Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-19
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Simultaneous with the storm in Great
Britain hurricane was blowing on the coast
of Portugal.
Hay Market Sunday was observed in Chi
cago by an anarchist parade, IN which z,OOO
people participated.
Lippineott. Johnson & CO., wholesale dry
building and the stock in it BY fire.
Cameron. No., is in panic over diphthe-
ria: the school and churches are closed and
children kept indoors Thus far every case
mas proven fatal.
A government decree in Brazil. just issued.
orders a lease of the state railways for thirty
three years at a gold rental half OF which IS
payable in advance.
Most of the Sensational reports from Chill
and from Brazil have started by liars regu-
larly commiss 'oned to that work by the
London newspapers.
At FIRE in lumber warehouse at Hay
ward, Wis, dynamite exploded, killing three
and wounding others. A freight train was
blown from the track and demolished.
William HinsIey, full-blooded Iowa In
dian Ct the Blanket clan. was married at
Guthrie, o. T., to Miss Nevada Johnson, 0
very we'll known white girl of that city.
The suit of the Union Pacific against C. H.
McKibbon, formerly purchasing agent fol-
that road, to recover 100000, alleged to have
been received as brides from supply compa-
MES. was dismissed by the attorneys for the
railroad company.
The copestone to the Chicago Masonic
Temple has been laid with imposing cere-
monies. The building is nineteen stories
278 feet from the ground to the coping: the
highest structure of its kind IN the world.
Colonel Don Piatt, the well known retired
journalist. Is dead. He died az his home
Mac-O-Chee. He had been iii with la gripp'
the past few days, but his indisposltion wal
not regarded as serious. His death is a com
plete surprise.
The Gillian provisional junta, which has
administered the government since the down
fall of Balmaeeda, are, all three, provided
for. Mont is elected president; Silva presi
dent of the senate, and Luco president OF thi
chamber of deputies.
The troublous conditions at Rio Janeiro
by latest report, have subsidized and the usua
amount of business is being transacted
The Canadian government has decided t.
adopt a vigorous immigration policy. Al
agent of the government Will visit the west
ern states, including Kansas, to induce farm
ers to locate in Manitoba and the northwest
The car shortage which has been affecting
the Missouri Pacific, is growing no better
and the road has been forced to issue an or
der declining to receive any more grain des
tined to New Orleans. The order viii remali
in effect until further notice.
The general missionary committee OF tn
Methodist church, in session at Cleveland
o., decided. after great deal OF discussion
that 81, 900, 600 should be appropriated IN tn
proportion of As per. cent for the home mis-
sions and 55 per cent for the foreign field
Secretary Rusk says in his annual report
while discussing sorghum sugar: Then
seems to be no reason why we should no
look forward with confidence to the day whel
the 500, 900, 600 paid by Americans to torelgl
producers for sugars shoulc be turned INT
the pockets of our own people,.
The total value of breadstufs expottet
during October was $24, 463, 1874, as agains
So, 343, 246 during the corresponding mont
last year. The principal increase was II
wheat. The export of this cereal for Octo
Der. 1891, was IA, 089, 2S9 bushels, and for DC
tober, 1880. 3, 1O0,3 15 bushels.
Among the notable guests attsndingthe csi
ebration of the Prince of Wales hftieth birth
day at Sandringham, November 8, were Ior'
and Lady Brooks, and because of Lady
Brooks presence the Princess of Wales tool
occasion 10 visit her sister instead of helping
her hubby celebrate his natal day.
Secretary Butterfeld, of the Kansas Re
publican league. has received exact electlci
advices from ninety counties, ten of whicl
were carried solidly by the alliance, forty
nine solidly by republicans ana tnlrty-ont
were divided between the two parties. Ii
those COQuLl6b Uo1 Q61nOSIdbo hGAO CASSoS- ~
Office.
severe storm prevailed in the PuyalluI
and Luck river valleys, Washington. The
rivers are greatly swollen and in many places
have overfiowed their banks, dong muct
damage to crops. All trans between Seattle
and Tacoma are delayed by the unsafe con-
dition of bridges. Telegraph wires are pros
trated.
A public meeting at Valparaiso has been
convoked TO demand the extradition OF i've
of Balmacedas ministers. who are implicated
in the plot to murder Colonel Canto, the com
mander of the congressional land force. 1t
is believed that the two ex-minlsters IN cues
ton have taken refuge in the United States
legation at Santiago
If the statistics of Great Britain are correct
the excess of women and girls over men and
boys in that country is about 500 COO, an in
crease IN ten years of about 2OO,O 600. In Ger.
many the number of females in excess OF
males is Loo, 900. In Sweden and Norway
the s'weaker sex" is in the majority BY about
100000; in Austro- Hungary by 6OO,OOO, and
in Denmark by 10000. In the United States
Canada and Australia the males are IN the
majority. In this country there are about
LOO, 900 more men than women.