHN f. REYNOLDS, the Illinois
soldier preacher, who recently married
a nurse at Chickamauga while having,
it is alleged, two living wives, one of
whom he married in Colorado, the
other in Springfield, Ill.,, underwent a
preliminary examination at Spring
field on charge of bigamy, which re-
suited in his commitment to Jail.
ONE of the most distinguished gather
ings of financial students and authori
ties that ever assembled opened a
three days session at the Nebraska
building on the Omaha exposition
grounds ON the 18th to debate the cur
rency problem, The gold standard
was represented by Editor Horace
White, of New York; Edward Atkin-
son, ex-senator Carey, Gov. Shaw, Con-
gresham Fowler, j. Sterling Morton
and other prominent statesmen, while
the silver standard had such repre-
sentatives as ex-Congressinan Towne,
James B. Weaver and Gen. A. j. War
ner.
GEN. CHARLES f. HENDERSON, of Ne
braska, declined the proffer of place
on the army Investigating board.
the post-mortem examination of
the remains of the late empress of
Austria, who was assassinated at
Geneva by an anarchist, has revealed
that the weapon completely trans6xed
the heart, penetrating 81 inches and
making a wound one-sixth of an inch
wide. The fact that her majesty
walked so yards to the steamer is as
cribed to her remarkable will power
and natural energy.
OCTOBER 10, the date of the fall of
Yorktown, will be recognized in all
the schools and colleges of the United
States as Lafayette day, when eXer-
cises will be held and collections made
to raise funds for the Lafayette monu-
ment.
A HAVANA dispatch said there was
widespread agitation throughout Cuba
in favor of the absolute independence
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