Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-13
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There is q dispute between the railroads
and the grain men of Kansas City, as to
which shall pay the salaries of the weigh
masters.
The tenth annual convention of chief fire.
engineers held four days session at Louis
vile, KY. during the week. Nancy hanks
trotted for their benefit.
East bound shipments keep up to over co.
900 tons week. This is by rail and $4,000
tons of it Is -four. By lake shipments about
125,OOO tons go east weekly.
Three men and one woman were killed,
and several more hit with bullets, and cut
with raZors at revival meeting among ne
groes near Fulton, Missouri.
The entire Rock Island system show gross
earnings in September of nearly $2,OOO,OOO.
Developments show that the first practical
result of the eight hour law is to increase bids
on public works about 20 per cent.
D. NJ. Boyd one of our young men who at
tended Elliott's Business College, Burlington,
Ia, Is now assistant cashier of large Trust
Company, Kansas City, Mo.
Charles T. PETER, eldest son of Senator
PETER, an engineer on the Missouri Pacific
railroad. was killed in a wreck at Gypsum
City the morning of October 6.
William Lincoln, former paying teller of
Nork city, died of hydrophobia at his hand
some residence IN Morrisiana.
Fire, with an explosion in one of the stores
burned, destroyed an entire block of brick
business buildings at Howell, Michigan. Two
men were killed and others hurt or burned.
Fire at the Union stock yards at Omaha,
Neb., burned about $4,000 wo nth of sheep
sheds and smothered 1913 sheep owned by
Swift q Co. and Others. The loss is $4,000.
Germany has offered to Ulises Heureaux,
president of San Domingo, an annual bride
of $50, 600 for life if he would declare the
reciprocity treaty with the United States alb
rogated.
Appropriations now being expended on
federal buildings will require additional
amounts to be appropriated hereafter, to the
extent OF one-hfth more, on account of the
eight hour law.
From the president down To the humblest
employe of the White house there Is a feeling
of depression that nothing but more en-
couraglng statement of Mrs. Harrlson's con-
dltlon can dispel.
A whaling steamer has arrived in San
Francisco after thirty months voyage in
Arctic regions. Her catch for the cruise has
been thirty-eight whales, whose bones and
oil represent value of 100000.
DR.. Douglass, the famous throat specialist
who abandoned his practice and devoted his
whole time to General Grant for six months,
died in Washington, October 2, from the
same disease as the ex-prcsident.
The Southern Pacific has given notice that
1t will accept no more corn via Eagle Pass
or any grain billed via that port. The La
redo situation remains unchanged and from
| all reports there is only one route yet open
to Mexico.
The heavy Mexican trade that sprung into
| life with the suspension of the Mexican duty
on corn has been great thing for Kansas
| City grain men as well as for western farm
ers. 1t is said that several Kansas City grain
firms have made $50, 600 each out OF the bust
| ness.
Two years ago Chauncey Depew told Mr..
| Gladstone, while at dinner with the "grand
| old man." that of the ID, 100000 voters IN the
| United States there we're not 10000 who
| would not favor home rulo In Ireland. Mr..
| Gladstone recently referred to this in q
| speech.
John G. Farr, of Paris, Tex, was awarded
| $12, 500 damages against the st. Louis d San
Francisco Railway company in the United
States court for the Indian Territory. The
loss to Farr is of his left leg, which was cut
off by the defendants train while Farr was
in the discharge of his duty.
Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England,
died at his home at AldwOrth early on the
| morning of October 6. 1t is remarkable that
| while bulletins were being sent to the world
at large during his illness, the people of Aid
worth knew nothing of his condition. He
| had no close friends there.
A Washington dispatch says that some of the
| veterans who came at the time of the Grand
| Army encampment are staying here. They
| mad round trip tickets but either lost or sold
them. A writer to the Star, who says there
are about 100 men still in the city, asks that
| they be assisted to their homes.i
Toby Sporetti, a railroad boss in charge OF
| a gang of italian laborers near Bradford
Pa, was blown into eternity by can of dy.
Mantle being exploded under his bunk. The
laborers were paid a few days ago. and
charged that Sporetti held out part of then
wages for board, which was not due.
A great sensation was created at Home
stead, Pa, by the arrest for treason of
number of the members of the advisory
. committee of the Homestead strikers. The
arrests came like thunderbolt to the stFik
ers. The penalty, which formerly was DEATH
is now twelve years in the penitentary.
Minister Patrick Egan, who Is now IN thii
country, says that the people of Chilli arr
more friendly toward this country than thel
have been for the past fifty years. When wal
with this country seemed imminent the state
department at Washington was in receipt o.
accurate information and understood tbs
situation fully.