Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-09-03
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

Santa Fe earnings for the second week in
August show an increase of $4,000 over
corresponding week last year.
Kansas City had hail and an earthquake
with the storm of the 2ist. 1t came on
quickly, catching swarms of ladies out shop
ping.
A call for a statehood convention, to be
held at Oklahoma City, September "a next,
has been issued by the Commercial club OF
that city.
A London dispatch says: Rains continue
IN torrents In the midland and southern
counties. Farmers have now lost all hopes
OF a harvest.
Hon. S. c. Pomeroy, ex-United States SEN
ator from Kansas, died at the residence of
Mrs. J. c. Whiten, at Whitensville, on the
morning of August q. aged 76.
Interstate Commissioners Walter L. Bragg,
OF Alabama, died at Spring Lake, n. j. The
cause of his death is not stated.
After the most exciting and vituperating
election for license or no license was carried
for license by ninety-two majority.
A typhoon which passed near Hong Kong,
doing much damage, caused the British gun
boat Tweed to break from its moorings and
sink, proving, it is stated, total loss.
The production of cloth at Fall River,
Mass, has been curtailed 10000 pieces dur
ing the past two weeks. owing to the scarcity
of weavers who are willing to work.
The result of the storm in Nogasaki, Japan,
was eleven persons killed and much damage
done. At Ashya number of foreign vessels
were carried away and the crews are missing.
Kansans at Washington are said to be
booming Assistant Secretary Chandler for
governor of Kansas.
bank up on Kansas eastern border and flow
out over the state. The scalpers are getting
rich harvest on return coupons.
DR.. Dyrenforth's rain producing balloons
cost from $25 to $50 each. He used seven of
them at his last experiment in Texas, which
was followed 10y rain over 1000 square miles,
Charlton river and Muscle Fork flooded
the country from bluff to bluff along thirty
miles of their passage through Macon county,
Missouri, destroying all crops, DC, in the
low lands.
President Moffat. of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. has resigned.
From Paris the cable says: The wind blew
hurricane at BOulogne. Thirty houses were
unroofed.
A fearful loss of life is feared to have re-
suited from the storm on the coasts of Eng
land. Telegraphs are down and news comes
in slowly; there are many yachts and fisher
vessels driven ashore.
train consisting of thirty cars is being
loaded at Guthrie with Oklahoma products
| to go direct to Chicago. The intention is to
decorate every car. Wheat. corn and melons
Will be the principal freight
H. c. Raikes, the postmaster general of
| Great Britain, who was just recovering from
an indisposltion, went out walking. when he
/ received a severe electric shock during
thunder storm. He has since died.
At Bloomington. Ind, the storm of August
| 81 flooded a portion of the city; lightning
set fire to the the top of the Catholic church
| spire; damaged other property, and south OF
the city a cyclone did great damage.
At Leavenworth, Atchison and through the
| country, extending into Brown county, Fri
| days storm did heavy damage; particularly
| in Atchson, where many buildings lost their
| roofs; whole blocks lost chimneys and win
| dOws.
The alliance has formulated a cotton trust
| at Columbia, S. c., which gives the power to
withhold the entire crop, if desirable, one
year from market. 1t is expected that the
| movement will force the price of cotton up
| to ten cents.
President John Fitzgerald. of the Irish
National League of America, has issued an
| address calling for a meeting at Chicago,
| October l and next, of the members of the
Irish National league and friends OF the
cause in America.
| A terrific storm ragged in the English
| channel August q. The sea greatly dam
| aged the public squares at Havre, and the
| Frascati baths have been washed away. A
bark has been wrecked at Yport and four of
| her crew drowned.
There is a widespread and most pitiable
/ famine in the entire state of Chihuahua,
Mexico. There has been no rain, in in some
sections, for nearly two years. Cattle have
about all persisted, and women ana children
| are mad with hunger.
! The Barcelona, Spain, chamber of COM
/ merce has resolved to send formal protest
to the government and Cortes against the
| -, tod taka
| ground that the treaty infiicts grave injury
on the trade of Spain with the Spanish West
Indies.
Ed Short, the marshal who has been so long
| on the trail of tram robbers who looted
/ Santa Fe train at Wharton, l. T., has been
/ killed by the gang. but not until he had sent
/ a bullet through Bryant's head. Charley
| Bryant was supposed to be the leader of the
robbers.
At Shelbyville, Ind, boy was arrested
i for breaking plate glass window. his tather
/ came to town and got into rd,w for the pur-
| pose of getting a chance to "get even" with
/ Bruce, the city marshal, and shot Bruce.
| That night the citizens, almost en- masse,
lynched the murderer.
w. J. Arkell, the New York publisher, has
| sued Editor McElwain, of the Saratogian, for
| libel The Saratogian, in an editorial, init
| mated that the presidents visit had been
used to commercial advantage by interested
| parties, and mentioned ArkelPs name In the
same article; Therefore the suit
A statement just issued by the bureau of
| statistics shows that the exports OF merchan-
| disc for July, 1891, exceeded those for the
| same month for 1890 by over SS.OOO,0OO, and
| that the exports for the seven months since
January exceed the exports for the same
months in 1890 by over S35,OOO,OOO.
A Kansas City journal reporter has been
| with the rain making expedition IN Texas,
and he writes that every experiment made
was a success; that heavy showers followed
the explosions when the sky was clear at the
time the explosions were made; and that old
| catulemen on that range declared that ram,
with existing conditions, was impossible TO
occur from natural causes.
At the national emcampment of the Union
Veterans union, at Cleveland, resolutions
were adopted favoring the service pension
bill: the erection of monument to the IN
known union dead in every southern state;
condemning foreigners not naturallzed hold
| ing offices, and asking that federal appoint
| ments be gwen to old soldiers and the Wld-
ows and orphans of soldiers.
The London Times in discussing the plans
| of Secretary Blaine for closer relations be-
tween the three Americas says: The United
States Is regarded as the rival OF England
| and as the states of the southern half OF the
| American continent were developed by Eng
| lish capital there exists an important party
which will regard any step towards closer
commercial and political relations with the
: | United States as a step away from an ola
| krr1atad friend.