Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-05
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A negro murderer in Texas was chained 70
G tree and burned to death by MOP OF over
500, black and white.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is helpless par
alytic. BE may live long IN this condition
and may die at any time.
A Santa Fe freight train was wrecked near
Hlattsburg. Mo-, in which eight persons were
injured, four of them tralnmen.
Two attempts were made to wreck fast
passenger trans in England. but IN both in
stances serious damage was averted.
Newman, Ga had three fires in three
hours, destroying 100000 worth OF property.
More than ], 900 bales of cotton was burned.
Kansas City scalpers are overloaded with
east bound return harvest excursion tickets,
with the limit about to expire and very hight
travel
Secretary Blaine is again at his desk in the
state department, busily at work.
A private barn IN Topeka, containing seven
horses, was mysteriously set on ire and all
the horses roasted and the contents OF the
barn burned.
The Northern Indiana Editorial association
took in Kansas City on its excursion; There
were ninety-three excursionlsts. Ihey also
visited Argentine. -
The officials of the Louisiana lottery, who
were indicted in the United States court IN
South Dakota, will be tried at an adjourned
term in December.
A terrible explosion of dynamite occurred
at the quarries of the Cumberland, Ia, &C.
ment mill, by which four men were seriously
q not fatally injured.
The English press is discussing the CHILEAN
incident with prolixity, and no two papers
seem to agree in their views of the matter.
At Corona the streets are flooded so as to
be impossible except for small boats and the
railways in and about Valencia have been
washed away and partly destroyed.
Spain, Italy and southern France have
been flooded and cycloned as badly, or worse
than Great Britain. Loss OF lie ana prop
erty is reported in many localities
1t is authoritatively announced at Wash
ington that DIR. Won Holloben, German min
lister to Japan. has been appointed minister
to the United States to succeed the late Couni
Arco- Valley.
Sixty young women employed as press
feeders in the various job printing offices OF
Pittsburg, Pa, joined the strike of Job print
ers and pressmen. The strike caused sus-
pension of work IN many OF the onces.
In Newton county. Tex, much timber r, is
burning, destroyed BY forest hres. Inc
country is so dry from long protracted droutn
that grave apprehension is felt. The smoke
Is SO dense that a person cannot see hve feel
ahead.
In 1862 Great Britain and Brazil had case
much resembling our present quarfel VIII
Chill, when England made repriSals oy cap
| turing Brazilian vessels. Diplomatic rela,
| tions between the two nations were suspended
| for two years.
The celebrated leaning tower at Saragossa,
| 1.-THE tower of Felipe, which leans about nine
feet out of perpendicular, and 30 wei kno ols5
| to foreign sight-seers), has been undermineu
| by the gathering waters and threatens 20 TO-
| tally collapse.
AT an alliance rally in Buckshot, Union
county, Ark, politics became red hot ana
| the meeting resolved itself into free ngnt,
/ during which shotguns and Wlnchesters
! played an important part, five men being
| killed and several wounded.
The ''SaIton," the new lake in Arizona, in
| the Colorado desert, is rapidly disappearing
| from evaporation, the supply from the Color
| ado river being diverted by natural causes
/ back into the river channel after running IN q
/ small side stream a few miles.
DISPATCHES from Russia tell of anti-Jewish
| riots in various places. In TchernigoH fifty
| Jews were killed and hundreds were wounded.
| The forests are full of Jewish refugees who
are dying of starvation: The car has sent
| commission to inquire into the facts
W. n. Biddle succeeds Frank McGrath as
| president of the Kansas state alliance, hav-
| ing been chosen at the Salina meeting. Nc
Grath was not a candidate. The final vote
stood, Biddle 81, Utley SO. The old VICE
president ana secretary were reelected.
Meirengen, in the canton of Berne, Swift
| erland, has been almost entirely wiped Out
| of existence by fire. The Victoria hotel and
! Wlldermann's hotel are the only two struc-
| lures to mark the situation of this once pros
| porous country resort of 5000 inhabitants.
The Franklin street car stables at Evans
| vile, Ind, are burned, entalling loss OF
| $50 600. Seventeen cars were burned, to-
| gether with fifty-three mules. Cooks beer
| depot and hall were also destroyed, as also
were several frame dwellings block away
The 125th anniversary of American Metho-
| dism celebrated with appropriate ser
vices in the Old John Street Methodist hplS-
| copal church, New York city, the hrst church
of that denomination established IN tins
country. Many clerRymen from all parts oil
the country and abroad were present
The NJ, K. ct. R. R. Co. removed a part
of it's general offices force from Sedalla t.
Parsons. nut Attorney General Ives, of Kan
sas. notified President Cross, OF the Katy
that partial removal of the offices to Far
SONS will not be satisfactory to the state o.
Kansas. The removal must he complete be
says, or suit will be brought against the COM
pany to annul its charter.
Forest fires are raging in Monroe county
Ark. in many instances fields having been
burned, and cotton pens, with their contents
have been consumed. involving great loss
No rain has fallen in two months, and th'
autumnal leaves are making distressing
CONFEDERATION. The smoke from the Iores
fires is almost uncomfortable, which, with the
excess of dust, makes the atmosphere SUMO
eating.
The Cork riots continue without much lie
mn. Heads are broken with olackthoFni
UPON every occasion, and occasion Is eageFl!
sought by both parties. During one tunpit
when everybody was hunting head TO hit
OIBrien stood on a jaunting car taking
when his opponent, O'Connor, made his wa!
to the car and the two then locked arms anC
PASSED through the crowd. This quelled Tn
| fighting for a time.
American flour which was imported int
Chill during the civil war at great expense
sold then for over $50 per sack and now
cannot be sold for So. American hay, which
was imported at an expense of SO ton, II
now replaced by Chllian hay, which sells a
from Sc TO IS ton. There are some car
goes still on the way from foreign countries
and some merchants have been Iorcet
TO cable the consignors asking upon VIVA
terms they will take back the goods now II
stock.
Being asked by the president, Secretar
Tracy sad he could, in ninety days, send t
fine South Pacific the Philadelphia, kear
sarge and Concord. of Rear Admiral Ghera
di's command; the Chicago, Atlanta an
Pennington, of Acting Rear Admiral Walk
er,s: the Newark, now fitting out at Boston
and the Petrol, at New York. The Bait
more, already at Valparaiso; the San Fran
CISCO at Callao; the Boston ana YORKTOWN
en- route there; the Hantic on her way an
the Thetis, Ranger and Mohican, at Sa
Francisco. would give fleet OF sixteen eel
yiceabls ships.