Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-22
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The express robbery on the Missouri Pacif-
&c. near Kansas City, was a los to the COM
pany of 5000 in money and Valuable
package of jewelry.
Five of the notorious Dalton gang of train
robbers were captured in New Mexico, Sep
TENDER ID, by Marshal Sam Williams ana
posse.
cross-cut on the Veta-Madre, Galena,
Mont, has run through three feet Of soliq
lead and silver, the greatest strike ever made
In the San Juan country.
Friday, September 8, being the forty-seO-
ond anniversary of the admission of Califor-
MIA into the union, all business IN San Fran
cisco was suspended and legal holiday
observed.
The empress of Germany gave birth to her
seventh child. glrl, Tuesday morning.
An effort is being made at Indianapolis to
reorganize the Order of Iron Hall.
There viii be no strike on the Reading sys-
tenn. At conference all matters were ami
cably adjusted.
New Haven, Conn, is in a furry of excite
ment over what seems to be two cases OF
cholera in that city.
The trades and labor assembly of Canada
has resolved in favor of municipalities own
ing all telegraph and street car lines, etc.
Strikers at Detroit's electric light works
cut the wires Tuesday night and left parts Of
the city dark. They want three men rein
stated.
resident hOQSrlQueZ, OF OOSGa hlcd, mas
declared himself dictator in that country.
Several political arrests have been made and
great excitement prevails.
McAlister, I. T., was under martial law
during the election excitement caused by
the partisan warfare among the Choctaws at
their election of chief and legislature.
We are pleased to know that our young
| friend E. NJ. Birkes, upon the completion of
| his course at Elliott's Business College, Bur
| lington, Ia, secured an excellent position In
| st. Louis.
King Humbert and Queen Margureta, ac-
companied by royal party, visited the Col
umbus exhibition at Genoa. An immense
crowd was present and the king and queen
received an ovation.
The selection of the Marquis Emilio Wis
CONT Venosta, as the Italian member of the
Behring sea arbitration, is believed to give
| satisfaction both to the British and the
| United States legations.
A letter received at San Antonio, Tex,
| from DR.. J. c.. w. Glove dated Jalapa, Mex
| leo, says that cholera is raging at Vera Cruz,
the denial of the government officials to the
contrary notwithst; ming
dispatch from India conveys the impor-
| tant intelligence that the Russians have eVac-
uated the Panir region and thus removed the
| danger of war with China and also with
Great Britain and Afghanistan.
The railway supply house of Joseph Joseph
| 81 Bros, Cincinnati is destroyed by fire.
The loss, as estimated, will reach 5000, 090.
| The entire front of the building was packed
full of cotton waste ready for shipment.
The Lombard Investment company of
Kansas City, Mo-, has been overhauling its
| books and finds heavy defalcations by book
keepers and clerks. Two of them are to be
brought back from the City of Mexico.
The Ohio state board of health will make
a close quarantine of the state of Ohio. If
necessary. DR.. Pendergast says he wall sur
round Cincinnati with sanitary guards to pro-
tect the citizens from the invasion of cholera.
Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin was
visited, September TO- by one of the worst
wind, rain and hail storms known IN twenty
years. The damage to crops will be heavy.
In some places turkeys and chickens were
killed by hail and sparrows covered the
ground.
A posse encountered the train robbers Ev-
ans and Sontag, who they had tracked I rty-
five miles through the mountains, at Samp-
son Flats Cal, and exchanged shots. The
robbers made a desperate defense. killing
four men and wouading others. T. Great ex-
element prevails, and additional officers are
in pursuit of the robbers.
Chief Arthur, of the engineers, is out with
beliigerent paragraphs against the Reading
railroad company, charging that two engl-
neers have been discharged for being mem
beers of the brotherhood. The roads ofhc1ais
are distributing car loads of const lbles at
principal points on the line, and station
agents are directed to remain In their sta
tions night and day.
At Watertown Junction, near Cambridge
station, at 10 40 p. M, September 10, heavy
freight crashed into the rear end of passen-
ger train standing on the track and tele-
scoped the rear car, killing eight persons and
wounding thirty others. The force of the
collision smashed the front end of the boiler
and cylinders and the escaping steam added
horror to the situation. Nearly every per-
son on the passenger train was more or less
injured.
mob of from 300 to 400 took possession
of the docks at Fire Island, armed with shot
guns and other weapons, and twice resisted
all attempts made to land passengers from
the steamboat Cepheus, which was hired to
! take them from the Inflated NorInannia.
2 The hotels and houses had been secured fol
f the accommodation of the first and second
2 cabin passengers, but appeals from men and
! women to let them land were received with
i brutal jeers by the mob. and the day will be
9 looked upon as one of the most horrible re
f breaches on American civilization that eveI
| occurred IN American history.