Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

THE American peace commissioners
left Paris on the 18th for the United
| States.
THE people OF Havana, Spanish and
Cuban, long for American occupation,
the Cubans because they live in unrest
and fear, the Spanish residents be-
cause they are to stay there after the
Spanish soldiers depart and they do
not wish the Cubans to become further
embittered
THE question OF socialism was the
principal topic discussed in the con.
vention of the A. H. OF l.. Mt Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 10TH. The vote on the
question was deferred until the next
day.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY arrived at
Tuskegee, Ala, on the 10th and visited
the negro school of Booker T. WASH
ington. The students had process
sion and 80 floats representing all de-
partments OF school work. The pres
ident then went TO Montgomery, Ala,
where he was warmly welcomed. The
president met the colored people Of
the city at Old Ship church and made
a speech to them and afterwards, amid
the roar Of cannon, departed for Sa-
vaunah, Ga.
THE federal assembly at Berne,
Switzerland, elected M Mueller, who
was vice president for 1898, to be presi-
dent Of the Swiss confederation. M.
Hauser was elected vice president.
They are both radicals.
g. w, BUCKLEY, Texas e. Pacific
switchman, fell under the cars in the
Texas & Pacific yards at Fort Worth,
Tex, and was killed. The body was
horribly mangled.
A PASSENGER train on the Flori da
Central g. Peninsular railroad was
wrecked near Madison, Fla, caused by
a collision with cattle on the track.
Six persons were killed.
ORDERS have been received for the
immediate movement of the Twentieth
United States infantry from Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, to Manila. According
to the orders the men are to be fitted
out with supplies for three-years'
stay in the Philippines. All married
privates and all whose terms of enlist
ment expire within three months and
will not signify their willingness to
re-enlist are to be left behind.
A DECISION to hold Greater Ameri-
can exposition at Omaha, Neb., in 1899
was reached at mass meeting of busi-
ness men, bankers and professional
men in that city on the 18th. A petit.
ton to congress in favor of the expo
sition for 1899 has $4,000 names at
| tached.
WEALTHY landowners are planning
to drain Kankakee Qll.) swamps.
The recent cold snap badly damaged
the orange groves near New Orleans.
Miss CORA McDANIELs was burned
to death at Ardmore, l. T., by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove.
Miss SCHAEFER, a Red Cross nurse,
who recently returned to San Francis
co from Manila, made startling charges
as to the way our sick soldiers were
taken care of in Manila. She stated
that they were dying in the hospitals
for want Of proper nourishment, ow-
ing to petty squabbles about rank and
position and lack of consideration in
prescribing and preparing food.
The British delegates addressed the
convention of the American Federation
of Labor on the 14th. Resolu tons
we're passed condemning the supreme
court for its action on the income tax
law; condemning the passage Of the
auti-scalping bill; indorsing the eight
hour bill pending in the senate, and
indorsing Gov Tanners action in the
coal miners strike at Virden, Ill.
A MOTHER and her two little chill
dren were burned to death the other
morning by the explosion of an oil
stove at Philadelphia.
BY an explosion in the grist mill at
Pettisville, o., two men were killed
and another fatally injured.