Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-24

JOSEPH LETTER, OF SnlchBo uuue III
emphatic denial that he disposed of
s, 900, 600 bushels OF his May holdings
OF wheat during the excited trading
of a day or two ago, He was credited
with making n profit OF S50O,OO He
said: 81 not only did not sell bushel
of wheat, but bought wheat. The cur
rent prices are only the beginning OF
a range from Sl,25 to Sl.5O per bushel'
That is what l propose to sell my
wheat at"
A REPORT that the Illinois Central Is
about to buy the Kansas City, Mem
phis e. Birmingham road from the
Kansas City, Fort Scot e. Memphis was
credited recently by many railroad men
at Kansas City and other places.
A COMMUNICATION was recently re-
ceived by Acting Gov. Jenkins from A.
j. Blackwell, founder Of the town OF
Blackwell, Ok, that state OF riot had
existed in that town for several days
and that he and the Ave negroes he re-
Gently brought to the town and sold
property to had been besieged in his
house. He called upon the governor
for protection.
A SPANISH miner on the 18th, in n
crowd of miners near Glenroy, o..
boosted that Spain would make short
work of the United States in case of a
naval war. He had barely uttered the
boast when pick was driven into his
brain, killing him. 1t was not known
whether he was natnralized citizen
of the United States or not.
THE secret service of the treasury
department has discovered a new coun-
terfeit $40 national bank note. 1t is
on the IIibernian national bank, Of
New Orleans, series 1882, check letter
b, Rosecrans register, Nebeker treas
urer. 1t is Photographic production
of poor workmanship.
THE United States government on
the 18th had settled down into wait
ing attitude to get the results of the
court of inquiry appointed by the navy
department to investigate the cause Of
the disaster to the battleship Maine.
The dead seamen were buried in Cuba
and the wounded sent to Key West,
Fla. The story that torpedo hole
was discovered in the bottom of the
Maine was denied by the authorities.
A BUFFALO IN, W telegram on the
18th said that a number OF men, esti-
mated at between 20 and 80, who were
fishing through the ice on Lake Erie,
were believed to have lost their lives
or were adrift on the ice on the lake.
c. N. QUINN, assistant government
engineer, has served notice on the
dredgeboat Florida, stopping the oper'
alton of dredges in the Port Arthur
ship channel in Texas. The order was
issued by the war department at
Washington.
MISS FRANCES e. WILLARD, president
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, died early on the morning of
the 18th at New York. She had suf-
fered for some years from profound
anemia and few weeks ago she was
much Frustrated and readily took the
grip, which attacked the stomach,
liver, intestines and finally over
whelmed the nerve centers. She was
born September 2S, 1889.
Col. EDWARD b. BROWNE, of Aspen,
Col, wired Gov. Adams Offering, in
case of war with Spain, to furnish a
dynamite battery composed of 100
miners, who have had long experience
in handling high explosives.
A SPECIAL from Juneau, Alaska, OF
February 12, confirmed the news OF
the loss of the Clara Nevada and said
The cause of the disaster was doubt
less the explosion of her boilers. OF
the so people on board none are be-
lieved to have been saved.
PEOPLE of every class in Madrid de-
nounced in the strongest fashion the
insinuation on the part of the Ameri-
can press that the Spanish nation was
in any way responsible for the Maine
disaster at Havana, which was as
cribed by the majority to an accident
and by some to the work of Cubans
anxious to embroil the United State:
with Spain. Should the United States
government OhlCluliJ lS-SShO way
charges of the American press decla
ration of war, it was said, would fol
low at once without waiting for fur
Their action from America.
A DISPATCH received at Copenhagen
Denmark, from Helsingford said tina
q tract of ice on the coast of the Gul,
of Finland broke adrift in a snowstorn
and was carried to sea with 200 fisher
men and several horses
A TERRIBLE explosion of fredaml
occurred in the Verinigte Gardiner
glueck colliery at Hammerly, Prussia
on the 18th. Thirty'seven bodies wer
recovered, but it was believed that s.
persons had persisted. Many othe
miners were seriously injured.
Gov. TANNER on the 18th called OIL
the Illinois legislature to authoriz
him to tender to the president of tn
United States the moral and materia
support" of Illinois, Ito prevent o
punish any attempt at hostile invasion
of our country" and both senate an,
house passed a resolution to that effect
THE United States battleship Main
was blown up in Havana harbor at ga
on the evening OF the 18th, the explc
sion shaking the whole city. 1t wa
estimated that over 100 of the GREY
had been killed Capt. Sigsbee telC
graphed to the secretary of the nav