Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-04
VOL. VIII. NO. A.
GENERAL NEWS
DOMESTIC.

parties ne To receive ElFuJJ OF the STAKES
There were few spectators OF the affair, It
having been kept quiet. Kendall relates
th following eLpe rleucss when he reached
the SPOT whsrs Captain Webb Is supposed to
have lost his life: The water seemed to 60
from under him and a huge wave struck
him on the head and shoulders, knocking
him unconscious for few mOmentsi He
found his swimming abilities OF no use
whatever, and never expected 70 come out
alive. When entering the whirlpool he was
30 Denumbed aud partly unconscious that
he could not use a limb, and did not know
what he was doing. The cur
rent took him right into the
main eddy, and sucked him down like a
fash, keeping him under fully fifteen sec
onds. Upon reaching the under current he
was shot out OF the pool fully nifty feet from
the center. When he reached the surface
of the water he had partly regained con
seriousness, and knowing that there was no
time to spare before he would be dashed
down the lower rapids, he swan to the
shore. While landing he was so overcome
that he again became unconscious, and his
p assistants were fully half an hour occupied
IN reviving him by the aid of st1mulant5
ana by ~ BDiug. When asked II ne would
ever make another trip he said most en-
phatically: an. here's not money enough
IN the world to induce me 20 repeat thi5
afternoons experience. A child would have
the same chance TO 60 through the rapids
and come out all right as an expert swim
mer."
ne iowa 6ElQDA4GaA GlALH oL4L4lAL ISLAHGAAeAA
at Des MOines. The convention proceeded
70 the nomination of state officers. i. ID.
Jackson, for secretary or state and V. L..
WOmbey, for treasurer. were renomInated
by acclamatiOu The state ticket was com
pleted rs fOIlOWz: For auditor, Captain
Lyons; attorney general, A.. j. Baker; clerk
OF the supreme court, g. B. Pray5 supreme
court reporter, 10. B. EbersOle. The plat
form arraigns the national administration
as d failure in the fulhllment of promises;
condemns a democratic house for their
failure to pass the Gu lum Interstate com
merce bill; urges the admission OF Dakota
into the Union; demands pensions for dis
abled rOldiers without regard to date OF dis
ability; deuOuuces election abuses in the
south; endorses ali legitimate efforts OflabOr
FORTS rights; demands thatAmerican labor be
protected against convict or foreign pauper
labor; expresses sympathy with Ireland
struggle Tor home rule. The platform con-
cludes as follows: hesOLUed, That the laws
1Orth5 suppression OF 1ntempergnCsW were en-
acted as a part a the general legislation of
our state in obedience to the " IL OF the
majority, and that We behold with alarm the
continued efforts Of the democratic party OF
Iowa TO encourage resistance to these laws
and TO iutiame the passion Of the laWless
classes in regard TO them, thereby menacIng
social order and leading TO the preparation
of murder and other Ourrages. While fully
recognizing the right OF the people 20 a9l-
tate for the repeal of these or any other laws
which time may prove Intellectual for tbs
benehceut purposes of their enactment, we
ALlAE these AtANfHr ana All DLlltE laws
this state, shall be faithfully and fearlessly
enforced. Adjourned.
A New York paper publishes an interview
with President Cleveland in regard to the
appointment of Recorder Matthews to sue
coed Frederick Douglass. The president
said: / had only one object IN appointing
Mr.. Matthews, viz: to put the best man,
that il. the best cOlOred man IN the position.
The last thirty years has wrought great
changes in the country. Old relations are
broken up, and the old times can never
return. The north and south are equally
gratihsd for this fact. You cannot apply
rules which obtained yesterday to things of
to-day. We ara a new nation. Occurrences
of twenty-five years ago belong to ancient
history. Now We have two great parties. That
il our EaIvaIiCu. Every four years these par
ties have a wrestling match 1t Is a hot
fight throughout the campaign but when
the fight is over We forget the night and set
tie down good naturedly to support the ad-
rninistratiOn IN every honest effort toward
rood government. The cOlOred people OF
the south are Just like ali the rest of Us.
The moment they begin to recognize the
duty OF citizenship that moment Ehey VIII
begin to form convictions and be governed
by them. Does any reasonable man sup
pose when the white people of the country
divide themselves between the republican
and democratic parties, the cotored people
will all think alike, and Join the republican
paItyI This is an insult to the cOlOred man e
brains. 1t is the she6rest nonsense, and
LucL4trs II WONlQ DO d BEedL pDA4LLcla4 St-t--4L-
~ If difference or opinion ID not only the
charm of the republic, but also its safety
AID / have no doubt neither has any
thoughtful man.
The answer of j. Harris Rogers to At
torney General Garland'5 cross bill, in the
suit of the former against Mr.. Garland Tor
damages growing out of the an-el5ctrlC
controversy, was filed in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia the other day.
In his answer Mr.. Rogers denies all these
allegations, which are intended to support
the defendants prayer for dissolution OF
the pan electric telephone company. The
respondent admits as set forth in Garland G
answer, that he is wholly unreliable" II 1t
be meant that corrupt politicians cannot re-
ly on him to cooperate with them IN their
nefariOus designs to run the United States
patent Office and the department of justice
under secret cOmpacts to advance private
intsres r, as charged in the bill of COM plant
but, if it be meant that honorable men can
not rely on him, he denies the allegation.
Respondent further denies the Justice pro
priety or expedieucy Of dlsOlving or winding
up the Pan-Eleotric company, for which
purpose it is sought TO make the defendants
answer cross bill; and the respondent ad-
vices the court that such q dissolution would
be disastrous to all parties concerned, eI-
cept the defendants, whose stock ID really
the property of the respondent, as shown IN
the bill.
The platform, which was unanimously
adopted by the Illinois democrats IN state
convention, warmly approves President
Clsveland's administrations eOmmend5 Its
action in secct ssfully demanding Cutting 8
release; favOrs reduction Of tariff TO reve-
nue. basis: opposes "a lien ownership OF laW5i
faVOIs the application of treasury surp US TO
the public debt; demands the prohibition OF
the importation of foreign rauper labor de-
mAuds qlal legislation for capital and
labor, aud laws tor the safety of employees
also, rsquiring employers to make prompt
payment of wages; approves the exclusion OF
children from mines and factories IN the
state and general measures for beneht OF
! lbor and the promotion OF harmony be
tween capital and labor by arbitration, md
othsrvrfs5 favors suppression of convict Ia
Dor competition; declares that all consplra-
cies against constitutional au' Worthy should
be promptly suppressed by the government;
afirms that liquor prohibition would violate
personal liberty; expresses sympathy with
Irish home rule; favOrs liberal pensions to
disabled soldiers and sailors, and deplOres
the death Of Mcclellan, Hancock Seymour,
Hendricks and Illden.
About 4. GOO persons attended a republican
campaign meeting at South Paris, Me-,
which was addressed by James g. Blaine
and General Gibson, OF Ohio. Mr.. Blaine
ridiculed the idea that the democratic party
would be instrumental IN promoting the
cause Of prohibition. He declared that the
republican party had never wavered in Its
support Of prohibition. NJ. Blaine predict,
ed that within six months General Dow and
other third party leaders would be sorry
for their present course, and would be will
ING to acknowledge their mistake. He did
not wish to be understood as saying that the
recent labor troubles were the result Of
democratic administration, but there was a
suspicious ontempOraneousness about II
which the democrats should De called upon
TO explain. He said, why was lt that as
soon as that party got into power aud began
70 agitate the tariff question, there were