Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-03

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Chlcagoi r. NJ Thompson, st. Louis i. E
Tracy, san Francisco }. A. Small, San
francisco.
Nearly 500 girls at Krippendorf q bet
mer's shoe factory IN Cincinnati, o., Weni
on a strike for curious reason. They all
belong to the Hannah POWderly assembly
Knights of Labor, and are ardent partisans
The other day man had row with one
Ihane, of the Knights executive committee
IN the alley next to the factory, and was
beaten up and severely hurt. The girls con-
eluded the row was on account of the
Knights of Labor, and refusing to believe
otherwise walked out.
The merchants of Harrisburg Pa. and
vicinity have been informed by circulars dis
tributed among them that after July l5ueXi
all goods manufactured wholly or in part by
prison contract labor, and all goods manufac-
tured by any trm or individual who employed
I prison labor, Will be bOycOtted By the
knights OF Labor. The circular closes with
. a statement that the Knights "have de-
+. termlned to protect the home manufacturer
and worAngmen by refusing 70 buy prison
/ made goods, - and requesting others ito hold
I with us IN their behalf"
| O'Donovan Rosa at meeting of Irish
I men IN New York City said: t'If Irishmen
want Ireland free they must fight. Qyna-
I mite Is the resource OF civilization that has
I brought Gladstone TO his present position.
Every Englishman who goes into Ireland for
] the purpose of governing it should be slain.
/ One thousand Irishmen can be got amy day
I city IN ashes. Gladstone and the English
| leaders are not likely to take any advice
from me; but l warn them"
! The Knights of Labor in Maine propose to
/ address open letters to the candidates for
] the othce of governor and to all candidates
Tor the legislature, demanding a decided
/ Eyes" or no" without any ''glittering gen
| ordinations Among other things IN the
interests of labor, they viii demand that the
candidate pledge themselves to vote for a
/ lO-hour-law, employers liability bill, repeal
I OF the law Of Imprisonment for debt, and
Z the abolition Of the trustee s process.
! G. Mcdonald, a workman who was put
| ting waterproof preparation on a Wall
street building IN New York, was fatally
/ injured by the explosion of a beuZine can,
which had been overturned so as to come in
contact with lighted blow pipe. After
[ trying TO climb to the roof and extiuguish
the flames in his clothes. he fell back. strik-
ing the telegraph wires IN his descent and
landing on the roof of the stock exchange,
his clothes still mass of flames.
During the fremen's tournament at James
town, Dakota, and elderly man attracted by
his strange actions, such as throwing hand
tuls of silver TO small boys in the street from
the hotel balcony. He was taken before
the court Of the board of commissioners
for the insane and committed to the Dakota
asylum, to await the arrival of friends.
The man turns out to be Charles r. Bunch
ard own cousin to EZ-President Hayes.
When committed he had on his person s.,
Doc IN securities.
The Central Labor Union picnic at Sharp
shooters grove, near Chicago, TO raise funds
for the defense of the anarchists was u very
harmless and peaceful affair. There was
about 5000 persons present. There was a
stand on the grounds on which were exhibit
ed plaques with bust of August Spies on
each, and a motto, 'FOr the Sake of the
Cause" These were sold for fifty cents,
while some photographs OF Spies and Par
sons only brought twenty-five cents each.
The president was so much occupied the
other day IN considering a large batch of
private pension bills that he denied himself
to all calls, and even postponed the regular
cabinet meeting The president informed
the secretary that he would prefer to dispose
Of the pension bills while his mind was on
them, rather than take up the business of
the cabinet, unless some of the departments
had important matters to submit requiring
immediate attention. AS there was nothing
requiring Immediate attention the meeting
adjourned.
A dispatch from Grape Creek, Illinois,
says that the miners who went on strike
May are now being turned Outiike so many
cattle IN the woods. AT that time the men
were given until June 81 TO move ont of the
company's houses, but failed to comply
with this recruitment, and last week the
work of fOrcible eviction was begun. The
strikers with their families, are Camped in
the woods and subsist on a pittancs dealt
out TO them by the union They number
about /. 600 persons. Their present cOndi-
ton Is deplOrable.
DR.. V. G. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, Mich, in
examining a specimen of the ice cream
which recently poisoned a number of per
sons at Newton, that state, made the impor-
tant discovery that tyrOtoucon, active ele-
ment IN poisonous cream, which he discOv-
cred some time since, was also present in
the ice cream, and was the cause of the sick
ness. This proves that tYrOtOricOn is due to
the composition of milk, and may be devel-
Oped IN any milk which is kept in an impure
atmosphere or unclean vessels The germ
muItlplies very rapidly, and a small amount
OF tainted milk viii poison a whole can.
Louis Pendigrast, a native of France who
has resided at CerenOra, La, for = p~st
business, committed suicide, by swallowing
laudanum. 1t was generally supposed there
that he was possessed of but moderate
means, but after his death il was discOvere-'
that he had LETT a viii, bequeathing $4,000
TO two daughters in France. In his last
writings he says that his name was Count de
Chatelbres DulZe, with which name he had
signed the viii. He left a request of Mar
quis de Chatelbres to settle his affairs. He
was 40 years of age.
The ceremonies attending the tenth ami
yersary of the massacre on Little Big Horn
began at Fort Custer, Mont, with a recsp-
ton by Captain Godfrey, one of the surVi-
vOrs of that i'll fated expedition, describing
the events of that fatal June day as far as
known Chief Saul and visitors from Fort
heOgh and Yates were present. A camp
has been made on the battlefield and every
spot of historic interest viii be visited on
horseback. Saul and the Indians who were
present at the massacre will show how Gen
eral Custer and his brave troops met their
fate.
Land Commissioner Sparks. in reply to a
request from the secretary of the interior
for recommendation in the matter of the
application OF the state of Kansas for a
reconsideration OF a provision al decision Of
the interior department upon TIE claim of
the state TO select additional lands under
the agricultural college act of 1862 has re-
commended that the application be granted.
Under this act the state claims the right to
select Z, 692 acres of land in addition to q
like number selected IN 1864 alleging that
the lands were not legally increased to the
double minimum price as held in the pre-
viOus decision.
A serious railroad collision occurred on
the Chicago, Burlington d Quincy railroad.
Two freight trains left Alton, H., for Ores
ton, Ia.5 at an early hour in the morning,
loaded with horses wagons and scrapers.
When coming up grade about five miles east
of Greston, tine front train broke in two.
Two men and the conductor, who were
awake, jumped as the train backed down
the hill, The conductor of the front train
also jumped of and escaped. The engineer
on the rear train saw the danger signal in
time, reversed, and h6 and the fireman
jumped. A moment afterWard the way car
struck the engine with great force, wreck
ing 1t and crushing TO death four Of the
sleeping inmates of the car and seriously
Wounding two others.
A nsv York dispatch of the date
of the 9th instant say: Pale, emaciat-
ed and apparently very weak eZ-President