Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-23
DOMESTIC
KANSAS

The president sent a message to the SEN
ate, Thursday, referring to a resolution
passed by that body some time ago. In which
he states that a treaty has been under con
s1deraton with the emperor Of China for
many months, looking TO a restriction OF
Chinese labor that viii meet the wants of the
American people.
ProhibitiOnists gained q point in Atlanta,
Thursday, over the Observation-Disclosures in
the city election.
In answer to the Perkins resolution Of
inquiry into the alleged complaint prevail
ing IN the west against the present unsatis-
factory mail service, the postmaster general,
Thursday, sent to the house a communication
in which he says that the careful inquiry
and close investigation of the complaints
made from time to time to the department,
or through the several divisions of the rail
way mail service, as to the service IN Kansas
and generally IN the region west Of the Miss
issippi, fails to disclose any tenable grounds
for the complaint quoted in the resolution.
In no section embraced IN the system of the
mail service has there been In the last three
years more prompt and liberal response on
the part of the department to the needs OF
NE people. The postmaster general unhesi-
tatingly asserts that the entire mail service,
not only In Kansas, but throughout the en-
tire west and the whole field of operations,
as IN better and mo q efficient condition than
it ever has been before.
The coroner's jury investigating the death
Of Edison, who was killed in the Midland
hotel accident, at Kansas City, has rendered
3 verdict distributing the blame among
those persons responsible for the brick work.
the iron men and Architect Root, the latter
being censured for not seeing that his direc-
lions were not strictly observed.
The bill for submitting the fifth (prohibi-
tory amendment to the people with view
10 its possible repeal was defeated in the
Rhode Island house Of representatives at
Providence where 1t originated, Thursday
by vote OF thirty-six to thirty.
Louis Richter, a wealthy young farmer
residing near Evansville Indiana, shot and
killed Louisa Schmidt his cousin Thursday
evening aud then committed suicide by
girl and she refused to marry him. he
became 50 enraged that he enacted the
tragedy. His father was clerk of the court
Of the county.
The senate committee on territories Mon
day instructed Senator Platt to report
favorably an enabling act for the admission
of northern Dakota. 1t also instructed
Senator Stewart to report favOrably an
enabling act for the admission of Washing
ton territory and northern Idaho as a single
state. providing no part of Idaho shall be
included with a majority of the electors
residing in that section in question. There
will be a minority adverse report upon the
last mentioned bill.
The house committee on public lands
Monday decided, by party vote, to fOrmu-
late a general bill, providing for q forfeiture
of all unearned land grants.
A terrible collision occurred on the Penn
sylVania railroad near Altoona, Monday
between two passengers trains. Two
engineers, two hremen and a brakeman are
reported killed. Five or six passengers were
injured but none fatally. The trains were
running at the rate of 45 miles an hour and
the collision was simply terrific. Three
Pullman cars were wrecked. The estimated
loss entailed by the wreck is $4,000
Washington city was visited Monday by
the most remarkable storm ever known. A
very heavy rain began in the morning and
continued until O'Clock IN the afternoon,
when it turned into binding snow and
stuck to everything it touched and turned
into ice. Telegraph wires broke down,
street cars were stopped and the electric
lights went out. The morning and evening
papers appeared without telegraphic dis
patches.
A Winnipeg, Manitoba, dispatch Of Mon
day says that for some weeks alarming re-
ports have been received from the west that
the Indians are restless, owing to the neg
Iect IN furnishing supplies, aud that there
was serious danger of an uprising unless
food was at once forwarded. The Indians
have suffered very much, and have eaten
everything but earth and mud as stresOrts
against starvation.
The silver wedding of the prince and
princess of Wales was celebrated IN all Eu-
rOpean capitals, Monday.
New York state was visited by the hard
est snOw-stOrm Of the year on Monday. The
fall over the state was general at from if
teen to twenty inches. In New York city,
old inhabitants say that the storm has not
been equalled since 1855. Not one train was
dispatched by the Erie or the Central road
M Jnday-sOmething unprecedented and of
forty mails due in New York city between
400 a. m. and noon, but two arrived. Bust
ness of every kind was paralyzed on the
stock exchange, but 1900 shares being sold
the smallest days business on record. The
street cars in New York, Brooklyn, and Jer-
sey were not run during the day, and the
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