Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-03
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the limits OF Tuscolas Ill, at depth of 2OS
| feet.
Disasters to shipping on the great lakes
/ continue to be reported. The recent storms
have caused much loss.
A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says dis
sensiOns between the army and navy are now
causing disquiet there.
Cardinal Gibbons and over 500 church dig
nitaries participated in the Archbishop Ken
rick jubilee at st. Louis.
Samuel F. Burdette died between and
/ p. M, of Friday, November q. There had
Oeen no expectation that he would recover.
The water famine has ended in Brooklyn.
The supreme council of the farmers alli-
Rnce refused to give the Reform Press asso-
citation any sort of Endorsement.
fifty mile gale from the west stopped
| transfer of passengers at Vicksburg, Miss,
for more than twenty-four hours.
General Alvin p. Hovey, governor of In
! diana, died Monday afternoon, November %,
| congestion of the lungs.
Look out for counterfeit so gold certfi-
| circulation. 1t Is a Photographic imitation.
Prince George has been, and is suffering
! severe sickness from typhoid fever. The
Prince of Wales spends his time at the bed
side of his son.
The steamer Samuel Mather, with $4,000
| bushels of wheat, was sunk near lronquois
Brazil.
A state senator in New York has died, leav-
ing the senate with sixteen republicans, four
| teen democrats and one independent; as the
| returns now stand.
The lower branch of the Cherokee legisla-
ture has passed a bill for the forcible eject
ment of all intruders IN their country after
10 days notice.
Minneapolis is wild with delight aud ex-
| element over the announcement of the fact
| that that city has secured the national repub-
hcan convention.
The pope has fixed the date of the next
papal consistory for December IA.
The export of nitrates from Chilli during
| October was 100000 tons, the tax upon
which gave the present government e3OO, 600
The tail end of the cyclone struck New
! York, lashing the waters of the bay into fury
aud washing docks. 1t was very destructive
to overhead wires.
A New York paper says that Jay Gould is
| out of Wall street to stay out; that he is now
on a tour of the southwestern lines of his
system, in search of health.
The Ndnon block, Chicago, sixteen stories
high, has been sold to a syndicate OF four
| representing Chicago, New York, San Fran
cisco and Topeka, for S675,0OO
Ex-Pres1dent Moffat of the Rio Grande,
after leaving that road diverted to the Union
Pacific immense ore shipments from the
mines in which he is interested.
Advices from Canton, China, state that the
antl-forelgn Chinese, in the interior, are
numbering and otherwise prosecuting those
friendly to foreigners or missionaries
The storm did havoc in Longton, Ontario.
Genesee, Wayne and Schuyler counties OF
New York, unrOohng houses. uprootlne
trees, wrecking barns and killing cattle.
The Denver Mining COL gcess adopted reso-
lutions favoring free ana unlimited coinage
of silver by vote of 49l to 8 The minority
vote was cast by the Wyoming delegates.
Expert evidence IN Il case of quarantined
lumpy-jawed cattle at PeOrig, butchers main
ly agreed that loose humps which came of with
the skin have no bad effect upon the meat.
The Union Pacific has oeercd a reward OF
$1,000 for the arrest of the n-iscrsant who
removed a rail and caused the wreck of the
fast Denver passenger train al J1iesburg, Col
An American schooner has arrived at New
York loaded with lum Der froin Chicago; sad
to be the first sailing vessel tha5 ever made
that voyage. She made the trip in sixty-siS
days.
1t is proposed to build up a diamond cut
ting industry in the Kimberly district South
Africa, by placing an export duty on the
rough stones and paying bounties on the cut
goods.
Representatives of English capital have OBJ
tanned an option on all the breweries in Brit
ish Columbia, and will change some OF them
to lager beer breweries. all the lager con-
sumed there now being imported.
-Four loaded refrigerator cars and acaboose
broke loose and run wild down grade neaI
Mexico, Mo-, jumping the track and rolling
down an embankment only moment before
1t would have met passenger train.
report has reached Yokohama, Japan,
that body of Russian troops has crossed IN |
to China by way of Siberia. War between |
those countries is not anticipated. but Russis |
will insist on large territorial concessions.
The Indiana coal miners have entered upon |
a strike to the finish. having the support OF
the national officers of the United Mine work |
ers. They oppose miners leaving the STATE fi: |
to get work with competitive mines IN Hi |
nols.
Churches, schools, factories, oil derricks |
sewers the state insane asylum, farm build |
ings, roofs everywhere, are among the men, |
toned as destroyed in pennsylvania IN the /
late storm. which seemed to cover almost the /
entire state.
English conservatives at their Birmingham
conference declared in favor of applying the |
principles of the Irish land. act to English |
giving laborers and small farmers chance |
to acquire land by instailment purchases, moi
much, if any, greater than current rental.
Thirteen horse car passengers and red |
not stove were fOileu iledu over uOci5 IL rum
of a switching engine in Chicago, and though |
the car was reduced almost to kindllng by |
the locomotive and took fire from the stove,
the thirteen people escaped with their lives.
Three prospectors have reported an i'm
mense find of free aluminium in the San
Mateo mountains of New Mexico. Samples |
have been assayed in Denver, returning 2 |
per cent. of aluminium. The prOspectors de-
clare that the ground is covered with the ore.
A farmer named Little, living near Hay |
den, Ind, while digging well recently, dis
covered at depth of forty feet unmistakable /
evidence of the glacial period. in the shape /
of well preserved trunks of trees, the like oil
which do not grow in that locality at present. |
The purchasers of John Browns fort at |
Harper's Ferry commenced the work of lite |
removal to Chicago, as a war relic at the |
great fair and also tried to carry of a cannon |
belonging to the village. The people, headed |
by the mayor, took the gun and secured ii |
and placed a guard over it.
The late storm originated near the Georgia |
and Florida line, sweeping thence northerly |
and easterly, Jumping the Alleghenies and |
with accelerated force sweeping the country |
to New York. A cyclone center formed IN
Mississippi at the same time, passing north |
erly farther west than the main storm.