Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-19
KANSAS


Northern Pacific land grant.
About half the tobacco crop IN Bracken
county, Kentucky, was damaged by the late
frost.
The annual reunion Of the association of
Eastern Illinois Veterans was held at Cham
paign.
Jacob Heber. a st. Louis basket-maker.
shot and killed his wife and blew of his
own head.
The president signed the Chinese bill and
returned it, with message Of explanation,
to congress.
The senate confirmed the appointment Of
Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to be min
ister to Russia.
A new trial has been ordered in the case
of ex-Alderman McQuade, one Of the New
York city ''bOOdlers."
Fire at PIeasantville, Ia, destroyed a
number Of stores, the total loss being $685.
600; insurance, $4,000.
The Wisconsin Methodist conference
found that the charges against Bishop Hal
sey were not sustained
A dividend of half of 1 per cent. has been
declared by the Santa Fe directors. The
last dividend was IL per cent
It has been decided that the lease of the
PiUtsburg public school building recently
given to a Catholic society was unlawful.
The papers transferring the Toledo Com
mercial to MIR. Richard Smith, of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette, have been
signed.
The Iowa W. G. T. U. met at Des Moines
In its fifteenth annual session, 500 delegates
being present and Mrs. J. Ellen Foster pre-
siding.
Campbell & Cutters paint, oil and glass
store at Kansas City, was burned Wednes-
day. The loss, $4,000, is covered by in
surance.
John J. Connolly, an insane highway
robber, hanged himself in his cell IN the
Salem (Mass.) county jail early Wednesday
morning.
The Secular Union Congress, whose object
is the total separation of church and state,
opened its twelfth annual congress at Pitts
burg Friday.
Mrs. Sarah Crutcher, aged SO, who had
drawn a pension since 1853, died at Pitts
Point, Ky. She'was the widow Of a reVOlu-
tiOnary soldier.
The court house, with most of the records,
and the Jail of Sac county, Iowa, were burn
ed at Sac City. A prisoner named Charles
Carlson Is believed to have been burned, but
his body has not been found.
A rain and thunder storm swept over Col
umbus, o. Roofs were blown away and
trees leveled. The damage at the exposition
grounds is estimated at $4,000.
Peter Straubb, a Chicago machinist,
l.
IN obedience to the commands Of spirits
with whom he was cOmmuning.
1t is said that r. Z. Sears, proprietor of
the MarshalltOWn (IOWa) Barbed Wire
works, will, owing to eXhCrbitant freight
rates, be compelled TO move his plant east.
Mortimer Sackville West, the first Baron
Backvile, is dead The British minister to
Washington ID a sprout of the same fam
lily, but not on good terms with 1t, so 1t is
said.
After eight years. wandering Il. G. Cooley
returned to Bevier, Mo-, to find his wife
married to another man. BE made love to
her again and they elOped from husband
No. ..
Several hundred head of cattle in AngIaiz
and Allen counties, Ohio, are affected with
pleurO-p pneumonia and many have died.
The herds affected have been strictly quar-
antined.
Several people have been arrested in Lon
don on suspicion of them being the White
chapel woman-slayer. Rewards aggregat-
ing $500 are offered for the capture of the
right man.
Several men are under arrest in London
suspected of completely IN the horrible and
mysterious murder of women In the White
chapel district. There have been two addi-
tionAl murders within the past two days.
The Sioux commission has left the In
dams without getting enough signers to
make the treaty. Delegations from the six
Indian agencies will soon visit Washington
and present their wishes to the president.
A tramp gained admittauce to the Eighth
Lutheran church, near Fort Wayne, Ind,
and set fire to the altar, which was burned
and the church was saved only by the time
ly discovery of the flames. The tramp es-
capped.
Premier Greenway, of Manitoba, is
charged by the Winnipeg Free Press with
having sccepted money, to be used in the
H.N. No. r.He ~ Al
railway in return for which he was to secure
legislation for the road.
At Des Moines, Ia, in the W. @. T. U.
convention, Mrs. >. Ellen Foster was re-
elected president by 226 votes, against 81
for Mrs. Carhart, the candidate of those who
wished TO commit the organization to the
support of the third party.
English grangers are forming societies
and agitating the adjustment of the game
laws. A sailor boy was recently sent to
prison for two weeks for sucking an egg
which he stole from partridge's nest on
Lord Bradbourne's estate.
At acitizens' meeting in New York Abram
S. Hewitt was renOminated for mayor. 1t
Is expected that the county democracy will
endorse Hewitt, while Iammany hall viii
make another nomination The factional
contest may have some bearing on the ma
tonal election.
The Illinois State League Of Republican
clubs has been notified TO attend a grand
afternoon and evening rally at Decatur on
the 1lth. Private Joe Fifer and other prom
jnent speakers will be present, and the in
tention IS to make the gathering the event
of the campaign.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Owens, widow of the late
Commodore Owens, left her home In Chica-
go recently and went to Washington TO
make plea for an increase Of pension from
$50 to $50 month. She has been arrested
and detained Oy the Washington police on
charge Of insanity.
Hattie Flack, 19-years-old, daughter Of a
St Louis commission merchant who mar
ried and fed with a mulattO employed on
her fathers farm, has returned to her par