Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-02
Phillipsburg Herald
KANSAS.
Fully a million acres of cultivated ground
are under water between Cairo and Memphis.

Fully a million acres of cultivated ground
are under water between Cairo and Memphis-
A state celebration occurred at Lincoln.
Nebraska. May %, of the twenty-hfth ami
Eersary of the admission of that state to the
nnion.
The roof of the first Methodist Protestant
church, on Fifth avenue, Pittsburg. Pa fell
at s:.O a M, injuring seven workmen, two
fatally.
Fifteen students IN the canton of St. Gall,
Switzerland, were boating on the lake there,
when the boat capsized and seven of them
drowned
C. P. Huntington has denied that jay
Gould and himself have entered into a secret
combination to secure control OF the Pacific
coast traffic.
Hail storms have destroyed the grain crops
Of eighty communities in Switzerland.
heavy frost fell at Holland, Mich, doing
considerable damage to garden vegetables
Peach trees in full bloom suffered, especially
IN low places
Madrid papers report an explosion OF dyna-
mite at Maldames, near Biltsao, by which
eight persons were killed and ten injured and
the factory destroyed
New Orleans people are walking because
the Drivers union has decreed that the street
car companies must not run cars except as
dictated by the union.
By order of the president, quarrying in the
Cherokee strip, by Cherokees or others Is be-
ing stopped by the military. The Quarrie5
are near Arkansas City.
Democrat delegates from the state of WASH
ington to the Chicago convention viii vote
for Cleveland when New York presents his
name, and not till then.
The secretary of the interior has authorized
the making of leases for grazing cattle on
he Of he nd 4 tarn hfaN In
dams, IN Oklahoma territory.
There is fearful destitution among flood
sufferers uD and down the Arkansas river
from Pine Bluff. Steamers are carrying out
the people and taking relief to those there.
A s-year-old grizzly bear escaped from the
MOO" at Washington, ID. C., and caused
alarm in all the surrounding country. A
squad was soon on his trail and he was killed
Rarus. long known as the king of the trot-
ting turf, is dead.
A banker of Lincoln, Neb.. was shot dead
at breakfast in a hotel in that city by a
former partner of his. who charged his VIC
tim with too prOmiscuous familiarity with
his family.
Snow to the depth of two to five inches has
fallen in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Vermont The fruit crop and vegetation of
all kinds have been greatly damaged The
temperature IS very low.
Three well known gentlemen of Kansas
used the wire in notifying Senator Perkins
that they would accept the position of consul
general to Cairo. which was made vacant by
the death of Anderson.
The Irish National League of America has
sent an address to the Irish people demand
ing unity in Ireland as a condition of con-
unued contributions and support from friends
of Ireland in this country.
The NJ. E. general conference at Omaha
squelched the attempt to commit Methodists
TO the support of the prohibition party. But
for tho vote of the lay delegates the result
might have been different.
The loss by fire in the United States was
greater last year than for many years previ-
Gus, reaching the enormous sum of S143,764,-
So, which IS an amount greater by S35, OOO,-
600 than the loss the year before.
In the nine months from June, 1891, to
April, 1892, the number Of pensioners on the
rolls increased from 676, 16O to S2T, 267. Tho
number is likely to reach a full million be-
Tore the next session of congress.
Boston has so many deaf mutes that Gov
ernor Russell, of Massachusetts,, has ap-
pointed Henry Everett Babbitt, a deaf and
dumb man, as justice of the peace, for the
benefit of htigants similarly Affected
Five hundred people in the vicinity of Ches,
ter, Ill, have been rescued from drowning
stalls at the fair grounds. Tents have been
forwarded to that point from Springfield.
At Oswego. N. Y, fire destroyed several
elevators and lumber yards. Six elevators
went in the first hour OF the fire; which
jumped to an island piled full of lumber and
burned it ALL Most of the elevators had grain
in them.
Miners at Ullen, Idaho, will not allow the
non-union men to 90 to work in the mines.
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mob of 500 armed and unarmed strikers
stopped a passenger train at that place, re-
fusing to let it pass.
Colonel Pope offers $500 reward for the
parties who delayed the bicyclers who rode
with military dispatches from Chicago to
New 1ork. Wire was stretched across their
way; the rubber tires on their wheels were
cut, and other annoyances committed.
The committee of the house Of represent
atives on Indian affairs failed of having a
quorum for more than a week; its members
being scattefed attending to local politics at
their homes. By reason of this much matter
before that committee has been delayed.
Cleveland captured the democratic eonven-
ton at Kingfsher at the start and remained
IN the lead. The resolutions are for home
rule for Oklahoma and better public land
laws; for statehood for Oklahoma within a
year; for election of United States senator's
by direct vote.
The state department having been officially
informed of the conclusion of a treaty OF
commercial reciprocity between Austro-Hun-
gary and the United States, the president
has proclaimed the details of the arrange
ment, which Is similar to that with Germany,
1t takes effect at once.
There are between 10000 and $1,000 Yaaui
Indians in the state of Sonora, the greater
part of whom have assumed an aggressive at
titude- They are poorly armed, however,
and "a a rule refuse omen hattie r,rafarr;p =
amhuscade and guerilla warfare. battle
between them and Mexican troops is officially
reported.
The congressional committee to investigate
worlds fair affairs says: The provisions
made for water supply, sewerage, fire, police
and electric system for rapid transit, and for
the attractive landscape features are com.
mended without stint as a worthy tribute to
genius and enterprise of the wonderful city
of the northwest.
Among Kansans who are mentioned 10
succeed John A. Anderson as consul general
to Egypt, Ed c Little, president of the
state republican league; Colonel NJ. Stewart,
of Wichita; General Caldwell and S. B. Brad.
ford, of Topeka, and State Senator Kirkpat-
rick, of Wilson county, are being urged by
friends more or less prominent
A decree has been issued form Rome that
Archbishop Ireland's plan. as instituted in
the schools of Farribault and Saltwater. Min
nesota. be tolerated The arrangement made
by the archbishop was that secular instruc-
ton IN these schools should be IN hours dis
tlnct from time devoted to religious instruc-
noni with the privilege to scholars to take
both or either courses.
GENERAL Markets
KANSAS CITY, May %.
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