Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-03-17

Z ALL the street car lines ia Saginaw
Mich, were tied up on the 18th and
people had to walk In pouring rain
The conductors and motormen went
on strike for regular hours and pay
for overtime They had heretofore
been working from IA to 16 hours day
The public sympathized with the men.
A CLEVELAND, o., paper on the 18th
said that 1t could state on good au'
thority that pig iron trust was prac.
tically assured, the chief promoters be-
| ing NJ A. Hanna, of Cleveland, and the
Carnegie company, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
1t will include all the furnaces in Ma
honing, Shenango, northern Ohio and
the Pittsburgh districts
GEN. w. $, RosEoRANs died at his
home near Redondo, CAL, on the II tn,
aged ~ years The old warrior was
stricken with no particular disease,
but his end came through a gradual
weakening of his system.
In the scheduled 20-round contest at
San Francisco OF the 18th between
Tom Sharkey, the sailor pugilist, and
Joe Choynski, Sharkey gave a disgrace
full exhibition Of foul fighting and at
the eighth round, the referee, at the
suggestion of the police, declared the
fight draw. Choynski clearly out
pointed Sharkey in every round and
was only worsted by Sharkey's wres-
Ting tactics.
A MIXED train went through burn
ing trestle near Rigland, Ala, and
Engineer Spencer Phillips was in
stautly killed. The passenger cars
did not go over the trestle.
MAJ. JOHN n BURKE the noted scout
and former partner of Buffalo Bill,
recently left Tampa, Neb., for Key
West with 90 picked Cubans. The ex-
act mission of the party was unknown,
but it was believed the men would
leave an island near Key West for
Cuba and attempt some important
work which only veterans could be
trusted to do.
ROBBERS held up Chicago street car
at lonely spot on Forty-SiXth street
and robbed the conductor and passen-
gers of $40.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Chicago board of trade favoring ma
tional legislation to prevent any de-
ception in cereals, and demanding that
all packages containing mixed cereal
products should be branded and marked
as such.
THREE small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Conner, living at 1920
Clarence avenue, st. Louis, were
burned to death on the 9th. They had
been left alone by the parents, who
were attending a funeral, and it was
thought that the fire that burned
them was caused by an explosion of
kerosene.
THERE were no important develop
ments on the 9th concerning the Maine
disaster. A dispatch from Havana said
that the cruiser Montgomery had ar
rived there and was moored near the
wreck of the Maine The court of in
quiry held its usual sessions examining
the divers. The wreckers were said to
be steadily at work.
GEORGE HULzBERGER was found muir
dered in his home near Keota, Ia. the
other day. Robbers had ransacked his
house.
A RECENT dispatch from Omaha,
Neb., stated that maximum age limit
had been fixed by the new Union Pa
citic management Sixty years is the
limit of employment in the mechanical
department. Not only are all persons
over that age in the shops being dis
charged but none will be employed in
the future who are near that period of
life.
IT was stated that w. l. Buchanan,
of Iowa, will be offered the director
generalship of the Omaha exposition
and given charge of the event. He
was at the head of the agricultural
department of the worlds fair at Chi
cago.