Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-19
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Senator Calls resolution about Cuban re-
public has now been Offered by him at three
consecutive sessions OF the senate.
- At the general conference of the A. NJ. E.
Zion church at Pittsburg, Pa, Rev Dr.. Al
bert Walters, of New York, and Kew. Or. };
c. Clinton, of North Carolina were elected
bishops.
Miles of low lands in Illinois, opposite Bur
lington Ia are under water and railroad
traffic has been abandoned. The losses IN
various ways are estimated at hundreds OF
thousands
General Master Workman Powderly says
membership of Knights of Labor during the
past three months of over 5000. This, he
says is unprecedented.
A house went over the dam at South Bend,
Ind, passed under several bridges, but broke
one further down stream.
A Guthrie special says: Judge Botkin, the
central figure in the notorious county seat
troubles in western Kansas, has arranged TO
open law Office in FL Reno and Will resign
his judgeship in Kansas.
The low part of Fort Wayne, Ind, has been
deserted permanently; families who were
driven out by water will not reoccupy their
houses. At least 500 farms in the vicinity
were oyerfiowed with great loss.
dispatch from Cabul, capital of Afghan
istan, states that cholera is epidemic in that
city. The ameer has withdrawn from the
palace, and Is residing in camp that has
been established little distance outside the
walls.
Bradstreet's report of strikes for the first
week in May shows that they involved only
1850 individuals as compared with 1000 IN
the corresponding week in 1891 and 54,OOO IN
the corresponding week in 1880.
Horace H. Suttle, of Steamboat Springs
Col. has sold fifteen elk to George Gould,
son of Jay Gould, of New York, and as soon
as arrangements can be made they will be
shipped to Mr.. Gould's park on the Hudson
river
A Des Moines dispatch says that Iowa
farmers are discouraged. What little whea
and oats are planted look yellow, and unless
there is sudden change IN the weather q
great deal of the land will remain implanted
this year.
The Federation of Women's clubs is in ses-
sion at Chicago. The Palmer house corridors
are filed with caucussing groups OF crlnoune.
President Clark, of the Union Pacific rail-
road, has not decided who will be appointed
general manager of the system. Mr.. Clark,
however, will reside at Omaha and Will chiefly
operate the road from that point.
The Third district convention at Emporia,
to name a candidate for j. q. Otis place,
took thirty odd ballots Monday evening, and
Tuesday morning gave the nomination to
Charley Curtis, of Topeka; SO to 80, on the
first ballot.
At the Milwaukee meeting of the Printers
Protective Fraternity delegates were present
from eleven states. The employment of a
national organizer, who should devote all his
time to the interests of the order, was deter
mined upon.
Again southwest Iowa is flooded and wash
outs reported on all railroads. Rain has been
falling in torrents. All creeks and rivers are
out of banks and bottom lands are under
fr1rl ON n ten feet All seed
the ground is rotted.
The Illinois river is higher than it has been
since 1874. Opposite Pekin 200 feet break
in dyke flooded reclaimed land, two and a
half miles by five miles; all cultivated and
occupied by farmers families. rescuing
party went out to save lives.
Great alarm was caused at st. Petersburg
by an explosion that occurred IN a street near
the Nicholas bridge. 1t was at first thought
that dynamite had been at work, but an IN
vestigation soon revealed the fact that the
explosion was caused by gas
The colored members of the NJ. E. general
conference are working to have coiored
bishop elected. The committee on eDlsco-
pacy delays its report, and there is something
of a conviction prevailing that no new bishops
will be elected by this conference.
The Women's Board of Home and Foreign
Missions of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, at their twelfth annual convention IN
Independence NO. dlOplGu d IE5OLuL4Ou IAAeib
no funds controlled by the board be used to
support missionaries who use tobacco.
Che smaller packers, known as the non
ASSOCIATES, who have been lighting Armour,
Swift and Morris, known as the associate
packers, in the Union stock yards litigation,
have combined under the name of the Inter
national Packing and Provision company.
A lineman for the Chicago Telephone COM
pany received a shock of electricity while
talking through a telephone during a storm,
which rendered him insane. He does not re-
member anything about the accident, and
talks irrationally about telephones and wires.
The spring rise in the Missouri river is
likely to stay on until the snow rise, usually
called the June rise, which nearly always
comes down IN May, Is likely TO catch It. II
SO the traditional season of 1874 will be dupli-
Gated, and all low ground Will be washed
over.
The Wabash company has purchased II, 600
tons of steel rail weighing seventy-two pounds
to the yard, to be put into its main line be-
tween Toledo and St. Louis. The rails taken
up are to be used in extension OF yards at
Toledo and additional sidetracks along the
main line.
The Printers Protective Fraternity at its
meeting in Milwaukee decided to retain the
mortuary benefit, and instructed Its COM
mittee on laws to report the necessary legis-
lation to provide for strengthening that fea-
ture and for the better collection of mortuary
assessments.
The Concord, one of the new steel vessels,
which was sent to Memphis to attend the
opening of the new bridge, has orders to go
TO st. Louis if the captain thinks It Is pru-
dent. She draws sixteen feet seven inches,
and must make the round trip during the
freshet, if at all.
All work on the Consolidated Tank Line
yards in Kansas City, Kan, has been stopped
on account of the water backing up into the
Yards The cellar in Kelley Bros cooper
shop has several feet of water, and the base
ment and first story of the Kansas City glue
works are submerged.
The Reading freight station at Philadel-
phia is burned; loss, $50, 900, including build
ing, freight and the stationery supply for the
entire Reading system, which was distributed
from that point, and valuable car records for
seven years past. Other books were saved
intact. The loss is covered by insurance.
Colonel G. W. Bushyhead, delegate to the
Baptist convention, breathed his last at At
lanta, Georgia. Colonel Bushyhead was an
ex-chief of the Cherokee Indians of the North
Carolina reservation. He was cousin of
the famous BushYhead, chief of the CheFokees
of the reservation in the Indian Territory.
Chairman Hatch, of the committee on agri-
culture will make an earnest effort to secure
consideration of the anti-optiOn bill as soon
as the sundry bill is out of the way. The
anti-option bill is, however, vigorously op-
posed by many members, who Will use all
the devices known to parliamentarlans to
keen the measure in the background.