Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-09-10
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county, Iowa
Emperors William and Francis Joseph are
holding personal interview at Horn.
A James Brothers party, or their imitators,
ralded and robbed a bank at Higginsvilles
No., in the day time.
Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York;
Jones of Binghampton; is announced as an
independent candidate for governor.
At Willows, CAL. September l, Willows
hotels the Union hotel. the Crawford house
and several other places were burned. Loss
$4,000.
Berlin surgeon has discovered by acct
dent that water injected under the skin acts
as local anasthetic, rendering the flesh at
that point insensible for some minutes.
A fire at The Dalles, Ore, destroyed seven
blocks. Loss over 100000.
A man in Houston. Texas. has sued that
city for damages from his contracting the
smallpox from parties who were not properly
quarantined.
Sister Beatrice, the bogus nun, a New York
vagrant, proves to be the woman who once
sued Senator Simon Cameron for breach of
promise.
A wench nearly killed little girl and her
invalid mother at Oklahoma City; Both
may die. and if either dies the black brute is
liable to suffer summarily.
]. R. Pate has been taken from Des Moines,
Ia, to Topeka, Kan, on a charge OF swind-
ling and raising a check from So to $500,
upon which he drew the money.
One of Balmaceda's friends was captured
while making his way out of the country,
and with him 81, 100000 in bank notes and
drafts on London.
Census Commissioner Porter has just re-
ceived the last card showing the exact num-
Der of people in this country. The card
showed 81, go, 26O.
Venezuela has not rejected the reciprocity
treaty as has been published. That govern
msnt is not pleased with certain of its provi-
sions and further negotiations are to be had
Melbourne, the Ohio rain maker, has eff
fected steady rain at Cheyenne, Wy, which
covered radius of fifteen or twenty miles
around the city. half inch fell in Cheyenne.
The question of Sunday observance by the
worlds fair has been discussed at great
length before the National Columbian expo
sition at Chicago for several days in success
sion.
In the Russian valley of the Volga the
peasants are starving to death. They wander,
almost naked, in the highways begging for
food. They are all in debt for accumulated
taxes.
Ex-United States Senator ReRan, now at
the head of the Texas railroad commission,
has been offered the vacant place on the in
terstate commerce commission, and has re-
fused it.
A SPECIAL cablegram from Burmuda says
that a terrific storm ragged there, leveling
stone walls, uprooting trees, and destroying
telegraph wires. 1t was the greatest storm
since 1880.
One of the bank robbers at Corder, near
Higginsville, Mo-, was captured, hung and
riddled by bullets. He was LETT hanging,
| covered with blood, in PLAIN sight OF passen-
| ger trains.
A Madrid dispatch says: An express train
| collided with luggage train near Medina
del Campo on the Northern railway. Eight
carriages we're wrecked and forty-eight peo-
pie were injured.
A thief drove to church in Springfield,
No., and told the janitor he had been sent
for the organ to repair It. ne TOOK II 70 a
music dealer and traded it for gold watch
and some money.
The Dalton boys were seen IN the lower
psrt of the Sac and Fox reservation. They
were probably making for their fastness in
the Creek mountains. No deputy marshals
or posses were in pursuit.
Secretary Noble has directed the payment
to the Sisseton and WahpetOn Indians, of
South Dakota, of S376,57S, less 10 per cent.
involved in the Sanborn claim, under der, treaty
confirmed by the act of March 3, 1891.
A steamer belonging to the Union Pacific
company, and plying between American ports
and Victoria, B. C., has been seized by q U.
=. revenue CuLJGE anu ITO OliACGIb hSAG Ol eAAO
charge of smuggling Chinese into this coun-
try.
The empress of Austria shows signs of IN
sanity. and a medical expert, called by the
emperor, says the case is grave one. She
has sister, duchess, now IN an insane asy-
lum. and the mad king of Bavaria Ii her
cousin.
Jay Gould was at Fort Scott September
and assured the citizens that he intended to
nut on another train to Kansas City, running
BY way of Chetopa and Minden through Fort
Scott, which would be through line from
the south.
Extensive ranch and land owning concerns
making experiments after the government
appropriation is exhausted, if needed, to de-
monstrate to a certainty the practicabihty of
the matter.
The proposals. recently received at the trea-
sury department for the construction OF tine
government building at the Columbian expo
sition will probably DO rejected and propo-
sails invited for the construction of build
ing of less expensive character.
The London Standard assures its despond-
emit readers that the United States could ex-
port 400, 600 bushels OF maize, and that
an extra shilling per bushel would attract all
the maize in America necessary to supply
Europe with wholesome nutritious food.
The town hall at PressburR, Hungary, has
been blown to atoms by the explosion OF gas
ollne stored in the basement; used for the
manufacture of gas for the building. II
occurred at a time when the hall was not
occupied, SO only three persons were injured.
Mrs. Mary Salisbury, aged 1O2 years, dieo
at her home near Buckingham, Mimi. her
husband, Daniel Salisbury, who IS lO3 years
old, has been sick for over week and Is rap
idly sinking. They had been married eighty
years, having been married January 8, lSlL
They had no children
The twentieth anniversary of the battle OF
Sedan SO generally celebrated in Germany,
has been made the occasion by the German
press of discussing what they declare IS the
imminent necessity of being prepared to de-
fend what Sedan gained to Germany. To
all this the French press answers equally bel
Hgerent.
A reunion of the surviving soldiers of the
Black Hawk war of 1882 has been held at
Lena, ILL.,, the nearest village to Kellogg
grove where a decisive battle was tougnt.
Seventeen white headed veterans, each more
than 20 years of age, were present: 1nere
are thirty four known SURVIVORS OF tne con-
fiiet living in this section.
In compliance with instructions from
President Gross retrenchments in the working
force of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rall-
wsv have begun. At Sedalia, Mo-, thirty
two men were discharged at the car shops.
At Denison Tex, reductions occurred In sew
eral departments, over 100 men being ois-
charged. These dismissals Will be made all
along the line.