Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-30
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South Dakota is happy over a series of
Fains that have filed up lake beds thai nave
sSsn dry for years.
Mrs. James q. Hlaine. ir., has taken up
aer residences IN Sioux Falls, s. D., in order
IS secure divorce from Jim, jr.
Blaeklsg has made its appearance among
farmer, who had 100 head ready for ship
ment. will lose half the bunch.
The Gillian war is about the most bar
barous affair of the century. The populace
are starving and in that condition are shot
down by hundreds at the smallest proVoca-
ton.
There is to be a big meeting of railway
! conductors at st. Louis, May r.
Fire destroyed 1890. 600 pounds of sugar
cane belonging to the Laberinto estate, near
Cltuentes, Cuba.
The postotice department is adyaHeinE its
plans for increased facilities for mail COM
municatlon between this country and Cen
tral and South America.
The railroads of Iowa are accommodating
as great a surplus of coal as possible, so as
to be prepared for the threatened general
strike of miners on May 1.
There is a hitch in the allotment of lands
to the Iowa indians in the territory. The
Indians claim that what is now proposed to
made.
The board of managers of the National
Soldiers Home have decided to visit the
bsavenWorth home some time in june
1t is amounted that 300 more men were
dropped from the pay rolls of the Burlington
company last week, effectiEg an additional
saving OF $2O,OOO.
Dick Liddle, one of the famous James
gang, was arrested at Richmond. Mo-, We'd
in 1874 ehHTQ-
| ing him with the murder of Wood Hite.
Sixty gold hunters on the Cherokee strip
were 6vertaken in gulch by a cIoudburst.
| They lost their horses and outfit. They were
tracking man who claimed to have found
gold.
Last year there were L. 31 strikes in Ger
many, involved 391, 440 workingmen and
women. Only 1S7 of them were successfnlf
46S were only partially successful, while the
utter failures numbered 400.
By a general strike of employees, twelve
horse car lines are tied up at Detroit. Cap
tam Burger, the chief detective, was struck
on the neck by brick thrown by one of the
malcontents and seriously injured.
Congressman h NJ. Ford died of apopiexy
at Grand Rapids, Mich. He retired in his
/ usual health at midnight, but was found IN
sensible in his bed at Z o'clock a. m and re-
manned IN that condition until his death.
1t is stated that a crazy pauper has landed
| IN New York whose passage was paid by the
| German government. 1t is beng investi-
| gated and Germany is liable to be called
upon to explain. The pauper was sent back.
Governor Penoyer, of Oregon sa id that
when the president of the United States
visits Oregon she should pay his respects to
me as its official executive. l have no busi-
ness TO go pay homage to him." HeapI
Big InJun!
The spring tide of immigrants continues
unusually large. On one day there were
| 1927 to be landed at the barge office, New
| York. Among the number were eighty
Mormons, in charge of two elders, en- route
for Utah.
The American Protective Tariff league will
hold a great banquet in New York on the
/ 29th inst. The dinner will be served on
| American linen with American china and
! glassware and all the cataoles and drinkables
! will be American products.
Some of the doctors are now saying that
| Roscoe ConklIng died of the grippe; that
similar symptoms have been since met and
| patients cured, and that Conkling's case was
not a bad one, only nobody knew then what
it was.
During the last winter the great scarcity
of grain throughout Dakota caused stock
men to dispose of their cattle at any price.
Arrangements being made to have
great number shipped from Texas and Cali
fornia at great expense.
Fire broke out in the stables of the Gal
weston, Tex, Street Railway company and
spread very rapidly and a number of the
employees sleeping in the stables narrowly
escaped with their lives. Sixteen mules
were burned to a crisp. Six cars were also
burned.
The work of the census shows that 2912 per
cent. of the population of the United States
live in cities of 5000 or more. In 1880 the
percentage was 22.57; in 1850, 12.49 per cent.
and in 1870, 3.35 per cent. Rhode Islands
1880 percentage is 1888 and that of Massa-
chusetts $3.50.
The managers of the Paris exposition had
about So, 600 900 at their command. For the
coming worlds fair in Chicago there is first
the S100O0,0 900 which that city has provided,
then 81, 500. 900 appropriated 10y the govern
ment and 100000 already promised IN
state appropriations.
The Worcester light infsntry-the lineal
descendent of the old Massachusetts Sixth,
which will be remembered as the first armed
and equipped regiment that marched to the
relief of the national capital-celebrated, IN
Baltimore, the anniversary of the massacre
of the Sixth by Baltimore rebels.
They are having more trouble with the
Hungarian and Polish coke workers IN west
ern Pennsylvania Many of them have re-
turned to work and those who still refused
were being evicted from their tenements.
The sheriff OF Fayette county again called for
militia, but the governor replied that the
civil power must be first exhausted.
At Galveston the president opened his
speech with: Weclose to- night whole week
Of travel, a whole week of Misunderstanding. a
whole week of talking. 1 have before me
/ 900 miles of hand shaking aud speaking
aud am not, by reason of what this week has
brought me, in voice to contend with the
fine, but rather strong, gulf breeze, which
pours IN upon US tonight, and yet it comes
to me with a fragrance of your welcome.
The Kansas senate is in session as a court
of impeachment to try Judge Theodosius
Botkin. This is the fourth impeachment
trial in Kansas. In 1862 the governor, sec
rotary of state and auditor were tried and
the two latter found guilty: in 1872 Judge II.
G. Webb was impeached by the house and
date fixed for his trial by the senate, but ne
resigned and the senate did not Convene; in
1874 State Treasurer Hays was tried and
found guilty.
s'The Kansas State Agricultural college
owes It's location and initiative momentum
to the pioneers of Manhattan, who, unlike
the first settlers of many western towns,
were mostly people of education and cul-
ture." So says Prof. J. d. Walters, of the
Kansas Agricultural college. Prof. Walters
is wrong. Most western towns had first set
tiers equal with those of Manhattan in the
qualities named; many, indeed. as to
make the exception the contrary of his propo-
sitlon. The professor should become better
acquainted with Kansas