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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
No Clothes to wear to School.

According to reports at the Office OF
the police matron there are 60 chill
dren in Topeka who are unable to
attend school because they have no
clothes to wear.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Gov. STANLEY DID the GROWING.

Wellington, Kan, Sept. 25.-Sumner
county's wheat jubilee was formally
opened Tuesday. when Gov. Stanley
crowned Miss Maude Hunter as queen
of the jubilee. She is the daughter
of Mayor Hunter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Child Drowned in n Tub.

The one-year-old daughter of Will
liam Flick, of Hope, met with a re-
markable fatal accident. She fell
from a porch roof into a tub of water
and was drowned.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
For n Mckinley Chair.

Friends of Bethany college at Linds-
borg have begun a movement to en-
dow a chair of political science in
the college, to be known as the Nc
Kinley chair, and to be 81 memorial of
the college to the dead president. The
Swedish conferences throughout the
nation will be asked to assist.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
The First Time.

A Kansas editor confesses to %
years residence in the state, during
which time, he says, he never before
knew of a bushel of potatoes being
worth more than a bushel of apples or
a bushel of peaches.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Big Task on HIS Hands.

Attorney General GODDARD is prepar-
ing to prosecute physicians who have
not complied with the new medical
registration law. 1t is estimated that
there ire at least 500 doctors now
practiclng unlawfully.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Wants Statue of Robinson.

Hill p. Wilson, assistant secretary
of state, wants Ceres discarded and
statue of Charles Robinson, in he
roic size, placed upon the dome of the
statehouse instead.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Father and Son.

their sixtieth wedding anniversary in
Mcpherson county Mr.. Philips
fought in the union army and his
son in the rebel army.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Miss BeaIs Defeated for Queen.

Miss Matte Beals, the telephone
girl who won claim No in the Law
ton district, was defeated for queen
of the Wichita fall festival by Miss
Florence Gilmore, a stenographer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
was In tine TweIfth Kansas.

]. a. Mcclure is dead in Denver. He
came to Lawrence in 1856, and Turing
the civil war was an officer in the
Twelfth Kansas
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Hudson's Mining Investments.

Tt is said that Gen. J. K. Hudson
will, by the end of the year, clear up
a profit of $4,000 out of his invest
ment in Missouri mining lands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Violated His Parole.

Bert Nicely, of Fort Scott, who was
recently paroled from the state pen
itentiary by Gov. Stanley, is locked up
again, charged with the theft of a
watch.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
HNaees nf nTnI OneratIvea Incraaaed.

Fall River, Mass, Sept. 26.-Notices
were posted in all departments of the
Iron Works mills announcing that an
increase in wages of five per cent. will
go into effect October l.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
NIorris Count Obtects.

By a fantastic error of the last leg
islature, Morris county is compelled
to pay for educating a number of
Lyon county children. Norris coun-
ty will seek redress in the courts.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Chickasaw srookman in Trouble.

Ardmore, I. T., Sept. 25.-Robert
Williams, a weIl-known cattleman of
the Chickasaw nation, is in Jail here
on warrant charging him with the
recent murder of Thomas Wolfe, near
Purcell.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
For the Pike Celebration.

At Pawnee Indian village September
80 will occur the unwilling of the Pike
monument by the state. Senator
John C. Carpenter will be president
of the day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Theory of Rocks County Man.

A Rocks county man has a theory
that cattle are not poisoned by eating
sorghum or kaff1r- corn, but are
cholled to death by the rough blades
lodging in their throat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Kftchoner Reports Captures.

London, Sept. 25.-Lord Kitchener
reports that % Beers were killed, 16
wounded and $50 made prisoners and
that zs surrendered between Septem-
Der IS and September IS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Farmer Attacked by n Wolf.

Charles Sanders, foreman of ranch
east of Peabody, was attacked by a
large gray wolf, which lacerated him
in a terrible manner before he sue
ceeded in killing it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Potatoes Are roo CostIy.

The burglar who broke into a pam
try at Galena and ate up a dishful
of cold potatoes is fleeing in terror
from the enraged mob.-Kansas City
Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Democratic Editor Appointed.

DOC" Blakesley, of Neodesha, dep
uty collector of internal revenue, will
be succeeded October 1 by j. E. Wat
rous, editor of the democratic Bur
ington Independent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Must visit Every County.

The state board of charities has be-
gun tour of Kansas to inspect the
county jails and poor houses, in &C
cord with an act of the last legisla-
ture.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
A Thief at II,

Willie Browning. aged II, is under
arrest at AtchisOn, charged with rob-
bling several stores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
RAY DARES THE COURT
ACCUSES JUDGE NORRIS OF FRAUD
IN JURY DRAWING.
still Mt ~Large-Day Labor Question
Threatens the Miners-Futile At
tempt to Rob n Bank.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

CltOldi 10 INC llultidlOilS JOufHdi.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, March 1i.-George
NJ. Ray is still at large. accompanied by a
deputy sheriff. In the Democrat, of which
he is the editor, he makes a bitter attack
to-day on the honesty and integrity of
Judge Norris and the jury commissioners.
as follows:
But this week Judge Norris ordered a
special Venire of twelve names drawn out
of the jury box for service in a railway
case, in case the regular panel did not
make the jury. Out of the twelve names
drawn for this purpose six names had been
heretofore drawn out of the box during the
we charge another duplicate drawing. a
more damnable revelation of judicial fraud
never existed in any court or county where
freemen are supposed TO live and control
affairs. We say fearlessly that the Shelby
Circuit Court is not entitled to respect so
long as prejudice. fraud and jury-boX stuff
ing exist. The jury commissioners get
their cue from Judge Morris. and have lin
tied, for the past year, the selection of
about It's names out of 1000 competent per-
sons in Shelby county. The people are
fools if they stand for such methods any
Onger. We have exposed the fraud and
dare any court 10 defend il. We dare the
County Commissioners TO defend their ac-
TONS
John Messick, the president of the First
National Bank of this city. is one of the
commissioners and James Q. Parrish, the
dents of ~Shelbyville. Citizens generally, re-
CARELESS of party. regard the attack on
Judge Morris and the commissioners as en-
tirely unWarranted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
A RATE WAR IMMINENT
THE PENNsYLyANGA-ERIE COMBI-
NATION CREATING TROUBLE.
statement of Receiver MaIot of the
NandaIia-An OnBciaI of the Big
Four Gets Good Job Abroad.

a passenger official who has for two days
past been in attendance at the meeting Of
the Central Passenger Association in Chi
cago says 1t was the stormiest session the
association has experienced I'm several
years, there being an unpleasant feeling be-
tween the Pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt
lines over the new line the Pennsylvania
and the Erie propose 10 establish between
st. Louis and Buffalo 10 handle Pan-Amer-
lean exposition travel, and TO further ag-
gravate matters the new combination has
demanded a differential rate which COM
petitOrs of the Pennsylvania and Erie lines
say will not be granted, and the Pennsyl-
vania officials were strongly berated be-
cause these companies demanded a differ
entail, thus admitting that it was a weak
line. Those who know l.. a. Ford, general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines
west, and d.. j. Roberts. general passenger
agent of the Erie. say these men will carry
out the differential idea. come what may.
But" said one of the officials quoted,
should they do so Ii will lead TO the mer-
riest passenger rate war that has been en-
1oyed in many years, as competitors of the
pennsylvania and Erie combination are
confident that il is the intention TO secure
a dinerential, and after the Pan-American
exposition closes make the arrangement
permanent, expecting that the diferential
ness from the territory the combined lines
touch"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
HITCH OVER DAY LABOR.
Ii Threatens "a Deadlock i'm the Mine
Workers Convention.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 1.-THE
Indiana miners convention to-day r~e-elect-
ed President Van Horn and Secretary Ken
redy, and elected George Hargrove. of Lin
ten, TO succeed T. 1. Roberts, of Rosedale,
as vice president. AT the time Of adjourn
ment John Boyle, of Princeton. Dan Level
Ign, of Linton, and r. Potter, of Clinton,
had been elected TO the executive board.
The scale committee, which is to meet
with a like committee from the operators
tomorrow, was instructed to stand out for
the advance Of day labor wages and for
the incorporation of all wage contracts
in the one contract with the United Mine
Workers.
State Mine Inspector Epperson. who had
been requested yesterday 10 appear ana
explain his opposition to the bill before the
experts for firing explosives did not report
as expected, but may come tomorrow.
The miners are demanding his removal
from office.
The operators heard an appeal by CHEZ
Taylor. OF the Hosting Engineers Broth
crhood, that the operators do not ignore the
brotherhood by signing for wages or en-
gineers with the miners organization. III is
on this point and the advance in wages or
mule drivers that it Is expected the confer
ence will be in deadlock for some days.
The Central Labor Union gave a smoker
TO the miners this evening. Eugene Debs
was to have been the principal speaker,
but he was called 10 Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
Indiana Notes.

Andrew Carnegie has been asked by Rich
mond men interested in establishing a Y.
NJ. C. A.. TO give $4,000 for that purpose.
Under the provisions of House bill No.
.619. Portland is TO have a new school build
ing. 1t will be erected in the southern part
of town and will cost $4,000.
A gas we'll. showing $50 pounds pressure,
has been drilled in on the Isaac Miller farm.
four miles west of Muncie. 1t Is owned by
a farmers cooperative company.
Thieves robbed the Muller * McFadden
tailoring shop. in Muncie. Wednesday
night. of Sl25 worth of goods. They took
all the made-up goods they could hnd.
State Representative Bonham. of Hart
ford City, denies the report given currency,
recently, that he will be a candidate Tor
senator, TO succeed George w. Osborn, of
Marion.
Farmers living between Fairmount and
Matthews have ORGANIZED an naependent
telephone system. and will put in twenty
five instruments at once. r. c. Nottingham
is president OF the company.
The Wayne County Commissioners have
granted a franchise to the Dayton * North
western Traction Company, which desires
TO build to Richmond from Dayton, O.
Work is TO begin within five months.
Sixth district Knights of Pythias. repre-
senting Jay, Blackford, Adams and Wells
counties. are holding a district conclave al
Bluffton. Several state officers and about
two hundred visiting Knights are present.
Representative Steele announced. at Mari
on. yesterday, that Harry Hamaker. for
merly of Marion, had resigned as forest
inspector in the Black Hills. South Dakota
and that he would recommend +. VI.
Haines, OF Upland, TO succeed him.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. III. Meerhoff. Of Rich
mond. celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary on Wednesday night. Five cot
their eight children were living. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Meerhoff were born in Hanover
Germany. He went to Richmond in 1867,
and has ever since been a resident there
and prominent in business circles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
CARNEGIE'S ~BENEFACTION.
c. vi. Schwab Discusses the Great Gift
& WOrkingmen.

NEW YORK, March 14.-C. NJ. Schwab,
president of the United States Steel Cor
poration, left the city to-day for Pitts
burg. Concerning the gift Of S, 100000 made
by Andrew Carnegie to Pittsburg, Mr..
Schwab said:
Mr.. Carnegie has given the money to
the management of the Carnegie Com
pany," said Mr.. Schwab. land we will hold
a meeting as soon as L get back to Pitts
burg. The problem is a great but pleasing
one, and we must get ii under way at once.
OF the money turned over to US 81 100000 Is
for the libraries in Braddock, Homestead
and Duquesne. and $4,O00,O 700 for the benfit
of Carnegie steel workmen. This amount
OF money will enable us to take care of our
men in splendid shape. The plan to pro-
vide pensions is the new proposition which
will have TO be worked, and that is some
thing that cannot be foretold. Each case
has its different phase-the disability of
the workman, the size Cf his family and
the ages of its members. But while We
sha do our best TO carry out the ideas Of
Mr.. Carnegie, the fact remains that he has
left the plans in our hands. As Mr.. Car
negie said, the $4,0O0,O fun is not intended
to be used as a substitute for what the
company has been ooing. but is intended
to go further and eliminate the natural
haunting fear of wan from every faithful
Workman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
MAY DIVIDE THE ESTATE.
Effort to AmicabIy Settle the Contest
over the Gilman Millions.

NEW YORK. March 14-Notwithstand-
ing the of Frazier Gilman, that
a settlement had been reached i'm the Gill
man estate matter by which all the heirs
are TO share in the division. the New York
lawyers in the case stoutly deny the matter
had been compromised, and repeat the as
sertion that ii viii have TO be left TO the
courts. 1t is reported that the plan under
when it was sought To settle the estate in
Guided these propositions: y division Of the
real estate under the laws OF New York.
which would recognize all relatives. a divis-
ion OF the personal estates InGcr the laws
q Connecticut. concessions being made t.
TIE half-blOod relatives. which would give
them a share: the incorporation of 80 tea
concerns which Gilman conducted into one
company. the stock TO be distributed eQui-
tably among the various claimants. Ii is
understood the three Brooklyn women
heirs OF Winthrop Gilman hav not yet
consented 10 any agreement, and they
may prevent an amicable settlement.
Frank Gilman. a son of Winthrop Gilman.
is. however. seconding Frazier Gilman's ef-
forts 20 secure any adjustment without
litigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The striking miners at Montceau les
Mines, department of Saone-et-Loire,
France, met yesterday TO examine the lat
est propositions made by the mining COM
panies, and decided TO continue the strike.
There were several slight conflicts at
Marseilles yesterday between the strikers
and the police at the docks. but nothing
serious. The teGmsters and bakers have
decided to make common cause with the
lockers, and a settlement is not likely to
be reached soon.
Organized labor is up in arms at the
proposition to give the brickyard at the
Chicago Bridewell a capacity of S,00O.OOO a
year, enough TO supply half the demand
of the city government. Members of the
B~rickmakers' Alliance propose that a COM
mittee wait on Mayor Harrison TO protest
against the plan.
Representatives of more than 1900 long
shOremen employed at Lake Erie ports
were In conference with dock managers at
Cleveland yesterday endeavoring TO agree
on a wage scale for the coming season. IL
is understood the 'longshoremen have asked
for a slight advance on certain classes OF
work over last year.
At the bi-monthly wage conference at
Youngstown o., yesterday between the
iron manufacturers and the officers of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers the manufacturers granted a vol
untary increase of l215 cents per ton for
puddlers and 2 cents for fnishers. The in
crease affects about 10000 hands.
On May l the international Machinists'
Association of America will enforce a de-
mand for a shorter work day. la towns
where machiniSts are compelled TO Work
ten hours they will strike for nine hours.
and in towns where they work nine hours
they will demand an eight-hour day. In
every case they will attempt to secure the
same wages as those now in force.
As the result of the action taken by the
Ohio State Board of Public Works yester-
Gay the Colonial Salt Company, OF Cleve-
land, will at once begin the construction
CT a Observation-Disclosures plant In
Akron. The building of the plant was con-
tingent on the company securing permits
sion TO drain the refuse into the Ohio
canal. This permission has been granted
by the State Board of Public Works. The
Colonial company is independent of the
Salt Trust.
A circular issued by President T. ].
Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association
OF Iron and Steel Workers. asks all lodges
and sublOdges of the association 10 take a
vote on the plan 10 establish a permanent
board of arbitration and Cancellation. This
board will be composed OF representatives
of the commission and the officers Of the
steel workers association. Mr.. Sha1er 5
circular states that by this board all differ
ences between members OF the association
and the trust concerning vac and hours
of labor may be amicably adjusted and
strikes will be no more. The appointment
of such a board intimately affects 200
iron and steel workers. The proposition &c
establish the board will come up before the
convention of the Amalgamated Association
to be held at Milwaukee next May.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
Pennsylvania Directors.

The nominating committee named by the
chairman of the annual meeting of the
stockholders OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company yesterday, after a conference
with President Cassatt, renominated the
present directors, but classified them ac-
ording TO the resolution adopted at the
meeting. In making the classification pri-
GRITTY of service on the board was consid-
cred. Accordingly the ticket to be voted
for at the annual election, March 26. will
be as follows: First class Items expire i'm
March. 1902, Lincoln Godfrey, James No
Crea, T. Dewitt Cuyler. Effingham Il. Nor
ris; second class Germs expire March. l9O3l.
G. Stuart Patterson, George Wood, William
II. Barnes; third class terms expire March.
1900. Amos X. Little, G. a. Griscom, a. j.
Cassatt; fourth class Germs expire March.
1861, w. l.. Elkins, y. +. Shortridge, a. NJ.
Fox
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Baltimore 4 Ohio may soon secure
control of the Hooking Valley road.
The Illinois Central earned, gross. ia
February S2,S46 az, an increase over Feb
Iuary, 1890. of $212.5S2
There are indications that President
Walsh, OF the Southern Indiana, Is plan
ming TO extend the line TO Evansville.
James Fftzsimmons. one of the best
known ana Oldest engineers on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne x Chicago, Is thought
To be fatally i'll.
J. II. Nicholson. agent at Duluth for the
Duluth, South Shore 4 Atlantic, has been
elected secretary Of the Twin City Pas
senger Association.
the Southern Pacific TO open its new coast
line between Los Angeles and San Fran
CISCO, a distance OF isl miles.
The directors of the Chicago. Milwaukee
d St. Paul have declared a semi-annual
dividend OF 3 per cent, compared with 2a
per cent. for the last semi-annual period.
one OF the contractors states that IL will
cost $3.50 To erect the scafOlding required
TO make the improvements on the interior
OF the Union station commenced yesterday.
Harry Graybill. general traffic manager
of the Union Stockyards and Belt road. is
in San Antonio, Tex, attending a meeting
OF the leading stock raisers and shippers
N that State.
Alfred Walter. president, and II. H..
Kingston. traffic manager of the Lehigh
Valley road. who have been on an extended
NeSlcfn Trip the last lWO weeks, yesterday
returned TO New York.
A. G.. Sherman, who for years repre-
scented the Union Pacific at Cleveland. now
representing the Nickel-plate at St. Paul. is
i'll with Brights disease and his death is
expected within a few days.
Judge Bacon. representing the passenger
department OF the Chicago x Rock Island.
Is in the city. lie reports travel on these
lines as having been unusually good
through the winter months.
rho most radical Podueffan aver made n,
immigration business from the Atlantic
aeaboard TO Pacific coast States has Just
gone into effect. The rate from New York
&c Seattle il now reduced 10 SIS.
SO great Is the scarcity of refrigerator
cars that the packing houses are using
live stock ears 10 ship lard I'm. there being
no option but TO trust N going through n
good condition in that class OF cars
The Toledo, Peoria q Western. In tha
eight months ending Feb. 2S earned. gross
| S7S9, SSS, an increase OF <53. rs compared with
the corresponding period last year Net
I earnings were s90.593. an increase OF $2.Sl5
| on April 1 the Pennsylvania Company
: Will put on a force OF five copyers to assist
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15

The Chicago Record says this morning.:
Arrangements for much extension and
double-tracking work this year are being
made by the Illinois Central Company.
The plan calls for the building of second
tracks between Gilman and Leverett, ILL.,,
a distance of forty miles, and Savoy and
Mattoon, Ill, a distance of forty miles. The
grading for this work has been done. The
company will build a cutoff between Mt.
Olive and Glen Carbon, H.. a distance of
thirty miles. The line will parallel the
Chicago, Peoria * Northern. The Louisi-
ana, Mississippi q Alabama branch will
be extended. The YazoO * Mississippi Val
ley division will be extended from Leland
TO Murphy, Miss, over the Bogue Phalta
river, a distance of thirty miles, and from
Parsons to Granada, Miss, a distance of
seventeen miles. The Yazoo-Delta branch
will be extended from Tutewiler. Miss, To
Lake Cormorant, twenty-five miles south
of Memphis, a distance of sixty-ive miles,
and the Canton, Aberdeen * Nashville
branch will be extended from Wear Point.
Miss, 10 Winfield, Ala. a distance of fifty
eight miles Plans for much extension
work are being considered also by the
Northwestern company"