Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-09
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Waters at Kawsmouth rose again so as to
cover Harlem June 1.
Omaha has an ordinance which imposes
monthly fine of SIS on gambling houses; q
direct violation of state law.
All the roadbeds leading into East st.
Louis viii be raised three feet TO prevent
future trouble with high water.
William l. Wright, deputy prosecutor at
Rockville, Ind, has been arrested for utter
ing forged paper to the amount OF $lls6O0-s
Another negro has probably been burned
at the stake at Texarcana, Ark, as the last
report was that preparations to do SO were
going on.
Baron Hirseh, the well known philanthro-
pist, is suffering from an attack of influenza
and congestion of the lungs. His condition
is serious.
A new republican daily paper has appeared
at Springfield, Missouri.
Two light earthquake shocks occurred at
Ontario, Canada. They were heavy enough
to stop clocks. The course of the wave was
northwest to southeast.
The Iowa department. of the G. A. R. has
issued call to all comrades to come to the
aid Of the old soldiers and their families who
are sufferers by the flood.
The blacks of Arkansas and Texas, in the
vicinity of Texarcana, are wild with fright
and apprehension over the late tornadoes
which visited that section.
The silver convention at Washington, D.
c., before it adjourned, provided for the
publication. occasionally OF newspaper IN
the interest of free coinage.
The Missouri supreme court refuses to dis
turb the action of the trial court, and embez-
cling State Treasurer holland will have TO
serve his two years sentence.
Tho Crockett clan, descendants of the inn
mortal Dayy, Will celebrate the 1O6th annlver-
sary of that deceased hero statesman at Ruth
erford, Tenn.s on August IL.
q. S. Hall, president of the Missouri ALI
ance has been nominated at ChilicOthe, Mo-,
by the democrats, over Congressman Mansur,
defeating Mansur on the first ballot.
At Coventry Warwickshire, a mob pre-
vented a sale of goods seized to make a pay
ment of a wears rate claim and made demon
STATIONS OF violence toward the wear.
There are /, 3OO.oOO Irish in Australia.
Richland, Mo-, had a cyclone also, which
played with big trees, leveling and twisting
them. and carrying their branches so far
away as not to be found in that region.
Victims of the silver mine fire near Priz-
BRAN, Bohemia, number over 200. SIXTY
seven bodies have been taken out of the mine
and $50 are still missing, with no hope of
their being alive.
At Newburg, Missouri. Diehl's store was
struck by lightning and sixteen persons
shocked into insensibility. Frank Whitening,
aged 16, and John Deakin, IA, are dead. The
Others recovered.
A report issued by the Russian minister of
husbandry states that the winter crops are in
a satisfactory condition. Summer sown crops
everywhere promise well. There has been no
dimunition in the area sown.
Young republicans of that congressional
district held a mock national convention at
Charleston, Ill, with 456 delegates from the
five counties in the district to represent all
the states. 1t was great day.
Seven ballots were taken in the republican
national convention of 1876, thirty-six in 1850
| four in 1884 and eight in 1888. There will be
| 1913 delegates this year, and the successful
candidate must receive at least $50.
The stock yards on Kansas soil at Kansas
| City are now 1900 head of cattle in excess
of number handled up to this time last year.
| In 1880 these yards handled los, 100 cars OF
stock, which will be surpassed this year.
Chairman Hatch, of the house com mittee
| on agriculture, is feeling badly toward his
| democratic confreres, and threatens to pre-
vent any business being done by the hous'
until his anti-optiOn bill is taken up and dis
posed of.
Colonel Cole, of the Montreal artillery gar
rison, called on General Knapp, United State
consul general, and apologized for the out
rage committed by some irresponsible mem
Der of his corps in ordering down the Amer
lean flag.
Within a few months new town will b
built on the east side of the river, two mile
north of Madison, Ill, by the st. Louis I'll
Stamping company. of which w. +. and
c. Niedringhaus are the principal stock
holders.
Emma Blum, daughter of a farmer at Mas
coutah, ILL.,, was pecked on the arm by sci
ting hen. The young woman was taken yer
sick and the arm swelled to unnatural pre-
portions. A surgical operation was pei
formed and it is thought she will recovs,
Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, has issued
proclamation calling a special session of tn
legislature June % to reapportion the state II
to senate and assembly districts. This becam
necessary because the supreme court owe
ruled the appOrtionment made at the regula
session.
Arrangements are being made at Kansf
City, Kansas, and funds are being gathere
to carry them out, for grand combined rat
ficatiOn display after the presidential ele'
ton. Both parties to share alike in the e.
pense and both to join heartily in acceptin
the results.
A fatal collision occurred at Birmingham
, England, between trains on the NorthwesteI
and Midland railways. The two trains we
approaching the station at the same tim
5 The engineers saw the impending DANCE
but too late. One person was killed an
many others injured.
I The steamer Norge, from Copenhagen, a
: rived at New York with twenty-five your
women from Sweden and Norway bound
Dakota, whose avowed purpose IS to SCI
: husbands in the woody wilds of Dakota an
Minnesota. There landed at New York {
the 18th, 1888 immigrants.
The directors for the Kansas state penite
! | tiary met at Lansing and awarded the co
l tract for the output of the penitentiary co
mine to James A. Bovard, of Kansas City,
| the following figures: Lump ana CRATE cot
4 | 81 cents per bushel; nut coal, cents p
(, bushel, and pea coal, cents per busheL
Hon. George w. Martin was appointed
take charge of the funeral of Hon. John
J. Anderson. The body and escort arrived
: Kansas City Saturday at :45 O'Clock p.
- The body was then taken to Manhatta
where it laid in state over Sunday, and "
then taken to Junction City, where the funei
i occurred Monday.
t In the correspondence between the nef
tiatinR powers to arrange for bi-metal
international convention, this passage {
r pears in a communication from this goyel
u ment: ''It lsthe opinion of the president az
n as he believes, of the people OF the Unit
States, with singular nnanImity, that
IN use of silver as a coin metal, upon a ratio
IN gold to be fixed by an agreement betwe
- the great commercial nations OF the wor
N would very highly promote the prosperity
all nations and all classes OF people"
IS GENERAL Markets
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