Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22
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THE executive council OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic met at Philadel-
phia recently with Col. Jumes A. Sex
ton, the national commander, In the
chair The only work done was the
appointment of September A to for
the encampment The Woman's Relief
corps OF the Grand Army also met to
arrange the preliminaries OF the wom-
ans end OF the encampment.
CARTER MARTIN was hanged at
Charleston, H., on the 10th for MUIR
dering farmer
A WAGON containing eight persons
was struck by train at the Allenwood
IN. J.) crossing and four were killed,
two fatally injured and two others Sc
riously injured.
THE Iowa State horticultural society
Endorsed Charles Bell, OF Boonville,
Mo-, for one OF the ~ United States
commissioners In charge OF the Ameri-
can horticultural and agricultural i'm
terests at the Paris exposition and
President Mckinley was asked to APP
point him
ABNER TAYLOR n white man, was
hanged at Macon, Ca, on the 10th for
the murder OF his wife.
THE Beaumont TEX Irrigation com
pany purchased pumping plant which
will supply the water for the irriga-
ton company's big canal. One station
will be located on the banks of Pine
Island bayou, from which the water
will be lifted into an immense hume.
From this point it will flow FIVE miles
into the prairie, where another pump
will again lift 1t several feet, giving u
sufficient height to food between 10, =
900 and 90, 900 acres OF adjacent rice
land
GAME WARDEN LovEJoY, OF Illinois,
swooped down upon East st. Louis,
ILL.,, recently and went through ex-
press and fast freight packages con-
signed to st. Louis commission mer-
chants. He found $4,000 quail, which
were conhscated, according to the
laws OF Illinois The open season on
quail closed in Illinois on December l.
PLEAS COIN killed Hunt Kesterson
and mortally wounded Fred Berk in
Lee county, Va. Coin had falling
out with his victims some time ago
and notified them he would kill them
on sight The murderer fled, hotly
pursued by an Infatuated mob of men.
If caught he will be lynched
The body of Peter Kreich baum, the
wealthy farmer who disappeared mys-
teriously some time ago, was found
buried in the hog pen on his farm,
three miles south of Franklin, Neb., on
the 18th. Two men were suspected of
having committed the crime. The
motive was robbery, Mr.. Kreichbaum
having disposed of $1,000 worth OF
hogs.
A PRIVATE message from New York
on the 14th stated that deal by which
the Missouri Pacific railroad went into
the possession of the Chicago s. Alton
had Just been concluded there.
THE Belmont hotel at Dallas, Tex,
was recently destroyed by fire.
THE Union iron works at Sacramento,
CAL, were destroyed by fire.
Tom SALMON, the labor leader, who
shot o. Il. Conner, uperintendent OF
the Rocky Fork coal mines at Red
Lodge, Mont, was sentenced to be
hanged January ~.
THE heaviest fall of snow in 20 years
occurred at San Antonio, Tex, on the
l4th.
The Ohio river was frozen over at
Wheeling and Parkersburg, w. Va,
on the 14th.
AT the meeting of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 18th the question of female
wage workers came up and George E.
Mcneil, of Boston, made an eloquent
speech on the subject, saying the day
may come when we will look back
upon the awful barbarism Of this cen
fury when we permitted our women
to wear their lives out working for a
mere subsistence. Resolutions on many
subjects were introduced and referred
TO the committees and the day was
mostly passed in hearing reports.
Col. WILLIAM j. BRYAN, upon leav.
ing his command on the 18th of the
Third Nebraska volunteers, in an in
tervew, gave his opinion on current
questions of policy. Mr.. Bryan was
opposed to expansion in the orient
which would secure us alien races fol-
future subiugation and, involve us in
the quarrels of Europe. He favored
ratifying the peace treaty and thought
congress could pass a resolution de
claring that our purpose in holding
the territory was to establish a stable
government and then turn that govern
ment over to the people of the islands
The aggregate value of the soil prod
ucts of Iowa for this year aye not les:
than 1925, OOO,O 900, says Director Sage
of the Iowa weather and crop service
in his annual report issued on the 18th
Corn yielded $50, 2t4, $50 bushels, aver
aging 345 per acre. The total yield Of
spring wheat is 10, 152, S59 bushels; win
ter wheat, 8. 16s,9l6 bushels; oats, 1879,
9l5, $40 bushels.
THE Brooklyn, Texas, Castine anC
Resolute have been ordered to Ha
vana. While there is not the faintes
desire to convey threat in the dis
patch of these warships to Havana, i
may be noted that when they lie with
in the harbor they will hold the tow
in perfect subsection.
FIVE deaths occurred in Butte. Mont.