Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-04
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theatres G in Southern 2 coioradO is destroyed
by fire.
Arkansas has state convention for the
promotion of the worlds fair, to meet Au-
gust 5.
The Bank of England has reduced It's pre-
MUM on American gold and shipments
slacken up.
A special cable to the San Francisco Bulle-
tin announces the arrival of the Charleston
at CalIao. Peru
The first governor of the state of Nebraska,
Davis Butler, died at his home in Pawnee
City, aged 60 years.
The agents of the Gillian insurgents an
nounce that the congressional party has con-
cluded treaty of friendship with Bolivia
A vein of natural gas has been struck on
farm near Champaign, III.
The Illinois senate has passed the worlds
fair bill appropriating S1,0OO,0OO.
General Gordon has issued an appeal, I'D
dressed to the ex-confederates of the south,
for funds for the Jefferson Davis monument.
All the union tailors of Aspen, Col, have
gone on strike, owing to the employment
OF number of scabs in the large emporium.
Owing to the intervention of the governs
ment the strike of the Paris stage drivers i
at an end, the stages running and the drivers
| victorious.
The controlling interest in the Salt Lake
| Herald has passed into gentle hands and
| becomes democratic. This was the organ of
| the Mormon church.
Sir John McDonaid's condition is very low.
At the Presbyterian general assembly, DIR.
Herrlck johnson reported favorably on re-
| hglous exhibit at the worlds fair.
Secretary Foster says that he anticipates
10 difficulty in meeting the quarterly pen
SION payments, aggregating S26,OOO,OOOO,
which falls due June 4.
The wife of lieutenant on the Chicago
| police force died from poison communicated
/ from the coloring of black kid gloves to
needle prick on her finger.
The statement that a revolution has broken
out IN the province of Cordova, Argentine,
/ is confirmed. There was fling in the streets
| OF CordoVa, the capital of the province.
James Gordon Bennett is about to start
newspaper IN the Congo country, Africa.
Decoration day was never SO generally OBJ
served as this year, throughout this entire
| country. In Kansas it was universally OBJ
served.
Fire destroyed the ]. W. Seton butter dish
| factory at Anderson, Ind, entaillng a loss of
$4,000 on building and stock. Insurance,
S29, 300.
Twenty three hundred and forty immi-
/ grants were landed at the New York barge
| Office IN one day last week. of whom 1,O6S
were Italians.
1t has been practically decided at Wash
ington to extend the Al per cent loan at
| per cent and to give the holders of these
bonds the necessary ninety days notice.
In addition to large local, private subscrip-
tons for the relief of needy sufferers by the
| cyclone there, Audrain county, No., county
commissioners have appropriated $2,5Oo.
There are $50 families at Scottdale, Pa,
| who are homeless and destitute; living in
| sheds and coal houses. They are the coke
| strikers who have been evicted. Aid is So
hclted to relieve their wants.
Sergeant A. NJ. Wagg, of the signal service,
Is soon-wlthln two or three weeks-to go on
tine retired list OF the army. j. H. Button,
| OF Emporla, Kansas. has been appointed to
the place thus to be made vacant.
1t is reported that a man named Whit
| man was killed by Indians on the Blue river,
in Arizona, and also that family was kill
cd on Eagle creek. A man named Camp
bell was killed on the Monangala mountains.
The River miners of the Plttsburg district
have withdrawn from the Federation of La
Dor to unite with the Knights of Labor. This
| action was taken on account of the back
down of the federation on the eight hour
question.
Judge Thornell has enjoined the officials
of Council Bluffs from levying liquor fines
on the ground that the proceeding implied a
license to sell liquor. This Is the first case
under the Iowa laws where this question has
been raised.
!. Dispatches from Lorenzo Marques, on the
eastern coast of Africa, report further des-
| perate fighting between the British and POr-
tuguese on the banks of Bernie, in which
the Portuguese were defeated with a large
| loss of life.
1t is asserted upon the authority OF Mr..
Webb, third vice president, that the New
| YORK Central Railroad company will bridge
the st. Lawrence river from Cape Vincent to
| Wolfe Island and from Wolfe Island to
Kingston.
James g. Blaine during his confinement
| at his daughters homo, in New York, every
day carried on the work of his department.
His dictated diplomatic dispatches were for
warded to the president regularly. He has
now gone to Bar Harbor
The White house contains portraits of the
ex-presldents of the United States. To this
| gallery of the country's greatest men has
just been added a life sized OIL painting of
| ex-President Cleveland, made by a New
York artist named johnson.
The evicted tradesmen of Tipperary have
accepted the landlords terms and have been
| reinstated in their shops. There was a gen
eral holiday in Tpperary in celebration of
the settlement of the disputes, which includes
those of the Smith-Barry tenant farmers.
The commissioners of the Chicamauga
| National park report that the owners of the
| land hold it much above the congressional
| appropriation. The commissioners will be-
gin condemnation proceedings and attain
title for the government in that manner.
The we'll known Jewish financier, Herr
Goldberger, director of the international
bank, of Berlin, who recently arrived at
Moscow, Russia, to establish branch of the
Berlin house, was ordered by the police
to quit the the city in twenty -four hours.
The farmers union convention of Ohio
met at Columbus and decided not to place e
state ticket in the field. The convention was
composed of delegates of all the farmers Or
CARNATIONS of the state, including the differ
ent branches of the alliance, the grange, etc.
Sophie, sister of the German kaiser, and
wife of the crown prince of Greece, has
changed her allegiance from the German
Lutheran TO the Orthodox Greek church.
The kaiser is much offended. and writes 10
her that he cannot longer look upon her as
his sister.
J. S. T. Milligan, of Jackson county, Kan
sas. and n. NJ. Johnson, of Topeka, minis
tiers of the Reformed Presbyterian church,
have charges preferred against them in the
general assembly of that church, at Pittsburg,
Pa. They demand the right to exercise the
privilege of citizens in voting.
President Eliot, of Harvard, demonstrates
his dense ignorance of the rural population
of the west by saying: ''The great majority