Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25
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s1GNdIOE away
Mr.. Parnen has been ordered to pay the
sum Of So, 500 as costs in the O'Shsa case.
Kilrain has been licked again. Slavin, the
Australian bruiser, did it, at Hoboken, N. ].
The national board of managers visit the
LeaVenworth Home for Veterans this week.
The Irish land bill passed the third read
ing IN the house OF commons by vote of
225 to Sc.
The number of deaths caused by the recent
railway wreck st Basic, Switzerland, has
reached $50.
The Union Pacific is preparing to send an
excursion party into the Yellowstone Park
with Concord coaches IN July.
The United States appellate court was or
gained this week in several districts.
Silver bullion touched 81 per ounce in New
York, June IS, the first time since the middle
of February last.
The population of England and Wales is
%, 900, COO, which is an increase OF 5000, 900
in the last decade.
heavy ram flooded Hilton, Tazewel
county, Ill. doing much damage to cellars,
gardens, railroads, bridges, etc.
A train load of excursionists in Switzerland
broke down an iron bridge. Sixty were
killed and hundred more we're injured.
A barge carrying 500 convicts on the river
Volga, IN Russia, the convicts being destined
to Siberia, sank near Novgoorad, and many
were drowned.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius continues.
The hoWlng lava threatens to attain the OBJ
servatory. The principal crater is throwing
showers of ashes.
FL Cronista, a weekly journal published in
Guatemala, bitterly attacks what it terms
the 'rulnous" financial policy of the Guate-
malan government.
Adviees from Shanghai say that the en-
has iaar1ad IN adj or orfa the iunTna-
diate beheading of all persons concerned in
the recent riot and massacre.
The police levied upon goods belonging to
the 1ipperary sureties of Messrs. Dillon and
O'Brien and the goods were sold at auction,
one buyer buying IN for ESQ the amount OF
his liability.
Parliament will be prorogued August 6.
The new court house at Liberty, Indiana,
has been damaged $4,000 by the use of dyna
mite. There had been bitter feeling against
J building a new court house, which probably
/ IS now satisfied.
The national board of control of the
| Worlds Colum bian exposition has confirmed
| Director General Davis appointment of j.
+. V. SKIN, of Denver, Colo, as chief OF mines
and mining bureau.
Farmers of the Chickasaw nation have or
ganized an association to make the railroad
/ company pay for stock killed. Much loss
has occurred and not dollar has ever been
paid them for damages.
Judge Riner of the United States circuit
/ court, overruled the motion for new trial,
and sentenced Carl Benson to hang Novem-
Der 3. The hanging will probably take
| place in the Leavenworth jail.
A cloud-burst at Neumanville, Tenn, made
| a small rivulet a raging torrent 300 yards
wide, which swept the buildings, stock and
| soil out of narrow valley. The people
| climbed the ridge near by.
Jake Admire in his Kingfsher Free Press
/ says: The prospect that the Cheyenne and
! Arapahoe country will be opened to settle
ment this year, has been growing, ever since
| the Sd of March last, less and less every day.
Prof. Snow has issued a report of his work
among the chinch bugs. The report covers
many letters from parties who have used the
infection in their fields, and the success of
the plan is shown by dead bugs in ali cases.
Latest dates from Hayti show that blood
| still freely flows at the order of Hippolyte,
who mercIlessly slaughters numbers of his
political opponents daily, with only the basfs
OF suspicious rumors, and with no form OF
trial.
A glacier, the formation of untold years in
the mountains of Tyrol, formed dam which
| held back the waters, making large lake.
This dam gave way the other day and valleys
below were flooded, all property therein be-
ing destroyed.
From New York to Kansas City, andgfar to
and 18th made dangerous slippery rails and
wet wires. The Western Unions wires in
the great territory indicated were practically
useless except at rare intervals.
The company which has contract with
the United States to take a given number OF
seals yearly from Alaskan waters has filed a
protest against the agreement entered INTO
with England for closed season. The com
pany complains that its rights have been
overlooked.
The treasurer's statement issued June Is
shows that the cash balance is S44, 4l5, 900, OF
which so, OPS, 900 is on deposit with national
banks and $50, $50, 600 is in fractional silver,
deducting which items the net cash balance
is but 81, 235, 600, which is the lowest figure
yet reached.
waterspout fell on the mountains in
which is situated the Conception silver mine,
in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Eight persons were killed and large num-
Der were wounded. Much property was de-
stroyed and the mine was badly damaged.
Many mules were killed.
A cyclone lit down in Sedgwick county,
Kansas, and took one house. At about the
same hour another bounded along over the
farms near Lathrop, Mo-, levellng grain and
fences at each touch of the earth, but did not
fall upon any buildings. Another hit Beaver
county, Oklahoma, at the same hour
Under orders from the executive, carriage.
are not permitted to drive on the streets oil
Santiago after midnight under penalty Of
$50. A decree has also been Issued prohibiting
groups of more than three persons standing
together in tine streets, squares or public
places of Santiago, under penalty OF line
of $25.
The Montezumas, the royal family of an
Gent Mexico, have a we'll kept genealogy
dating back more than 500 years. For 36i
years every member has been pensioned by
the Mexican government; each succeeding
| form of government continuing the pensions
without question. Among these pensioner
are several in the ranks of the nobility o.
Spain.
Secretary Rusk, of the department of agri
culture, visited the Chicago stock yards anC
instituted a meat inspection bureau. Ihl
bureau will most critically examine all hoi
, meats intended for export. The secretar!
believes that as soon as 1t can be official!
shown that American hog products are Ger
tainly healthful, European markets Will b.
opened to them.
During the Kansas salt investigation be
fore the Interstate commerce commission
at Kansas City, Traffic Manager w. M Sage
of the Rock Island road. stated that four bll
lion tons of freight crossed the Rock Islam
bridge over the Mississippi river annually
while only one-third billion tons crossed all Tn
Rock Island bridges over the Missouri river
He also said that the east bound business ii
the Rock Island lines was 2, 200 pound
, per day while the west bound was only 800,
/ 900 pounds.
GENERAL MAKE