Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-31
NE VS. BREVITIEs.

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NEWS BREVITIEs.
It is announced that the Mexican Central
railroad will shortly place fleet of steamers
upon Lake Chapala.
The butler employed by United States
Minis ter Robert Lincoln, has committed
suicide by cutting his throat with razor.
The safe belonging to a rerchantile firm
at Nichols, Mo-, was blown open by burglars
and consiC cradle sum of money secured
No arrests made.
Fire in S. D. Hess dairy farm at Bay City,
NJ ca, destroyed the barn and eighty-tive
head of cattle. Two farm hands had narrow
escapes, Loss, $500.
The heirs of Thomas Drngan, governor of
the New York colony in 1850, are preparing
claims against millions of dollars worth of
property in the heart of that city.
An epidemic which attacks It's victims in
the Joints is Attracting attention and defylng
the skill of Balhmore's medical fraternity
1t is said to be a new form OF Ia grippe
According to a report just issued by the
department of agriculture, tie value OF this
YEARS. corn, wheat and oats crops exceeds
that of last year by third of billion dol
lars.
c. Wood DAVIS, of Kansas, who is in
Washington. is urging the Kansas delegation
to support the "Butterworth bill, for the
purpose of preventing dealing in option, on
grain.
Mrs. D. A. Harvey, wife of Delegate
Harvey of Oklahoma territory, formerly OF
Topeka, is spending the winter in Washing
ton. MIR. and Mrs. Harvey are at No. 15O9
L street.
Henry W. Moore, the st. Louis newspaper
man who figured in the Moore-Norton
scandal in Topeka two years ago, is repre-
senting the New York World IN Washington
this winter.
Lawrence Wilson, formerly assistant ad-
jutant general of the q. A. k, when II mad
headquarters IN Topeka, was this week pro
NOTED to a 81, 400 clerkship IN the interior
department.
United States Msrshal Dickerson, of Paris,
Tex, landed thirty-three Indian territory
desperadoes in the Detroit (Aich.) house OF
corr ction, with sentences ranging from TWO
to twenty-five years.
The endemic of influenza in upper Austria
is serious. The number of people disabled
is very great, and the disease has attacked
the horses, many of which are Frustrated and
some of which have died.
The epidemic of influenza in st. Louis Is
becoming very pronounced, and physicians
report hundreds of cases under treatment
City and government employees, business
and professional men are prostI ated IN many
cases.
1t appears by the report of the treasurer of Yale
college, which has just been published, that the
gifts received by the college during the year coy
sS4S So. The gifts range IN magnitude from slOO
In the trial of ex-Treasurer Peake for en-
beZZlement at Kansas City, 1t was proven
that Peake had been drunk from the spring
till the fall of the year in which the defalca-
ton occurred, trusting everything to his
clerks.
The passenger on the Santa Fe, outbound,
was derailed two miles north of Cherryvale.
Four coaches were burned up. Only the
combined car, mail and baggage, with the
engine. we're saved. Twenty-Five persons
were injured.
The comptroller of the currency made an
assessment of 100 per cent on the sharehold-
eTs of the City National bank at Hastings,
Neb., and an assessment of 76 per cent on
the shareholders of the First National bank
of Ellsworth, Kan.
F. Wellhouse, a member at large of the
Kansas board of managers, Is out on trip
through the Fourth district to encourage an
| interest the Kansas exhibit. He sends IN
| favorable reports from Lyon and Marion
counties, and is now visiting Butler county,
Russia has been visited by eight national
| famines during the present century-in 1901,
| 1903, 1911. 1872, 1893, 1910, 1863 and 1891. In
addition to these there have been several
provincial famines as severe, if not as extern
| sive, as those which affect the whole popula-
| ton.
The list of deaths caused by the ravages
of influenza IN London continues to grow
| larger daily. Tie iaIest place IN which the
| disease has assumed an epidemic form is
/ Ethan, County Kent. large number of
/ people in the Work-house there are pros
| trated with disease, and local physicians are
over run with calls for assistance.
The first carload of American tin ever
/ produced from an American tin mine was
| received at San Diego from the Temescal
mines. The shipment consisted of over 3d.,
| 600 rounds of TIN. The output of the Tenn
/ escai mines Is being rapidly increased and
/ American tin Will be regularly put on the
market in carloads.
| A secret circular has been issued by what
| is caleb the Alexander Sullivan camp of the
/ Clan Ma Gael, to the different camps in the
/ United States, calling upon Inshmen to re-
/ turn to physical force. An officer OF the clan
at Philadelphia said: "Our organization Is
i the strongest of any organization IN exist
| ence We have 20,OOO men TO strike for
Ireland as soon as an opportunity presents
itself"
William Osborn, deputy marshal of Oklaho-
i ma Is tracing his mother. who has been wander
ing in Kansas from town 70 town for months
| he found that she had been at Burlington, Iowa,
/ but had gone TO Chicago. The mother has PROP
| erty but there had been trouble about il which
! unsettled her reason
Referring to the inscription 'Suprema lex
| regis VOluntas," placed IN the gOlQSn COOK
| of Munich by the Emperor VIII lam, and to
other recent utteranees of his majesty, Prince
Bismarck said he had never been supporter
of absCiutism, and expressed regret that the
emLel o. had made use Of such expressions.
A largely attended meeting of English
holders of Virginia's debt was held in Lon
don, and il was decided by vote OF thirty
nine to fifteen to accept the agreement ef-
fected between the Virginia state debt COM
mission and the Olcots COMMITTEES for the
settlement of Virginia's state debt.
Oscar Baron Wedel Yartsbury, of Chris
tiaua, Norway, died in barn at Albert Lea
MINI. BE was young man known there al
Oscar WedeL few days ago came lnfor
nation of the death of the father and his Owl
succession to the baronetcy. A remittance
of 5000 accompanied the letter. The new
baron at once went on Spires which endeC
IN his death.
Judge Riner, of the United States circuit
has siene1 the decree in foreclosure proceed
ings against the Topeka Rapid Transit kaii
| way company, the judgment, with interest
aRRregating $685., $50. A SIX months stay o
exeeutioa mas been allowed, before the ex
pirasio1 Of which time Il IS believed that
compromise of some sort vii be Effected
The road has been ~ the ha1ds Of 9 receive
for eeverat months.