Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-03-12
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Arsentine has bat 4,ooo.Oeo people and but
Ao0os 600 acres IN cultivation
Meueans In the Vermijo valley, New Mex
sc, 60 have warned all whites to leave ''or take
ne conseq uences."
Alsso1zl now has les colored peOpls. to
Stery .0osO1O OF population In 1850 she had
t1.-Ql n every 1oo.O00
Parusn Will form a political fund apart
<ron that for tenants, and his American
-noae4 seekers viii collect for both
English capitalists have bought all the
mining properties of the lower part Of Aspen
mountain n California; paying SIT 100000.
-Four Delaware ex-state treasurers, cover
nag the period from 1875 to 1891, have sworn
they had never seea the missing state secur-
No material change as yet in the result of
tne qAllE ballot in the joint convention OF
the AAnois legislature The democrats stick
% falmer and the othors scatter and vary.
:. The first Of q series Of meetings to be held
throughout the country by union prisoners
OF the war. to raise money for memorial
1ail at Washington, has been held in New
The president has appointed c. p. Walker,
OF Oklahoaa, and Y. i. Bayne, Of Ann Ar
oor, MICA special agents to make allotments
OF lands IN severalty to the Sac and Fox In
Judge MARITIME. in the court of general ses-
SONS New York. imposed hne OF $50 on
: az Gooed for not answering a summons to
serve as petit juror 1t being his second
onanse-
The farming lands of England are mort
gagged to nearly 20 per cent Of their Value
II the Kansas legislature persists IN driving
ne Live Stock Exchange out of the state,
missouri Will be glad enough to receive It
and viii gladly assist it TO jump over the line
kansas City, No. Journal.
An immense eight hour meeting bas been
included workingmsn from all the Industries
IN the city. A resolution was adopted favor
ing the eight hour day.
Over $50 houses at Yuma, A. T., are in
ruins from the food ana ], 400 people are
homeless. Not single business house re-
mains standing and it is feared that hundreds
OF lives has been lost in the ella valley.
The French chamber of deputies has de-
cidso TO suppress every kind of betting on
rates The decision has caused a tremendous
sensation among spOrtsmen.
c. c. Christie. Of the firm of Christie
aew days ago. has addressed circular letter
70 the creditors offering to settle for 80 cents
on the dollar
The long strike of the coal miners of the
Monongahela valley has ended in a complete
victory for the men. The strike lasted ten
over s.. O0OO 600.
Parnells reiteration of assurances to the
lrish people that by supporting him they
would ultimately bring about the surrender
OF the Gladstoniaus Is resented keenly by
English liberal leaders.
Mckee proposes to exhibit at the Column
otan exposition representation of the City
oI Geueo, with streets, buildings, canal,
temples, Indians, &c, as existing at the time
OF the conquest by COrteZ-
The lower house of the Nebraska legisla-
ture has meLnorialized congress to pass such
laws as may be necessary to transfer rail
roads aud telegraph lines to the possession
Of the general government.
The Colorado legislature tied a q string to
ehear appropriation OF S15O. 600 Tor the worlds
lair oy making 1t conditional that the con-
trol and management of the fair shall be by
ehe United States exclusively.
On the Tooth anniversary of the death of
John Wesley, a statue erected in his honor
was unveiled IN the presence of large con-
course OF people in front of the City Road
chapel London, Eng, the headquarters of
the Mesleyans-
Governor Hill, of New York, has refused a
second requisition from Governor Bulkley, of
Connectleuti assumes authority to decide
the contest for tho Office in the latter state
and deciding that Buckley is not governor
thereof lawfully.
Governor Boyd. of Nebraska, has sent his
attorney to Washington, d. c., to endeavor
to have his contest case removed to the su-
preme court of the United States on the
ground that his citizenship or non-citiZen-
ship involves federal question.
There are eight Iarge,baclsing house, plants
In Kansas City KAN, which, during the last
twelve months, have been enlarged by the
erection OF fourteen mammoth buildings, IN
volving an outlay of $4,000 and providing
Tor an increase OF nearly 1850 men en-
ploysd.
For the past ten years France has been
paying shipping bounties amounting to about
&, Coz, GOO per annum, and since 1885 Ger
many has pad over 8, 100000 annually to
the North German Lloyd for its Mediterra-
mean and East Indian postal service Eng
lands subsidies are on yet more generous
scale.
The Christie Lathrop Commission COM
pany, OF Kansas City, No, one of the larg-
est concerns of its kind west of Chicago,
with branches at st. Joseph, Mo-, Leaven-
worth, Atchlsons Topeka, Hutchinson,
Wichita and Emporia, Kan, and Lincoln,
Beatrice and Omaha, Neb-, has made an
assignment.
Business in Chill is generally suspended.
The coast towns have been deserted to a
large extent by the citizens. who have taken
to the hills, fearing a bOmbardment. The
running of trains on the various railroads
has been almost entirely stopped. 1t Is
rumored that Santiago is threatened with
NdLer famine.
According to the census report the total
amount of real estate mortgages in Iowa in
force January l, 1890, was S199, 034, 957. The
average amount of debt to one of population
is $l04- In 1889 the number of acres mort
gagged IN Iowa was 3.24O, 432; total number
OF acres in the state, BE, so, 600; per cent of
acres mOrtgaged. 81.
A provincial governor in Madagascar
got mad at his people for demonstrating
against his cruelties and had 27S indiscrlm-
inately slaughtered. Their heads were sawn
on and their bodies thrown to the dogs
Many of the women were outraged. The
survivors were forced to erect trophy COM
posed of the heads of the victims
The abandonment of the military post in
southern Arizona has created great alarm in
the territory, as a rising of the Indians is
feared A bill has been introduced in the
Arizona legislature declaring the Indians
who left the San Carlos agency with arms in
their possession outlaws aid Offeringa reward
of 500 fer each Indian killed upon whom az
the coroner's inquest arms shall be found.
After the adjournment of the house of
representatives, at noon Of March 4, the hall
and galleries being filed, the singers of the
republican side. the singers of the demo-
iery, in turn filed the hall with the music
Of SONGS. They sang .fNarchrng Through
Georgia" The Doxology," ''Our Father
land, '.John Browns BODY Good Bye,
Ny Lover. Good Bye" and other chorus
songs- This impromptu musicale held the
crowds for some time