Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-11
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=, Ths Itata serimage seems likely to be set.
tied by the canOns of the courts instead OF |
oy th9 Dig guns OF the feet
Secretary Blaine stopped one day in Bos-
ton on the way to Bar Aarbor, where he is |
now, at his summer house
Railroad men are all busy predicting that
there will be difficulty IN securing cars
enough to move the dig grain crop in the
The wind blsw hurricane IL Susa valley,
sardinia a large number of houses were
blown over and nine persons were killed and
many injured.
Natertown. South Dakota, and vicinity eK-
/ perlenced a cyclone with hail and rain, which
did much damage At Hazel, sixteen miles
southwest, three people where killed.
East st. Louis lost three dwelling houses
a factory, and Uther buildings by a cyclone.
During the week ended May 25, the pen
SION Office issued 5.e59 pension certificates of
/ al classes, the average first payment on each
amounting to Sll5.Ol.
Orders have been sent from Washington to
| the revenue cutter Corwin, At San Francisco,
to be IN readiness to start for Behring sea on
days notice.
At sabina. o., the Friends church was
| wrecked by the wind. At Xenia, o., some
damage was done. At Salem, O., lightning
struck the Presbyterian church.
| Lightning caused terrible explosion at
/ dynamite factory at Schlebusch, near Solin-
! gen, Germany. Several persons were killed
and many were injured
Lake Superior was rolling mountain high
| during the late general storm, with many
vessels outside of harbors. Losses of life
and properly seem to be certain.
General Schoield reached Chicago Sun
| day. and will inspect Fort Sheridan He
will go west to inspect Forts Leavenworth
and Riley and other military posts.
The bill providing for the issuing of an or
der IN council for the close of the season IN
the Behring sea seal fisheries passed its third
reading in the house of commons
Sir George Stephens. president of the Ca
| madam Pacific railroad. has been raised to
the peerage. This is the first instance of
native of British colony being made peer.
The first report of the beginning of harvest
IN Kansas comes from Milan, Sumner county.
= The secretary of the treasury has called IN
| about $4,000 from the various depository
banks; to be sent to the treasury by June 80.
The NJ, K. & T. goes out of the receiver
ship on July !, when 1t returns to the control
of the stockholders; SO Receiver Eddy is re-
| ported as saying.
]. 1. Hazzad is appointed general agent of
the AtchIson-' Frisco hines, with headquarters
at the City of Mexico, vice H L. Parker, re-
signed, the appointment becoming effective
June l.
Major General John NJ. Schofeld, COM
mander-in-chief of the army of the United
States, and Miss George Kilbourne. of keo-
kuk, Iowa. are to be married at keokuks
June L.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
/ that pOlygamists belong In the debarred class
of immigrants. and has directed that they
be detained and returned to their native
country.
Minister Price, of Hayti, has received a
dispatch from Port au Prince, which states
I hot he afaafl NH ah hrrrl 10 ont m
18th of March has been suppressed and forty
of the rebels executed.
The central rubber trust has been dissolved.
The combination included the principal rub
Der firms or the country, but it Is charged
that a few used it to their own advantage,
while others suffered
revolution has broken out at Port Au
Prince, Hayti. The dispatch adds that a
| state of siege has been proclaimed at Port
| Au Prince. A French ironclad has been sent
to the scene of the disturbance.
1t is reported that Bill Wyatt, alias ''Six
Shooter Jack" who murdered the telegraph
operator at Horton, l. T.. last fall. has been
arrested in the Antelope hills, in the south
western corner of the Cherokee outlet.
DIR. John B. Hamilton, surgeon general of
the marine hospital service, has resigned that
Office and accepted the position of professor
of the principles of surgery and surgical
pathology IN Rush medical college, Chicago.
The convention of the Peoples party of
Iowa nominated a full state ticket. The
platform adopted demands the establishment
of the Australian ballot system, faVors state
reforms and ratihes the Cincinnati platform.
/ Two distinct companies, or syndicates, are
, planning to enter upon immense irrigation
oDerations in western Kansas. They each
control large capital and are both negotiat-
ing for much land held now by loan COM
panies.
: At Los Angeles, Cal, the Norton house, a
| he
5 of Hill and Seventh streets. an adjoining cot
tage, a two-story dwelling and the Church of
! the Trinity were totally destroyed by ire.
: Otal loss about 100000; insurance small.
= At Latonia, Ohio, 1000 people were on the
3 grand stand to view the races. Binding
sheets of water driven by a forty miles an
| hour wind drenched everybody. The wind
{ rocked the structure and caused stampede,
. and it is wonder that OF the many hurts
I there were none very serious
At the conclusion of a ball game at Brad
ford. Pa, the wooden bridge across luna
creek gave way under the crush OF people,
: precipitating zoo men and boys into the
creek. Six persons were quite seriously IN,
T iured and a great many others received
slight hurts and severe shaking up.
There was great rejoicing at FL Reno over
the decision of the commissioner of the gen.
s eral land Office at Washington, awarding
q Major Foreman his claim, on which FL Reno
q with many speeches. Major Foreman an
> | nounced that he would begin executing war
rantee deeds to town lots June 10.
There is a row at Atchison over charges
brought that the bridge company charged
the Missouri Pacific only about half the
rates that other roads have had to pay, and
that the Santa Fe for the past year has en-
q joyed special privileges 1t is also stated that
| the Rock Island will soon begin proceedings
= against the bridge company to recover S4O,-
600 overcnarges.
The memorial programme in New York
| city included services at the tomb of General
> Grant, in Riverside park, under the dlrec-
- ton of U. S. Grant post OF Brooklyn. HE
u United States man-of-war Enterprise was
I, | anchored in tho Hudson river opposite the
tomb and fired minute guns during the con-
tlnuance of the services A number of ex-
- confederate soldiers were present as guests
of the day. including Ex-Governor John y
:: Wise, of Virginia, who delivered the Grafton
A Chicago dispatch says: Over half the
United States was simultaneously covered
; with water. and the edge of the great spot OF
|, wet was ravaged by a cyclone. The condi-
J, ton of telegraph wires north, south, easi
and west from this city showed a state oil
> affairs seldom. if ever, equalled. Soaking
, rains were in progress accompanied with DIV
ing winds to New York on one side. to New
Orleans on the other, stretching beyond st
Paul and Minneapolis to the north, and IN
z the west for an indefinite distance