Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-29

ABOUT 500 applications for pensions
arising out OF the war It'll Spain have
been filed at the pension Office. Conn
missioner Evans will create new de
vision TO adjudcate these claims.
The Missouri Pacific passenger train,
which left Kansas City, Mo-, at 9:l5 p.
m. on the 23d was held up by seven
masked men few miles out and the
express car shattered by dynamite and
robbed. 1t was said the bandits got
very little for their trouble.
By rush of coal in No, shaft at
Nanticoke, Pa, three men were en-
tombed and probably instantly killed.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, the daughter
of the Confederacy," was buried at
Richmond, Va, on the Esd. An inn
mense number of people followed the
body to the grave.
TWELVE hundred miners quit work
on the esd in the Dillon and Long Run
mines at Bridgeport, o., because the
operators would not concede certain
demands of the men,
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 23d num-
bered ,S2, according to Bradstreets
commercial report against 2S7 in the
corresponding week of last year.
SOCIETY women took charge of all the
street car systems at Peoria, ILL.,, for a
day and devoted the proceeds to chart
ty. A rain prevailed all day, making
travel good on the cars, but having a
disastrous effect on the pretty dresses
and carefully curled hair OF the fair
conductors
GREAT Consideration reigns among
white intermarried men in the Chicka-
saw nation, l. T., over an order issued
by the Dawes commission, saying that
white men who married Indian women
have no right of citizenship and may
be treated as intruders. Under this
ruling the white men who married In
dian women may be ordered from the
territory and separated from their
wives.
ADvICEs from Matanzas stated that
between January l and September 10
there were reported 331 births and 81
bUl uGdbllS. vi buC Ob PSA SSh "
were due to hunger and distress. The
conditions at Matanzas were described
as deplorable.
THE National German Baptist ASSOC
citation convened in St. Louis with
about 200 delegates in attendance, rep
resenting all parts of the United States
and some foreign countries.
For selling or pawning his shoes at
saloon at San Francisco, Private
John D. Sampson, Twentieth Kansas,
was tried by court-martial for stealing
government property and sentenced to
80 days confinement and to forfeit $40.
Gen. Miller, however, was disguised at
the lightness of the sentence, de-
nounced the court, disapproved the
proceedings aud ordered Sampson re-
turned to duty.
A FOREST fire ragged on the crest Of
Mount Hayden, just south of 0uray,
Col. 1t resembled volcanic eruption,
and the dense smoke rose mile high
and the flames 100 feet. The citizens
of Montrose, 10 miles north, wired tc
know if the city was on fire. All OF
the citizens viewed the grand and
wonderful spectacle.
REPORTS were being made to the Ok
lahoma live stock sanitary board Of
horses dying suddenly of a strange
disease veterinarians have not beer
able to classify or control. Fully 800
horses have died in the territory ant
many farmers have lost most of theil
work animals.
THE supreme lodge of the Scottish
Rite masons adjourned at Cincinnati
on the 22d to meet in Philadelphia the
third week in September, 1899. The
report of the financial committee wa
adopted. It's balances were all on thu
surplus side.
GEN. MILLER, now in command a
San Francisco, will command the rein
forcements ordered to Manila. He ha
made applica tions to have the troop
which accompany him armed with tn,
5 Krag-Jorgensen rifle.
A MUTINY broke out among the con
victs at Cayenne, the capital of Frencl
, Guiana, and they overpowered ant
, murdered their guards, then stormeC
the military store house and seized tn
arms and ammunition there. The.
afterwards besieged the principal pris
, on and it was feared they would sue
coed in freeing the 1000 convicts con
4 fined in the building.
: THE Kansas City club won the pen
: nant for 1898 in the Western Baseball
s league.
' AT the Kansas City stock yards Of
p the goth 1S,OS5 cattle were received
!, eclipsing all previous records.
n AT a church social at Plainville
Mich, So persons were poisoned b
/. eating canned beef. Twenty wer
3 dangerously i'll and four of them wer
said to have been given up by the doc
tors.
/. ACCORDING to Gen. Lawton's repor
:. on the goth there were 1900 America
troops at Santiago on the sick list.
10 A DISPATCH from Naples said tina
d frightful misery and immense damag
n will be caused if the eruption of Noun
: Vesuvius continues on the alarmin
y scale reached in the last few day
; Nine new craters were counted on tn
q goth around the central crater, bu
Il even this extra vent does nothing tt
N ward checking the flow of lava.
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