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

ORLANDO DUoKER, surgeon in charge
Of the yellow fever hospital at Santi
ago issued a note thanking 1.-THE noble
men, women, boys and girls in thu
United States who have contributed
TO the relief of our poor sick in Cuba
A MANILA dispatch on the 10th said
that Isabelle Artacho, former rebe
chief was leading an army of Is, OC(
against Aguinaldo A Jesuit priest
had been shot for persuading rebels tC
desert Aguinaldo.
THE Associated press correspondent
had an interview with Aguinaldo, the
Philippine insurgent leader at Malo
los. He protested his undying graft
tude to the American troops but said
they had come to the Philippines only
to fight Spaniards, and as that task
was ended, he expected and wanted
the American troops to evacuate the
island.
The steamer Gloucester collided wit
the schooner Alice Jordan off Martha's
Vineyard, Mass, and nine of the Jor'
dams crew were drowned.
DETAILS Of the hurricane that visited
the West Indies recently show that II
was the worst of the century. In ST..
Vincent, out OF population of Al, 900,
over 300 were killed and 90, 900 were
injured and rendered homeless. The
island has been absolutely Quilted.
GEORGE A. CHENEY, well-known
banker of Crete, Neb., walked into the
elevator shaft at the DreXel hotel at
Omaha and was killed by the fall.
BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH T. HASKELL, a
hero of Ell Caney, dropped dead of
apoplexy soon after arriving at his
home in Columbus, o., with the Seven.
tenth infantry.
THE American bark George +. Maui
son, out 1856 days from Sydney, N. S.
w., for San Francisco, was thought to
have gone down in the great storm
which prevailed off the Australian
coast four months ago.
LIEUT.. BLOW, who has charge of the
wreckage operations near Santiago
harbor, reports thatit is impossible to
save the Cristobal Colon. Great hopes
are entertained that the Maria Teresa
can be saved.
In the Connecticut republican state
convention Gov. Lounsbury was re-
nominated by large majority over
his opponent, j. Addison Porter, pri.
vate secretary to President Mckinley.
The queen regent prorogued the
Spanish cortes on the 14th, thus ending
a riotous session.
THE Cologne Gazette, in a leading
editorial, declared that anarchists
will no longer be tolerated in Ger
many, but they must be made to carry
their evil purposes to foreign lands"
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over st.
Vincent island and the Barbados.
Kingston, capital of ST. Vincent, was
reported totally destroyed. Over 500
lives were lost and $500 people rem
dered homeless.
The contracts for the three new bat
tleships have been awarded. One ves-
sci goes to Cramps, another to the
Newport News Shipbuilding company
and the third to the Union iron works,
San Francisco. Each ship will be Of
1880 tons displacement, with a coal
ing capacity of 1000 tons and speed
of 1879 knots
THE Philippine insurgents evacuated
the suburbs of Manila on the 14th.
They did so in grand march in which
nearly $1,000 men took part, carrying
rifles, colors waving, bands playing
and shouting viva Americanos,"
viva Filipinos libres."
AT the session of the Sons of Veter-
ans at Omaha, Neb., on the 14th, De-
troit, Mich, was selected for the next
meeting place. A new ritual was
adopted, which provides for one de.
gree instead of three. The PROPOSE.
ton to raise the muster fee from SO to
SO was voted down. 1t was decided to
ask that one of the new battleships
be named Lincoln.