Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-02
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Hurried Readers.
Ex-Governor Robinson, of New York. is
dead.
=, New Jersey has appropriated $4,000 for
the worlds fair as starter, with an assur-
ance that there is more to follow.
A Berlin dispatch announces the conciu-
sion of formal treaty of alliance between
France. Germany and Russia
Rumors are current that another conflict
has occurred between the English and Portu-
guese on the Limpopo river.
When the sun crossed the line there was i
cyclone, a remarkable hail storm, and tor
rents OF rain in Florida
Brigands in Cuba continue their ancient
practice of carrying people off and holding
them until ransom is paid.
The new railroad bridge over the Missis-
sippl river at st. Louis was opened for the
passage over it of trains on March "A.
In Chicago sO4 persons died in a week.
mostly OF lung diseases; pneumonia claimed
l1O, grippe 10, bronchitis 81, acute lung dis
eases 23S.
The English nobility are shocked because
a grandniece of the Duke of Wellington is
Obliged to earn her living by selling flowers
In London arcade.
Only eight states now remain of forty-four
in winch the w. c. T. U. has not secured by
law provisions for temperance education in
the public schools.
Railway traffic and all industries in Chill
which require fuel are suspended because the
revolutionists have blockaded the coal ports.
Coal is worth $50 ton in Valparaiso.
The New York city board of health an
nounces an epidemic Of grippe in that city.
Mrs. Lease, the alliance lecturer, was
among the snowbound. She telegraphed
from DO0da (aitu m Kanaaa (itry hat
her appointment there could not be met.
The sages of the Choctaw council favor in
yesting their money for a permanent school
fund but they are in the minority and the
maturity will probably favor dividing it per
capita.
Five young Irish women were naturalized
the other day at Kansas City, Kansas, SO as
to vote at the city election. They are said to
be five as neat appearing, pretty, rosy girls
as ever get together.
A Springfield, Mo-, republican paper has
been sold and becomes democratic; a demo-
cratic paper at Sedalia has been said and be-
comes republican.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
road, 1000 miles in length, has now been in
operation twenty years, and it is stated otfi-
cially that There has never been passenger
killed on that system.
The Brazil Mail Steamship company has
ASNS4Lly MAUI a GOuIIdcb lOE Lit bIdISpOIld-
ton of forty six locomotives recently ordered
from manufacturers in this country by the
railway companies of Brazil.
Surveying parties are leaving Washington,
in the employ of the international railway
commission, to determine the route of the
proposed railway to South America. Their
first work is to be done in Guatemala.
Dispatches from New Mexico report
great deal of distress among cattle. sheep
and other live stock in that territory. The
weather has been cold and the ground is COW
cred with snow, so that the sheep can't eat.
j. c. Adams, who killed Captain William
L. Couch, the boomer leader, over disputed
claim near Oklahoma City, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury
of the United States district court in session
at Wichita.
A dispatch from Washington says it is
known to be a fact that ex- Representative
Carter, of Montana, has been offered the
commIssionership of the general land office,
to succeed Croft, resigned. Carter's friends
think ne will accept.
From this side of the Atlantic it does not
seem much for the British government to
brag of, that 5000 Irishmen are given relief
work at S1.75 week in money or in meal.
Here we pay a laborer almost as much as
that for days work.
The British linen industry, according to
last SUNNI er's returns of the board of trade,
pays average annual wages of $12L66. The
Massachusetts, linen industry, according to
the state bureau of labor statistics, shows
average annual earnings of S302.29.
There are still so many ignorant people
who believe that the United States licences
the sale of liquors that 1t has been decided
necessary, and the treasury department has
issued a manifesto stating that a liquor tax
receipt is in no sense a license to sell.
In New York the board of railroad com
missioners is recognized as an executive de-
partment of state. All laws passed by the
Legislature that refer to railroads are referred
to this board by the governor, for their ex-
animation and report, before they are signed
by him.
The Arkansas house of representatives was
the scene of a knock down and an attempt to
shoot. between the state coal oil inspector
and Il railroad president while in the hall.
Representatives fell over each other in trying
to get out of range, and as order could not
be restored the house was declared adjourned.
Scotch crofters to the number of 100, who
had been evicted from their homes on the
northermost of the Hebrides islands, IN or
der to make room for deer preserve. have
returned to their ruined homes and have en-
trenched themselves there, with the deter
mination to resist by force any effort to GUST
them.
On dit. Andrew Carnegie to get out of the
iron business; become president to the Baltl=
more d Ohio railroad, and, by building GER
tam wanting Inks TO pdEdllel Will blctb
road the Pennsylvania lines from Balti-
more to Chicago; shortening the distance
seventy-fve miles between Pittsburg and
Chicago.
England has war on its hands in South
America. An old unsettled dispute concern
ing the boundary line between Venezuela
and British Guiana has brought on an appeal
to arms. The disputed territory is about the
size of the state of New York and contains
many dissatisfied adherents of each dlsput-
ants, many of them being native Indians.
The Earl of Derby owns more drinking
places than any other English peer. He has
seventy-two of the places to his credit or dis
credit. while the next largest owner is the
Earl of Bedford. with forty-eight grog shops.
The Duke of DeyonshIre is but one behind
Bedford, and so it goes through list of 152
peers, who own ,529 places where liquor Is
sold and drank.
A Chicago dispatch says: careful esti-
mate justifies the statement that nearly 25O,-
600 people in this city are under medical
treatment. Every branch of business Is
crippled by the prevailing sickness. The
season of cholera, so far as the mum Der or
people affected is concerned. Every doctor
is overrun with business.
A stampede occurred in religious meet
ing IN an opera house at Springfield, Ohio.
A Miss was overcome by the heat of the
crowded house and tainted. This created a
sensation, and during the excitement some
one in the gallery cried fire" Many were in
jured in the jam at the entrances. A preacher
commenced singing Nearer My God to
Thee" in which many joined, an6 this quoted
the tumult-