Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-23
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The deaths from cholera in Mecca average
fifty daily. quarantine camp is being
formed at Jebel Tor.
A mob in Tennessee prevented the work
ing of state convicts in coal mines at Brlar-
vile and the governor was asked for military
aid.
A hail storm, three to Eve miles wide,
through Stearns, Sherbourne and Benton
counties, Mimi, destroyed at least 5000
bushels of wheat.
Reports on the prospects of the harvest in
Russia preclude the hope that there will be
any grain for export. The purchase or for
eign corn is inevitable.
A resolution in favor of unrestricted reci-
procity between the United States and Canada
has been adopted by the provincial iegisla-
ture of Prince Edward Island.
The chicago corn gamblers who are short
got thoroughly alarmed and began to cover
on a rising market.
One of the Touring mills of Minneapolis,
that OF Christian Bros. d Co., was damaged
$4,000 by tre.
The jury which tried ex-State Treasurer
holland; of Missouri, for embezzlement,
found him guilty and fixed the penalty at
two years In the penitentiary.
At d meeting of about 1000 railroad en-
strike along the lines of the Eve great rail
road companies entering Paris.
Switzerland, the little mountain democ-
racy or federal republic of Europe, will be
600 years old on the 1st of next August. The
Swiss propose to celebrate the event.
The Central Pacific railroad lost three
miles of its snow sheds by fire. Freight
traffic was delayed
Lynn; Mass, has had a $500, 900 fire. The
Blake block and the Stout block and the
Currier block, all tail brick buildings, were
destroyed.
The United States steamships in Behring
sea have already sent back to Victoria a
number of poaching sealing schooners, with
warning that if they return they will be
seized.
A grasshopper parade halted upon the
Rock Island rail road tracks in Colorado and
the engine could not make its friction drivers
stick to the rails. So the hoppers held up
the train.
Nearly the entire business portion of Glas-
gov, KY, was destroyed by fire. Loss $50
600; insurance, half.
j. W. Stone of Lawrence has received his
I Commission as assistant disburser in the
weather bureau, salary $1,000. For some
time he has been Clerk IN the department of
| agriculture.
A Ft. Collins, Colo, special says eevere
hail storm destroyed wheat and other crops
| in strip of country six miles wide by
twenty long. The loss to farmers will
amount to S250,0O0.
French grain gamblers being loaded with
| high priced futures in wheat. got excited and
let go, causing drop of ~ cents bushel
| IN Paris. English markets weakened IN
| sympathy and Chicago gamblers tumbled
Grand Master Powderly declined the posi-
ton on the worlds fair commission to which
he was appointed by Governor Pattison, OF
| Pennsylvania. Mr.. Powderly says he wants
| to be in position where ne Will be free to
criticise the action of public men.
Captain Hall reports that all cattle are out
| OF the Strip east of the Rock Island rail way.
There are still many thousands west of there.
| The boomers are organizing and will destroy
| grass and cattle with fire if they are not gone
in ten days.
There is every prospect of splendid hoI
| crop in England and the growers expect good
1 prices in view of the unfavoTable reports re-
| ceived IN regard to the hop prospects lin the
| United States and the appearance OF the
blight III Anhsriea.
1t is stated that the First National bank OF
| Chicago, having aecured its claims Against
| the S. r. Howell Lumber company, stood
! ready as soon as the company's affairs had
| been Strengthened out, to lend 1t necessary
| financial assistance to put it on its feet again.
The express car of the Pacific Express
| Company, which left Texarkana, Ark, at
/ tached to the south bound Texas d Pacific
/ passenger TRAIN was boarded as u was lcdN-
/ ing the local yards and robbed, Messenger
! Ryan being held up at the point of revol-
Yer.
A mob in sympathy with the saloons visited
| Rev. Reidengers' residence at North Ridge
| Vile, Ohio, after he and his wife had RETIRED
| and bombarded the house with brlckbats,
| breaking out the windows OF the lower por-
| ton of the house and otherwise damaging
| the property.
The Missouri state board of railroad and
| warehouse commissioners hes reduced rates
| on wheat from Missouri river points to Sta
| Louis from 1 to 2 cents per 100 pounds. ac-
| cordlng to the varying conditions governing.
| The reduced rates are to be put into enect as
soon as practicable.
The German emperor has sent numerous
costly presents to be distributed among OIL
Gals concerned in his receptions, members
| of the Queens household, officials of the
| foreign Office, and especially members OF
| the treaty department., Guild hall officials
and chiefs of police.
train collision occurred in a Paris,
| France, depot, in which lives were lost. The
| cause of the collision was that the man whose
duty it was to signal trains entering and
leaving the depot become confused by the
presence of an unusual number of trains and
failed to give the necessary signal.
President Polk, of the National alliance. is
reported as giving his opinion that the peo-
| ples' national ticket IN 1892 will carry ''Kan-
other states;'' and that if the southern demo-
Gratis do not quit fighting the Ocala platform
! the third party will have electoral tickets IN
the SOUTH
C. w. Howell, of the Howell Lumber
| Company, with extensive yards at Omaha,
Chicago and Atchison. has made an assign
ment in favor of the First National bank, of
| Chicago. The same time Mr.. Howell gave a
bill of sale of the company's property in
! Omaha to c. L. Chaffee, the consideration
named being S112,OOO.
Chancellor Snow says that the gresshoppers
now in Colorado are not the Rocky Noun
| tam locust, the migratory kind, but are the
| kind that is always there. They do not
| migrate. The bad kind are in their native
northwest, but they will not come to Kansas
this year. They always remain at home
when there is anything to eat.
There il an old statute that imposes fine
| of 81 a head for grazing cattle on Indian
| lands: one half to 20 to the informer and one
| half to the tribe. Information has been filed
against parties grazing on the Cherokee strip
| and on certain reservations, which would ag-
| gregate in fines $4,000. The cases will be
prosecuted before United States district
/ courts in Oklahoma
| The northern peninsula of Michigan Is
/ having terrible experiences with forest hres.
| There he's been no rain for over three months
| and the country is in a similar condition to
/ that during the dreadful ire of 1873, when
| hundreds of people persisted all through ehe
/ north. The sun is obscured, breathing Is dr.
/ ficult and so dense is the a1r with smoke that
/ St. Marys river is navigated with dlfhculty,
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