Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-24
KANSAS.
PRILLIPSBURG,
The governor of Massachusetts, has signed
the anti-free pass bill.

Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, the father OF
the senate. is critically i'll with pneumonia
He is 81 years old, and has been N the senate
since 1866.
Danbury, Conn, has suffered by hre
which destroyed many buildings, the loss De
ing variously estimated at from SIosOOO 10
slOO,OOO
'"'he big snow storm of the week extended
throughout Texas, Arkansas ana west len
nessee. 1t was terrible" in Oklahoma, by
local description.
The Santa Fe route has cut the second class
passenger rate from the Missouri river 10
California points from S35 to SlA.5O; to take
effect June Is, 1882.
The rate war east out Of Chicago TO Buffalo
has affected rates out of Kansas CITY, The
rate from Kansas City to Buffalo has been re-
dueed from so to $3.50.
The coal miners strike in Great Britain
has already stopped the wages of more than
half a million men, This will be trebled IN
two or three weeks if It continues
Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas board of
agriculture. says that the recent cold weather
has not injured wheat. That II would bear
freezing down TO the ground at this time OF
year.
The epidemic of yellow fever at Rio jan
Giro is local visitor. and IS not alarming.
At Santos, however, which Is purely ship
ping town, the plague has reached trighttul
proportions.
The Kansas City, No., police relief fund
has $4,000 in its treasury.
General Porter, the United States minister
to Italy who has been in this country for
three months, has been ordered to return to
his post at Rome without unnecessary delay.
Droves of destitute negroes are starting
from Arkansas TO 90 TO Oklahoma They
gather in bands of hundred or more and
move on foot, with wagon or two to carry
their possessions
The painted windows of St. Gervais church,
Paris, damaged by the dynamite explosion,
are works Of the thirteenth century. The
loss arising from the damage they have suf-
fered IS irreparable.
The state military school at Charleston, s.
C., partially burned. Loss $4,000; insured
The Peoples Savings bank at Atchison,
Kansas, which closed year or more ago, has
Just paid the last installment of what was due
its deposltors.
steamboat which sunk at Waverly, Mo-,
thirty-four years ago, with a cargo of iron,
steel and merchadise, and has lain imbedded
in the sand aud water beneath the surface, is
now to be hshed out.
Rev. B. U. Watkins died suddenly of apo
plexy at his home in South Cameron, Mo.
He was of almost national reputation in the
Christian church. having been preacher
since p years of age.
Directors of the old Cherokee Live Stock
association are worried over note of theirs
for 100000 given to the CherOkees for graz
ing cattle on territory which the United States
forbid them to occupy.
A fire damp explosion in Belgian mine
caught 300 men, of whom nearly, or quite 200
are probably killed. Forty, some of them
alive, were taken out, but there was no hopes
of rescuing more alive
L
nation of the conclusion of reciprocity ar
rangement with Nicaragua This lets many
American manufactures and farm products
into that country duty free.
Hon. Fred Douglas has accepted the posi-
ton offered him by Hayti as its representa-
tive at the Worlds Columbian commission.
The government of Hayu has appropriated
S25 600 to be spent on its exhibit.
The southern Kansas conference of the NJ.
Z. church, in session at Ottawa, voted, 60 to
u, to admit women to the general confer
ence. COheyville was named as the place to
hold the next annual conference.
Watterson, of Kentucky, says that a candi-
date for president from New York is not to
be thought of by the democratic party: that
they must 60 west or to Massachusetts, Penn
sylvania or Maryland for a winning man.
The Court Circular. referring to the death OF
Grand Duke of Hesse, says: Another heavy
blow has fallen on the queen, who feels that she
loses a real son. The Grand Duke of Hesse
was tenderly loved by the whole royal family.
There are reports of several homesteaders
near Iron River, Wis, perishing in the recent
storm. They were out exploring about the
new copper fields, and have been missing
several days. Two or three searching parties
are out.
The contract for the construction of the
Hutchinson & Southern railway from An.
thony, Kan, through Guthrie TO Denison,
frav n ~ hos Il
at Guthrie, o. t. A Brooklyn, n. Y, man
Is the contractor.
An Irish priest took a number of sprigs OF
shamrock to Rome secured a special audi
ence by the pope, presented to him the crys-
tai Golfer bearing the papal arms, which en-
closed the shamrock. The pope wore a sprig
of it on St. Patrick's day.
The Russian government has ordered that
in the future two grain depots shall be estab-
iished to every 300 peasants huts, and that
from these depOts seed corn snail be distri-
buted in the spring to the peasants, who must
return 1t in the autumn.
The house committee on foreign affairs has
reported bill which seems likely to pass the
house, which Is more restrictive on Chinese
immigration than the present law; as it pro
poses to keep out Chinese merchants and pro
fessional men as well as laborers
The subcommittee of the committee on
public grounds and buildings, consisting oil
congressman 1Areuegs AuuOLL and EnOclS,
made a favorable report on Senator PETERS
bill appropriating 5000 200 for public build.
ing at Kansas City, Kan
The Santa Fe and Rock Island have issued
circulars announcing a rate of one fare fol
the round trip from Missouri river points and
points cas-. of the river to all points in Okla.
homa, tickets to be sod March - and good
returning up to and including April 21-
The prohibitionists and peoples party il
Indiana will nrObabtV unlta IN plaeino state
congressional, Legislative and county ticket:
conference by the leaders Of the two parties
The said parties claim they viii poll unitedly
10000 votes IN Indiana.
The character of the instructions to tn,
United States naval and revenue vessels des-
tined for duty in Behring sea this season vii
depend almost altogether on the attitude &
be assumed by Great Britain, and as the YES
sells have to be in the vicinity of the sea by
May 1, there Is very little time to spare II
preparations.
The Missouri supreme court declares the
antitrust law of 1881. of that state, contrary
TO the constitution, because 1t fixes punish
ments for acts and also assumes to compe
testimony asatO whether or not a company
corporation or individual Is a member of
trust. No man, according to the opinion
which was written by Judge Barclay, can bS
compelled TO testify to anything that vii
criminate himself
GENERAL MARKETS.