Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-18
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Queen Victoria has signed the Behring sea
General John McNeal, aged 4, dropped
dead at a branch postoffice in st. Louis.
Immense foods of the rivers of Texas are
reported, with loss of stock and crops and
bridges, everywhere.
European financial reports show better
ment in general condition, with, perhaps,
Spain excepted.
Railroads are being pushed forward in the
Argentine Republic. Notwithstanding the
general financial ruin there.
Prof. Garfield has accepted the place OF
chancellor of the university of Nebraska.
His salary is to be $1,000. He takes the Office
July 1.
Appropriated gross earnings of the Atch-
isOn, Topeka d Santa Fe for May. including
the st. Louis and San Francisco system, were
s., 64l, I'll, an increase of S54,O15.
Bishop knight. OF the Episcopal diocese of
grippe several weeks ago and on Friday suf-
fered stroke Of paralysis, which fastened
his end.
At Chicago Judge Blodgett quashed the in
dictment against George Gibson, the eN-
secretary Of the whisky trust The decision
was on the ground that II was a case for the
state courts.
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to the extent of S250O00. Mallock's glass
ware house and the establishments of Messrs.
| Willis and Neisons ribbon manufacturers,
were destroyed.
The Mexican government officially declares
that it will give no more subsidies under any
new concession to any railroad whatever.
The report that ex-senator Ingalls, has been
rendered the chancellorship of Washington
university in st. Louis is emphatically de-
MED By him.
The force of clerks in the census bureau is
/ being cut down because the Appropriation
/ for their pay is liable to be snort, and the
work of the bureau is likely to be delayed
| from this cause.
The Prince of Wales Is said to be in sulky
| frame of mind, over the storm of adverse
newspaper criticism which is still sweeping
| over him. The religious press is the most
severej in fact, is very bitter.
American sealers usually go to the South
| Pacific several months in each year; but now
| the Tasmanian officials have prohibited seal
catching In the South Pacific.
The secretary of the treasury has amended
the general regulations of 1884, relative to
execution of bonds, so as to provide that
CORPORATIONS other than a trust company
can in no event be accepted as surety"
The London Times says: 1--WE almost
wish, for the sake of English society, that as
the result of this unhappy case, the Prince
of Wales had also signed declaration that
The New York school board has squelched
females name that If capable of it with a
final lie. They command that Harriet shall
be Harriet and Susan, Susan; ct al.
The Russian government is making such
arrangements for sending 1900 convicts &c
Siberia that the chances are by the time they
arrive in September all the women and chill
dren will have persisted by the way.
cloud burst in the foot hills above For
| Collins. Colo. caused the Poudre to overflow
! its banks, damaging crops, drowning stool
and destroying bridges to the extent of Sl5,
900. So far as known no lives were lost.
The bill to enable her majesty. by order IL
council, TO make special provision for pro
! hibiting the catching of seals in Behring sea
by her majestyis subjects, during the period
] named in the order, has passed the house Of
lords.
Ferdinand Ward, the New York banke
: who brought financial losses upon Genera
Grant, and is in Sing Sing prison Tor IL, nov
mourns that he must receive the same treat
! ment other criminals, since there has beer
change in the wardens.
M. s. Beal, of Topeka, has commence,
! suit against Boston mortgage company 70
the profits he would have made on thei
, money in Kansas if they had not broker
! contract and refused to send on the none!
for him to loan. He wants s23, $50 G
The Santa Fe company hired all the mel
I to be found, and hauled many train loads o
stone to Purcell, I. T.. in their efforts to saw
their tracks there. The water had WASHED
away nearly eighty rods of track and under
3 mined much more.
5 The Usage river in Missouri, is reporte'
: higher than for many years. Bottom farm
are overlooked and wheat fields entirely un
der water. Great loss must result from tn
destruction of crops and fences and railroad
ties carried off by the high water.
= cloud burst over Dayton, Ohio, fioodin
b everything. Lightning struck in many part
= of the city. One tenement was torn down
but no other casualties were reported. III
| Miami and Erie canal bank broke two mile
south of town and flooded the garden land
along the river.
A tubular tank containing 1000 gallons 0
kerosene, on train, at Wilder, one mil
from Newport, KY, woke up every body II
Newport, Dayton and Covlngt3n; and IN
| bright light from It's burning called out tn
. entire Cincinnati fire department. The fore
! of the shock was felt for ten miles around.
e hurricane has swept over eastern Cali
Y cha. An entire forest was partly uprooted
= and the towns of Podkamin and Prnikw
g suffered. Several churches were unroofe
e and a number of houses we're RACED TO tn
d | ground. Several people were killed outrigh
1 and numbers were injured by falling debris
: The secret service officers have notified al
: | the jewellers of Chicago that hereafter the!
will be prosecuted for counterfeiting in cas-
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8 | coins for use as bangles. This action 1
/. taken because it has been discovered tina
/ ! some of these bangles have been passed a
e the gold coins they resemble.
= The London News says of the baccara
scandal: 'FThe pity of it all is in the pres
6 ence of the heir to the throne at the head o
: the baccarat table. The prince is bound {
y | a pure, simple and clearly life, as an exampl
Il to his future subjects. Woe to the monarch
J. when it can no longer perform what may b
: fairly called its last surviving use."
A waterspout burst near San Luis Paz, il
the state of Guanajuato, Mexico the waite
& | from which swept away many houses an
1 cattle uprooted trees: in fact. for space o
q three miles, the width of the current, tn
A | country was completely devastated. 1t
Q not known how many lives have been lost
e Hundreds of people are homeless and in
Il destitute condition.
Pupils at the Indian schools at Genot
Neb., have been, by the solicitation OF tn
Indian bureau, given employment in tn
beet fields of that region. Nebraskans pre-
L test against this, and Commissioner Morga
asks of the superintendent If the people c
p Nebraska are SO hostile to the school in II
d effort to make helpful, independent citizen
n of its Indian pupils, whether it would nc
: be best to stop all projected improvement
e with view of closing the school and aban
4. doning the enterprise. The money, he says
can be expended to advantage in states wher
the citiZens are only too glad to have thes