Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-02-10
DOMESTIC

A bill was reported to the senate, Wednes-
day, authorizing the president to suspend
elgn article from any foreign country, or OF
all products of any foreign country whenever
he becomes satisfied that any adulterated
article is about 70 be imported into the Uni
ted s ates, or that any foreign state Is max
ing unjust discrimination against lnporta-
ton Of articles from this country.
The public debt has been reduced since
June Both last, Sos, 2i7, $50. il was reduced
during the month of February sl5,357, $40.
The president nominated Michael Griffin,
Wednesday, 70 be postmaster at Frankfort
Kansas.
Cyrus o. Oberly, one Of the leading Texas
newspaper men, died at Houston, Wednes-
day.
Several smallpox patients exposed them
selves in New York City, Wednesday. One
Of them rode mile on a street car.
An FL Paso, Texas, dispatch of Wednesday
states that Andrew j. Stewart, a leading
acres of land IN Mexico upon which he ex-
poets to establish a colony of Mormcns.
Mr.. Stewart says that his enterprise has no
connection with the church at Salt Lake
City but Is purely business project.
Out Of forty-three furnaces IN the neigh
borhOOd Of Reading, nineteen have been
shut doWA on account of the Reading strike.
Several Russian dynamiters were con-
DENIED TO death 1t st. Petersburg. Tuesday.
A London dispatch OF Tuesday SAYS that
Jem Smith viii accept Suilivan's challenge.
he has 50 announced.
The Kentucky legislature adopted resolu-
lions, Tuesday, protesting against the pass
age by congress of the Blair educational bill.
John Hossch, 20 years Of aged was de-
clared insane at Louisville, tuesday, from
smoking cigarettes. He had been IN the
habit Of smoking forty cigarettes day.
James Ridpath, the historian, is very sick
IN New York, and viii possibly not recover.
The house committee on war claims will
report favOrably the senate bill authorizing
the secrstOry of the treasury to make an eZ-
animation Of moneys claimed to be due the
state Of Missouri from the United ates
government, on account of payments made
by the state 20 her soldiers for military ser
vices rendered the United States in suppress
ing the rebellion
Jesse Hammond, notorious gambler at
Louisville, was converted by Moody and
Sankeys who are holding revival services IN
that city.
The annual encampment of the Vermont
g. A. R. began at st. Johnsbury, Tuesday.
The total membership of the q. A. r. IN the
state Is 4,6o2.
John Cullen, a ship calker, aged A years,
lied his mother, at Buffalo, n. " Tues
dIy.
The Mississippi river at St. Louis, Tues
day. was blocked with the largest ice gorge
ever known The January thaW lOOsened
the mass Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock,
and 1t slowly crushed down upon 81, 5OO,-
OOO worth Of property, which It
ground into ruin. The gorge had been
forming for ten days, and every means had
been taken 70 dislodge it, but in vain The
great cakes, fifteen to eighteen inches thick,
have piled up on each other, forming a
solid mass from bank 70 bank, several hun
dred yards deep and from eighteen to TWEEN
y feet thick
The general assembly Of the Northern
Presbyterian church, having in charge the
plan to unite the northern and southern de-
nominations, held a meeting in Baltimore,
tuesday night The result of the del1bera-
uOus Of the committee is not made public,
but they state that they hope to lay the
foundation for reunion with the southern
church.
The trial Of Thomas CaIlan, formerly Of
Lowell Mass, and Michael Harkins, of
Philadelphia, the alleged dynamiters, was
begun Wednesday, at Newgate, London
The st. Louis Republican in a series of
interviews with Missouri Pacific ferrybOat-
men charges them with deliberately form
ing the great Ice gorge
It is thought that the reduction Of 10 per
cent in the wages Of the 10000 employees OF
the Cambridge Iron works at Pittsburg,
will be accepted amicably.
The dry goods establishment Of Barnes,
Hengersr B. Co at Buffalo was damaged to
the extent Of $4,000, Wednesday half on
the stock and half on the building.
The winter festivities at st. Paul are in
their height. The ice palace is visited
/ Nightly BY tens of thousands. Thursday
night it is estimated that fully loo, 900 visited
the palace.
A fire at CORTLAND, TrumbulI county,
| Ohio destroyed the business portion OF the
| town. Thursday.
Marshall Clark died at Garwood, III,
l Thursday, from whisky which he drank the
I day previous
A Washington dispatch to the Topeka
/ Commonwealth states that good many
| democratic members are determined 10
| knife Cleveland. That Hill and his friends
| are showing a good deal Of activity ia New
! York state and that If the party Is divided
in New York, Cleveland would not be
/ nominated
! The Washington correspondent of the
l Topeka Commonwealth gives II as ms
/ opinion that the house bill to secure titles
| 10 settlers on what is known as the New
| York Indian lands, which was passed by Lhe
| house and Is now IN the hands of the
senate, will be fayorably acted upon by that
body.
LumDnl, one of the members of the
late Frank sPierce's gang Of desperadoesl
was captured in Gainesville, Texas, Thurs
day.
| William L. WestbroOk was sentenced tC
be hung at Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, fol-
] the murder of William Gross a saloon
keeper at Blue Mound A motion had been
| made before Judge Smith 70 grant a new
| trial, which he refused, and then sentenced
! Westbrook as above His attorneys who
/ are counsel by appointment Westbrool
being an orphan and having neither monel
/ nor friends, declare that the decision Of the
. ~ 1THNH
Of an appeal 70 the supreme court
A Brute Kills HIS WIFE
ST. JosEPH, No., January S0.-About z:3
O'Clock Sunday afternoon Louis Bulhni
shot and killed his wife At the Herbsr