Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-17
Lenss are squeezing shorts IN the grain
KANSAS.

Lenes are squeezing shorts IN the grain
markets with December corn
Heavy snow storm in Denver the first OF
he week; more than foot deep on the level
Charles B. Evarts, sou Of Hon. William B.
Evarta, Was found dead in bed at Windsor,
Vermont
AZ C4najoharie. n. Y. Governor Stearns.
u Florida. dropped dead of heart failure, at
he residence Of his wife's mother.
A Grand Islard, Neb.. street car was struck
~ = passenger engine on the Union Pacific
track aad Mr. Dunkle severely injured.
At Bath. Me-. the United States gunboat
eeretofore known as No. 5. has been success
t1ly launched She was ehristenea the
'Machias-"
whole block in williamsburg, Iowa, has
been burned and the people there think it
vas done BY incendiaries-
The condition of Cyrus W. Field, is said to
De steadily improving. but his daughter, Mrs
Lndleys Is sand to be falling
Russell Sage continues to improve from
the effects of his close call by the dynamite
Send last Friday. He is attending TO busi-
ness
Martin d. Lnppy. a wife murderer, was
killed BY electricity, according % the statute
a sing Sing prison, just after midnight of
December 6
Thomas o. Towles. of Missouri, has been
appointed chief clerk of the house Of repre-
sentatives- This is the place held by Charley
Aa.tln' OF SalInas Kansas
Secretary Foster still has a fever or a low
type DE has no pam, but his condition has
not improved since the onset of fever. The
patient Is extremely weak
The supporters of Mills for speaker
manly included the partisans of Cleveland,
while among the supporters of Crisp are
found the Hill element
Dom Pedro was given a royal funeral at
faris and at Lisbon: many accompanying
the remains to the latter capital, where they
were placed in the family vault
Some Chicago teachers sent pupils home
because they had been eating onions A great
storm arose and finally the superintendent
ruled that teachers had no authority over the
diet of their pupils
A dispatch from Vladivostock, Russia, says
thieves have robbed the government treas
ury there of $4,000. The thieves entered
ana escaped from the treasury by means of
an underground passage.
News comes from San Francisco that the
relatives Of Mrs. g. C. Williams. a widow
worth $3.50, 900, are fearful that she has been
hypnotized into a marriage contract with DIR.
h w. Abbott, spirituzlist-
train robbery near Rome, Ga, was
effected by two masked men stopping a train
by waving a lantern They then entered
A posse with dogs was soon on their trail.
Governor Hogg, of Texas, has stated that
it is his purpose to cali an extra session of the
Texas legislature in the spring. The friends
of Mr.. Mills are active in promotion of his
election to the United States senate at that
time
Careful figuring now places the number Of
dead from the earthquake in Japan at $50
and injured at 10, 129, with $3.50 buildings
wholly, and rs, $50 partially destroyed. Over
10000 people have been rendered homeless
and destitute
Louisville. KY, has had another awful fire
and explosion, the loss of lives numbering
fourteen and the injured greater number,
both lists including some firemen- In one of
the buildings destroyed were forty girls at
work wrapping candy.
This is the fifty-second congress, but only
thirty-tWo speakers have been chosen to pre-
side; Henry Clay was elected speaker six
times, and Blaine, Colfax, Randall, Carlisle
and Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina
filed the Office three times each
A crazy man entered Russell Sage's New
York Office, December 4, and after demand
ing a million dollars exploded a bomb. which
killed himself and three others, wounded Mr..
Sage and several more, and Quilted the build
ing. Mr.. Sage's hurts are not dangerous.
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Kenrick and
ali the visiting prelates at St Louis were
rendered reception on change Archblshops
Ireland, of st. Paul; Ryan. OF Hmladel pnlAf
and Keane, of Washington, and Cardinal
Gibbons addressed the members of the ex-
change
One of the successful cattle-raisers of
Wyoming is Frank Sartoris, a brother OF
Nellie Grants husband He is plainsman
of thirteen years experience and Is so well
liked by his neighbors that there IS a prospect
of his being sent to congress to represent
them
The New York Mail and Express publishes
a rumor that Mr. Blaine has formulated let
ter to be made public holiday week. N which
he squarely refuses to be a candidate before
the Minneapolis convention next Junei and
emphatically favoring the denomination OF
President Harrison.
Republican senators, 4S; democratic sena-
tors, 50; farmers alliance, l. In favor OF
free coinage, Is republicans. IS democrats
and PETER; total number OF senators IN favor
of free coinage, 81: number OF votes required
in senate to pass free silver bill over presi-
dents veto. So number OF republicans OPP
posed to free coinage, so number OF demo
Gratis opposed OF free coinage, 81 doubtful
democrats (Bricels L
Russia is preparing to declare protector
ate over the Corean peninsula. the object
being TO secure a seaport further south than
Vladivostock, which Is now Russias most
southern naval station on the Pacific Port
Hamilton. which was occupied by the Eng
lish in 1886 and which has always been the
objective point for powers hostile to Corea.
has been selected by the Russians as a naval
station.
FIFrY-sECOND CONGREss.