Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-15
KANSAS.


From Elk Point s. D.. comes news that
hog cholera Is prevalent in that country.
Many are dying Of the disease.
The steamer La Touraine. from Havre.
brought 5, As, 900 in gold, and the steamer
Kaiser wilhelm 100000 in gold.
The Russian Newspapers are dsnouncing
merchants and mobiles who are selling corn
at profit to tie starving peasants
During the last quarter at the Leavenworth
Soldiers home SCI, 800 was paid out in pen
sion money.
The New York pEesbytery come within two
votes OF stopping all proceedings in the mat
ter OF the trial OF Rev. DR.. Briggs for hereay.
An elevator in Baltimore, belonging 10 the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company, has
burned. together with $4,000 bushels of
wheat
A lecturer commenced to talk at st. Joseph.
Mo-. on the Attitude of the Catholic Church
Toward the Public Schools" and was stopped
by mob.
Heavy rains in western Kansas have caused
the streams in Oklahoma to rise suddenly,
and much damage has been done IN the ter
utory-
At almost every point where Russia touches
the territory OF another nation she is accused
OF aggressive movements and unfriendly in
tentiOns.
It is reported that Secretary Blaine will
make three speeches in the present campaign
in Massachusetts, at Boston, Worcester and
Springfield.
Charles Stewart Parnell died at Brighton,
England at near midnight of October 6,
alter an illness beginning with chill four
days before
The heavy trains of one of the cable roads
OF Kansas City. Mo-, loaded with people on
the night of the Priests parade, broke the
cable and stopped all cars.
Northern Minnesota has had a snow storm.
From North Dakota and northern Mime
sofa comes the word that there is much wheat
still in the shock and that the wet weather
has sprouted it SO as to destroy its value.
The Office of the Times and warehouse of
Ewing Enrich, at Lima, o., are destroyed
by hre and the adjoining buildings BADLY
damaged. Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
The works of the Vancamp Canning COM
pany, at Indianapolis, Ind, are destroyed by
fire; loss $500 600, insurance $l49,O0O. Five
fremen were hurt, one of them expected to
die.
The Brazilian government has ordered the
purchase of 10000 cuttings of grape vines
in the United States and Europe for use in
starting experimental vineyards IN that re-
public
Rev. Samuel Benedict, an Episcopal cler-
gyman of Cincinnati, o., aged 81, lost his
life by being caught in an elevator in resi-
dence fiat. where he had been visiting par
lshoner.
One English writer says that Parnell came
of q race IN which were many crazy people.
He was from an old English family that
lived IN ireland several generations before
his day.
The Kansas Supreme court has sustained
n recent ruling of Judge G.. w. Mckay, of
Harper county 1t was McKay's enjolning
man from selling liquor, pending hearing
Of his motion to appeal.
Train wrecking is the most profitable in
dustry in Turkey. The band OF brigands
who practice it are amassing large fortunes
Railroads are threatening to quit operating
unless the government will make good their
losses by the brigands.
The distress IN Russia is greater menace
to the government than all the efforts OF the
nihilists. The famine may cause revolu-
ton where love of liberty has failed. Aid is
being sent in by the Holland Jews and nihi-
lists of America The latter have sent 50, 800.
At Altoona, Iowa, the horses in a funeral
procession were stampeded by one team up
ting scared at a steam thresher- This team
plowed through carriages IN advance of it.
upsetting and breaking them to pieces, until
a stampede ensued- One man was killed
and five more fatally injured.
The meeting of the Society of the Army of
Tennessee, at Chicago, closed with banquet
at the Palmer house, General Granville NJ.
Dodge. who succeeds General Sherman as
president of the society. presided. Generals
Miles, Gresham, Porter and Noble were
trailer in 1 cable car train in Kansas
City, NO., broke its brake and coasted down
Tenth street hill, crushing into a crowd at
Main street, dangerously injuring two per-
sons and inJuring three others and slightly
lnJuring some twenty Others Among those
who were badly hurt were members OF troop
l. First cavalry from Fort Leavenworth-
The new government of Chill has the
American legation there practically beseiged;
arresting such Of Balmaceoa's adherents, who
49, Nk--wHa
themselves. When the U. S. steamer San
francisco reaches Valparaiso Minister Egan
will demand that these refugees may be
taken on board and out of that country.
By direction of the president. request has
been sent to LOrdStanl-y, governor general
of Canada. for pOstponement OF the reel
proc1ty conference arranged to take place in
Washington, October II. between the repre-
sentatiVes of the United States and the DOmin-
ion of Canada The reason given for the
postDonement Is the continued illness OF
Secretary Blaine
After the ceremonies of unwilling the statue
of General Grant the veterans OF the socie-
ties OF the Armies of Tennessee, Potomac
and Cumberland and General Miles and stan
called on and paid their respects to Mrs.
General Grant at the residence of Mrs Pot
ter Palmer. All the officers were IN full
dress uniform The pathos of the gathering
was but too evident, and altogether the affair
was one of the most striking witnessed in
Chicago for many day.
There can be no doubt hut Jay Gould IL
breaking down. He nearly collapsed at the
late meeting of the Missouri Pacific directors,
when he Opposed Russell Sage's plan to de-
clare a small dividend. He Was forced to
cease speaking. and later. upon retiring. he
said: dHGentlsmen, you must excuse me-
have been SO harrassed and worried lately,
and have passed through an ordeal SO Tar be
yond my strength that an physically una
BILE to say anything more in protest against
this dividend"
ID is now said that when Victoria's grand
scn. Kaiser William, visited England he
sought counsel of that aged matrOn; declar-
ing that the necessities Of his government de-
manded q war with France. To preserve the
peace Victoria sent an autograph letter to
the car, telling him what had occurred, and
suggested show of friendship to France
This brought about the visit of the French
feet to Cronstadt, and also its visit to Ports
mouth; both events designed as q warning to
William to let FraLce alone.
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