Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-04-24

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tive James bill to regulate the commercial
sales of merchandise. The bill reads as IOi-
lows: That the residents OF each state and
territory and within the district OF Columbia
solicit from dealers or merchants, orders for
goods, and sample catalogue card price
list, q description on other representation
without the payment of any license or rner-
chautile tax.
Allen j. Adams, in September, 1870 muir
dered his employer Moses Dickinson an
aged farmer, OF Amherst, Mass, by splitting
his head with an axe. He robbed him of a
considerable sum of money and ned. AFTER
spending ten years as a d1ssOlute tramp ne
confessed his crime during q drunken dis
pute and was returned to Massachusetts,, and
was tried and convicted. He eLpiabed his
crime on the scanold at Northampton, Mass.
His utterances We're blasphemOus TO the last.
Letters were received from China, at Port
land, Oregon, stating that an English, Ger
man and Chinese syndicate had entered into
a contract with the Mexican government
whereby the syndicate agreed TO send 500, 900
Chinese to Mexico within twelve months
The Mexican government agrees to give each
Chinaman twenty acres OF land Twenty
Chinaman left Portland last week for Mex
leo. Others are now preparing toIeave.
Joseph H. Beal, president Of the Ameri-
can Agricultural and Dairy association. has
issued an address to the farmers and dairy
men of the United States, in which he al
firms that the enemies of the dairy and Of
the consumers of butter are organizing to
defeat the movement in behalf of honest IN
dustry and pure food. He calls upon the
farmers of America to organize at once,
adopt resolutions, and bring their direct in
huence to bear upon congress.
The proposed admission of Dakota into the
union of states has been considered by the
house cOmmltte on territories but without a
conclusion. During the discussion some of
the republican members said they regretted
finding a disposition on the part of the
democratic members of the committee not
to admit Dakota as state for political
reason. A democrat took exception TO this
and a somewhat animated discussion took
place
At Baltimore the officers of the Knights
of labor ordered the tying up of the cars
upon the Peoples and Central lines and the
work was done as rapidly as the cars reached
their respective stables. Large crowds Of
people were gathered in the neighbOrhOOd of
the stables and on the corners of the prin-
cipal streets through which the cars usual
ly passed. The entire police fOrce-nearly
four hundred men-Were on duty.
Camille Gonzales was hanged at
Bracketts Tex, yesterday for the murder
of ranchman named Johnson on
November ], 1884. Gonzales was laughing
when the drop fell. He made a speech be-
fore the fall, protesting his innocence. He
turned toward the jail, and waving his hand,
addressing the prisoners, said: Good bye,
my companions, good bye" The fail was
six feet and broke his neck.
William and Dan Kent met Miss
Soardss respectable young lady on
the street yesterday, and IN
suited her. She told her brother aged II,
about the affair. He seized a shot gun and
went in pursuit of the Kents When he
came upon them he emptied one barrel into
each of the young men, morally WOunding
one and severely injuring the other. He
was placed IN jail
The journeymen taiIors cs Milwaukee,
Wis, TO the number of over 1900 struck,
their demand for an increase of nearly 50
per cent. in wages having been refused by
their employers. Several of the largest
establishments, and in all probability most
of the smaller ones, viii be closed. No at
tempt viii be made to start them until the
tailOrs are ready to make wide concessions
from their present demands.
Negotiations are being made to extend the
Gulf, Colorado d. Santa Ee north from here
to be connected IN the Indian territory with
the AtchisOn, Topeka a. Santa Fe. The lines
have been completed and the route chosen
is an air line of about 300 miles from Hun
newell, Kas., to Fort Worth. Work on both
ends of the new line viii be commenced i'm
medlately and hurried to completion within
ten months
A terrible explosion OF giant powder
occurred at Clinton, Wis. While unloading
eight kegs of powder from a train one keg
accidentally dropped, exploding it and the
seven remaining Kegs Arthur EDWARDS,
station baggage master, had the top of his
head blown off and was instantly killed.
James RingWoOd, telegraph operator, and
George Storms, a brakeman, were fatally
injured.
Annie Belle Laugau, the 9-year old girl,
of Las Crosse. Wis. who has been
fasting for forty-seveu days, is stiH strong
and lively. She still has an adherence for
food and positively refuses to eat 4 mouth
full. She even refuses to take the juice OF
oranges. She looks comparatively well and
and weighs sixty-hve pounds. The doctor
attending hopes to bring her out all right.
A cyclone struck Coon Rapids, Iowa..
One boy was killed and numerous persons
injured. twenty-five houses, two churches,
one school house and several business houses
were destroyed. A freight train was blown
from the track and demolished. The con-
tents were ruined. The cyclone swept over
western Iowa, doing extensive damages. 1t
is feared that a great many hves were lost.
a heavy rain storm swept over the north
ern and northwestern part OF the state pros
trating telegraph poles and doing cOnsidera-
bic damage to farm property. A few miles
west OF WetmOre on the Council Bluffs rail-
road a small cyclone formed, moving in
nOrtheasterly direction and demOlishing the
farm houses of John Campbell, r. Key and
Edward Portion.
Fifteen or twenty Missouri Pacific switch
men, who have been olt since the strike be-
gan and failed to return to work when the
bWAlGlLlEAH general bAL4A6 was OEQGEG4 Oh
by Chief Monaghan applied to the Missouri
Pacific company at Kansas City for rein
statement. This they were refused, as their
places have been filed by new men.
A sIddmore. No, dispatch says: A fearful
cyclone passed over Monroe township, Nod
away county, destroying buildings, barns,
OuthOuses, and killing thousands of dollars
worth of stock. Three persons were killed
and many injured. The killed are: Jennie
Hooper, Mrs. Hugh Sparks and baby. Many
of the injured are not expected to live.
MIR. Albert Griffin, of Kansas, chairman Of
the organizing committee announces that
the anti-saiOon republican national cOnVen-
ton, which was called to meet at Toledo,
Ohio, May 18th, has been postponed. The
place of holding the convention has been
changed to Chicago and the date viii be
fixed some time within the next few weeks.
Deputy Marshal VIM. Erwin was assassin
ated IN the ChOctaW nation. He had arrest
ed and was returning to TT. Smith Ark, with
Felix Griffin a noted outlaw charged with
highway robbery and horse stealing, when he
was set upon by two men, who released the
captivity and shot, and instantly killed Err
win
dispatch from Buffalo, n. Y, says the
stories which have been ahOat for a dag or
! two concerning the engagement OF Bresi-
I dent Cleveland TO Miss frankie Folsom, Of
this city, have at last been confirmed. Gen.
Rich said; Il can state the report of Cleve-
| lands coming marriage is true"
L Il. Koehler, pastor of the German Evan
/ geLcal church, at WATERFOWL Wisconsin,
| borrowed from various friends small sums
] aggregating $500, stole the fundsOf church
/ concert, beat clOthieEs and jewellers, and
/ fed. He wrote back from Detroit that he
was about TO cross to Canada.
Cornelius Spiliane, of Chicago, has in
vented device for telephoning between
moving trains. wire runs through the
] train connected all cars so that conversation