Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-08-13
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OOul DAIOS hut lcIOE Oh DIELils nN1
suffered relapse and is again confined to
his bed
The sale of the Paris Gaulois has been pro-
hibited by the German authorities of Alsace-
Lorraine.
It is said that there are now twenty-five
ships of war under construction in Russian
shipyards.
Willis Menard, the first colcred congress-
man. is now clerk in the census bureau at
$40 per annum.
Chicago has defaulted on payments on big
funds IN the treasury.
The Grinnell, Ia. cart factory and a num-
Der of adjoining buildings have been burned.
Loss, S75. 600.
A consignment of American melons has
been sent to Liverpool.
Bernard Kelley, the Kansas pension agent.
was on the committee on resolutions at the
Detroit encaInpment.
Farmers around Bellbrook, o., are losing
hundreds of hogs by cholera, which prevails
in the Little Miami river region.
The Bank of Van Dieman's Land has sus-
pended. Its paid up capital is e250, 900, and
It's reserve capital amounts to an equal sum.
Robert p. Murray is held at Louisville,
hyss charged with the murder OF Sister Of
Mercy at Emporia, Kansas, some time ago.
At Comanche, Iowa, August 6, H. w.
Eastys saw mill and lumber yards. miller's
residence and (. c. Lum's barns were burned.
Loss, $4,000.
The Lockport, N. Y. aluminium works
have reduced the price of that metal to so
cents a pound in ton lots. This puts it in
competition with copper.
The wholesale price of granulated sugar,
as result of cutting begun by Spreckies
and met by the sugar tIust, is 1892 net per
100 pounds IN Philadelphia.
The queen has prorogued parliament. In
her speech she referred to negotiations with
the United States about the seal fisheries,
and said that they were not completed.
The largest and longest rolls of tin plate
ever made are now produced at Apollo, Pa.
The plate is Of the best steel full coated with
TIN, redipped. and is without blemish.
Lake treights from Chicago to Buffalo
have been advanced 3 cents on grain.
In Honey county, Alabama, four negroes,
two men and two women, were under arrest
on the charge of arson, and while they were
being taken to jail a mob shot the four to
death.
The Madrid (oficial) Gazette publishes a
decree promulgatIng the new treaty between
the United States and Spain in regard to
trade between the United States and Cuba
and Porto Rico.
1t is understood at Washington that the
taw and Chickasaw claim case and instructed
the treasury to issue warrants for the amount,
nearly 100000.
Pork took a tumble in the Chicago gam
bling den, almost amounting to a panic.
The drop was checked, however, when the
price had run down so cents on barrel.
Other pork products went down.
When the panic occurred in pork products
in Chicago all the grain pits got excited and
a general slump seemed certain for awhile;
but the market rallied in time to check the
falling tide, leaving betting prices only q
little lower.
very large portion of the $50, 900 of
fractional silver on hand at Washington IS
made up OF halves. This is the lot which
Secretary Foster was so anxious to get rid OF
and about which he talked with the New
York bankers when he made his visit there.
A reported discovery at Eureka Springs,
Ark, of a rich vein of silver at depth OF
ten feet, running through solid rock, causes
local excitement. The mineral has been
found by assayers to be very rich, and the
development of the mine Will follow at once.
Carefully prepared statistics of the sugar in
dustry Of Cuba shows that in five years from
1886 to 1890, inclusive. the productions OF sugar
and molasses was 3, 9S7, 128 tons. The exports
from 1880 to 1880 were 6s351, 139 tons, OF
which about 81 per cent. was sent to the
United States.
Miss Maggie Blaine, neice of Secretary
Blaine, was seriously injured at Washington
by jumping from carriage while the morse
attached 70 it was beyond the control OF the
driver. Miss Blaine, in her fall. struck head
foremost upon the pavement, causing con-
cussion of the brain.
Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, is at De-
troit; Lieutenant Governor Majors Is away
somewhere, location unknown; President OF
the Senate POynter threatens to assume the
Office IN their absence and call an extra ses-
s,Ek te 1arrielafnnra ffhHFg 4 a manic IN
Lincoln in consequence.
The Weeks house, an old landmark of
Palmer, Mass. has burned. There were
about thirty-6ve guests in the house and they
had barely time to escape In their nlght
clothes Rev. Mr.. Williams, retired Con
gregational minister, was burned to DEATH
The guests lost all their personal Effects
The Diario Centric America, printed in
Guatemala. claims that the family of the I'M
fortunate General Barrundia, who was killed
aboard of a Pacific Mail steamship IN the
port of San j. se de Guatemala by soldiers,
has won its claim against the United States
and will be paid $500, COO indemnlhcation-
AS a crowded passenger train on the Denver
& Rio Grande road was passing cut a land
slide. nearly a quarter of mile In length,
came down the side of the mountain into the
cut, sweeping the train from the track ana
nearly burying portion OF IL. Inc pdssSn-
gers were badly frightened, but luckily none
The great food at Melbourne stopped bust
ness and rendered 1900 people homeless.
Factories and railroad tracks and buildings
were submerged. At least ten lives were lost.
In the interior washouts and floods did great
damage. great number OF sheep were
drowned. Much sickness prevails, attributed
to exposure.
Assistant Attorney General Tyner says
that an investigation had shown the Home
Fascination company" of Montreal, to be a
fraud and that orders had been issued to stop
the payment of money orders sent to that
firm The scheme has been extensively
worked and the Canadian fraud has probably
already raked in big pile of good American
dollars
Thirteen Cheyenne Indians. Chief Old
Crow leading them, started for Walker lake,
Nevada, to see the Messiah. They hope to
induce him to come and annihilate the whites
with a wave of mud. They expect the Buff
faloes to come from the north and again
cover the prairies. The Messiah dancers are
everywhere to be seen and the Messiah craze
has not by any means ceased.
Yuma correspondent says a report
brought in by the Cocopah Indians states
that the earthquake on the Both ult. resulted
in changing the course of the Colorado river.
1t left its old bed and now flows through a
creyice forty feet wide and ], OOO feet long.
The report is not generally believed, but one
result of the recent earthquake was the re-
newed activity of the volcanoes IN the Coco
nah region. The earthquake also caused 9
great tidal wave at the head OF the Gulf OF
CaIfFaruia-