Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-03-10

point of numbering her sick husband
when servant aroused some neigh
bors and the woman was overpowered.
Mrs. Demorest had recently shown evil
dence of insanity.
THE Kentucky house of representa-
tives has passed, by party vote, an
act to prevent the making of contract
payable in gold and making such n
contract null and void, 10 is substan-
TALLY copy of the Nebraska law and
declares both gold and silver legal
tender in payment Of debt on exactly
the same terms.
A. N. HULL, one OF southern Iowa's
wealthiest men, was ground almost to
pulp in his Touring mill at Selma, la.
He was caught in ahy-wheel and every
bone in his body broken. He was 10
years old.
kid" MCCOY knocked Burley out in
the second round at Hot Springs, Ark,
on the 4th. The fighting was fast and
furious. The knockout blow was "A left
hook on the neck which floored hurley
and he was counted out.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, may be
called upon to settle the Cuban ques-
ton. A memorandum proposing arbi-
tration with the chief executive OF
Mexico MS arbitrator, Washington
dispatch said, has been laid before
President Mckinley. 1t contemplates
united request from the American
nations to Spain TO submit the ques-
ton of Cuba's future to Diaz.
THE schooner Speedwell, from Marco,
Fla, for Key West, was struck by a
squall on the 3D. while off Marquesas,
IS miles from Key West, and capsized.
Nine persons were drowned out of 10
on board.
NEAR Payne Center, Ok, the twin
children of Thomas ziegler, aged two
years, slipped out of the house and fell
into we'll and were drowned before
the mother could reach them.
ISABELLA A. MARSH and William C.
Buzzel, convicted of the murder by
poison of George Marsh, the woman's
husband, were sentenced to death by
Chief Justice Ross, of the supreme
court at Montpelier, VT. The court
overruled the plea for a new trial.
THREE men called John Reese to his
door at his home south of Muncie,
Ind, early the other morning. They
tied and gagged the old man and
locked his aged wife in room while
the house was looted, Mr.. Reese was
beaten into submission with club and
his long beard was torn out by the
roots.
AS the Bostonia steamed out from
her wharf at Cincinnati the other
night, eight colored roustabouts were
thrown into the river. Four were
rescued and four were drowned. The
gangplank broke.
SHEP WOOD prominent young farm
er at Cordele, Ga, shot and killed his
brother Thomas, On seeing the re-
suit of his shot, he turned the gun on
himself and sent bullet through his
brain. The brothers quarreled over
business matters.
MRS. WINsLow, who will christen
the battleship Kearsage, to be launched
at Newport News, Va, March "a, has
refused to use water in the ceremony.
A LEAGUE of Maine avengers has
been formed in Lincoln, Neb., COM
posed largely of veterans of the war
of the rebellion.
ALL the breweries in Cleveland, o.,
save one, 10 in all, have passed into the
hands of an eastern syndicate with a
capital of 10000, 900.
A LARGE steam dry kiln at the Cen
trail coal and coke sawmill at TeXar-
kama, Ark, tumbled in the other after
noon, seriously wounding a number of
workmen, two of whom will die.
Others were believed to have been
buried under the debris and killed
outright. Large timbers, sheet iron
and lumber and railroad iron were
bent ard twisted into shapeless mass.
The Goth annual report of the board
of Indian commissioners, of which
Merrill Il. Gates is chairman, has been
submitted to Secretary Bliss 1t says
that in the general condition of the
Indians no important changes have
occurred, but there is evidence of
steady progress in industrial pursuits
and in education. The commission is
strongly of the opinion that the allot-
ment system is good one
The policy of the city government
of Des Moines, Ia, for the next two
years will be municipal ownership.
This was settled by the result of the
recent republican primaries. The
waterworks and electric lighting
business will demand first attention,
At the election, March rs, PROPOSE
ton will be submitted to the people
for building municipal plant and
there was talk of bringing the street
railway system into municipal con.
troll.
FIVE children of julie and Joanna
Bonner, of livingston, Ala, were
burned to death while the parents were
at prayer meeting.
ION the day that the white squadron
opens fire on Havana Maxine Gomez
will begin an attack on land. He will
keep on fighting until Havana sur
renders if nothing is left of it but 9
heap of ruins" These words were said
in Tampa, Fla, by Emilio Nunez, who
commanded the filibustering expedi
ton which was landed in Cuba from