Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-10
PHILL1PsBURG,
A large part Of the business portion of
Tracy, Minn-s has been destroyed by fire.
KANSAS.

~ prairie fires in the neigh6orhoOd of Fender,
Neb., in one day.
Robbers held up a FRISCO train eight miles
put OF ST. LOUIS and robbed il of express and
mail valuables-
The Arizona Apaches, or small bands of
hem, are on the warpath. They have killed
iOIne ranchmen.
The cars preparations ''to preserve peace
include proh bition of the expectation of
horses from Russia
Damage to shipping on the upper lakes
sontinuass many vessels aground or sunk
Much loss of life is reported.
The St. Joseph. No., school board has au-
propriated $500 to buy American flags to
hoat over the school buildings Of the city.
The Union Windowglass works at Bellaire.
u are burned. Loss, $780, 600. Three men
are supposed to have persisted IN the flames
The rise IN corn during the last days of
Noyem Der caught shorts in November deals
and one old firm in New York was forced to
ASSAM
Cast'efon, Vt. has organized a vigilance
committee for the protection of the town
from hrebugs, who have started six fires in
as many days
All messengers of the American Express
company have been ordered to wear revolvers
in plain sight, SINCE the New York Central
express robbery.
Henry J. Dean, the reputed correspondent
OF a scurrilous Kansas City sheet. WAS treated
to suit Of tnr and feathers near Dallas
Texas
Judge James NJ. Coffinbury, one of the
Oldest members of the Cleveland bar, fine
orator aud a brilliant writer. died November
., aged q years
Marshalltown, Ia. has had destructive
hre, which DESTROYED the fremont house
ana the best business block IN town, the
losses aggregating $4,000
A IRE at EScanaba. Mich, destroyed TO-
OOg bushels OF gram, 1000 barrels of -four
and 1000 tons OF coal; together with the
buildings, locks and sheds containing them.
A rumOr il current IN London that the
Bank of France has agreed to loan Russia
-, COG in SILVER at 80 per cent, the loan
being made payable in gold at the end Of
seven years
dispatch from Suakim, Egypt, says the
tribe OF hilluks severely defeated body of
dervishes near FRshoda- Large re-inforoe-
ments have been sent to the scene from
Odurman-
Bids have been opened at the treasury de-
prrtment for the construction of a public
building at Springfield, No. the lowest be-
ing that of w. h Sternberg, of Wichita,
Kan. at So. sI3.
crazy man shot three times at Rev. DR..
John Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church Of New York city. as he was
age The parsOn was nO- hit.
The cattlemen of west Texas have held
convention to organize ana make an effort
to have the quarantine line moved south of
its present bounds. Nearly all the prominent
cattlemen of west Texas were present.
Roseberry, the equine champion of high
jumping. met with an accident while attempt
ing to beat his record. seven feet and one
half inch, at Chicago. which resulted in his
DEATH The horse was valued at s25,OO0.
train robbery near Rome, Ga, was
effected by two masked men stopping train
by waving a lantern. They then entered
the express car, got about 81 600 and skipped.
a posse with dogs was soon on their trail
The body of an inoffensive old negro,
named Arthur Ramsey. was found in the
ashes of his cabin, neal Meridian. Miss,
where a mob of white men had left it, after
numbering him and setting FIRE to the cabin
A discharged locomotive engineer in Swift
erland was frantic with wrath and turned an
engine wild. with throttle open, to meet
passenger train. The shock was terrible and
several were killed; all on the train beng in
jured-
Careful figuring now places the number of
dead from the earthquake in Japan at 1850
and injured at 1879, with SEQ buildings
wholly, and ., $50 partially destroyed Over
10000 people have been rendered homeless
and destitute.
Anthony Comstock. the suppressor of OBJ
scene publications, swOOped down on an
antiquarian bookseller named Caspar, at
Milwaukee and confscated S1,O0O worth of
books and photographs, besides landing the
bookseller in Jail
The town of Millen, Ga, is practically I'M
der martial law on account of horrible out
RACES committed on inotfensIve negroes by a
mob of drunken whites The negroes threaten
to burn the town in revenge for the injuries
inflicted on their race
English farmers and farmers journals feel
very sore over Secretary Rusk's proposal to
prohibit the importation into the United
States of English cattle 50 long as the restric-
tons upon the landing of American cattle at
British ports are not removed
George Wheaton Allen. better known as
Land Bill Alien. the originator of the home
stead act. died at the county Inhrmary. Col
umbus, Ohio. aged 81 He had spent for
tune in the interest of the bill of which he
claimed to be the originator
A crazy man entered Russell Sage's New
York Office, December 4, and after demand
ing a million dollars exploded a bomb. which
killed himself and three others, wounded Mr..
Sage and several more, and Quilted the build
ing. Mr. Sage's hurts are not dangerous
Cardinal Gibbons. Archbishop Kenriek and
all the visiting prelates at St Louis were
rendered a reception on change. Archbishops
Ireland. OF St. Paul; Ryan. OF Hhlladel phia,
and Keane, of Washington, and cardinal
Gibbons addressed the members OF the ex-
change
One of the successful cattle-raisers OF
Wyoming Is Frank Sartoris, brother OF
Nellie Grants husband He Is a plainsman
of thirteen years experience and Is so well
liked by his neighbOrs that there - proSp ect
of his being sent to congress to represent
them.
A dynamite factory at Haverstraw, N Y.
was blown up and the shock % the terrible
explosion was felt for many miles; -Four
men employed in the building were blown TO
pleces. and another man who was some dis
tance from the wrecked building was IN
stan ly killed.
The British steamer Pstrareh was at San
tos- Brazil. where the yellow fever Is raging,
and coon after leaving there nearly every
one on board was stricken down vi b IT. The
shin WAS refused hospitality at ST Vincent,
Cane Verd islands and Canary islands, but
finally reached Gibralter, where good treat
ment was met.
London newspaper says; Inc brazlilan
government has dismissed the papal nunclo at
Rio Janeiro and has lntimated 20 the vatican
that Brazil II willing to maintain relations
with the vatican, but will not tolerate eeclesi-
astical interference with politics Unless the
vatican acQuiesces the Brazilian minister to
the vatican will be recalled
GENERAL Markets
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