Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-02

stroyed will amount to $4,000.
Storms during the past few days have done
thousands of dollars worth OF damage IN
Canton, Ohio, and the surrounding country.
The entire southern portion OF Canton was
submerged.
The German-Jewish Emigration company
declines to send Jewish exiles to Palestine
instead of to America, on the ground that to
undertake to palate will not solve the Jew
ish problem.
Miss Helen Clark, the Biackfoot Indian
woman recently appointed special allotting
agent, has finished allotting the lands of the
Tonkawa Indians, and will next visit the
Poncas and Pawnees-
Myriads of hop lice have appeared in the
Puyallup valley hop fields in Washington
state and threaten to destroy the hop crop of
the entire valley.
The Monroe doctrine may have an appli-
cation to affairs in Hayti. European powers
are whispering about interfering to stop the
barbarous practices of Hyppolyte.
The Christian University at Nevada, No.,
has been sold to satisfy debt of $4,000.
1t went very cheap to parties who held the
mortgage.
The Parnell and the O'Shea are married
at last.
Typhoid fever is raging at Valley Falls,
I
six persons are down with the disease. The
cause of the epidemic has been traced to
| contaminated well.
1t is again rumored that Mrs. John A:
Logan is soon to marry George E. Lemon,
the millionaire pension agent. Mrs. Logan
is said to have given hint of her purpose to
a few friends before she sailed for Europe
some weeks ago. Lemon himself has now
gone to Europe and before sailing made no
secret of his intention to join Mrs. IOgan's
party and travel about the continent with
them. A marriage abroad is looked for.
Box Elder, COL, has had a cloud burst and
a cyclone. Several houses were wrecked
and several persons injured.
Harvard won the four mile boat race over
Yale at New London.
A heavy rain and wind did considerable
damage in the upper end of New York city.
| One person was injured.
The Worlds Fair directors have decided
to place the art palace in Jackson park.
| This finally shuts out the lake front as
partial site for the fair.
A strike is threatened at st. Joseph, Mo-,
| because the company has demanded bonds
from the conductors on street cars.
The tribunal of the Seine sentenced
| German named Schneider to five years i'm
prisonment for taking photographs OF
| French Notifications. The trial took place
with closed doors.
Five society young people were floating
in a boat on the river at Cincinnati when
they were run into by passing barge. All
| were drowned.
The coffee crop of Brazil is very light this
year, the result of Reorganization of labor.
A grand reouium mass was celebrated IN
! the city of Mexico for ex-Emperor MaxiInil-
ian and the two generals, Mexia and Mira
mon, who were shot with him, on the twenty
| fourth anniversary of their death
A servant girl visited the geological gar
| dens at Frankfort, Germany, and, unseen by
| any one, took of her clothing and jumped
/ into the bear pit. Her mangled body was
found in the pit next morning. a-
Few American tourists are now in Rome.
/ The shopkeepers complain OF their losses by
| reason of the dIverting of American travel
occurring in the height of the season. Many
of the shopkeepers say their losses have been
very great.
While banquet of 142 covers was in pro-
| gress at Baird college, at Clinton, Mo-, light
| ming struck the building, No one was hurt
| and the damage to the building was slight.
This is the second time lightning has struck
the college.
The supreme court of Indiana has rem
! dered decision to the effect that German
| must be taught in the public schools when a
| petition signed by twenty-five or more resi-
| dents of any school district is presented to
| the commissioner.
President Barrillas, of Guatemala, is tax
| ing care of his own bank account regardless
| of the national treasury. He has sold So,
600, 900 of bonds, instead of the 81, 0OO, 600 he
was authorized to sell, and pocketed the
| money.
Prince George, of Greece, who accom-
| panied the czarowitz on his tour around the
| world, arrived at San Francisco June .
| from Yokohama on the steamer Gaelic. He
will proceed by way of New York to London
and st. Petersburg.
A tornado at Cairo, Ill, did considerable
damage, unroofing great many houses. tear
ING no trees by the roots, blowing them across
railroad tracks and knocking wires down.
Z. NJ. Lass, the derrick boat, was blown
from the banks across the river onto the
sandbar.
Mr.. Parnell's secretary, Henry Campbell,
NJ p, has been awarded $1,000 damages
against the Cork Herald, which paper said
that while other members of parliament
were attending to their duties, Mr.. Campbell
was hiring houses for immoral purposes Tor
Mr.. Parnell.
great many towns suffered much loss in
the late floods in Iowa and Nebraska, but
about the most complete destruction was at
MovIlle, Iowa, which is completely gone,
and out of forty or fifty houses only one has
been left standing. The people got most OIL
their goods out of the way of the flood, but
the homeless crowd of unfortunates are
camping out in the fields.
The floods reported from Iowa also COW
cred a great portion of Nebraska. There
were three washouts between Fremont and
Lincoln. The heavy rainfall lasted twelve
hours, and was accompanied by an electrl-
cal storm; very severe at some points: Ihere
are several cases reported of loss of life bott
by lightning and by drowning.