Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-10-04

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sleeping.
ED REED, son of the notorious Belle
Starr, who was killed some time since
in Indian Territory, has arrived at the
Ohio Penitentiary to serve a seven
years sentence for DEMONSTRATING.
A PITTSBURGH miss, now in London,
is said to have written to the Princess
Louise, Duchess of Fife, Offering to
buy one Of the numerous sets of brace
lets presented to her on her recent
marriage.
AMERICAN ladies are finding fault
with the Queen for her parsimony to-
ward the recently married Louise. She
gave her only an annuity of $4,000
per annum, outside of paying $37, 600
for her trousseau.
Two COMPANIES have been formed
at Kansas City for the purpose of re-
claiming 600 acres of submerged lands
in the Missouri River, near that city
The value Of the lands when reclaimed
is estimated at $22, 100000.
a NEW paper was started in Bolivar
County, Mississippi, July q. Five
days later the editor was obliged to
kill his only rival. The latter had been
advertising the newcomer Gin a way
calculated to arouse his blood.
The most forgetfuI young man in
Snyder County, Pa, recently went to
town with his best girl, and, when the
time came for his return, actually left
without her, and proceeded several
miles before he happened to think he
had forgotten something.
In looking through the papers in his
safe, the other day, Russell Sage dis
covered that he was the proprietor of
a railroad out in Iowa that he had for
gotten about. An active business man
can hardly be expected to keep track
of every little millio n dollar purchase
he makes.
The county of Custer in Montana is
the largest county in the United States.
It contains 13, 500, 92O acres, and is $50
miles long and 125 miles wide. It is a
place of historic interest, containing,
as it does, the site of the great battle
of the Little Big Horn, where Custer
and his force were massacred.
Cor. A. E. JONES, of Cincinnati,
who was murdered by his negro coach
man, was an uncle of Robert J. Bur
dette, the humorist. He was a brother
of Mr.. Burdette's mother, and when
the famous funny man was named, in
the early days of long ago, it was Rob
ert Jones-the middle name in honor
of his uncle.
J. B. WATSON, the Australian quartz
reef king, died recently at Sydney at
the age of "a. He was a native of Pals
ley, Scotland, and emigrated with his
family to Sydney. and afterward to
California and Sandhurst, and finally
to the Bendigo gold mine, where he
made a fortune estimated at forty
million sterling, 5000, 100000.
THE latest development Of the auto
matte machine is a DIR. Cureau, in
Holland. 1t is a wooden figure of a
man, with compartments all over it,
labeled with the names of various all
ments. If you have a pain, find its
corresponding location on the figure,
drop a coin into the slot, and the prop
or pill or powder viii come out.
SAMUEL J. TmDEN had a marvellous
memory. A friend who was with him
at the time says that while sitting at
the side Of the casket In which the
body Of Horace Greeley reposed Mr..
Tilden recounted the deathbed scene,
with date, and place, and minute cir
cumstenee, of every President and Vice
President of the United States All
the facts he related were afterward
verified without exception.
A PLU1rBAGo mine has been discov-
cred il somerviIle, twelve miles west
q Augusta, Ne. Specimens have been