Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-02-12
NEWS BREVITIEs.

A BURGLAR was caught in Leadville and
$4,000 worth of plumber found in his room.
Cygnet, Ohio, in the center of the big oil
fields of Wood coGnty, has had $4,000
fire.
Masked robbers robbed a stage between
Chihuahua and Pinos Altos, Mexico, of &c.
900 in silver bullion.
Natives of the Caroline islands have been
fighting with the Spanish garrison with Sc
we're losses on each side.
The public debt statement shows a de-
crease in the public debt of Sic, 1886, 596 dur
rag the month of January.
It is reported in Atchison that Senator In
gals and his family will go to Europe for
a year or more after congress- adjourns next
March-
The plant and cars of the Danville, Va,
electric car company are destroyed by fire
and the city is without street car service.
The loss Is between $4,000 and $4,000.
Opinion in New Orleans is almost univer
sally favorable to the Brazilian reciprocity
treaty, as expressed by merchants and repre-
sentative men.
Among the bills reported and placed on
the calendar in the senate was one increas-
ing the pension of Ger Custer's widow
to 500 per month.
Producers of lime and red granite in New
1 Brunswick say that they can not carry on
their business in competition with Ameri-
cans under the new tariff law. They want
reciprocity.
Charles Bradlaugh, the English commoner
who was repeatedly refused his seat in the
house of commons because he would not
take the oath, thereby recognizing the exist
ence of Deity, has just died.
Five hundred furnacemen in the employ
of the Illinois Steel company at South Chi
cago, are on strike and the big works are
Il.
number of the helpers were discharged, and
being out, demanded an advance in wages.
The exports of cutlery from Sheffield to
the United States for the month of January,
1880, amounted in value to e15, 451. For the
corresponding month this year, under the
new United States tariff law, the Sheffield
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The railroads in the Southwestern Rail-
way and Steamship association have decided
to continue the reconsignment of grain des-
tined for Texas and Arkansas points at Kan
sas City. Certain limitations were adopted
as to the territory from which the grain
should come, but in the main the privilege
is to be continued with the same latitude as
heretofore.
Secretary Window IS death will be specially
deplOred by the newspaper men. He was
accessible to them at all times and seemed
to take pleasure in assisting IN their work.
He believed that the public had right to
know what the executive departments were
dong, and he never declined a reasonable
request for information concerning the bust
ness of the treasury.
The Wisconsin senate has concurred in the
bill repeating the Bennett compulsory educa-
tional law. The vote was q to 6.
Two masked men shot five men in a tent
at a railroad camp in Montana, killing two
of them. The masked men got 5000 and
Lit out.
The socialists of Chicago have adopted
resolution demanding that the managers OF
the Worlds fair employ union labor upon
all the work in connection with it.
The Orange County Knife Co., of Orange
County, N. Y, one of the largest of its kind
IN the United States, employing from 400 to
500 men has advanced the wages of its en-
ployes 15 per cent
Colonel Bill Cody thinks the Indian troubles
in the northwest permanently settled.
King Humbert, of Italy. has called on
SignOr Crispl to withdraw his resignation as
prime minister.
The full democratic alliance ticket of Lo-
gan county, Oklahoma, has been elected by
a large majority.
wagon load of nitro gIycerine exploded
near st. Marys, Ohio. The driver, horses
and wagon were blown to atoms, big hole
in the ground was all that told the story.
6The Kansas City Packing and Refrigerator
company has been transferred to the
Phoenix Packing company for 81 and other
valuable considerations The Phoenix COM
pany Is incorporated under the laws of the
state of Maine.
In the Nebraska legislature bill provid-
ing that mortgages given on chattels for
loans at usurious interest shall be void was
defeated, the alliance men voting solidly
against it.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster is being ac-
lively urged by the republicans of Ohio for
the place in the cabinet made vacant by the
death of Secretary Window.
About year ago Secretary Window said
70 his wife, land it sounded almost like a
prophecy, Lest I may go and leave you
without opportunity to say this want you
TO have the comfort of knowing that If ]
were to die to-day would be in the sure and
certain hope of a blessed immortality. That
hope Is based not on any Worthiness OF mine
but solely on my abiding trust IN my living
RedeeDeE.1