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


THE gunboat Yorktown sailed from
San Francisco to Manila ON the 18th,
THE omer r. Weaver camp of ex'
Confederate Veterans at Little Rock,
Ark, adopted resolutions against the
proposed plan Of government assist
ance in caring for the graves OF con-
federate soldiers and also against the
proposition to pension ex-confederates
GREAT interest is being manifested
throughout the west over the coming
meeting of stockmeD at Denver, COL,
during the week Of January 90. Be-
sides the national live stock conven-
ton, a range cattle exhibition Is TO be
held at the stock yards, the first ex-
hibition OF its kind ever held in the
country, These cattle are range-bred
and have never tasted any feed but
grass and hay.
A CONFERENCE between the Canadian
Pacific railway and the western roads
of the United States has been arranged
for January II at Chicago and 1T is eX-
pected that it will resultin an arrange
ment of the trouble relating princl-
pally TO the imm grant traffic,
SAMUEL STEINER, farmer of Pleas
ant Valley township, Ia, went to
West Union and surrendered himself
TO the authorities. He said that his
brother John and himself, with a
neighbor named Hunsberger, were to-
gether and drank freely Of homemade
wine, becoming intoxicated. A quar-
rel arose between them. in which Sam
uel shot his brother killing him in
stantly.
The report that Mgr. Ireland, the
arch bishop of st. Paul, Mimi, is to be
nominated papal nuncio in the Philip
pines was absolutely contradicted at
the vatican at Rome. There is no in
tention OF instituting nunciature in
the Philippines.
A LETTER received by Stephen e.
Barton, chairman OF the Cuban relief
committee at New York, from Mr..
Warner, recently sent to the Sancti
Spiritus district in Cuba, says that
there are 1881 destitute women and
children in the town, with 1892 men
to provide for them, more than half OF
whom are too sick and weak to even
help themselves. "The condition of
the people in the little villages and
ountry," he says, sis even worse than
in the city"
THE employees of the Sioux City Qa.)
plant of the Cudahy Packing company
have purchased four blocks of prop
erty short distance from the packing
house and will build up what they will
call Cudahytown on the cooperative
plan. No one not an employe of the
packing company and member of the
TOWNSHIP company will be allowed tc
buy lots.
THE republican legislative caucus al
Indianapolis, Ind, selected eX-Con
gresham A. j. Beveridge for United
States senator. AS the republicans
have majority on joint ballot in the
legislature he will be elected to sue
coed Senator David Turpie (dem). Mr.
Beveridge is but SO years old and he
will be the youngest man to be elected
a United States senator from Indiana
-FOUR crooks in Jail at Columbus, Neb.
dynamited the building to effect thei
escape. Two of them were seriousl!
If not fatally injured and another will
lose his eyesight.
A FREIGHT train on the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad, loaded with orr
and cattle, jumped the track uea
Mears' Junction, COL, and rolled dowI
steep embankment smashing thu
cars to pieces. All the train crew wer'
more or less injured, but no one wa
killed. Anum Der of cattle were killed
The brakes gave way.
AN epidemic of grip was prevailing
in Oakland, Cal, on the 18th. Healtl
Officer Dunn said he thought Their
were at least 1900 cases in the cit.
and, If weather conditions do not ali
the health department in checking tn
disease, a repetition 81 the epidemic o
eight years ago was feared