Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-04-24
VOL. VIII. NO. a.
GENERAL NEWS.



of the District OF Columbia should be
conducted, and as a result divided into two
factions one headed by W. y. Chase, editor
of a colored paper, and the other by Perry
Carson who was delegate TO the repubi-
can national convention. Each party made
elaborate arrangements for a parade and
public meeting at night and each endeaY-
Ored 70 excel the display of the other party.
Feeling ran high and 10 was feareu that
trOubls would ensue in case the two process
siOns should meet. Fortunately nothing Of
the kind occurred. In view of the lack Of
harmony between the two parties Lhs presl-
dent positively refused to view either process
sion. The president, through has private
secretary, had previously notified the chair
men Of the opposing committees that IL
would give him pleas are to accepts Joint IN
VitatiOn to review one procession, but that
he could not take sides with the quarrel.
One Robinson, cashier of o bank at An
gelien, m. y, has decamped aud the bank
closed indefinitely. AS far as known the
defaication is about S4I, COO, and 500 has
recently been paid for private kilograms
indicating the teVerlsh state OF things grow
ing out of the cashiers speculauon5. The
bulk of the money was lost IN wheat margin
in Chicago. The bank was organized IN
in 1864, with Robinson as cashier. Robinson
only took about s., 600 with him TO Canada,
where his aged wife has Joined him. a tel
egram from there says he is iii and viii IN
all probability live but q short time A dis
soluts son of Robinson is somewhere in the
west and there are indications that he has
some COM ectons with his father downfall.
The children in three of the public schools
in st. Louis have become dissatisfied with
the rules now governing them, and they
threaten d general strike unless their grieV-
ances are righted at once. They demand
longer recesses and shorter hours. At the
Madison school thirty of the scholars failed
TO respond at roll cali one morning, but
these are all that have actually struck. At
the HOgden school a notice, signed by ''the
St. Louis School association, calling upon
the scholars TO strike, was found posted up
on the school building, but three Of the
V1cted by the superintendent of the school
of being guilty of issuing the obnoxious no
hee, and sound thrashlng was administer
ed to them at the right tlmes which averted
a general strike of all the scholars.
A dispatch from Dodge City dated April
9th, says: The majority of the officers and
members of the executive committee of the
Western Kansas Cattle Growers association
assembled in Dodge City, and the executive
committee has been in session ever since
Saturday on the annual report, which viii be
submitted to the convention. The city is
filled mp with sbOckmen from all sections OF
the range country and each train brings IN
additional members many OF Whom are
not members Of this association, but who
come here with a view of buying cattle. No
doubt a number of large sales viii be report
ed long before the session closes as there
will be upwards of 100000 heads offered for
sale and at prices that cannot fail to sell
them.
The house committee on foreign affairs
have considered the Morrow Chinese bill and
the Chinese indemnity resolution and al
though no final action was reached there was
a free expression of individual sentiments
upon these subjects. The proposition for
the restriction of Chinese in the Morrow bill
was regarded as too long by number Of the
members of the committee, and there was
a decided opposition developed to the section
of the bill fOrbidding the return OF Chinese
to this country, after two years absence.
1t was held as the section Is in conflict with
the treaty stipulatlOns IL would apply TO
Chinese who were in this country before the
consideration OF the bill Action viii prob
ably be taken at the next meeting.
The Joint congressional committee iuves-
tigating the labor troubles in the southwest
after a short discussion of the best means
of pursuing the inquiry, the committee re-
solved to subpoena Messrs- Could Hopkins,
Powderly and Mcdowell. On Sunday next
next the committee start for St. Louis, and
after taking such testimony at that point as
may be deemed material, it is probable that
the members Will divide into two sub-eom-
mittees, one proceeding to AtchlsOn, Kan,
and tie other to Fort Worth, Tex, to collect
information relative TO the strike at those
places and along the lines of the route. The
committee is disposed to report at an early
day, but it is determined to make the lnVes-
tigati on thorough and impartial.
A largely attended mass meeting OF work
ingmen was held in Washington, at which
resolutions were adopted calling for the en-
forcement of the eight hour law IN the gov
eminent workshops. The killing by the
deputies in East st. Louis was denounced,
and organized labor, they say, viii bling the
perpetrators to justice. Representative
O'Neill, of Missouri, presided, and on the
platform were a large number of members
OF congress. Speeches endorsing the re5O-
iutiOns, urging the WOrklngmen TO organize
and pleding their influence and support IN
HNaa lott
made by Senators Blair and Curtis, and Rep
resentatives O'Neill, of Missouri, toran, Of
Ohio, and Faruuar, of New York.
The house committee on foreign affairs
have considered Mr.. Dingley's resolution
relative the Canadian fishing regulations
and directing a favorable report upon the
resolutions, that the president be requested
to furnish the house with any information IN
his possession relative to the exclusion of
American fishing vessels from ports OF entry
of the Dominion of Canada, for the purpose
of trading, purchasing supplies or landing
fish caught in the deep water for shipment
in bond to the United States; also to inform
the house as to what steps, If any, have been
taken to bring such Unwarrantable and un-
friendly acts IF the Dominion authorities to
the attention of the British government.
terrible fight occurred at Rawlins, in
the extreme northwest part OF tins state. 1t
appears that eight men had taken up claims
there and lived IN one dwelling. The land
was also GLAlllE4 DN seven OLl4GE 1tl4tAtLIlLaf
who, with a number of friends, visited the
premises and attacked the resident party
driving them into a sod house. The battle
was Waged six hours, and one OF the assall-
ants was killed and two wounded. after
nightfall the beseiged party escaped though
two of their number are missing, and at last
reports were on the way to Oberlns twenty
miles distant, to secure Winchester rifles
and reinfOrcements5
J. /. Biggs, a clerk in the auditors office
of the Lake Erie IL Western railroad at
BLOOMINGTON, III, was arrested charged
with theft. His house had been searched
during his absence and a lot of missing
tickets were found there. The company
claims to have had stolen from them 30
California and other western tickets worth
from 5000 TO $4,000, together with an
oficial stamp. it was charged that Biggs
had sold twenty-five uckeI5 70 Kansas ClLy
and st. Louis scaipers, and that he was re-
ceiving registered letters under the name of
al. James"
Senate Frye has favorably reported from
the committe on commerce the amendment
intend to be proposed to the pOstOthce APP
proDriation bill. IL increases the apprOpri-
alton for transportation OF foreign mails
from $4,000 TO 81, 100000. 1t provides that
this amount shall include the cost Of railway
transit across the isthmus of Panama. The
amendment further changes the bill so as to
direct the postmaster general TO enter into
contracts with American built and regis
tered steamships whenever possible, for the
transportation of foreign mails.
Eighteen boycotters were arraigned in the
4,ofiee eourt in New York n. y, were charg-
"a with conspiracy. Seven of them were
tailors, seven splnners ana -FOUR laalefs'
JUSTICE Duffy decided to make test case
and entertained the complaint OF conspiracy
against George Lenhart and NJ hurry,
members of the TailOrs' union. Bail IN the