Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-02-19
NEWS BREVITIEs.

The senate has confirmed John L. Waller,
of Kansas. as consul to Tamatave, the capital
of Madagascar.
Forged orders from Paris to London, by
wire, for the sale of Brazilian securities
vieimized severed English brokers'
Joseph Freeman, editor of the Progress at
Independence, No.. was found frozen to
death IN a eOrnfeld near his home
Colonel Bob Ingersou gave a lecture Mt
Helena, Mont, for the benefit of two orphan
girls, whose parents had but recently died
OF pneumonia
Thomas Northcut Levi Brown, Ruth Jen-
neEs and Sidney Jenners were badly injured
at Lafayette Indiana, by an explosion of gas
The Jenners cannot recover.
Senator Plumb got his bill safely through
the public lands committee, which confirms
certain entries upon the Usage trust and
diminished reserve lands IN Kansas.
A resolution has been passed by the Ne
oraska senate that It would be unwlse to
change the rate of interest and that il is in
expedient TO extend the time of stay in exc
cutions-
Eleven prisoners were dashed in New Cas-
tie, Delaware, jail and two stood in the pill
lory for an hour. \ curious crowd of several
hundred people stood in the rain and watched
the punishment inflicted.
By a vote of 10 yeas and p NAYS, the Min
nesOta senate refused TO agree to the pro-
posed interstate conference to settle on a
rule of interest, the cOnstitutionality of such
conference being questioned
By direct order of the car of Russia the
hardships imposed upon Jews of ali ages and
of whatever sex has been increased since the
protests from citizens of other countries
have reached that chief brute of the
century.
The Chicago Farmers Review publishes
percentages of the condition of winter wheat,
which average as follows: Illinois, 50 per
cent; indiana, 81 per cent; Kansas, 50 per
cents Kentucky, 50 per cent; Michigan, 80
per cent; Missouri, 80 per cent; Ohio, 81 per
cent; Wisconsin, 80 per cent.
A bill has been reported by the house COM
mittee on territories which provides for
opening the Cherokee strip and to settle with
the Cherokees for their interest in it after
wards. 1t will be pushed; perhaps tackled
on the Indian appropriation bill. This was
Mr. Perkins idea long ago.
Twenty-Five wood cutters were buried by
an avalanche near Ruetta, Switzerland.
Abraham LineoIn's birthday, February u.
is generally celebrated by q. A. R. posts.
Last May 1 it was the carpenters; next
May it Is to be the coal miners and the
painters
The international monetary conference
has adjourned until March D, 1891. The
reason assigned by a prominent member of
that legislation is now pending in congress
which may materially change the status of
silver, and until this question of silver legis-
lation was disposed of, IL was not thought ad-
yisable to further discuss the subject of an
international coin.
It has been officially decided to commences
work on the Siberian railway at Obdiyostock
this year.
All the mill weavers at the Cornell mills at
Fan River, Mass have struck, and $50 looms
are now idle
Grover Clevelned has written letter in
reply to an invitation to attend an anti-free
coinage mass meeting in New York, in which
he plainly states his opposition to free coin
age of silver.
In view of the many difficulties in the wav
the silver men in congress are moving very
slowly. Meanwhile the session is drawing
toward a close and RAPIDLY diminishing the
time absolutely required in which to put
through any measure. even il a common
standing ground could possibly be found
General Won Braun committed suicide in
Berlin by shooting himself with a revolver.
Kansas City has had another bad accident
on the steep incline Of its cable, street rail-
road
On the authority Of a prominent broker of
PIttsburg, Pa. 1t is announced that the
Thompson Houston and the Westinghouse
companies have com bined and viii hereafter
Be run under the Edison management
A large number of emigFant negroes passed
through Dennison Tex, en- route to the
Cherokee strip Indian territory. Ii they
cannot, get in there they intend to squat on
the lands Of the Fox and Sac. which is re-
ported 70 them rs being open for settlement.
livery wagon load had either rifles or shot
guns The party was led by professional
boomer nansd Eskerine. The colony wa
rzzgifed ~ Arkansas and eastern Tesas,