Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-30
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New Orleans is just now talking of having
paid fire department.
The United States has one pauper to every
54S inhabitants Great Britain has one pau
per to every thirty eight inhabitants.
Rev. Phillips Brooks will be consecrated
as bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts ON
October IA, in Trinity church, Boston
The boiler of saw mill at ChiIicothe,
No, exploded, killing young Simpson, son
of the owner, and injuring two other men.
It is said that the number of passengers
carried by all the railroads OF the world Is
estimated to be two and half million day.
Texas has one in the penitentiary out of
every 7OS inhabitants; greater percentage
than any other commonwealth in the world.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is arrang-
ing for fast fortnightly service between San
Francisco and Australia via New Zealand
and Auckland.
At Knoxville, Iowa, Howard Cunningham
sold to Nuttal, of Michigan, the S-year-old
trotting stallion Advance, with a record OF
2:2416, for SIS, 900.
A ukase has been prepared which orders
that foreigners doing business in Russia,
who fail to become nRturalized citizens with
in i've years, be expelled from the country.
The street car lines of Detroit, Mich. COM
prising eighty miles of track, have been sold
for 100000 to New York parties.
In collision between passenger and a
freight train near Warsaw, Poland, six Per
sons were killed and number wounded.
1t is officially stated that the porte will not
permit Jews to inmigrate to Jerusalem. 1t
Is added that the porto will only allow the
entry of pilgrims:
The Brush patents for the manufacture
and use of storage batteries in the United
States have been held solely valid by the U.
S. circuit court of New York.
Jerry Simpson announced in a speech at
Birmingham, Ala, that he would spend
month in Ohio, talking day and night against
John Sherman and Major Mckinley.
A late London dispatch says, in summing
up the ParnelI program: 'tPlots dependent
upon the existence of How OF dollars from
America are now paralyzed."
Storage passengers, emiRrants, are landed
in New York at the rate of 1900 day.
Harriet Blaine. daughter of the secretary
of state, is to wed Truxton Reale, U. ,. min
lister to Turkey.
Campbell 81 Eliott's cotton and wooden
mill, in Philadelphia, is destroyed By fre;
loss over 100000. The building was 200 feet
square and $50 people were employed IN IT'D
William H. Pope. the defaulting state
treasurer of Tennessee, has been arrested In
the City of Mexico and is held by the police
awaiting the action of the Tennessee author
tiles.
Rebels in great numbers gathered at Lex
ington, Va, to do honor to treason. The
occasion of their gathering was the unwilling
of bronze statue of General StoneWan
Jackson.
The supreme court of Kansas, as soon as
it got together after Judge Mckay, OF Har-
per county, had set aside its orders. took ac-
ton to uphold its own dignity and maintain
its authority.
I,fk he To-, faVnii x livinn
five miles west of Clay City, Ill, were found
in the ruins of their home, which was burned.
The family consisted of husband, wife, son,
daughter and grandchild.
Chief w. h. Ross, of the Cherokee nation,
is dead. He was SO years old. He was edu-
Gated at Princeton, n. j., and since % years
old has almost constantly been in some Office
from chief down. When he died he was
senator.
A resident of Monroe City, No, has re-
covered 500 from man who tied his mules
to a handsome maple shade tree belonging
to the villager, letting the mules bark and
kill the tree, 1t being one his grandfather
planted.
In the first half of this year Atchison earned
per mile 2,251, against 81, 335 by st. Paul,
81, 231 by Rock Island and S2,616 by North
ern Pacific. As far as earnings per mile are
concerned, southern roads are ahead of those
in the northwest.
BISHOP luEuGEs 0GOIHld COAOEGu
is back of movement to send colonies Of
his people to Africa. He will make trip
across the water to investigate the promised
land before completing arrangements for
the first shipment
President Harrison is said to hope to be
able to announce in his annual message that
reciprocity arrangements have been made
with Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, San Domingo,
Columbia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Spain
eight countries in all.
According to the government reports, the
mines of the United States produced $780,
$50, IA worth of gold and 500, 1856. 1888 worth
of silver for the calandar year 1883. This
was nearly % per cent of the worlds gold
product and Al per cent OF its silver product.
J. Waldo, traffic manager of the Missouri,
Kansas 81 Texas, has just come from trip
of inspection over the Katy, and he says that
crops are big all along the line, and that
over 10000, 900 bushels of wheat Is being har-
vested in Texas this year. The state will
have 100000 bales of cotton.
The governor of Tennessee is met with this
article in the constitution of the state: 1.-The
militia shall not be called into service except
in case of rebellion or invasion, and then
only when the general assembly shall! declare
by law that the public safety requires it,
and is in trepIdaton about 1t.
The Briceville, Tenn, war seems to be
over. The militia assembled at Knoxville
have been discharged and the men are going
home. The miners committee and citizens
committee agreed that the convicts and their
guards should be returned to the mines and
not be disturbed; awaiting the action OF the
legislature.
Government officials hold that the provi-
sions of the law forbidding the importation
of laborers under contract, itself provides
that skilled labor may be SO imported to be
employed in new industries in which this
country is deficient in skilled laborers. This
is in the interest of the tin factories now be-
ing established in this country.
Leading lawyers. including Chief Justice
Horton and Attorney General Ives, say that
the alien land law, passed oy the last legls-
lature must be held to prohibit foreign cap
ital from holding any real estate in Kansas
for manufacturing purposes. This cuts out
the big schemes which were about to mate
riaIize at Kansas City, Kansas.
SawyerviIle, Osceola county, Mich, con-
sisting of thirty houses, one general store,
large saw mill, single mill and lumber yard
was totally destroyed by fire. The entire
property is owned by the Cutler d Savldge
Lumber company, of Spring Lake, Mich.
The loss is between $20O,OOO and SoOO,OOO,
partly covered by insurance.
Governor Buchanan. of Tennessee, con-
ferred with a committee of the Briceville
miners and proposed to them that he would
call a special session of the legislature and
recommend change in law about leasing to
contractors the labor OF cOnvicts; the miners
to submit to the unemployment OF the con-
victs at the mines until the legislature shall
have taken action.
GENERAL AIARkErS
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