Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-14
KANSAS.

me cap-stone of the Mormon temple az
Salt Lake was laid oil the 9th, in the presence
Of from 10000 to $1,000 people.
Destructive waterspouts are reported to
have occurred at Winona, No. and IN Ala
bama- The latter rayished vide territory.
Grant City, No, lost the roofs from six
brick buildings by the gale. Much damage
was done in the county. No wire eommuhl-
cation yet.
Prince Bismarck was Il on April L He
looked remarkably well. An immense num- num-
Der of gifts were sent to him from all parts
of the empire.
United States Pension Agent Bernard Kelly
4 very sick with infiammatory rheumatism
At one time his condition has been eonsld-
cred dangerous.
Worlds fairs: Vienna, 40 acres, cost So
10000 in preparation; Philadelphia, ~ acres,
cost 81 600 900; Paris, 1889, 60 acres, cost slO-
OOO,oOOi Chicago, 500 acres, cost S-o.OOO'OOO.
Owing to the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease in Belgium the French gov
eminent viii issue an order prohibiting the
importation of live stock from that country.
While the big cotton fire was raging in
New Orleans a fire in the residence portion
of the city swept four blocks clean, except
four buildings. The wind was blowing
gale.
A demand for an eight hour day will be
made May ? by the United Brotherhood OF
Carpenters, in Baltimore, Cincinnati Den
Yer. Salt Lake, Decatur, Ill, and Toronto,
Ontario.
W. R. Hill, of Baltimore, claims that he is
the inventor of the balloons now IN use by
the German army observation corps
The courts are twisting the Kansas freight
rates matter worse than the cyclones twisted
villages Judge Caldwell has suspended Judge
Riner's injunction in the Wichita case.
Unprecedentediy heavy rains are prevail
ing in LismOre, a rich agricultural district in
Australia The rivers are OVERLOOKING, houses
swept away and crops destroyed Several
persons have been drowned.
Judge Phillips, of the Uuited States court,
at Kansas City, Is very sick with pneumonia
The wind storm blew down the chimney from
TIN furnace, leaving the house without fire,
ich aggravated his sickness.
1t is reported at Omaha that ]. S. Leeds
will be appointed traffic manager of the
Union Pacific, to succeed c. ). Mellen, who
resigned. This Is contingent upon Jay Gould
continuing in control of the road.
General W. s. Singleton died at Baltimore,
aged 81 years In 1865 President Lincoln in
trusted General Singleton with mission to
Richmond, whittier he went four times and
conferred with jefferson Davis and Others
By the settlement arrived at between the
managers of the Santa Fe road and the tele-
graph opGrilOEs cLlllO1eQ ul the com lauls
advances in their pay Will increase the aggrs-
gate paid TO this class of employees $4,000
year
Wonderful tales are told of the action of
the wind in the late gale which covered many
states II Is fact that the most lively imag-
inatlon cannot concOct a story but that the
real cyclone viii beat; if not in kind, yet in
degree.
The Southern Express company, the United
States and Pacific, have all followed the lead
of the Adams Express company, and are get
ting nd of brotherhood messengers as they
find a chance. The Southern discharged
ninety.
The Methodist church at Mandan, n. D.,
Is burned, and there is great Indignation ex-
pressed since it Is supposed to have been set
on fire out of revenge on the pastor and lead
ing members for their work in enforcing pro
hibitiOn-
The ''Yellow house." the presidents resi-
dence in Caracas, Venezuela, was the scene
of a bomb explosion, which destroyed every
window and partially wrecked the building.
The president was in council with his chief
officers at the time.
Nelson Morris & Co, Chicago packers, have
entered suit to recover S89O,OOO from various
railroad companies for alleged Overcharges
on dressed beef said 10 have been paid under
protest for fourteen months after the enact
ing OF the interstate law.
The whole of the city of st. Petersburg was
shaken oy the explosion of i've tons of gun
cotton at the factory for making smOkeless
powder. So much fear of dynSm is felt
there that the first impression was that an
archists had got in their work.
Captain Hall with two companies of cavalry
has elected several hundred boomers from
he strip and burned their houses. The en-
tire 100000 acres of the strip will now be
put under military patrol and all boomers,
hunters and settlers will be kent out.
The commissioner of the Indian bureau
has been informed of serious damage to the
building of the Haskell institute. He made
known the fact to Senator Perkins, who sue
ceeded in attaching to tho appropriation bill
$1,000 to be used IN repairing damages
whitelaw Reid says that the recent attitude
of the pope advising the Catholic subjects of
France to support the constituted authorities
has had the effect or attaching the clerical
party to the cause of the republic, although
hitherto they have been in sympathy with
monarchy.
Mrs. Charles Shirley, of Ashland, Wis, has
fallen heir to quarter interest in 81, sou, Goa
estate in New York city and has left for that
place to take legal steps to procure the prop
erty. The estate was left by a great uncle,
who died wealthy and unknown in New York
many years ago
Two decisions by two boards of arbitrators,
in two cases of complaint of one railroad that
another railroad mad done a certain thing.
both boards of arbitrators hearing each its
case at the same time, were exactly opposite
each other. This occurred in Chicago a few
days ago and shows that arbitration does not
always result in justice.
\ fire in New Orleans destroyed three cotton
presses with, ten. ten and fifty thousand bales
of cotton; with ten thousand more in yards.
A whole block was burned. There will be
salvage on the cotton, so much as to bring
the total loss down nearly to 2,OOO,0 900 ON
cotton and $50, 600 on presses and sheds. 1t
is thought that the ire started from a ciga-
rette.
The Bittman-Todd Grocery company and
Roehhing 4 Co, wholesale grOcers of Iseav-
enworth filed a motion in the district court
to interplead in the suit of the Symns Grocer
company, of Atchison, to restrain the rail
road commissioners of Kansas from putting
into effect the order of the board of March 5,
affecting fifth class rates The Leavenworth
jobbers heartily indorse the action of Symns
& Co.
Great excitement was caused at Madrid by
the discovery of an anarchist plot to blow VI
the chamber of deputies. Two arrests were
made A document was found on the pris-
oneIs containing the draft of the plan OF ac-
ton of a cosmopolitan socisty according
which the cOnsplrators we're inst to blow VI
the chamber Of deputies; second, the senate
third, the law courts; fourth the council OF
state; fifth, the ministry of war; sixth, the
royal palace IN the chapal, and seventh, the
Bank OF Spain All this work was to be COM
pleted before May day.
GENERAL Markets
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