Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-22
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Ex-Governor Bigelow, of Connecticut, is
Kansas City, Mo, has new Touring mill
under contract, to be built for Massachusetts
people.
Seven of theleaders of the mob which hung
the negro at Omaha. are in Jail and are re-
fused bail
There is already ''Life of Parnsll,' on
sale in Great Britain. 1t is quite large
volume.
Itisn estimated at Washington that 1OO,-
600 seals have been killed this season; con-
siderably more than usual.
-Four Houston, Texas. gamblers are in Jail;
said to be the first of their kind ever getting
jan sentence in Texas
The Methodist Ecumenical council, in ses=
sion at Washington, D. c., declared in favor
OF permitting women to preach
Great masses of peasants throng the roads
to the towns. in Russia, and many of them
fall by the wayside and die of starvation.
The floats IN the Priests of Pallas parade
at Kansas City this year were all designed by
W. L. Wells, of Chicago an old Kansas boy
At Wellinborough, England, theater was
completely destroyed by the hurricane, Ouly
few minutes after large audience had left
the building.
The October term of the Q. S. supreme
court is not likely to take up any especially
important cases, owing to the absence OF
three judges from sickness.
Lincoln, Neb, had seven deaths from diph-
liberia in month. Closing the public schools
Is discussed.
1t is reported that General Count Walder-
see, at recent banquet of the German Ninth
army corps, said: Possibly we shall meet
in the spring for serious business"
The planning mills, factories, warehouses.
sheds, etc, composing the plant of Messrs.
Neel d Wampler. at McKeesport, Pa, are
burned. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Many crafts have gone to pieces on Rock
away beach. and life has been lost to an ex-
tent not yet known. The waves rolled up
thirty feet high and carried away many
dwellings.
Russia has set out to give each person in
the Volga district twenty pounds of wheat.
The storm at Leicester, England, wrecked
large menaRerie, killing many of the AMI
mails and severely wounding number OF
others.
Two big rows occurred on the same day
in the Methodist ecumenical conference. The
British delegates seem to know OF no other
way to conduct discussion.
The Rock Island has sobbled two more
ticket fOrgers IN Denver. The tickets were
issued to Navarro, twenty miles from Den
yer, and were altered to read over tbs Union
Pacific to Portland, Ore.
Russia has intruded upon Pamir, the ex-
tensive table land of Central Asia and part
of China. Russia has also crossed the line
of Afghanistan. There is nervous excitement
in European diplomatic circles.
Senator w. A. PETERS new book is out. II
Is published by Appleton d Co. Its title IL
The Farmers Slde, an Nd It IS pndsr p Ih W
Got There" and "The Way Out"
The Santa Fe company has shortened itt
| line four miles between Kansas City and
| Chicago by getting into the former place OIL
| a new track of its own. The time between
the two cities is shortened thirty minutes.
R. C. Vaughan, a merchant of Fremont
| Neb., had a Maynard son whose bad record
50 effected the father that he laid down with
his neck on the rail, under freight train
so that when the train started his head wal
| cut of.
Judge Goodrich, at Waco, Tex, has re.
turned Judgment in the alien land law tes
case, holding that the law IS void and uneon'
stltutional, its caption insufficient ana IL Is II
conflict with existing treaties with othel
powers.
Reports continue to be received of thu
/ floods in the valleys of the Trent, the Wye
| and the Avon. Many farms in Monmouth
| shire have been devastated and the loss o
/ CrODS ana cattle 0A5lIASb nav
been very large.
DIR. Dorchester. superintendent of IndiaI
| schools, IN his report, says that although I'M
provement has taken place in the govern
nent schools, the same cannot be said OF thi
contract schools, which are conducted By
different religious bodies.
Three men robbed a national bank at En-
| terprise, Ore, of $500, which was on TIN
| counter. One held a revolver on the cashier
| another the sack and tn
/ third, with two shooters, kept back the Cit
zens. They then mounted and got away.
The gale also traversed France, but in
| much milder form. Trees and chimney
| were more or less damaged IN Parls,- ana TN
| Rhine and other rivers, particularly IN tn
| south of France, overfowed their banks, do
ing considerable damage to crops ana houses
Wheat in the northwest is reported ruined
| by wet. Threshers are insufficient in mum
Der, the wheat is in the shock, and headed
wheat in the stack, where the long continued
rains have caused it to sprout. The wei
weather prevents the threshers from working
Frank s. Rowlen, a real estate Spectator
was tried for forgery IN Kansas City, No
The Jury rendered a verdict of guilty and
| fixed the penalty at ten years Imprisonment
| While the Jury was being polled howlen sho'
himself in the court room. The shot may
not be fatal.
There are thousands of dead fish along the
/
| dispatch. The river fell lower than for twenty
| wears leaving large numbers of fish in pools
/ which gradually dried and the nsh have sincs
/ died. This state of affairs exists for miles
along the river.
The bears have been on top in the Chicago
| grain pits again. The news was all IN theli
| favor, and they improved their opportunities
/ to slug prices, and especially IN corn, with
/ the result of a decided slump IN the value oil
that article, though there was partial re,
covery later, while wheat reacted ana CLOSED
higher.
The fast west bound express on the Central
| Pacific, for Sacramento, was wrecked on a
/ curve where there WAS a fifty feet descent
/ from the track. One Pullman rolled down
| this bank. The track had been tempered
| with and it is believed that robbers hoped e.
/ send the front end of the train down the NIL
/ so as to robthe mail ana passengers. AS nc
one was killed and most OF the tram Kept the
| track there was no robbery.
The funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell was
| the occasion of the greatest gathering ever
| seen in Dublin The streets we're full and
| the houses were covered with people. Forty
! thousand, a large part women, viewed the
| corpse IN city hall, line passing the bier 10!
| more than four hours; from 10 a. m. until
after two. 1t rained hard all day until nearly
| fou- when the sun came out while the pro-
cession was forming. 1t was dead dark and
| 7 O'Clock before the burial was completed.
All Dublin, and delegations from all Ireland
lowing crowd is estimated at 100000 people,
| of whom a large part we're women.
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