Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-17
NEwsY NOTES.

TROPICAL FRUITs.-A tract of 80, 600 acres
in PIaIuemlne Parish, Louisiana, is to be
planted with tropical fruits.
GAS TRUsr.-An the natural gas compa-
MES in Indiana are trying to form a trust.
MAF1A.-An Italian in Denver is said to
have been poisoned by the Malta.
JERSEY LuLY.-nlness has compelled
Mrs. LangtIy to cancel her American tour.
TYPHOID FEvER.-Reports to the Illinois
boald of health show that typhoid fever is
prevailing in thst state to an alarming ex-
tent.
HIS NIECE BURNED.-The house of S. NJ.
Fry, eeven miles southeast of Springfield,
No. was burned to the ground, and Miss
Miuda PayIIe, Fry's niece, IL years old, per-
ished in the flames.
A GOLD BR1CK.-Mrs. Mary C. Ford, of
Independence, No, is $500 wiser than she
was q week ago. She bought gold brick
of a swindler named Lewis.
OUAY's LIEUTENANTs.-A dispatch from
Pittsburg says President Harrison IS shaking
Senator Quay's ofice-holding ieutenants out
OF their berths at a lively rate throughout
Pennsylvania
GAS ExP1osIoE.-A natural gas explosion
blew a heating stove to atoms in the house
of j ohm Kitch, at Huntington, Ind, the fam
lily only escaping by not being In the room.
Down A SHAFT.-Sam Callahan, miner,
met horrible and sudden death by falling
down an unused shaft near Leadville, Col.
BANK RoBBED.-The Belle Center bank in
/ Logan county, Ohio WIS robbed of 81 300.
The safe was blown open by dynamite.
DIVORCE MuL.-Judge Collins divorce
mill at Chicago ground out twenty-six sep
arat:ons for unhappily married people in
three hours.
cred at Dallas, Tex, by the eavlng IN. of
well which he was digging. He left a large
family.
WAS ON THE TRAcK.-William johnson was
struck by Locomotive while walking on the
track near Leadyille, Col, and instantly
killed.
| SENT FROM HKAvEE.-A colored evangelist
/ is stirring up the colored Christians at st.
Louis. He says he is sent from heaven to
convert the world.
MORE PAcIFIC.-A dispatch from Brazil
states that affairs in Rio Grande do Sui are
assuming more pacific appearance. The
national guard is disaruIing and quiet is be-
| ing restored throughout the province.
] Iowa srocK.-The Improved Stock Breed
: ers' association of Iowa at its meeting in
Waterloo resolved to ask the legislature for
| $4,000 to enable the live stock interests of
the state to be suitably represented at the
worlds fair.
Two NEW CARDEEAIs.-The secret con-
sistory Of cardinals is fixed for December IA,
and the public consistory for the 18th. The
pope's decision to create two cardinals was
quite unexpected. Monsignor Sepiacea is to
] be one of the new cardinals.
TaEs AND Eow.-It cost very nearly 26s[
cents to carry q bushel of wheat from Chica-
1 90 to New York by way of the lakes and the
/ Erie canal in 1865, and Just 81 cents in $780,
In 1858 It cost % cents to carry bushel Of
wheat betWeea these cities by lake and rail-
and It cost So cents IN 1880. II cost a cents
to carry It by rail IN 1868, and less than ~
In 1880.
yellow JAoK.-A dispatch from Buenoa
Ayres says that two fatal cases Of yellow
fever there have alarmed the whole city and
that the residences and bodies Of tbs victims
have been burned by the authorizes, and
other members Of the families "a WhtSh ths
ieaEea orCaETss SeFs feen iselated