Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
GENERAL NEWS.


THE mutilated body of a negro was
found in a creek in Grant parish, La,
the other day. 1t appeared the negro
asked Mrs Boyett for food while she
was alone in her house and when she
brought it to him he ordered her to
carry it across the road. She ran to
her husband, who was in a field, and
1T was surmised a posse pursued and
lynched the negro.
SPECIALS from Bombay on the 18th
reported rain in surrounding territory
and the British governments anxiety
in regard to the possibility of famine
was relieved.
THE miners at the Stevens colliery,
near Pittston, Pa, have gone on a
strike because the company refused to
grant an increase of So per cent. in
wages. The number of miners report
ed to be on strike in that district was
nearly 5000 on the 18th.
A HEAVY cloudburst visited the east
ern part of Noble county, o., doing an
inestimable amount of damage to corn
and tobacco crops. The water rose five
feet over the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE &
Cincinnati railroad tracks at Harlzins
station.
DELLA, the 13-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Edmond Lynn, living three miles
south of Benton, ILL.,, was killed by
lightning day or two ago while stand
ing under an apple tree.
Ivy CRABTREE, the girl who killed
her brother in an attempt to poison
her family at Carmi, Ill, threw herself
upon the mercy of the court and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for Is
years.
THE other afternoon north and south
bound freights had head-end collision
about one mile south of Durant, 1. T.,
just beyond the bridge on a curve, in
which both engines were smashed up
and about a half dozen cars on each
train were dumped on top of each other
and made bindling wood of. All of the
train men jumped to save their lives.
Two hundred employees of the lum-
Der company at Rice Lake, Wis, struck
the other day for a ten-hour day in
stead of IL. The company refused the
demand and the men quit work.
ACCORDING to Hong Kong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern
ment that the United States shall have
an exclusive settlement at Hankow.
THE st. Louis Republic states that
Gov. Stone is in receipt of a letter from
Senator Jones, chairman of the nation
al democratic committee, in which the
latter says he is threatened with re-
turn of ill-health and will not return
to the United States before October 1,
and proba bly, not then.
THE race war which has been on in
Paragould, Ark, bids fair to come to a
close in short time without further
trouble, as nearly all the negroes have
left. 1t was alleged by the agitators
that the colored residents were, as a
rule, thieves and vagabonds.
GEN. MILES is anxious that the new
regiments being raised for service in the
Philippines shall be especially efficient
with small arms, and an order was sent
TO the commander of each regiment on
the 7th directing that target practice
be the chief feature of the instruction
given the soldiers
NEVER before has the national sol
oilers home at Santa Monica, Cal, been
zsoS crowded as at present. The bar
rac,SSs capacity of the home is but 1, 600
while the present membership is 2,2s6.
The ba1 racks is saved from intolerable
congestif.Su by reason only of the alb
sence ON f, though of 618, or more than
G5 per cent If the membership.