Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-04
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The British minister to Guatemala has tel
egraphed to the foreign Office in London
that the government of Honduras has closed
its coast to foreign commerce.
Southwest Texas is again appealing for
aid. The country is without grass water,
crops are total failure, and the live stock
industry has sustained a heavy loss, and it Is
stated unless assistance Is gwen the poor
people starvation viii result.
Rev. Dr.. F. 7. Ingalls,, president of Drury
college, and brother of ex-senator ingalls, of
Kansas. Is lying, at Springfield. Mo-, criti-
eaLy ill from Inflammation of the bowels,
due to hard travel by rail and highway in
filling lecture and other engagements in
southwest Missouri.
There was a slight frost at Great Falls,
Mont, July D. The weather rs very cold.
Mr.. Tricks condition continues favorable.
All conditions point to a safe and speedy re-
covery.
Secretary Rusz has arrived at his farm near
VlroauR, Wis. and viii remuin an indefinite
period.
All the ''hello'' girls IN the indianapolis.
Ind, telephone Office have struck. They say
the rules are unreasonable and they cannot
obey them.
Henry Adams, of New Hampshire. and
James Deereshy Walton, an Euglishman,
were scOrched to death in an attempt to reach
the crater of a volcano near Columbia, Mexico
Texas fever is raging all through the In
Oil an Territory ana great NUMBER OF cdGtta
are dying from the disease. 1t is feared that
the disease will spread into the lower Kansas
counties.
A frightful accident occurred at Bagley,
Mich, on the north shore of Ozgo lake. The
Hartnell Smith single mill was blown to
atoms by the explosion of b OileF, killing
i've persons and fatally injuring two others
member of the advisory committee of
the strikers is reported as saying that the
committee has definitely decided that the
Carnegie works at Homestead shall not be-
worked by non-union men% that they will be
blown up to prevent it.
Our readers will remember the particulars
of some remarkable cures published some
| weeks ago in these columns. These articles
| attracted widespread attention for the rea-
| son that medical science had hitherto held
| that the diseases in question were incurable.
| In this issue will be found the particulars of
| another equally remarkable case, the person
who thus miraculously recovered being one
/ of the best known merchants of Detroit,
Mich. The article appears under the head
| ing "a Detroit Miracle" and is worthy a
| careful perusal.
Bay City, Mich, has been visited by ter
| rible contiagration. The fire started in Miller
| d Turner's manufacturing establishments,
destroying It, and swept onward with mighty
| force, licking up house after house until, at 8
! o'clock p. m, upwards OF 300 dwellings had
| been destroyed and the fire still sweeping to-
| wards the eastern limits of the city. At 10
| o'clock p. M. the fire was under control.
| Thirty blocks were laid bare and 2, 500 build
| ings destroyed. woman and two children
are supposed to have been burned to death
The entire loss will reach upwards of $10,-
600 900.
A terrific sewer gas explosion occurred in
st. Louis, Mo-, on July &c, which wrecked
nearly one-half of the Great Mill creeks
sewer, the largest of the city's drainage sys-
tenn, caused the loss of three lives and the
| injuring of two others. The explosion Oc-
CURED under the wholesale liquor house of
| E. Fuchs, 1014 South Fourth street, and was
followed an instant later by an upheaval 100
feet further east, completely wFecking tbs
| Iron Mountain railroads southern yards and
extending nearly 1000 feet TO the edge of the
river. The pecuniary loss cannot now be
| estimated.