Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-28
NEWS HREvITIEs.

The coal strike is bringing on a crisis in all
English industries.
Eleven cases of trichinosis were reported at
Boston, caused by eating raw pork.
Many French vineyards, in large districts,
have been destroyed by the recent cold
weather.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the well-known
novelist and lecturer, is dead. She had been
i'll several weeks.
By the flooding of Pennsylvania railroad
colliery near Minersville eight men are said
to have been drowned.
Hugh S. Thompson has rendered his resig-
nation as a member of the civil service COM
mission, to take effect May Is.
The new Illinois law allowing women to
vote at school elections causes some exciting
times in the rural districts.
The Foreman liek-Jones interest in FL
Reno has been set at rest by a denial by
Secretary Noble to reopen the case.
priest was decapitated with sword in
hands of a crazy man, while kneeling at the
altar in a church at AngelOsa. Spain.
Petitions are being presented to congress
from Kansas asking that the sale of liquors at
the Leayenworth Soldiers home be stopped.
Findley Lind and his wife, of Seymour,
Ind, left their 3-year=old son PLAYING by a
I
and when they returned they found tb> baby
dead and his body burned 10 crisp.
The Interstate National bank of New York
City has closed its doors. The depOSitOrs
were paid OF, getting 80 per cent of their en-
tire deposit, and within a week dividend OF
per cent viii be paid to the stockholders.
Indiana democrats elected delegates to the
Chicago convention divided in their choice
between Cleveland and Gray, with the under
standing that a united vote be cast for Cleve-
land, but should break occur the solid vote
should go for Gray.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states that
twenty-eight Radicals, who are supposed to
have taken part in the recent disturbances
| that resulted IN the government declaring a
| three days state of siege, have been eXiled
| to the province of Amazonas. Eighteen
other Radicals have been imprisoned at Rio
Janeiro.
A special river bulletin states that the re-
cent heavy rains are causing the rivers to rise
rapidly in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
/ er is already high and rising, and will be added
/ to greatly IN the next two weeks. The situa-
ton regards the possibility of an overflow
of the lower Mississippi Is critical.
The democrat ticket selected in Indiana Is
| For governor, Claude Matthews; lieutenant
| governor, Mortimer Nye; secretary of state,
/ William R. Myers; auditor, John Oscar
/ Henderson; treasurer, Albert Gail; attorney
| general, AlOnZO Greensmith: SUPERINTENDENT
/ of public instruction, Hervey d. Vorhis.
/ Matthews has never engaged in any other
business than that of farming and stock
/ breeding.
1t is reported that more investigations into
alleged violations Of the interstate commerce
law will be made by the federal grand jury at
/ Chicago, which has been called to Convene
May 3. Special Agent Kretzchmeyer, who
/ represents the commission, has been indus
/ triously at work gathering evidence against
various freight agents and shippers, and
/ there IS promise of developments far more
sensational than anything that has yet been
| brought to Light.
A delegation of eolored men waited on the
| president with a memorial IN regard to out
RACES perpetrsted upon negroes IN the south
ern states. President Harrison advised the
delegation TO collect In detail facts regarding
/ lynchings IN the south for the year, and pre-
sent them TO him and to the public press
/ and said that upon these facts he would aEsisi
as far as he could IN creating public senti
meut against the taEless methods of punish
ing cOlOred men IN the south While willing
| to do everything he could IN behalf of ali cit
liens OF fhe country he explained clearly
how any attempted interference with stat
authority By hiIn would do mors harm thar
] good.