Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-04-10

which have already been published.
The semi-monthly reports to the Rochester
american Rural Home from hVe thousand
correspondents IN all parts Of the country Is
| summarized as follows: March proved much
more favorable this year for the winter
l wheat than was expected The crep has not
I lost growth on account Of the cold Inc
I ground Is full of moisture, which was not
! the case a year ago. on account OF the dry
| weather. The cat crop IN southern Ohlo5
/ Indiana and Illinois has been largely soWn.
! No crop Of any kind has yet been put IN IN
/ northern Illinois.
/ The house committee on reform in the civil
I service have began an inveshgation into the
/ conduct Of Messrs. Warder and Stsely, en-
| ployes Of the house, who we're charged With
having received twelve hundred and nifty
dollars for procuring an appropriation Tor
/ the improvement Of the leVeas at Jefferson
/ villes Indiana. John NJ Glass eI-nayor OF
| Jacksonville, testified that he understood
that the money was raised by several citizens
/ and forwarded TO Narder, and that the city
/ council subsequently made an appropriation
I to repay the gentlemen who subscribed
/ Indian Commissioner Atkins was exam
/ ined by the telephone investigating commit
I tel audl rehersed the story Of the Pau-Elec-
I trio organization as heretofore related. Mr..
| Eden inquired of the witness If the witness
l had ever used his official connection 70 fur
[ Their the interests of the Pan-Electric SOM
! pany. None on the face Of God Almighty's
earth, " said the witness, slapping energetic
I ally the back Of the chair on which he leaned,
land no man can look me in the face and
/ say so. / would cut my hand of at the wrist
before 1 would do such a thing.''
/ A PIEDMONT, W. Va, dispatch says; The
miners strike in the surrounding bit0min-
GUS coal fields is assuming q very serious as
/ pect, all the mines beng boarded up, and
tomorrow the men viii be paid OF and dis
/ charged. Besides the thousands of miners
/ idle, several hundred railroad men here are
/ idle. The loss IN the immediate vicinity is
/ $1,000 per day. Foreign labor will proba-
/ bly, be introduced by the mine owners.
/ A dispatch from Richmond says: The
James river at this point has been rising
/ steadily all day, and that portion Of the city
/ known as ''Packettss' submerged TO depth
| Of sixteen feet. Many families are driven
I from their homes. From the present indi-
. cations. this flood will surpass those Of 1870
and 1877. 4 portion of the gas works is also
submerged and it Is probable that the gas
viii have to be cut of.
A Tombstone dispatch says: General
| EOrsythe, commanding officer at Fort
/ Hauchuacu, has made known the startling
| fact that at the first interview which General
/ Crook had with the hOstiles Geronimo had
a band of men ready TO fire on all white men,
/ including Crook, at a signal. The hOstiles
| had 200 rounds Of ammunition each. Later
/ Geronimo escaped and several Of his band
/ accompanied him.
Justice Mech, Of Chicago, last November
/ accepted from few friends, at the hands of
Dan Lawrence, a JurgensOn watch worth
500. 1t now appears that the time piece
was taken by burglars from the residence Of
Nelson j. hUdisOn, at Seneca Illinois, The
Justice gave the watch to States Attorney
Grinnell and Lawrence has been arrested
Tor having knowingly received stolen goods.
4 Senator Blair's bill to Iegalizs the incopo-
ration OF. national trades union, with amend
ments by the committee, striking out the
section making IL a misdemeanOr, punish
I able by hne or imprisonment, to prevent or
endeaVor to prevent any national or sub
union from carrying out its lawful rights,
and requiring that the headquarters of an
| Incorporated national trades union shall be in
the District of Columbia.
Senator Coclreu has submitted to the
/ senate q proposed amendment to the Indian
| appropriation bill, authorizing the secretary
of the interior to employ not more than i've,
| nor less than three competent persons, at
salary of $3.50 a day, to examine and adjust
/ all claims for Indian depredations now on
ME IN the Indian bureau, and appropratlng
. $1,000 to defray the expenses Of such eXami-
nations.
/ The house committee on foreign affairs
/ have agreed to a favorable report on the bill
authorizing the president of the United States
to arrange a conference for the purpose Of
I encouraging peaceful and reciprocal com
mercial relations between the United States
| of America and the Republic of Mexico,
Central and South America, and the en-
plre of Brazil.
A sentence of eighteen years and six
months IN states prison was yesterday passed
upon Michael Kurtz, of Troy, n. Y. for taking
S3O, 900 worth of diamonds and jeWelry from
Marks jeWelry store. He made a confession
in order to save himself and secure the
punishment Of his accOmpiice, William D.
Porter, but the scheme failed to work.
DR.. L. @. Rose, Of Palmyra, Ohio, has in
vented a distance telephone transmittsr
which was used with success on a circuit
from Youngstown, Ohio to EreepOrt, Illinois,
and return, SIS miles. 1t Is stated that faint
whispers and the ticking of a watch we're
plainly heard over the long line.
The number of bushels Of grain in store in
the United States and Canada, March q,
and the increase or decrease as compared
with the previous week, was as follows:
Wheat, 1917 ,979 bushels; decrease, 66I, 1856
bushels. Corn, 1876, 1888 bushels; increase,
81, 1892 bushels.
About two thousand five hundred miners
on the Baltimore g. Ohio railway and its
branches in Pennsylvania, went ont on a
strike for the two and three-fOurth cent rate
on all coal. Three mines have given in and
three hundred men are at work.
Fred Gr1be, farmer near AuburndaIe,
/ Wisconsin, served in the English army
through out the Crimean war, and was en-
gagged in twenty three battles in the union
army, besides enduring for eleven months
the horrors Of AndersOnville.
The secretary Of the interior has decided
that the Atlantic and Pacific road has no
legal claim to 2, 451, 200 acres of land along
its track between San Francisco and San
Buenaventura, and its restoration to the
public domain is ordered.
Mrs, Katie Schaefer, of Chicago, has filed
IN the superior court a bill against the
nepheWs and uisces Of her late husband, to
establish her ownership OF a considerable
amount Of real estate bOugh with her money
IN her husbands name
There has been another drop in the trans
continental passenger rates. The Atchisou,
Topeka q Santa Fe announced a through
rate from the Missouri river to San
Francisco Of Sc net, or SIG from Chicago,
good for ninety days
The bituminOus coal mines in the vicinity
Of Piedmont, West Virginia, are being
boarded up on account Of the strike, and the
owners threaten to introduce foreign labor.
The stoppag6 Of wages amounts to $1,000
per day.
An armed mob visited the jail at Vicks-
burg, Miss. and after battering down the
doors secured possession Of Fred Nillerosa,
an Italian, charged with rape. The man was
taken TO tree IN front Of the Jail and
hanged
Wash Washington, colored, was hanged in
[ Martin, Texas, in the presence Of 5000 per
sons for murder. He confessed his guilt on
the scadOld and said he was instigated to the
murder by Eph burden who was at once ar
rested,
Fifteen hundred morocco workers Of VIII
mington, Del, went on a second strike, and
I all the factories are again closed bat one.
The men claim that the manufacturers had
broken the agreement made the week pre-
viOus.
At an auction sale Of down town real es-
tate IA Boston a piece Of property assessed
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