Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-09
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At New York the Seventy-frst regiment
armory was completely Quilted by IRE. The
regiment lost everything
Six men were killed by a cyclone at Mount
Carmel, Pa 1t struck coal breaker upon
which the men were at work.
Senator Ingalls, lectured at Chautauqua
assembly at Washington, ID. Co. in the role
of "a statesman out of Job"
California has had hot week. The mer-
curry stood at los IN San Francisco and at
12O at Tulare, in the San Quentin valley.
Mrs. G. F. Haney and Mrs. A. NJ. Tambro,
attempted to cross a railroad in front of
train at Grafton. Neb., and both we're killed.
The firm of Kimball Bros, manufacturers
of carriages at Boston, Mass, have assigned.
Indebtedness, about 100000; nominal as
sets, $4,000.
The province of Verona, Italy, has been
having a series of earthquakes, causing great
excitement, some damage to buildings, but
no loss of life.
The fiux is raging as an epidemic at Jerico
| Springs, Mo. There are nineteen cases re-
ported and two deaths from the disease.
Seven hundred coal miners in Jefferson
county. Ohio, along the line of the Wheeling
K Lake Erie railroad, have struck for the
nine hour day.
Four deaths from sunstroke reported at
Stockton, Cal, in one day. The mercury
registered 103.
The estimated gross earnings of the Rock
Islands entire system for the month of June
are 81 PSI, 692, an increase, as compared with
last year, of S129, ISL.
Two base ball teams and their friends were
poisoned at a supper after a match game at
| Pulaski, Pa. 1t is thought that tin-foil
around dried beef caused it.
The tribunal of the Seine sentenced
| German named Schneider to five years i'm
/ Gul-1 hoo g
French Notifications. The trial took place
| with closed doors.
General Nelson A. Miles, Captain Higgins,
/ adiutant general and chief of staff, were on
| the train wrecked at RaYenna, o. Neither of
| them was injured.
The exports from Sheffield, Eng, during
the quarter ending June 30, show decrease
| of S35O,O0O, compared with the correspond
| ing period last year. The decrease Is due to
the Mckinley law.
The widow of Sir John Macdonald has
| been enobled by the queen and will hence
| forth be known as Countess of Earnescliffe.
The news was received by Lady Mac Donald
| with great pleasure.
The harvest prospect has become worse in
| Russia, and there are fears OF partial fail
| ure and famine. Because OF the bad condl-
| ton of the crops, it is proposed to prohibit
| the expectation of corn.
This Russian rice crop will be bad and there
will be no surplus for export. Large Ger
man orders have been sent to the United
States and Canada. 1t is reported that Rus
STA is also purchasing supplies in America.
Madame Philo, who jumped from a car
window while being taken from Chicago to
| Denver to answer the charge of forgery, has
been retaken, and has confessed; stating that
she committed the crime to shield her lover
from disgrace.
The secretary of the treasury received a let
| Tor POW0aFlV-
| Knights of Labor, renewing the case OF
the discharged plate printers, intimating, 80
! it Is said, that the knights of Labor will ap-
| peal the case to the president.
Nearly 400 miners are out of employment
at Collinsville, Illinois. The shut down is
| caused by an attempt of the mining COM
pany to compel the miners to sign yearly
contract which would evade the law requir-
ing weekly payment of wages.
The London, Eng, Baptist association has
passed resolutions regrettlng the baccarat
| revelations, and saying the Prince or wales,
instead of being the leader of immoral forces,
should be the leader and inspiration of the
moral forces of the empire.
Peavy & Co.. of Chicago, have leased the
Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The elevator
has capacity OF 1I5,OO9 bushels. Ihere Is
only one larger one in Kansas, and that ID
on the Union Pacific track at Kansas City,
which is also controlled by Peavey d Co.
Mrs. E. L. Philo. the Denver forger, was
captured in Chicago, but ninety miles out
on the trip to Denver she talked the officer
who mad her in charge to sleep and jumped
out of the car window while the train was
running fast. No trace of her has been
found.
The Saar river in Alsace- Lorraine and
| Rhenish Prussia has overfowed its banks,
flooded the valley and almost destroyed one
of the finest wine crops that region has seen
for years. The visitation is great shock to
the people of the valley, who are stripped OF
everything By the inundation.
Soldiers have been warning cattlemen to
| remove their herds from the Cherokee strip.
| They also request the owners OF cattle and
| others to refuse any collector of Crutchfield,
| of the Cherokee nation, any money whatever
for the alleged privilege to Craze upon the
strip.
The northern part of the town of Burke,
| Franklin county, New York, is infested by
| plague of caterplllers that devour everything
| in their path. They are travelling eastward,
and the swath they are cutting is nearly a
mile in width. Grass is stripped from the
| ground, leaves from the trees and everything
! green Is consumed.
The new land court met at Denver to or
ganize and plan its work. The territory In
| its jurisdiction is Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
| Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona The
| court was created to adjust and finally settle
| the title to lands acquired under old Mexican
| and Spanish grants before this part of the
| country was acquired by the United States.
The secretary of state of Illinois has issued
| a license to the North Chicago Elevated Rail-
way company, capital stock 100000, to
| construct and operate elevated railways in
! Chicago to various suburban points. The
| incorporators are mere figureheads and rep
| resent a syndicate of New York, Boston and
| Philadelphia capitalists, whose names are
| withheld.
Prince Adolph, of Scaumburg- Lippe, has
| been winning an unenviable standing among
his fellow officers of the German army since
| his marriage to the kaiser's sister. The
| young prince has assumed such an air of ar
rogance and superiority that the other Of
| ficers of his command have united in a gen.
eral plan to ignore hun socially and in every
way that respect for his military rank will
/ permit
Several cases of death from absolute want
| among the poorer classes have occurred at
| Berlin, which have been covered up by the
authorities as being entirely attributable to
/ disease. The socialists are taking advantage
| of the general discomfort to SOW their doc
/ trines broadcast and expect to reap the har-
vest at the next election of the reichstag.
Military, well as police, are kept vigilant
i for signs of a riot.
GENERAL Markets.