Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-16
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- The trial has commenced OF ex-State Irea-
surer holland, of Missouri, in the clrenlt
court at Jefferson City. He isRp EN- ezzler.
Massachusetts had two cyclones July g. |
Treat damage was done TO houses; and otneE
property; one dead man reported ana num-
bers injured. .ss. = s-.-..-s g. .-riiis+ - q
At st. Paul the Park tkeater burned on
sunday morning July Loss, lncluding
stage properties, about $35.OQ0; covered py
insurance. ----+ So 7'--' '- % --'
At New Orleans the steamboat Smoky City
was blown to pieces, there being nothfaE leit
Of her but the hull Several OF the crew =,
we're badly injured.
1t is thought that the governor of Wash
ipgtoh will be Obliged TO declare martial law
IN the mining camps where striking miners
are making trouble. fs.. b.. o.. ---.i+-,.i hzc:.:
a cyclone RACED several buildings at Madi-
son, Miss, July 8. .. ---...,. ga. r.7r =. ~ i
First and second class. freight rates from
New York to the Missouri river have been
cut to 50 cents and 90 CSpts, VIA Newport
News and the Chesapeake and OHIO. ~ H-''=-
An unknown man lifted the cover of
sewer manhoe on Third avenue, New YORK. /
and dlFed head formost twenty teet INTO the
conduit. His body has not been found;
During o thunder storm lightning struck
! w. hiehter's elevators, of 1900 bushels OF
wheat at Cheyenne, N. D., and 1t burned TO
/ the grounds No insurance.
q. The house of j. P. Anderson, swede, liV-
| ing fifteen miles west of Clifton, Tex, was
| struck by lightning, killing his wife anu three
| daughters, all that were in the house. @:
The postofice inspector has reported irreg-
ularities on the part of the official at Holli-
day, Kansas. and recommends his dismissal.
A filibuster party Is being recruited in Vir-
| ginia with some indications that ITS OBJECT IS
] to Join some existing or to be revolution on
| some part of the shore Of the Gulf OF Mexico.
T.. Two idiots who disgrace the editorial pro
| fession at New Orleans fought duel with
rapiers. After the first blood showed on the
face of one of them they quit poking eaeh
other. .......
A grasshopper parade halted upon the
Rock Island railroad tracks in Colorado and
the engine could not make its friction drivers
stick to the rails. So the hoppers held up
the train. .r. s. --s--- 5-.--.-'t
Near Altus, Ark, twelve persons were poi
soned at picnic. Some of them fatally.
The Western Associated Press, or some OF
| its members, publish as fresh over the wires,
and dated New York. a story of eaniballsm
in Brazil that was plate matter at least a
year ago.
| The Iowa railroad commissioners have
ruled in the case of the citizens OF selma
against the Rock Island that the caboose OF
| freight trains must be made TO stop at depot
platforms in that state. s,---.-1 -.-,Gi ~
t In the case of the townsite of Norman vs.:
r.. 5. Blakeney, involving land IN Oklahoma
| City district. decision of commissioner Is |
the tract as homestead denied ..-... =.
Jews to the number of about 800 left Lith- |
uania ( Russian Poland) last week. The /
police of Smolensk ordered them to brace |
orthodoxy, but the Jews assem- bled m the
| synagogue and vowed that they would NOT /
! abandon their faith. They then sold their
| houses and IN two days left the country
| Mr.. Spurgeen has experienced sudden in
| crease. of kidney congestion, accom- panied
| by nausea, drowsiness and prostraton. Mr.
| Surgeons physicians say that the patient IS |
| in a most dangerous condition and that the !
utmost care is required. The deacon of the /
tabernacle arranged for constant prayer /
meetings in the tabernacle .....- -
The farmers organizations now apparently
| feel in a position to- make demands calcu-
| lated to yield pecuniary profits to the agrl-
| cultural classes, and they propose TO begin |
with gigantic combination in wheat Cir
/ ealars are being mailed to every member
advising withholding wheat from market IN
| I'll the best prices are offered. 81 FL
Fire at Jennings, Mich... licked up the
| Ium Der piles as though they We're Under I'M
! til there was nothing left to iced their 1nfy-
Before the flames had died out, 1900, 900 /
| feet of lumber, the immense planning mill
and eighteen dwellings were reduced to ashes i
| The total loss is placed at 100000 Tho IN
surance amounted to only S25,OOO.- ~ .'-'--
| A strip two miles wideand tlirty-fTe miles |
hong. on the west line of Beaver county, Ok. /
| t. (No-dan' s. Land) has been, by deci- |
sion of the interior department., DECLARED to I
| be in New Mexico. The lQ3d meridian, the |
Boundary line, has been three times surveyed
| and they each vary from the other twe.- The
| decision referred to establishes the line as
| herein stated. .i- 'ii--- --- ---'-5 90 -
Fitzgerald and Mallory have been sued by
! the, Kansas q. Colurado Railway com pany
| 1.-THE No. PACE for 100000, for fraddu-
| lently obtainipg control OF the road and CON /
.Yerting to their own use money subscribed |
| by towns and counties IN aid of the road.
Ihey ask tor an accounting, and thar the !
] contract giving the defendants certain stocks |
| and bonds be set aside. p 800 - 1
The. ezecutIonlof the four men at Sing
| Sing Is declared to have been perfectly Sue
! eessfui and without any of the horrors at |
tending the execution,Of Murderer KemEaler |
| at Auburn prison. The first victim to take
his seat in the electrical chair was Slocum;
4 he was put to death at 4:42 a. m. Next cafne
| SmIler who died at5S13. Mood WAS number j
three at 5:4319 and Jugigo followed at COB.
/ Lieutenant Macdonald of the Sixth cav
/ alry has been ordered to proceed to Fit. Ben
i nett, Oak, and there organize into lnlli7
/ tary company body of Sioux Indians
! Most of the redskins. were hostHes in the In
dian war of last winter, and their leater Is
+ the wiley Chef Hump, who heretofore mas
been considered. a very dangerous Indiap.
| Now, however, Hump Is willing to become
soldier i'.'l go '5''' - z'''- III
= The.vilIagers. in, the slope of Mount Vesus'
Yius are abandoning their homes and yine--
/ yards, fearing that ono OF the greatest erdp-
/ tions III the history of the mountain Is i'm
l:pending. 1t is the opinion of italian scien-
lists that the earthquakes affecting tine PENN
| suia will increase IN violence until Aesuyius
breaks out in a serious eruption, and that
4 then the earthquake 'vistations VIII for the
present snbside- &c.. ..,. --ss-... s.-. ....-.
General Daniel z Sickles, who visited
! Tennessee Just before the Baltimore couyen-
ton of 1864 on private mission. for Presi7
/ dent Lincoln, denies the statement now be- |
! ing made that his visit mad reference to An
/ drew Johnson's candidacy for the vice presi- !
4 dency. Sckles says he went to view, and
report to the president, the manner of john |
| sons work as military governor of Tennes-
| see and to. influence j Johnson to conform /
/ more fully with Ldnboln's views in that re- |
4 gard bat that that there was no suggestion |
of johnson for the place of wee president.
Col. A. K. Mcclure, Of the. Philadelphia |
i Times, took the occasion of the death OF |
! Hannibal Hamlin to assert that Abraham 4
/ Lincoln, by personal influence, caused the |
/ defeat of Hamlin's denomination TO the vice |
presidency IN 1864, and, equally, was the |
cause of the nomination of Andrew johnson |
instead. Tins is vehemenuy denied by John
| G. Nicolay, Lineoln,s private. secretary and
historian, who produced his evidence from |
Lncoln's own written words. Mcclure re- |
/ spends testify, whereuDon Nfcoiay replies |
k with castigation that ITSELF will become |