Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-02-26
KANSAS

OoFsrnor tlfer, Of Illinois, has proclaimed
Texas fever.
A girl Of II Who has been confined in a
New York insane asylum has. married the
keeper who attended her there, who is 60
years old
J. s Kyle. a congregational minister. is
elected United States senator for South
Dakota oy a combination Of indepedent and
democratic vctes-
The senate IS cnnvassing as to who shall
succeed Senator Ingalls, as its president pro
ten- Senators Hoar, Plat and Frye are
prominently mentioned.
The Chicago Worlds fair directors have
formally voted to abandon the Lake Front
Is q part Of the site of the exposition. The
fair viii be concentrated at jackson Park
The president has sad to Senator Squire
that when he and his cabinet visited California
IN the spring he would extend the trip to the
state of Washington.
The United States has a mile of railroad
for each 400 of population and each twenty
two miles OF area, while the balance OF the
world has 4 mile for each 800 of popula-
ton and 227 miles of area.
The Missouri senate has passed the house
bill against immoral publications.. 1t Is
VIII be suppressed
Tho exports of American manufactured
carriages, railroad cars and street railroad
cars have increased from s., pa, $40, the ave
rage of live years, from 1855 to 1889, to s4,-
446.6Fs IN 1850, or III per cent.
There is trouble among the Turner'S at
Chicago. who are trying to get rid of anar-
cbrst members
OF the ninety-nine county seats in the
state of Iowa ninety-eight have railroad con-
nection with the outside world
When King Kalakaua's remains reached
Honolulu harDOr the city was alive with pre-
i'm
lntimation of his death was given them by
the flags on the steamer at half-mest.
The Sioux who visited Washington were
interviewed at Chicago on their return. They
said; We will tell our people that we have !y,es
got some more promises, and then they will
laugh at as and call US old men,"
Il IS now about certain that the senate in
the Fifty-second congress will have 46 repub-
hcan members of the totafSS.
MIR. Gladstone has made a speech in par
Lament favoring Observation-Disclosures in Wales;
the disconnectiOn of church with state.
Casterline Co.'s nitro glycerine maya
zine, four miles from Flndlay. Ohio, ex-
plooed with a report that was heard for fifty
miles around About SO quarts of the ex-
plOsive went up
Fort Scott is after the location of the gen
eral offices of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas.
which the people of Parsons think that they
have first mortgage on. Fort Scott Is after
them IN dead earnest too.
The imperial families of Russia and Aus
tria count moro members than any other
ruling families of Europe. In Russia there
are to-day twenty-seven ruling princes and
eighteen imperial princesses, IN addition to
the car and czarina-
In Illinois the late sleet storm was espe-
cially severe. In Illinois and Iowa fruit
trees were broken down in large numbers
The storm covered the country from the
Allegheny to the Rocky mountains and from
Hudson's Bay 70 Texas
General Miles in his report condemns Col.
Forsythe- General SchOheld, the secretary
Of war and the president approve of the colo
nel's conduct Of the Pine Ridge affair Col.
Forsythe has been directed to resume the
command of his regiment.
Admiral Sir Thomas Symonds, of the
British navy. high authority, has addressed
a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury, IN which
lie says that the royal navy Is not as well
prepared to meet enemy it was in 1914,
and Is lacking every essential OF efficiency.
Articles of impeachment against Judge
Aleck Boarman. of Louisiana, have been
prepared and will probably be presented to
the house this week. There are at least
dozen articles, charging the use of public
funds and allowing his decisions to be inhu-
encs0 BY financial considerations
The identity of the New Yorker who spends
8, Ooo, 900 year in charity has been disclosed
by Marshall p. Wilder, who says that
Cornelius Vanderbilt Is the man. and that he
source to go around to hospitals and asylums
and newsboys' homes and entertain the in
mates.
Itappears that the Chicago trades unions are
not satisfied with the contract by the directors
for the work of preparing jackson Park.
The clause forbidding the employment of
aliens is all well enough, they say, as far as
1t goes, but they want the unions and the
eight hour day recognized, and they want
permanent board OF arbitration appointed
The complaint of the Kansas City Com
mercial exchange against the Atehison, 10
peka 4 Santa Fe, the Rock Island, the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Union Pacific, charg-
ing them with discrimination against the
Kansas City market in the matter OF rates. Is
making quite stir at Washington A start
ling array of figures Is cited IN support OF
the position taken
A short tins before King Kalakaua died
In San Francisco he spoke into the receiver
of a monograph, in his native language, Tor
nearly ten minutes. He stopped then from
exhaustion with the intention of adding
more later; but the opportunity never came
He did this at the suggestion OF has compan-
ions that in after years his people would
highly prics the privilege of hearing his
voice The message Will probably be gwen
at the time of his funeral
The relation of men and women among
teachers as shown by the present census ap-
pears to vary from a ratio OF ten men 20
ninety-tWo women in Massachusetts toa ratio
of 100 men to lO1 women in South Carolina
II the colored teachers ara taken separately
In South Carolina there appears TO be IOJ
men to fifty-eight women The other New
England states approach the relation shown
IN Massachusetts,, while Ohio shows higher
ratio Of men than any Of the Northern states
One effect of the anti-lottery act passed
nt the last session of congress- 1t Is stated al
the postoffics department, is shown by the
falling of 10 the volume OF money order,
postal notes and registered letter business
at the New Orleans pOstoihce- statement
Ofmoney orders paid during twelve weeks
of last year, as compared with the same
period this year, shows decrease IN num-
Der of 16, CAB, and in amount of SSOOOOO.
During the same period the number OF pos
tai notes paid fell from 1885 to 1876, and
the amount paid decreased SllOsOOo
BY General Merritt's order troops were
sent from Fort Riley to attend the funeral OF
General Sherman at st. Louis. one battery
of light artillery, one caisson for conveying
the remains, a horse in mourning caparison.
beadouarters field music and one battalion
of six troops of tho Seventh cavalry, all I'M
der command Colonel J. w. Forsythe. From
Fort Logan, Col, four cOmpar les of the
Seventh infantry, and from Fort LeaVen-
worth headquarters band of the Twelfth in
fantFy, six companies of infantry and one
battery of light artillery, all under command
OF Colonel Townsend. OF the Twelfth IN
family.
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