Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-01
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tribe, numbering 54s, have been issued by the
general land Office.
General Lew Wallace's mother fell uncOn-
scious on the platform while delivering a
lecture at Freeport, Ill.
The school board of St. Paul, Mimi, an
nounces that on account of excessive heat
the city schools, including the high school,
Will be closed.
Sixty-fve cardinals have died during the
| twelve years of Leo kills papacy. The
| Sacred college Is composed almost entirely
of new cardinals.
The president has appointed Francis Hen
bricks to be collector of customs at New York,
in place of Collector Fassett, nominated for
governor of the state.
The French government has instructed its
minister at Santiago to recognize the provi-
sional government of Chill.
Parts of the skeletons of elephants, includ-
/ ing tusks, have been found IN the western
part of Galesburg, Ill; ten feet below the
surface, next bed OF gravel.
Hamilton, Ohio, celebrated its centennial
last week. Saturday was the big day. Camp
| bell, Mckinley, Sherman, and hosts of other
noted Ohioans were present.
The James Wick seed house at Rochester,
/ New York, is IN the grip Of a chattel mort
gage, with an application for the appoint
ment OF a receiver.
| American roofing tin is already sold for
| S1.50 TO 50 box cheaper than the best I'M
/ ported article, and is pronounced better in
| quality.
Gillian bullion, amounting to s175. 600,
| sent to England by Balmaceda, has been
| corralled in the Bank of England, to await
action of the courts.
A few cases of cholera have appeared in
| Kobe, JAPAN and general outbreak Is
| feared. Twelve cases are reported at Yamaga
| Chi with four deaths.
The home seekers in Oklahoma suffer more
/ from lack of water than from all else.
! Weather has been fine, but there is not water
IN Quantities to supply all.
One man rode bicycle forty-hve miles
| from the line made his claim and rode back
to Guthrie; ninety miles in eight hours and q
| quarters over an Indian trail.
very severe and long continued shock of
earthquake was felt in Healdsburg, CAL,
| September ..
Ex-Governor Morehouse, of Missouri, COM
mitted suicide at his home in MaryYille, Mo-,
by cutting his throat with pocket-knife-
He was Sc years old.
The funeral of Hon. W. L. Scott, at Erie.
Pa, was attended. by ex-President Cleveland;
officials of the Pennsylvania railway, and
other prominent men.
The Sovereign grand lodge, L o. .: F.,
convened at St. Louis September p. 1t Is
said to be one of the most Rumerously at
tended gatherings of its kind
Topeka claims the worlds record for four
heats for yearhngs, won by Robert l. Lee g
Mary, sired by McCullamOre, dam by Alad-
din. in the Updegraff ''baby stake" for $1,000.
A work train on the Pittsburg d Western
road. at McKim's Landing killed nine Ital-
ians and injured many more. The engineer
John Houghton, was the only American
killed.
In the 351 towns and cities of Massachu,
sets 248 now have free public Libraries, and
the state has lately provided aid for theslOS
small towns and villages which have no
libraries.
A Swedish baron is under arrest at Duran
go, Cal, for destroying relics; He devastated
well preserved habitatlons OF the clin dwell
ers, and shipped boxes of relics SO obtained
to New York.
The racing stables at the fair grounds at
Dallas, Texas, and private stables near oy,
are burned down. About twenty valuable
horses lost their lives, among them the trot-
ting horse Wilkes.
Four powerful steam tugs pulled across
Niagara river to Black Rock about 5000 feet
of gas pipe coupled together, thus giving the
Erie county natural gas connection with lIs
fields in the Dominion.
A Mexican woman who is said to be Jos
years old has fled her final entry Tor lou
acres of land IN Stanlslaus county, Sal. Sne
is hale and hearty and the mother OF twenty
five children.
The board of home missions of the Re-
formed church hold its annual session at
Lancaster, Pa. The treasurers report showed
a balance of S2,528.49 in the general FUND
and 81, SAB in the building fund.
Prairie fires sweeping over the Dakotas,
DESTROYING stacks, villages and stock; lorna
does tumblIng over other property not IN t t
trail of the fires, make troubious tmes- Tor
people on those northern plains.
It is now Enthusiastically asserted, and
proof offered, that Tascot ls now with the
Turtle Mountain Indians, b. u, WheEe ne
went from Winnipeg and Joined the Indians,
adopted their customs and married squaw'
At Jacksonville, Fla, an all night revival
meeting was being held by negro church,
when the gas fiickered awhile and went out.
A panic resulted, and a rush to the outside
killed one girl, fatally injured three more,
aud a great many persons were more or less
injured.
IT has been over month since rain of any
consequence has fallen at Vandalia, Ill. Pas-
lures are completely burned up ana WelIs
have gwen out. Farmers are hauling water
and feeding stock. Dust in public highways
is ankle deep.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, near Greensburg. parted on grade
and come together again, causing wreck
then a cattle train piled on top of the wreck,
killing twenty car loads OF cattle. Engine
men were injured.
The interior department SENDS TO Okia-
homa land officers, with the approval OF the
pregldent instructions to receive filings with
out distinctions of color; that the talk OF the
Sac and Fox Indians about cedlng the iand
for '.Thite settlement" is not to be taken any
notice of.
The extraordinary high tides have done
great damage to Westmoreland county, New
Brunswick. Many thousands OF acres are
covered to a depth of five feet The country
around Moncton, the headquarters of the In
tercoIonial railway, looks like vast sea
Thousands of acres are under water at Sack
vile and Mamramcock.
The interior department has forwarded in
strnctions to land officers in Oklahoma in
tended to stop false entries by means OF
mowers of attorney from old soldiers. The
nuititude of such cases in which such papers
have been bought up for small amounts FROM.
soldiers who have no intention OF making
settlement on the new lands rendered this
action necessary.
BaImaceda is dead by his own hand. De
snite ali runors of his escape from Chilli he
failed to get away, and took refuge IN the
Argentine legation at Santiago, where ne was
long concealed, and where he shot himself.
He left a letter to the New York Herald say
ing that his generals had all along lied TO
him; that many of the cruel acts charged 70
him he knew nothing about; that the " p
minister. Patrick Eagan, gave him good ad-
VICE, which he regrets he did not heeds tnere-
by closing the war sooner.
GESEKAL BIAhKEra