Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-01-19

Bias, who had been sentenced 10 hhhR
at noon on the 18th at Ardmore, l. t.,
were granted stay Of execution until
next June. The scaffold had been built
THE mayor and the entire city coun-
Gil at San Juan, Porto Rico, have re-
signed. This action, they asserted,
was taken because of their inability
10 raise sufficient funds under the pres
emit tariff They we're not satisfied
with the so.called abrupt commands
of military government and besides
alleged they had insufficient liberty.
NEARLY all the business men OF Chi
cago have been invited to banquet TO
be given by the Merchants club for
the purpose OF considering In detail
the question of establishing municipal
pawnshops In that city. BY the pas
sage of such measure, it was said,
the large number of ShyIocks, who
make loans ut exorbitant rates, Will
be forced out of business.
AN epidemic OF meningitis was re-
ported raging in Albany, Ga So far
the disease has taken effect mainly
among the negroes The officers of the
Second Missouri regiment said that
the epidemic will cause the troops to
be moved from there much sooner than
was at first anticipated.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th
numbered GOA, according to Bradstreet's
report, against 1893 for the correspond
ing week last year.
FIRE broke out early the other morn
ing in the fve-story Menkin building
at Memphis, Tenn, and destroyed the
building and contents, valued at $3.50, =
900. The insurance was $345,OOO
No homeseekers' excursions will be
run after February by the roads In
the territory of the Central Passenger
associations. At recent meeting of
the association held in Chicago, at
which 40 of the roads were repre-
sented, all of them with four eXcep
tions, decided to discontinue home
see kers' excursions and in lieu thereof
to sell after this month regular winter
tourist tickets.
EARLY the other morning burglars
broke into the main building of the
Iowa State university at Iowa City and
blew up the safe with dynamite. The
burglars looted the safe and escaped.
1t was not known how much they got.
MRS. MARGARET PLUMMER, widow
residing one mile south of Lowell,
Ark, was struck by Frisco freight
train while crossing the track and in
stantly killed.
A GREAT battle has been fought In
the Yamen division of Arabia. The
Turkish troops stormed and captured
the nsurgent position at Shanel anc
1000 insurgents and 1000 Turks were
killed or wounded.
The Tennessee legislature reelected
William b. Tate (dem.) to the United
States senate.
FIFTEEN men stationed at the water
works crib, off Sixty-eighth street. il
Lake Michigan, were reported on thu
18th to be in danger of starvation un
less help could reach them soon. Tit
recent strong east winds and cole
weather had piled up the ice to such
an extent that it was impossible TO
the tugboats to reach the cribs.
IT was reported from Floyd county
Va, that a man by the name of Under
wood, who was suspected of being al
informer on moonshiners, was seizet
by gang of the latter and his throa
cut He was then thrown across loI
and decapitated with an AK.
GEN. JOSEPH r. HAwLEY was nom
mated by the republican caucus of tn
general assembly at Hartford, Conn.
to succeed himself as United State
senator after hard fight
GEN. Wood, military governor o
Santiago, arrived at New York on tn
10th. In an interview he would no
talk about the order to send custom
receipts to Havana, but said when h
left Santiago schools were being oil
ganzed and nearly 1000 miles of road
had been constructed in the province
The best of feeling prevailed and tn
general condition of things was a.
that could be desired.
In heavy freight train on the Iro
Mountain railway pair of trucks o
box car jumped the track just a
siding at Vaudeville, Ark, wa
reached. The car struck switch ra
and was hurled across the track
Eight freight cars were piled togethe
in splinters. No one was hurt, but tn
company suffered heavy loss.
MILDRED WISDOM, of New Prov
: dence, Tenn, was burned to death.
Word was received that the famor
Sinking Water springs, near Cody
, Wyo., had suddenly disappeared. Th
place was resort for invalids wit
rheumatism and stomach disorder
In blasting at the crater it was foun
that subterrauean river, half as bi
as the main fork of the Sinking Waite
J had encroached upon the source of II
: springs, which are gone forever.
; SISTER MARGARET NEWMAN, motht
superior of the Ursuline conven
, Twelfth street and Russell avenu
ST. Louis, was killed by falling from
third-stOry porch to the briclt-pave
yard, her skull being fractured.
was not known when the fall occurre
: the body being found at an early hol
with life extinct
! The sheriff will sell the property
the Tacoma Land company, valued
} SO, 100000. This property consists
the unsold portion of the Tacon
} (Wash.) townsite, together with Il