Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A heavy food in the Yellowstone river
has occurred.
The striking weavers of Fail River have
returned to work.
There were 1900 entries at the recent bird
show. in Boston.
The Kansas City, Des Moines & Northern
road has been chartered in Iowa.
The Chicago Society of the Red Cross has
contributed $4,000 for the relief Of the flood
sufferers.
The operatives of the Williston Mills
have struck against a reduction of three
per cent. from their wages,
Rev. Nelson Ayres, Ofthe Episcopal Church
of Our Savior, Baltimore, was forced to re-
sign because of his ritualistic innovations.
Returns from 100 counties in Missouri
show an increase of $40, 000, 900 in taxable
property over the assessment of last year.
A German syndicate of Chicago is to col
onize thirty thousand acres of land in Da-
kota, purchased from the Northern Pacific
road.
The widow of A. T. Stewart, has sold the
Stewart building at Broadway and Cham
bers street, n. Y, to Judge Hilton for 81
1000.
The Apaches who stuck to their farms
last year raised 800 tons of hay, thus demon
strating that they can do a little farm work
f they want to.
1t is stated that the wheat and fruit crops
An Southern California will be greatly ben
Gifted by the floods, and farmers anticipate
a golden harvest.
The Red river got on rampage at ShreVe-
port, La, and people and stock were trans
ferfed from submerged plantations for hun
.dreds of miles.
In obedience to the demand of the Railroad
Commissioners of Missouri, the Rock Island
road has promised to reduce its passenger
rates in that State to three cents per mile.
The council of Fort Wayne has contracted
for nine electric light towers in the outskirts
and sixty additional lamps suspended over
street crossings in the central part of the
city.
The lumber used III the scaffold on which
John Brown was hanged was used to erect q
porch for brick dwelling at CharlestOwn
Recently the material was carefully slowed
away by Col. John M. COyle.
Heart disease swept away Frank G.. Brad
ley and wife of ilWaukee, almost siHaulta-
neously. Mr.. Bradley called to neighbol
for assistance, and when she entered the
house she found The cOrpses on the floor.
cave containing gold has been found al
Erin, Tenn, a small town on the Louisville
q Nashville road, Over So, 900 in nuggets
are displayed in the stores and hundreds o
men have hOcked to the place and bOugh
lots.
The greater portion of $4,000 claims TO
rebate on tobacco have reached the frs
= Comptroller of the Treasury, where the.
will lie for two years unless an appropria
ton for additional clerks is made by Con
gress.
While cleaning well at Eagle, Wisconsin
a brilliant was brought to light which wa
sold to a Milwaukee jeweler for one dollar
Experts in Chicago pronounce the stone
diamond and the jeweler has since pur
chased the land in the vicinity of the wei
in order to- develop the mine.
terrible scourge is being visited on the Zun
Indians. Oyer one hundred children hav
died with the measles within the past month
The scOurge is still raging Scenes abou
the villages are sickening in the extreme.
Heavy SHOWS in the Rocky Mountain
have prevented through traffic on the North
,ern Pacific road for five days. and like de
lay will probably be caused by washOut
from melted snow between AinswOrth an
Sprague. There are two hundred passen
gers at the latter place.
The miners of Colorado and the Blacl
Hills are represented as hOcking to tn
Occur d'Alene discoveries in Idaho. Tw
hundred men have wintered in the snoI
bound valley. The towns of Eagle an
Hays have been started, and municipal gov
,ernments have been established, No claim
can be jumped until June 1. Meals cost
and drinks % cents. Four saw-mills and
telephone line are now under construction