Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-08
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Leadville had a fall of snow on septem-
Der "A.
Fort Madison, Ia. is to have a new stock
yards and packing house at cost Of 500. 900.
Mrs. Clara Stevens was run over and killed
Wednesday.
The last hold your wheat circulars made
the shorts in the Chicago grain gambling pit
exceedingly nervous.
The Canadian river is again on rampage
and has destroyed coo feet of Santa Fe track
south of Purcell, I. L.
The first snow of the season in the north
west is reported at AssinaboIne, Northwest
Territory, on September 30.
October ?. at sundown, began the Jewish
year 1852. l. is a sacred holiday.
Iowa's corn crop is reported safe. and the
amount harvested will reach 800 OOO, 900 BUSH
els, Including all drawbacks.
The president has appointed ]. R. Burton
commissioner for the worlds fair for Kan
sas, vice r. R. Price, resigned.
Sixteen million dollars will be asked of the
next congress to continue the construction
and armament of new naval vessels
Levees on the Mississippi river at Plaque
mine and at West Baton Rouge, La, have
been caving in at dangerous rate of late.
The Wisconsin Methodist conference, by q
vote Of 100 to 30, voted in favor of admitting
women as lay delegates to the general con-
ference.
Major William Warmers name as before
the president for consideration of his APP
polntment as judge advocate general. 1t Is
life Office.
The Ohio conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, by vote of 124 to q, has
voted to admit women to the general confer
ence as lay delegates.
Tue Southern Nebraska NJ. E. conferences
voted in favor of the admission OF women a.
delegates to the general conference by vote
of 81 for and p against.
1t is reported from Rome that no more
American cardinals will be appointed al
present. Six of the new cardinals will be
Italians and one Hungarian.
A waterspout which struck the earth neaI
Elizabeth. Ark, Tuesday, did great damage
to the cotton and corn crops.
The corner stone of the new First Presby-
terrain church at Danvllle, Ill, has been laid.
The building will cost $4,000 and seat !, iOe
people.
The Liberal congress at Newcastle, Eng
land, is earnestly in favor of the abolition OF
the hereditary branch of parliament, which
represents nobody.
session of the state assembly of the
hulGlUS OF LdDOr, neiu at OBbuIlWd5 AeAs NC
clared in favor of free schools, free books
and the Australian ballot.
The private coach of Millionaire Maekey
arrived in New York from San Francisco,
making the trip in four DAYS, twelve hour
and twenty-eight minutes.
The last harvest excursion was the biggest
of all. During thirty-six hours the baggage:
men at the Kansas City union depot handled
over 10000 pieces of baggage.
It transpires that Mics Daisy, who was il
the rush for town lots at Chandler, was moi
killed, as first reported. She was seriously
injured and had leg broken.
The statue of JEFF Davis, made to be placed
in the vestibule of the monument at jackson,
Miss, has been rejected by the COMMITTEES
because it does not look like old JEFF.
Nebraska City is threatened with an cpl.
demic of diphtheria. The sanitary condition
of the city is bad, which causes the board OF
health and the people to be quite nervous.
The Cherokee commission will reopen ne
gotiatlons with the Cherokees Tor their clalp
on the outlet early IN November. It =
thought prospects for a bargain are better
than they have been.
The cut on the price of cotton picking has
caused serious disturbance in Lee county,
Ark, where, at last accounts, over hundred
blacks were corralled in canebrake, and be-
ing hunted for their lives.
Jenny, the blind daughter of Councilman
John A. Sloan, of st. Louis, predicted ths
recent earthquake there two days before II
occurred. She cannot tell how her impress
sions we're received, but took the fulfllmenl
of her predictions as a matter of course.
Many passenger. agents of the Lake Shore
81 Michigan Southern road, some OF them
who have been in service for fifteen or twenty
years, have been discharged in bunch, fol
taking commissions from connecting linei
over which they sold tickets.
A forest fire in Eldorado. county. Cal.
burned over a space twenty by twenty-h We
miles. destroying the mining town OF PILOT
Hill and all the farming property in that
area. There were many narrow escapes and
many families lost their all.
n. B. Phinney, who was arrested IN Kansas
City about ten days ago for raising some
tickets and selling them again, was sentenced
to eighty days in jail by Justice Worthen.
The sentence was really ninety days, but the
ten days that Phinney had already spent IN
jail were deducted. -
The chief of the bureau of statistics reports
that the total number of immigrants arrived
at the ports of the United States from the
foreign countries, except the Dominion OF
Canada and Mexico, during the month ended
August 81 1891, was 49, 172, against 81, 38l IN
August of last year.
In Waldo, Texas a district judge has re-
fused final citizenship papers to man who
The Judge said such doctripes are directly OPP
posed to the constitution of the United States
and therefore no socialist or anarchist is
eligible to citizenship
Judge Green's decisions, that the Cherokees
have no title or right to the strip, have BEEN
strongly condemned by the Cherokees and
ave-created considerable interest, yet have
seemingly not weakened the intelligent Cher
okees in their belief in their right to that
land, and it is thought will cut no figure IN
the coming negotiations.
There landed in one day at the barge office
in New York ], 459 immigrants. The influx
OF worsted weavers continues and according
to the statements made by them it IS likely
to continue in increased volume. They say
that shops in Europe that are now running
with a reduced force of hands propose to run
on half time, if at all. during the winter:
Dom Pedro is reported to be deeply disap-
pointed by the emphatic refusal of the Bra
zlllau congress to grant him leave to live In
Brazil. The emperor's devotion 10 that
country is touching, aud visitors say that
tears come into his eyes every time Brazil Is
mentioned in mis- presence. All that he asked
was the privilege OF dying in Brazil and this
has been refused him.
James c. Carlisle, a member of the last
Missouri legislature, representing st. Joseph,
says that sit had been definitely settled by
the democratic leaders. at conference held
in st. Louis recently, that Morehouse was to
and as the nomination for that office IS equal
to election Albert z. Morehouse would have
been the next governor OF Missouri had he
not cut his own throat.
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