Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-03-12
NEWS BREvIrIEs.

The Kansas City, Kan, stock yards re-
eeived los, 474 car loads of stock during 1880.
Two students lost their lives by the burn
ing of the high school at Monroe, n. Z.
Minister Robert Lincoln's family have ar
rived safe and well in London.
Vicksburg Miss, Is all torn up over the
prospect of having negro postmaster.
The Kansas City Stock Exchange takes the
passage of Senator Roe's bill to prohibit
combinations among purchasers OF live stock
very hard.
The American Live Stock Commission Co.
has been expelled from the Kansas City Live
Stock Exchange.
The senate republicans selected Senator
Henderson TO succeed Senator ingalls, as
president pro tenn of the ssnate.
A number of negroes have just reached
Gainesville, Texas, from Oklahoma in des-
titute condition. They had walked all the
way.
The car has had an agent in this country
studying the industry of cotton raising. He
believes that he can drive out American cot
ton from the European market by the pro
duct of Russian cotton fields.
Kansas postmasters have been appointed
as follows: Cyrus /. Nixon, Chanute; JO-
seph McCreary, Cotfeyyllle.
The national convention of republican
E4uDH HEELS llll5 az IL
The call for the meeting has already been is
sued by President John NJ. ThurstOn.
The conference of state railroad commits
sIoners have resolved that it is within the
I power of congress and state Legislatures to
| delegate the power OF reasonable regulation
of rates to the said boards of commissioners
and to make their findings upon questions of
fact, after fair. legal opportunity to be heard,
as conclusive and binding pom the courts
as the findings and acts of other admins
| trative officers.
The Parnellites and the -ParneIlites
| will send men to stump America Both sets
of men are after money.
Governor Humphrey has signed the joint
| resolution providing for a vote by the people
on the question of a constitutional conven-
/ ton. The election to decide whether we
| shall have a convention or not will be held IL
/ November, 1892. The constitution provides
/ that such an election must be held when {
l legislature is elected.
There is queer story going the rounds
that Rev. ]. @. Armstrong, who recently
/ died at Atlanta, Ga, was really j. Wilkes
Booth. When Edwin Booth was IN that city
1 he spent his leisure in Armstrong; company
1t is said his resemblance to Booth was re-
markable. he even having a gunshOt wound
/ In his leg and scar on his neck.
1t is feared that the emperor of Germany
/ viii determine upon a total reversal of his
! friendly attitude toward France.
Baron Won Wissman has whipped an Afri
can tribe. killing zoo, wounding sixty and
capturing fifty. The German loss; two killed
and fifteen wounded
The Minnesota senate wants to make tbs
wearing of tights by any female onthe stage
or in any public place of amusement, a mis-
demeanor, subject to fine and Imprisonment
An article in the North American RevieV
sets forth the population of Kansas City
Kan, according to the late census, at 30, III
that over 100 manufacturing industries ar
located IN Kansas City, Kan; that tn
amount of capital employed IN the opeTatio
ing total pr0cuct OF the value Of $39n 600.