Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-21
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The Rock Island has announced that it win
take an hour and half OF its time between
Chicago and Kansas City May l.
Partridge, the boss wheat gambler of Chi
cago is said to have come out of the attack
upon him half million dollars ahead
At Boone, Iowa, snow storm set in April
- which turned into blizzard IN a lev
hours. The ground was covered WIN sno"
and severe storm ragged.
A crowd of snti-ParneIlites attacked the
/ Parnellite band at Waterford and free hght
| ensued. Many persons were seriously IN
/ jured.
The New York earthquake of April u was
| felt in Montgomery, Warren and Otsego
/ counties. In JohnstOwn and GioVersVlile the
/ people were mech frightened
The price of yellow pine lumber has been
raised so cents a ], 900 feet.
A man was killed in Cleveland, o., by put
ting his hand on an iron awning frame which
had connection with an electric light wire.
At the business session of the international
| Mormon conference it was decided to hold
the next conference April 6, 1898, at Lamoni,
Iowa, the home of Joseph smith.
The Lilly White state republican conven-
| ton of Texas adopted resolutions favoring
| the present tariff and deprecating the force
| bill. A full state ticket was nominated.
The customary Palm Sunday services were
omitted in Royal chapel at Madrid, osiensl-
bly, on account of the queen regents ndlsPo-
sition, but really on account OF anarchist
threats
River navigation has commenced at Mon
treal five days earlier than usual
Henry Ettenson's large dry goods and boot
and shoe house at Leavenworth was burned
out Tuesday night. The report says the loss
will be total on $4,000 worth of goods, with
$4,000 insurance.
T H.. in
South America, and by orders, endeayor TO
create trouble BETWEEN those southern coun-
tries and the United States. The latest IN
stance is in Argentine.
Several forest fires have occurred in Prus-
STA. The scene of one is near Berlin. An
other has caused immense dammage near
Werdohl. A third, near Niebeck, has de-
stroyed 1.750 acres of forest.
The exports of specie from the ports Of
New York last week amounted to $818, Su3, oil
which S94, 705 was gold and so, lSo SILVER.
The imports amounted to $102. 623, of which
S1O1, 356 was gold and 81, 1877 silver.
There are but six survivors left of the men
who for three years suffered the fortunes OF
cold and starvation IN the expedition 70 Lao
franklin bay. The best known OF them al
is General A. w. Greedy, now chief sigma
officer.
The Passaic chemical works at Newark, N
j., was damaged by fire to the extent OF 500
600. Owing to the heavy fumes of chemicals
the firemen had difficulty in fighting the tire
+ About twenty fiIemen were overcome witt
5 the fumes.
Replies received at Antonio, Texas, from
: every portion of the southwest show an aver
age decrease in cotton acreage of % per cent
l The farmers are putting the land IN corn an'
other crops. The planting is ten days late
than last season.
I Twelve specimen sheep from Bushire, tn
s | principal entry port of Persia, on the Persian
| gulf, have arrived at London. They are con
| signed TO the agricultural department a
Washington by Truxton Beal, the American
consul at Teheran.
The socialists and workingmen's associa
! tons of Madrid are divided as to the arrange
ments for the May day celebration. 1t Is Il
i be feared that the celebration will be yerl
= / imposing. Fresh strikes are threatened II
various industries and 1t is believed that thes'
4 will be extensive.
:. A tin cylinder filled with gunpowder ex
ploded on a window sill of house occcuPieC
by a magistrate at ComPiegne, France. Th
: windows was shattered and the house wa
I otherwise damaged, but nobody was hurt
u | The magistrate recently imposed severe sen
{ fences on poachers.
J. A colony of negroes have laid out a tow
four miles north of Kingfsher, near the lin
of the Rock Island railroad and on the I'm
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation
4 1t is to be called Cimarron City, and Is chosel
8 as a place for the colored people to radlat
e from to the new country. -
The New York Federation of Labor vii
i take part in the coming May demonstratloi
+ by holding a mass meeting on April 30. III
Central Labor union has appointed a specla
: committee to secure the permit for the use o
J Union Square on May L for the purpose o
holding an eight hour mass meeting.
4 While B. V. Thomas, of Des Moines, wa
t walking about FL Reno he met Miss Lettl
G Eighmy, of the same place, who was lookin
in vain for place to stay. After shor
consultation the two sought the office OF a Jus
tice of the peace, and IN a short time wer
ready to go to housekeeping in Thomas tent
The committee of the convention of stat
railroad commissioners on safety appliance
5 was directed to urge upon congress the IN
! mediate passage of a bill to insure the equiv
U ment of freight cars throughout the countr
n with uniform automatic couplers and wit
, tram brakes, and the equipment OF Iocomc
: tives with driving wheel brakes.
= The Southern Pacific company has notifie
3 its conductors not to honor tickets issued b
It the Santa Fe sold at San Diego or Los Al
e geles reading by way OF Sacramento an
Ogden to eastern points. The tickets hav
been issued for the purpose OF dlverting
portion of the northward trade over the Co
orado Midland line and Santa Fe line.
SC The Red river is over the banks and is iood
he ing the towns of st. Vincent and Emerson
4 North Dakota. The river was forty feet aboy
d low water mark and still rising; as the ice
the river has not yet gone out, create
d height is -feared. A rise of only one Zoe
N more will cover the town of Emerson. In
8, indications are that the dlSasJrOus noOu Oh Q
y will be repeated.
y A spark from a locomotive set fire to tn
u car shops of the Philadelphia q Reading Raj
= road company at Wayne Junction, on the Out
4 skirts of Philadelphia, and the structure
with eighty box cars, was destroyed, the totf
loss being about 10000. The flying embel
ionited the residence of Henry Summer
er some distance away, and it was burned, wit
d a loss of $4,000.
he Secretary Noble has ordered the specii
D. agents of the government to warn all catti
g men, settlers and Indians of the Cherokee
T strip. The presidents orders regarding CA
o. tie on the strip will be rigidly enforced an
q any cattle found there will be conhscated b
S, the government. This order indicates thf
ly the government contemplates speedy opeI
10 ing of the strip for settlement.
The investiture of the young kedive {
Egypt was to have occurred few days age
great ceremony having been observed IN II
ty Transmission of the firman of the sultan {
a Turkey by accompanying fleets OF all u
great powers of Europe. Before the invest
le ture the English ambassador demanded
a see a copy of the frman and was hrst refuses
d but later granted it. It was found to COZ
N tain matter which was objectionable to Eni
es land, although it had received the approyi
% of France and Russia. Salisbury perempt'
~ rily demanded a change in the hrman an