Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-27
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$4,000.
Gen. z. @. Waithau was reelected TO the
United States senate by the Mississippi leg
STATURE Friday.
Henry Schmidt was hanged at West
Union. Iowa. Friday for the murder Of
s4ucretia Peck In September, 1886. he
made a statement on the scahold admitting
the murder and charged Ellison i. smith
With instigating It.
Ths New York limited Vestibule express
train cOll1ded with freight tram on the
Fort Wayne road about twenty-five miles
west Of Eittsburg. The fireman was killed
but no passenger1 were injured
Democratic free traders had a council In
Chicago, Friday.
Johan William Stolting, the Ardsley her
NIT died in Sing Sing, New York, Friday.
lie V7aa a very eccentric old man. going
about IT, all kinds Of weather without any
hat, with only yellow cambria waist jacket
pair OF blue Jeans trousers, very much re-
sembliug oVsralls, bultCned to the waist,
and in summer went barefOOted. He was
quite a learned man. speaking several
languages dusuty, and IL former years used
TO keep boys school
During the storm at Omaha, Friday, Fred
Eller, cigar-maker, was frozen to death.
r Speaker Caslisls was reported by his
physician, Tuesday. to be improving.
At a fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wednes-
dav. the gas meters Of q burning building
exploded, injuring three members OF the
FIRE department
The new home rule paper, the. London
EUeuiHg Star appeared for the hrst time
Tuesday, and sold IA, 600 copies
Oliver Grafton was arrested at Denver,
Tuesday, for robbing the Victoria mine,
near Breckenridge, Of $4,000 in gold mug
gets.
It is authoritatively stated'at Albany that
Gov. Hill has not t-ldered Fred Grant any
position
The l-test results at the government DIFF
fusion experiment station at Ex-Governor
Warmouth's plantation IN Louisiana. show
that the diffusion process ls great success
producing thirty pounds more sugar per ton
of cane than is produced by the most ad-
vanced milling process
A sensation in business circles was caused
in Detroit when it became known that Chas.
i. Young, for many years confidential book
keeper of the Michigan Carbon works, but
more recently the secretary and treasurer Of
the concern, has been arrested, charged with
embeZZlemenL The amount Of the embeZ-
element Is unknown but will be nearly
$4,000.
At Kansas City an immense bob sled con-
tanning nifty two persons, oOllQed with an
other slsd while descending the Broadway
hill Tuesday. and was overturned Seventeen
of the occupants sustained injuries three of
klaude Mcdonald, left leg and collar bone
broken; nsa uds WOlsleys left arm brokeni
Jennie Tracey, three fingers broken and left
leg broken below the knee.
A special from Fort Mckinney, ". T.,
SAYS a disastrous fire occurred there We'd
nssday at l O'Clock, the post eOmmissary
building being entirely destroyed involving
a loss Of 100000, on which there Is no IN
surance- The building was stocked with
commissary supplies to last until Pext May
Only ten days supplies are LETT ansi me gar
rison has been ordered on half ratIons- The
prospects are good for q famine on account
o. the difficulty Of getting goods into tbs re-
g1on- General EEisbin4 the post command
sr. has teisgraphsd The nearest posi- Tor sup-
plirs By fast freight
Senator Beck and Representative Butter
worth called upon President Cleveland
Thursday. and invited him to open the cen
tenulal e1posl ION OF the Ohio Valley at
Cincinnati next summer. The invitation
was also extended to his wife. The presi-
dent promised TO attend if public duties did
not prevent, and that he would consult Mrs.
Cleveland
The bank Of Tiskilwa, Illinois, was robbed
Of 500 o, Thursday.
Fourteen Cinnamon left Victoria. Wednes-
day, for San Juan island, in a small boat
The boat was upset. and all were drowned.
Pat O'Leary knocked Stevens, of Cincin-
natl, out IN four rounds, by fierce, aggres-
ElNe 4lALllG5 at LA1 LDuf AllO5 thursday
Time OF night, twenty minutes The fight
was for a stake and 20 per cent Of the gate
rec ipts.
Five hundred cigar makers. employed by
Sutro and NsWm TX, Of New York city,
struck Thursday. They say that Others will
strike, and that employers viii be forced 10
incre1 wages
Additional deaths from the blizzard in tho
northwest we're reported, Wednesday. The
~ HH.sara sd
2I7.
A convoy OF prisoners, while being taken
from South Russia TO the Caucasus, We'd
nssday, mutinisd and attacked the engineer.
The train was stopped and desperate light
eusued, in which eight soldiers and two
gendarmes and thirty-One prisoners were
killed IWenty-One prisoners escaped.
A Dublin dispatch Of Wednesday reports
that Mr. W. j. Lane member OF parlla-
ment for the eastern division of Cork cOun-
~, has been sentenced 10 a months impris-
oumeut, without labor, for melting tenants
to resist bG11u5.
The upper Mississippi river convention
met at Duf uque, Wednesday, and adopted
resolutions urging the Importance TO the
northwest Of large appropriations by the
United States for the improvement of the
Mississippi river and the removal Of snags
and other distinctions.
The Turner'S Of Green Bay, Wis, have
issued a circular letter TO the secretaries
OF the North American turner buud,
asking for the expulsion OF the an
archist members Of the organization.
They declare that the aim Of Father John
/ Noble, the founder Of the Turner'S was to
indicate the patriots, defenders Of the faith
erland, heroes Of hberty-but not rebels;
not enemies and destrOyers Of the govern
msut and law. In conclusion they propoUnd
these questions: ''Ars societies tlat by word
and deed encourage and abet anarchism to
HH.aa hall
archists be further suffered to remain in any
society of the Turners?' f'Shall paper that
avoWs radical principles contradictory to
principles held by a majority Of the Turn
ers be further tolerated as the official organ
Of the turner's bundf'
A dispatch was received in Boston, We'd
nesdEy, by the American board Of foreign
missions from Mardin, in East Turkey,
stating that 10, coo people are starving and
oSlilng for immediate relief.
A bill has been offered in the New York
state legislature by Senator CantOrs, which
/ contains a most comprehensive plan of the
/ development of the water commerce Of the
state, that if carried into effect promises 70
reduce the cost of wheat delivered in New
/ York city cent a bushel. 1t is a lsgisla-
I tive beginning of a thorough enlargement of
/ the canal system that Will allow tbs con-
tinual use of steam instead Of mule power,
and the making Of tWOs Of three, four and
five boats instead Of two. TO the great saving
u AN-aa-4-l+ala s1Gltl-LlL Nl4llL Jill lAzaa-a
for the appropriation Of 100000. Per
haps five time. as much more viii be needed
fully to carry out the comprehensive plan
Republican Clubs Organise.
MnD,EAPoLIs, MINI, January ia re-
| publican convention of Minnesota republi-
can clubs Is IN session here today, with
some 90 delegates present, the purpose be
ing the formation Of q state league as a
branch Of the recently formed national
league. Ex-Governor Barto, Of Sank Centre,
was made permanent charm, and Ileuteu-
I ant Hla