Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-04-14


given 500, 900 to Princeton university
to erect dormitory which will bear
his name Mr.. Little was formerly
clerk in chancery in New Jersey.
j. PIERPoINT MORGAN had an impor-
tant conference in New York on the sth
with bankers touching national
financial affairs A big prospective
bond issue was discussed. One bank
err said II bonds ranging from $50 to
$500, netting three per cent, were is
sued, the people would snap them up,
being influenced by sentiments of pa
triotism.
A HANDFUL at time the ashes of
the County Club house at Long Island,
which recently burned, were sifted by
experts in the hope of recovering at
least a small part Of $4,000 worth Of
diamonds that were in the house when
the fire started,
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 9Th num-
bered 22O, according to Bradstreets
commercial report, against 232 for the
corresponding week of last year
Destructive prairie fires swept over
the southwestern portion of Beadle
county and the eastern part of Hand
county, s. D, Farmers lost their homes,
buildings, machinery and stock Much
live stock was burned and many people
had narrow escapes,
In obedience to an order telegraphed
from Washington, Col. Frank com
mander of Fort Monroe, Va, has the
engineering corps hard at work min
ing the entrance to Hampton roads.
Two hundred and fifty mines were in
the hands of the engineers. They are
made of galvanized iron and each will
hold about 400 pounds of gun cotton.
THE proposed withdrawal of the
United States troops from Arizona and
New Mexico has greatly alarmed the
big cattle raisers of that section of the
country, as they fear an outbreak by
the Apaches.
IT was reported at London on the
9TH that the queen regent of Spain had
again appealed TO Queen Victoria di-
rect, asking the latter to exert her in
huence to avert war with the United
States, and, it was added, "touchingly
recalling that both Victoria and her.
self are widows, and thus deprived of
advisers"
john BRYANT, a farmer living near
Seymour Ia, was found in the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
freight yard at Kansas City, Mo-, with
his throat cut from his right ear to
point under his chin. lie told the po-
lice that his throat was cut by two
highwaymen, who held him up and
robbed him of $40
GEORGE STOUT, of Cincinnati, was
knocked out by Oscar Gardner, the
Omaha Kid" in IL rounds at Column
bus, o., on the 18th. 1t was hot fight
from start to finish. The Knockout
blow was a short right arm swing on
the jaw.
The ambassadors of France, Ger
many, Russia and Italy at Madrid on
the 18th waited upon Senior Gullon, the
foreign minister, and presented joint
note in the interests of peace. Senior
Gullon. replying, declared that the
members of the Spanish cabinet were
unanimous in considering that Spain
had reached 1.-THE limit of information
al policy in the direction of conceding
the demands and allowing the preten.
sions of the United States"
MARGARET MATHER, the actress col
lapsed and was carried off the stage at
Charleston, w. Va, and never regained
consciousness. She died of convul-
sions, caused by Brights disease. She
was born in 1862.
AT the Wheeling iron works, in Ben
wood, o., a boiler explosion killed
David Georry, fatally injured owen
Tates and badly scalded four others.
THE London morning paper edito-
rails on the Sth on the Cuban situation
were all pessimistic, at the most only
hoping that the delay would enable
some peaceful influence to work. The
Times could not see how conflict could
be avoided. The DailyNews pointed out
that in both America and Spain it was
the people and not the rulers who de-
sired war. Special dispatches from
the continent to the London papers
likewise recorded the same feeling of
of avoiding a conflict.
A DISPATCH from Fort Monroe, Va,
on the 18th reported that the flying
squadron was ready for action and
complete in all its details except the
possible addition of dispatch boat
and a hospital boat.
DAVID b. LANDS, president of the
national bank of Lancaster,
Pa, was shot and killed by Ralph w.
maker of patent medicines.
Gov. ADAMS, of Colorado, has ten
dered the services of 500 Navajo In
dams as scouts to the federal govern
ment The Indians have volunteered.
The Cuban junta, through its coun-
rel, Horatio 5. Rubens, made an i'm
ortant statement at New York on the
9th. 1t declared that the Cuban pro-
visional government and the Cuban
army would reject absolutely inter-
vention by the United States unless it
should be preceded by a recognition of
the independence of the Cuban repub-
lie; that if the United States troops
should be sent to Cuba upon the basis
of Intervention without independence,
the Cuban army would in the last re-
sort turn its arms against the United