Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-07
General Miles says the ghost dance is SIM
ply a war dance.

General Miles says the ghost dance is sim
ply war dance
A resolution was lost in the house Of com
mons which proposed a salary OF 4Soo
year to members of that body. The vote was
Pr to 162.
General j. B. Gordon, commanding the
confederate veterans, has appointed Joe
Shelby major general of the department OF
Missouri.
The Ohio legislature has passed bill 10
submit to vote of the people OF Clnclnnau
proposition to issue 100000 IN bonds Tor
water works
Western Union Telegraph company at Corsl-
cana Tex, for 81 900 for failing to deliver a
message promptly
English papers continue to harp on the
Behring sea trouble.
DR.. Morrison Munford, for many years
connected with the Kansas City, Mo-, Times,
died in that city March 20, aged 80 years
It is stated that the suniower crop of Rus
STA Is worth about 81 10000 and that the
farmers realize about so an acre There
may be a suggestion for Kansas IN TINS
A freight wreck occurred on the Erie road
at Mansfield, o., in which two engines ana
twenty cars were smashed, entailing a loss OF
100000 and blOckingthe road Tor eight hours
AtNer on Arup anu AAt1 NAlA4so oAS NV
holding ghost dance at the hed mis-, north
of Fort Reno, and declare that the Messiah
Will yet come in time to keep the hordes OF
whites out of their lands.
The Thirteenth infantry and Fifth and part
of the Seventh cavalry are ordered to the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations to clear
the squatters OF before throwing open those
reservations for settlement
At Sidney. New South Wales, a long pro-
the city bearing at their head a banner IN
scribed: ''Work. or Bread for Our Starving
Wives and Children" There was no dis
order.
Representatives of western packing inter
ests met in Omaha The stock yards and
packing houses at the various points were
well represented, and it is believed that the
organization will be of sufficient strength to
enforce the demands from corporations
The aOrder of Fraternal Guardians" of
Philadelphia, Is short in assets sufficient to
complete It's contracts in the sum OF $780,
600 and a receiver Is asked for to take charge
of what is in sight; only S64l, $50. This Is an
assessment concern issuing benefit eertif-
Gates
A third successful dynamite explosion has
occurred in Paris in the house OF a prosecut-
ing witness in another dynamite case. The
house was wrecked and several others dam
aged. No lives were lost There have been
bombs discovered IN other places; one with
a lighted fuse.
The Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge are mad
because an order has stopped the issue OF
beeves to them on foot, for the reason that
the Indians eat the entrils, fresh taken from
the carcass, and eat them raw. The order
was TO stop this practice, and the bucks bit
terly protest.
The executive council, consisting of the
state officers Of Kansas at their annual meet
ing on the last Wednesday in March, reap
pointed George 4. Anthony as member OF
the board Of railroad commissioners The
Topeka Capital was named as the official state
paper for another year.
An exodus to the Cherokee strip and Okla
hOma from Denison. Tex, has begun and 200
citizens are bound thither in wagons and on
foot. They are all of the better class. clerks,
men of character and standing, and some
professional men They go to take advan-
tage of the approaching opening of the new
lands.
Lord Salisbury's recorded speeches and
writings prove his utter inability to recognize
anything honorable or worthy of respect in
she government of the United States, past OF
present. He is utterly insensible to our rights
and disposed to dismiss them with sneer;
Somebody has got to back down, and it viii
not be President Harrison
The photographers of the Santa Fe system
have been couferring by their grievance com
mittee, for two weeks, with the management
of the road. The officers of the road gave
them a proposition which Is not accepted
and now the telegraphers are told that every
wire from Chicago to FL PasO Will be dead
If further demands are made.
private letter from Angola, on the Rus
sian frontier, tells horrible tale of suffering
among the Russian people The letter says
that in spite of food sent from America, PEG
pie are dropping dead in the streets from
starvation. The food as it is distributed
through the infected country Is seized by
rabid officials and shared among them.
veteran asks for an injunction restrain.
ing the managers of the Michigan Soldiers
home from either expelling him or contscat-
ing his pension. The action is brought to
test the legality of the agents order, recently
issued, compelling all eerans with monthly
pensions of SD and over to turn over all but
81 to the state for their support or else retire
from the home.
A cone-shaped cyclone struck the outskirts
of Bloomington, Ind, unroohng number oil
houses and the chair factory OF Shower Bros.
A number of girls working in the factory
were deluged with rain after the roof was
blown away and were badly frightened, but
escaped with little injury. An old lady by
the name of Mertz wns badly hurt when hel
house was blown down.
The Figaro, of Paris, publishes interviews
with two leading anarchists. They declared
that the members of the party were acting
singly on their own responsibility, and that
there was no preconcertcd plan to cause eX-
plOsions. Both of them expressed themselves
as delighted with the moral effect of the ex-
plosions which, they said, would direct greater
attention to their doctrine.
Some of the people of the river bottom dis
tricts of Arkansas played a good joke on the
Cherokee nation when they shipped steam
boat load of their most worthless negroes tC
the territory, unloading them near Fort Glib.
son. destitute of both money and food. and
almost naked. Chief Harris at once arranged
with the railroad company to ship them e
Coffeyville, Kan, at the nations expense
that seemed to be the only way to get rid Of
them.
Orders have been sent west to advance rates
of insurance; to take no new business al
present rates and to get rid of old business a.
fast as possible. Some of the companies
went into the year with big surplus funds
but they did business at an Improbable rate
and had losses which simply wiped out the
surplus and made the owners of the stocA
anxious to get into some business where the
risks were not 50 great. The order include:
the entire west
Notice to Kansas Contractors.
Sealed proposals for the construction of the
Kansas Worlds Columbian building Will bs
received at the office of W. H. Smith, y.