Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-26

by an earthquake; twenty-seven
people were killed by falling houses
At Washington, Mo-, the guage shows
rise in the Missouri river of y feet lncheS-
Thousands of acres of wheat under water
Eight days steady rain at Independence,
Iowa, swept out bridges, destroyed seed IN
the ground and did immense damage gen
orally.
Later accounts show that the loss of life at
Sioux Civ has been much greater than at
frst reported 1t will probably be twenty or
twenty-five
All the energies of the United States and
state engineers and railroad officials are con
eentrated IN closing the crevasSe IN gypsy
leyee, above New Orleans
The journeymen carpenters of Orange, n.
J., struck for an eight hour day. three nun
dred men are out and work IS at standstlll'
Twenty firms are shut down.
DIR. Jesse Bowman Young, pastor Of one OF
the NJ. E churches at Kansas City, Mo-, was
elected by the general conference as editor OF
the Central Christian Advocate.
veritable tempest prevailed throughout
central Iowa for several hours, coming from
the northwest. Trees and buildings were
blown down all over and much damage
wrought
In the Sangamon bottoms Illinois, several
thousand acres Of wheat and corn are under
water Stock has all been driven TO the
bluffs; yet numbers Of cattle have been
drowned
The car has signed ukase permitting
the expectation of oats and corn
Turkey Valley, in Greer county, Tex. had
n terrible cyclone, demohshing everything,
even to dugouts, in its path Deaths are
numerous; hardly anybody escaped injury.
The English compartment car abomina-
ton would not last in this country SIX weeks.
American newspapers have way OF assail-
ing outrages of this character that does the
business for them IN short order.
\ terrific cyclone, apparently 200 feet vide.
struck Cory, Pa, and did much damage.
The roof of a three story brick building occu-
pied by Stennitts 4 Mortherdges, on North
Center street, was carried 500 yards away.
The International Printers Protective Fra
ternity, at their convention at Milwaukee,
adopted a resolution that the Fraternity
would under no circumstances render assist
ance to an Office where q strike was in pro
gress-
At review of the troops at Spandau the
emperor of Germany gave sudden order &c
the mayor to close the schools and let the
children attend the review. Within fifteen
minutes 5000 children were on the drill
ground.
By the explosion of a Burlington freight
engine near DeadwOOd, S. D., Engineer
Rhinehead and Fireman Wilson were in
stantly killed. Head Brakeman Nelson was
fatally injured. The cause of the explosion
Is unknown.
In one place on the Canadian river, in
Oklahoma, more than 800 forest trees were
twisted from the ground, wrapped around
each other wisp of grass and deposited
in a pile the prairie, forming most
unique, but terrible sight.
FTFl- ~
on the west bank four miles above Omaha.
II is within fifty feet of Florence lake, and
should it break through the river would as
sumo its old channel, leaving the manufac-
turing suburbs on an island
One thousand men are at work ballasting
up the track of the Santa Fe's Chicago line
The road has almost an AR line with heavy
fills and cuts and is determined that 1t viii
suffer no more from washOuts if rock and
riprapping will prevent them.
An attempt was made to wreck the through
express on the Chicago Il Alton from st
LOUIS by placing ties on the track on a curve
at the edge of Marshall, Missouri. freight
train struck the obstruction and knocked 4
OF without derailing the train.
Near Cloves, o., a freight train going ives
and the Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg accom-
mediation going toward Cincinnati met; boil
trains at full speed. All the trainmen eXcep
one brakeman were killed; all passenger
injured and from i've to ten of them killed
Kansas City shippers are trying to find on
the cause OF shrinkage IN weight OF gran
shipped to New Orleans They lind that it l
greater when the grain is transferred from
one car to another at st. Louis or Memphis
and some of them refuse to ship except il
through cars.
The Columbian Passenger association
composed of representatives of all lines cen
tering in Chicago has issued circular re
linz uuka oil
enable people to attend the dedicatory service
of the Worlds Columbian exhibition, OctO
Der IL to Is.
The excess of exports over imports durini
the three years ending March 81, 1889, aggre
gated SIS, So, 1913, or yearly average of 50,
Col, 459. The excess of exports over import
during the past three years ending March 81
1892, aggregated S2S1, 1S7 800, a yearl
average excess OF S9S, ~, 456.
The cases against Thomas Miller, of tn
Burlington, and j. j. Johnson, general agen
of the Rock Island, indicted at Chicago 70
giving discriminating freight rates, have bee
dropped. The shippers who were given tn
favorable rates, and who testified before tn
federal grand jury, refused to give evidenc
in court.
Thousands of acres of wheat lands in tn
Mississippi bottoms of Union and Alexande
counties, Illinois, are flooded by the overfio'
of the river. Farmers are fleeing to the hill
removing merchandise from their stores
skiffs- There IS much suffering, and the 10:
of property will be great.
What's the matter with the decision of Ii
United States supreme court that it Is not a
unlawful discrimination to grant parties {
ten special passenger rates, If 1t be apple
TO freight rates; If 1t Is lawful to carry te
people at a less rate than is charged for on
then il is lawful to haul ten cars of freight 1
n less rate than is charged for one
Fifteen hundred Berlin workmen out
employment held meeting at brewer!
where a number Of violent speeches wei
made, and finally motion was made
march to the town hall and there deman
work or food from the authorities At tn
point the police cleared the hall and disperse
a mob that had assembled outside.
While the Universalists were holding
meeting in the new Week opera house
Pittsburg. Pa, storm struck the buildIn
and burst it out of shape and causing pan
among the congregation, in which mar
people were badly bruised The storm d
great damage all over the city, unroOtu
many outhouses and destroying nunerOl
fences
Secretary Butterield, of the Kansas r,
publican league, announces that there will
an Official league train from Kansas to Il
Minneapolis convention. Il will also carr
the Kansas delegates 1t Will probably go
Kansas City over the Santa Fe and trol
there TO Minneapolis over the Rock Islam,
Secretary Butterield wants everybody goin
on this tram TO notify him.
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