Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-03-05

Is szhiblt At ths Chicago far.
near Rock ford. Col. and a high wind soon
covered the country with hire for miles along
the santa re road
Trinidad and Ration citizens have a gang
OF Msucen horse thieves and desaeradoes
enrralled IN an adobe near Maxwell City. A
desperate hight was expected
Colonel Richard O'Bierne. colonel of tho
LWenty-1rst Infantry, u. ). A., lately in
cosnmand at Fl Sheridan, lies dead at the
New York hotel. New York He was east on
leave Of absence
Queen. Victoria is said 70 have been very
angry when she learned that her daughter
the ex-enpress of Germany, had been prac-
ncaily turned out of Paris.
'-Ihe Harbor;'' the second of the Darkest
England food and shelter depots, has been
opened under the auspices of General Booth
IA the heart OF the Drury Lane slums OF
London
The New York City board of aldermen
passed a resolution naming the triangular
eraces Seventy third street aud the boulevard,
-Sherman Place." in memory of the late
general
snow slide buried tho boarding house of
tns Bullion King mine Mt Crested Butte, Col
orado- Several persons were still under the
snow. with many workers trying TO get to
them. at the last dispatch.
Anna Dickinson is insane and has been
taken to asylum
Three hundred and fifty Durham, England,
strikers have been fined $3.50 each for quit
ting without notice.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, says that
as soon Is the force bill is surely buried he
viii send special message TO the legislature
suggestlr an appropriation for the worlds
fair. His figure is 100000.
Something of blizzard prevailed through
out Nebraska last week Advlces from points
IN the west are to the effect that snow fell
rapidly, the wind blowing gale. Tho cuts
are hiling and the railroads are having great
dlr1euity in keeping the tracks OPEN
The Empress Frederick arrived at Dover
from Calais AID was enthusiastically received.
The arrival of the yacht was announced by
salyos OF artillery, anu when the imperial
visitor stepped ashore she was heartily
cheered BY the crowd present.
Governor Hill. of New York. has declined
70 honor a Connecticut reQuIsition for an al
legged criminal, bearing the signature of Nor
gan c. Buckley, on the ground that he did
not recognize Mr.. Bulkley as governor of
the state of Connecticut
Mrs p. r. Caffrey, wife of an Omaha nc
chanic, has received notice of the death of
her father at Bradford, England, and that
she is the sole heir of his fortune of ST5, OOO,-
600 She was disoWne1 by her father ten
years ago for her marriage
for the victims of the Spring Hill mining
disaster in Nova Scotia. Steps are being
taken in London. Glasgow, and other leading
cities TO raise funds for the victims, many
OF whom have relatives in Great Britain
Serious damage has been done by floods to
railroad and other property in the southern
portion Of California Several big bridges
were carried away, while large gaps were
made in tracks in many places. The
through lines suspended tho sale Of tickets
for week
On the Twelfth street steps of the new city
hall at St. Louis. now in course OF erection,
will be a pedestal for equestrian statue,
the subject for which has not yet been Sc
lected- IL Is now proposed to have an eques-
trian statue of General Sherman placed upon
the PEDESTAL
The Pail Mall Gazette. appropos Of the
vote on Welsh disestabIshment. points that
they ara the 7S5.0OO dissenters in Wales as
against only 1t, 600 members of the Church
of England The absurdity of the existing
situation is made manifest by consideration
of these figures
Twice recently Mr.. Gladstone left parlia-
nent, Immediately after making n speech
Il Is said that he was fatigued. but It Is evil
dent that he can no Longer be depended upon
20 lead the party throdgh an all night sitting.
and this IS emineutly important function
of English political leadership.
The waters of the Ohio river rose sixteen
feet in six days, at Cincinnati; the Tennessee
at CHATTANOOGA rose thirteen feet IN Tour
days; the Cumberland at Nashville three feet
IN three days; the Mississippi at St. Louis
i've feet in one day. An immense food down
the last-narned river must result.
All but two buildings in Yuma have gone
down with the flood; these are the Southern
Pacific hotel and the penitentiary. The water
just touched the stnngers of the great bridge
when at its height. In order to prevent the
bridge from being carried away by the freight
depot being set ahoat, the building was blown
up with dynamite.
Yuma, Arizona, at last accounts, was
doomed to certain aud speedy Destruction
The last news a statement by a telegraph
operator that he was forced to leave his key,
as the building would be gone IN few min
utes- The railroad bridge there, 500 teet
long, was about to CO. The town OF 100
people Is probably washed away.
The pope has informed the propaganda
that he is exceedingly displeased with the
last nominations for bishop made in the
United States~and sent Tor the approval OF
his holiness This explains the delay IN
e making the appointments which, according
to a previous announcement, were to be
made on Thursday, February II
Three hundred immigrants left Illinois for
Iowa and Nebraska the same day, half of
them from Mclean county. There were
three trains of thIrty-three cars each, Of
which seven were passenger coaches at the
start from Bloomington Nine more cars
we're added at other points. The greater
The widow of the late Emperor Frederick.
OF Germany has been visiting Paris Her
prssence there caused demonstrations of dis
approval which became serious. The French
minister of the interior warned the German
ambassador of danger and suggested the
dowager's early and secret departure Pres
ident Carnot dared not call on the empress
on account OF public opinion.
The Missouri valley horticultural society
held largely attended meeting at Kansas
City. There was a discussion which brought
out the fact that the recent storm, as far as
known, had not injured the fruit prospects
for thu coming season. All held that the
weather had not been cold enough for injury
to trees or plants, and that there Is now every
indication for large crop of fruit through
cut Missouri and Kansas.
Over thirty of the principal type founders
of the United States have combined with a
capital of $1,000, 600. Wholesale cutting Of
the price of type has been the rule, and, ow-
ing to this plants of printers have been de
ereaslng in value, enabling new firms to put
IN entirely new plants at half the cost Of
new plants in before the decentralization Of
prices. The combine is in the interest of c.
tablished printing Offices
GENERAL MARKETS.