Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-02-12
KANsAs

.ay claim ID leo acres in the heart of the
business portion Of Toledo, Ohio.
Patr.ot Kossuth. hearty at 80, is about to
issue the fourth volume of his memoirs, COW
erAng tns period OF the Polish rising in 1854.
signor crisDi, the Italian prime minister.
nls measures IN the chamber of deputies
The last Official business transacted by
Secretary Window was the selection of a site
Ter public building at Aurora, Illinois.
Mr.. Cleveland and Governor Hill saluted
eech other the first time IN two years, at a
New York banquet the other night
Three negroes were burned to death in a
tall as frlar's Point Miss, they having set
tns IRE themselves to burn down the door.
March IS. the anniversary of the killing of
klzaE Alexander, IS approached with fear and
trembling at the Russian capital
Two divorce sharks in New York have been
sentenced. one for five, and the other for
seven years IN the penitentiary.
Clay county, Miss, had Obstructive cy-
clone, onJanuary 81, which blew down many
buildings and timber, and injured several
people
The lower house of the Nebraska lsg.sla-
ture asked both Thayer and Boyd, the dual
goternorss to deliver annual messages before
Ex-Governnor Ross, of Texas, takes a posi-
ton IN the faculty of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college at Bryan. 1t is now
Prof. Ross.
German papers generally accuse Bismarck
OF trying to produce an international crisis
wherein he may again lift himself to posi-
hon of power.
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, in the building
OF the Union Compress company, resulted IN
the loss of S1S5s00O IN building, cotton and
machinery fully insured
Unknown armed white men at Carbon Hill
coal mines. near Birmingham, Ala, shot
down nine negro miners Friday night for
taking the places of striking white miners
Employees in the pension Office and other
occupants of the federal building IN Chicago
are repeatedly scared, almost into a panic,
BY loud cracking of the settling walls
The Silver Queen Mining company has
hled articles of incorporation in Wisconsin.
Tbs capital stock is 8, $780, 600 in 136, 900
shares The operations will be carried on in
Alaska
The cause of and responsibility for the
accident in the Mammoth, Pa, coal mine,
BY which more than hundred miners were
killed. IS being investigated by legislative
committee
A train from San Francisco to Los Angeles
was held up by robbers, but it is said that
they did not get anything. The fireman
and express messenger were shot, but not
seEiously.
The latest from Washington would indi-
cate the possibility of the appointment of j.
y New, OF Indiana, now consul general in
England TO the treasury department to sue
coed Mr.. Window.
Rockville, Mo-, has had its third fire, which
destroyed three business houses. Loss 81
80. Twenty-three houses have been burned
within two months Loss $4,000; insur-
ance, none.
The largest county in Kansas is Butler
county, which has ], 1913 square miles. Rhode
Island has ,Oo5 square miles, There are six
Counties in Kansas each of which has a larger
area than all of Rhode Island.
Late reports tell OF another engagement
on Ceneud, the capital of the Island of Chi
loe- The battle was between a government
man-of-war and an insurgent war vessel.
The Insurgents were defeated.
At Kansas city, No, a cable train became
nnmanageable and dashed down the steep
incline from the blum to the Union depot and
was broken into small pieces. Nine persons
were on board but none OF them were killed.
Governor Humphrey has sent to the senate
for confirmation the name of Hon. w. H.
Mcbride, of Osborne county, for the position
Of state insurance commissioner to succeed
Hon d. w. Wilder whose term expires on
July /
A car load of butter was ordered by tele-
graph from Milwaukee at p. M, left the
station at 7:30 the same evening ana reached
Kansas City at 12:35 next day The run was
on regular freight schedule and was not spe-
cially pushed
Frank Parmelee. now "A years old. was
the nrst guest OF the Grand Pacific hotel in
Chicago, II years ago He has been regu-
lar boarder ever since, never missing a meal,
and has paid S60,O for his board bill dur
ing that time
claim has been fled in the United States
general land office in favor of the heirs of
the late DR.. Samuel Hugo, and 1t claims part
ownership to a part of capitol square at
Washington. If the claim holds good it in
wolves the ownership of the ground on which
stands the national capitol.
An examination of the records of the PEN
sion bureau disclOses the fact that there are
only about l2.OOO cases on Tile which are not
represented by attorneys These will be
taken up by board appointed for the pur-
pose and pressed to final determination.
Tbs claimants are to be assisted and not
hindered.
The United States senate is shaping up its
business with "a determination to adjourn
March without leaving behind it the neces-
Hlty Of an extra session For this the steer
ing" committees of the republican majority
have already arranged q programme that
would of itself occupy the attention of the
senate for two weeks.
Five republican members of the New Mex
leo legislature were sitting in a room in
Santa Fe. in the evening, when two men
rode up 70 the window and opened lire on
them with a shotgun loaded with buckshot
and Winchester. One man was badly hurt.
Ten thousand dollars was promptly offered
Tor their arrest
A terrible accident occurred at Jeanesville,
Pa. whereby seventeen men last their lives.
Il occurred IN a working beneath a worked
out lead which was flooded; drilling of q
hole through the pillar liberated the immense
body Of water confined in the old workings,
which Hooded the new workings and drowned
ali the men In that portion of the mine
London correspondent affects to know
that Gladstone has given the required assur-
ancas justifying Mr.. Parneli in retiring from
the leadership of his section of the Irish par
lament. Mr. Dillon, the correspondent adds,
will replace Mr.. Mccarthy as the leader OF
the McCarthyites' section and will be selected
ns leader Of the reunited party.
Senator Plumb has introduced a bill TO
confirm the entries Of settlers on the Usage
trust and limited reserve land. and Alr. Peters
introduced the same bill IN the house. This
measure Is very important to many hundreds
Of settlers N southwestern Kansas, owing to
q recent decision in the interior department.
though the bill will not become law at this
session.
GENERAL MARKErS
Kansas CRY. February 8.
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