Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-29
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The Allcutt Packing company of Kansas
City has made an assignment
Thirteen of a gang of smugglers have been
captured on San Juan island, on Port Town.
send. Wash.
Reports of rich gold finds come from the
Rabbit river country, Idaho, and miners are
focking there.
George L Sands has been appointed gen
eral superintendent of the San Antonio &
Arkansas Pass system.
The new tin mill at Woods run, Allegheny
City, Pa, has commenced actual work; turn
ing out 100 boxes of tin plate day.
German parties are proposing. to transmit
power by wire from Niagara Falls to Chicago
for use at the Columbian fair.
The funeral of Mrs. Allen G. Thurman
took place at 2 p. M, October 20.
A jury at Lincoln, Neb., gave a verdict for
5000 in favor of Hubble and against Glib
son, for getting bubbles wife away from
him.
William Redmond has been selected as
Parnellite candidate for the parliamentary
seat for Cork, made vacant by the death of
Parneil.
town. October Is. Cross channel steamers
report the severity of the storm as unprece-
dented:
A monument has been erected on the shore
OF Seneca lake, Canonga, n. Y, to the ia
nous Indian chief, Red Jacket, chief of the six
nations of lToquois.
The game and fish warden of Colorado is
after the tourists and pot hunters who have
| been wantonly Strengthening game in the pre-
serves of that state.
New York's famous mountain resort, the
ACKNOWLEDGES, are said to be infested by a
| band of hrigands, who do business in the
most approved style.
The car has given 100000 roubles from
his private purse to aid the furnishing Russian
| peasants, and recommends the mobiles and
land owners to do likewise.
Three outlaws entered the First National
| bank at Enterprise. Neb., at noon, and COW
! ering the cashier with revolvers, compelled
him to hand over So, 500 and rode off.
Major General Schofeld, in command of
! the army, IN his report suggests additions to
the armyi showing how, in his opinion, it
would be economy.
France and Morocco have disputed for
| some time as to which has right of possession
| of an oasis IN the desert of Sahara, near the
Morocco border. France has sent garrison
| there.
The statue of Admiral Farragut. by H. H.
Kitson, for the city of Boston, has been com
pleted at a cost of $22, 800, and is SAID by
| critics to be a masterpiece in composition
| and modelling
The Epworth League of the twelfth annual
| conference district of the Methodist church,
! embracing Kansas, Illinois and Missouri,
! opened its session at Topeka, October 10;
Bishop Bowman presiding.
William F. Thorne, who has been for three
| years private secretary to Congressman Per
| kins, of Kansas and who is a Kansas man,
| has disappeared from Washington. He Is
! in At RIGHT N his haad
The resignation of Governor Steele. OF
| Oklahoma, opens up anew the question OF
| the location of the capital of that realm.
| Guthrie, Oklahoma City and Klngfsher each
has candidate for governor.
It is said that Postmaster General Wanna
maker has 81, 800, 900 of life insurance, cost
ing him $4,000 year. The insurance is on
the endowment plan, payable at death or
upon reaching the age of 60 years.
Hundreds of settlers are said to be occupy
ing claims in the Cherokee strip and build
ing houses. They hold the courts have de-
cided that the strip is public land and, there
fore, they have right to settle thereon.
Claus Spreckles, the independent sugar
refner, has reduced the price of granulated
sugar to cents per pound. The trust met
the reduction to Al and 1-16, but when the
price dropped to cents it began to buy.
The Beecher Memorial church in Brooklyn
has been dedicated. Its pastor is Rev. ). b.
Halliday, who was Mr.. Beecher's assistant.
1t has handsome oak pulpit, the gltt OF
newspaper men of New York and Brooklyn.
The American Public Health ASSOCIATION,
before closing its session at Kansas City. de-
cided that its next meeting shall be held IN
the City of Mexico. The Spanish speaking
delegates were greatly rejoiced at the decision.
The CAM people, of Vienna, want to
line of their rapid transit road from the Chi
cago exposition to st. Louis, making the dis
tor larlE in hours
provision for running carriage or car every
half hour.
The river Shannon, Ireland, has overlooked
its banks and has submerged large quantities
of land its vicinity, drowning considera-
BILE number of cattle and sheep and destroy
ing several horses and many barns and other
such buildings.
Five safes taken from the burned train at
Miugo Junction, D., were shipped to the
treasury department at Washington, and
there opened SO that such bonds and currency
as they contained. which could be ldentlhed,
might be redeemed.
Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, says he has
not been rendered the position of commits
sioner of pensions; that he resigned because
his business III Indiana requires his presence;
that he never contemplated residence IN
the territory, and the Office of governor
should be held by one who does.
Attorney General Ives, of Kansas, has COM
menced proceedings in the supreme court OF
the state to compel the Union Pacific Rail-
road company to relay the track of their
Kansas Central division, from Leavenworth
west. Trains are running on the light rails
which were in use when the road was mar
row guage.
Nearly 100 delegates to the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union state convention at
Bradford, Pa, were poisoned by something
they ate or drank at a dinner in Armory hall,
rendered the delegates by the Mexican county
organization. Every physician in the city had
a dozen or more patients to care Tor. Only
two cases are serious.
A spiritualistic medium, now Mrs. May
nard, of White Plains, n. Y, says that when
a girl in Washington during President Lin
coins residence there, she held frequent
seances, with the president and others, and
that Mr.. Lincoln, although never expressing
any faith or belief, actually did, IN several
instances, follow suggestions received through
her from spirits, in his management OF pub
lie affairs The other half of the story might
be that his plans, already formed, received
the Endorsement Of such suggestions.
Benson has at last told his story of the
death of Mrs. Mettman. He says that the
woman came home drunk and had quarrel
with her husband, who knocked her down.
She took up revolver n a table OF sew
ing machine. and VIII ha ling it, 1t was
discharged, the ball en,e.--.,5 her head. The
daughter, Mary Rautzhan, who was present,
and who told all this to Benson, as he says
then sent for Benson, and, after family
council, Mettman and Benson cut up the
body and carried it, piece at time, to the
river.