Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-08
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Q. S. marshals are arresting Texan depre-
dators upon the timber of Oklahoma terri
tory.
Postponement of the worlds fair until
1894 is beng considered. A postponemene
OF the monetary conference on account OF
the cholera, is also more than posslolllty.
a cave near Brazil, Ind. has been found
to contain an extensive mandatory OF coun-
terfeit coins. The indications are that the
cave has been inhabited for some time.
George William Curtis, principal editor OF
Harper's Weekly, died August 81 aged %.
OF late years Mr.. Curtis has been noted as
the head of the civil service reform move
ment.
Erie county's sheriff has been making close
computations as to the final cost or the strike.
He figures the cost at STA, 100, while others
say it viii reach $4,000.
At Independence, Ia. August 81, on kite
shaped track and in the presence OF S:OOO
people, Nancy Hanks trotted mile in :O544,
beating her own time, 2:0714, made at Chi
cago two weeks ago.
A ship in the Mediterranean sea was sail
ing on smooth water when suddenly the sea
began to boil and foam violently. The dis
turbance lasted ten minutes and was thought
to be caused by a submarine eruption.
We are pleased to learn that w. H. Whit
lock, one of the boys who attended Elliott's
Business College, Burlington, Ia. now has
an excellent position in Chicago at $l,2OO q
year.
Crazy King Otto, of Bavaria, is approach
bly, the end of his life. He is in the last
stages of the result of excessive cigarette
smoking. and has sane intervals no longer.
Hotel Belmont at Sulphur Springs, N. c..
is burned. Many guests were in the hotel,
but all escaped without injury, though many
Lost yzn1v he hnfa
100000 md was owned by northern capt.
talists.
Pittsburg and Homestead strikers, out of
Carnegie mills, small squad of them, frc-
quently go back to work. In one OF the
mills negro puddlers have been put to work,
which enrages the strikers almost to des-
peratiOn.
The Kansas City Journal made the first
publication of great sensation in southern
Kansas. 1t devotes page of space to tell
| ing how the murderers of cattlemen- Gibson
and Frazier, near Sedan in $780, have been
ferreted out and are being arrested.
A ship from Antwerp with several hundred
| Russians and Germans is en- route for Gal
veston and Texas officials are alarmed at
| the probability of cholera entering this coun-
try in that way. Quarantine has been pre-
pared in advance of the ships arrival.
President Harrison visited Whitelaw Reid
| at his country home. Chairman Carter and
other members of the national committee,
| together with Senator Platt of New York,
spent the day with the two national candl-
| dates.
Commissioner Morgan of the Indian
| bureau and Delegate Harvey of Oklahoma
| have closed bargain by which the govern
ment is to pay school districts $40 a quarter
| for the schooling of Indian pupils. This ID
upon the ground that Indians lands are not
| subject to taxation for twenty-five years.
The strike fever has reached East st.
| Louis, the switchmen on the Air Line road
quitting work because the demand for an
| other man to be added to each ere " was not
| granted. Their places were filled up with
| non-union men and trans were made up
with little delay.
| The Northeastern switchmen's strike at
| New Orleans, which has been on since Au-
! gust IA, resulted in a riot shortly before mid
| night August 3d. which terminated IN four
| employees and one striker being shot, The
| trouble arose from the dismissal of a night
| yardmaster who had been employed tempo
rariIy.
Mrs. John A. Logan, chairman of the TO
| tunda committee, has invited Mrs. Harrison,
| Mrs. Morton, the ladies of the cabinet ON
GERS families. Mrs. U. S. Grant and Clara
| Barton to assist her in receiving at the Grand
| Army entertainment in the capitol at Wash
ington, September 10.
The Apache Indians are committing dep
| relations III the vicinity of Tombstone, Ariz.
The Kid, half breed, is at the head of the
raiding Indians, and his party stole eighty
| head of stock and fed to the mountains,
where they are secure. Joe Beach, mining
prOspector, gives it as his opinion that this
fall will witness as bloody an Indian cam
| paign as has ever been known in the south
| west.
Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine
| hospital service is unable to meet all require
ments of cholera emergency. At Galveston
alone $40, 900 should be expended at once to
make effective the appliances and arrange
ments to head off the dread disease. Con-
gress reduced the appropriations reported by
| he bureau $50, 600 below what the bureau
submitted as necessary for efficiency of the
service IN ordinary times.
Fire broke out in a restaurant on West
| Sixth street. Kansas City. Kan, and spread to
The livery stable of Daniels & Comfort, which
was quickly consumed, thence spread to the
Van Forsett block and the Armour viaduct
which leads to the packing house cattle sheds.
The viaduct was only partially destroyed.
The Van Forsett building, which has
| numerous tenantry, was destroyed. as were
all the other buildings in the same block, in
Guiding large nest of gambling houses and
| pool rooms. Loss, $4,000.