Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-01-28

ton providing that 10000 extra copies OF his
bills relating TO loans aud currency be printed
A sleighIng party in St. Louis was run into
oy train at q crossing. The pole horses
and eight people were killed, and four others
fatally hurt
Owing to over production and difficulty IN
arriving at q satisfactory agreement IN regard
70 freight rates, ten flint glass houses al Pitts
burg, Pa, have closed down. Ten or twelve
more are expected to put out their fires next
week.
It is stated at Philadelphia that the govern
ment Is negotiating for the International
Transportation company's steamer Ohio, 20
be used as a transport. The Ohio IS very
swift boat.
Both houses of the Mississippi legislature
met IN joint convention and formally re-
elected Senators George and Walthall to sue
ceed themselves
The Chicago & st. Louis Electric Railway
company has been chartered to run between
Chicago and St. Louis, with numerous
pranehss- The corporation viii have CAPT
tai of s., 100000.
Nineteen horses were burned to death in
the livery barn of E. c. Smith, at Fremont,
Neb-s and all the carriages and other stock
consumed. The IRE started from an over
turned lantern
The Dearborn building in Kansas City, No,
Is burned The building and all of its occu-
pants suffered losses, which are covered by
scattered insurance; no one company being
heavily concerned.
The Bank of England has reduced its rate
OF discount from 81 per cent to per cent.
Congressman Otis, of Kansas, has intro
cuced resolution providing that the govern
ment printer supply each member of the
house with Congressional Records to the
number Of fifty each.
Frank Smith, farmer near st. Joseph.
40, was killed by the discharge Of revolver
IN the hands of his neighbor. The two were
hunting and the neighbor stumbled which
discharged the weapon
The results of artificial irrigation in Mon
tana have been most encouraging. OVertwo-
thirds of the farms of that state are supplied
with water by artificial means, and they have
developed high degree of fertility.
The whole of the Rio Grande frontier Is
covered with snow for the first time ever
known.
Topeka has cigar box factory, just started,
which expects to turn out ], 500 cigar boxes
daily.
Henry L Preston, editor of the kansas
City Sunday Sun has been indicted and ar
rested Tho penalty in Missouri for publish
ing Or selling publication of the character
OF the Sun Is from two to five years in prison
The two Kansas City, Mo-, fires Sunday
left the ruins festooned with icicles, and the
streets a mass Of ice; the water at one time
lNA--A AOlI AeCA NeGl II HlAIGr- COl4lC u Llc
hremen's trucks had to be chopped out of the
leo next day.
Tho New York World, in an article about
Senator Plumb, calls him George B. Plumb
all through il. New York newspaper writers
are getting to be about as Ignorant concern
ing Americans as the London newspapers
have always been
OF twenty-three mail trains due in Chicago
on the cold morning from all parts, fourteen
had, up to noon, failed to arrive and not one
OF them was on time. blockade Is on, the
most extensive the postofice officials remem-
Der to have ever experienced.
On the London stock exchange business
has been notably contracted. The fact that O
remarkable number of members are suffer
1ng from influenza retarded dealings. The
general tendency was downwards, yet several
American railroad securities advanced.
The collier San Matoe has been chartered
at san Francisco to take coal from Nanaimo
TO Chilli. The captain of the collier states
that the United States government has char
tered the vessel and hns ordered him to get
his cargo through as rapidly as possible.
The interstate commerce commission has
Needed that railroad company cannot ex-
act nom a coal shipper promise to pay de
snurrage in case he fails to unload coal within
torty-eight hours; the promise being made a
condition OF delivery upon the dealers switch.
There was a meeting of Forty-niners al
New York upon the anniversary of the dis
coFery Of gold in California. Former like
Ineetirgs usually called together many more
than this one; less than fifty being present.
Forty-four years Is quite spell' added TO a
mans prime.
The force of men at work at Mare Island
navy yard, CAL Is larger than it has been for
years. Work no longer ceases at shutdown
out Is continued by the aid nf electric lights
until 10 O'Clock at night, while the distinction
between SIecssdays and week days has been
iUst sight of for weeks.
If it becomes necessary for congress to take
action and give the president war powers, in
connection with the Chilli trouble, the vote
Will be emphatic, having but little opposition.
Members OF congress of both parties are GER
tain to sustain the government in case of q
necessity to enter upon war.
Senator German was reelected by the
Maryland legislature. The ballot for second
senator was widely distributed among nine
candidates. There was no election. The
most prominent candidates seem to be ex-
Governor jackson, Senator Gibson, present
incumbent, and Governor Brown.
Steamship advices from China state that
the most destructive storm experienced at
Hong Kong for some years occurred Deem
Der 3. Three hundred vessels, including a
Chinese junk with a large number of people
aboard, and the Norwegian bark Aaron found
cred or were driven ashore and wrecked
AIrs. Mary Simpson, a fashionable dress
at Chicago. Walking out upon the ice at the
foot of Ohio street she Invested herself of all
her clothing and lay down in perfectly nude
state upon the ice to die. Her dead and rigid
body was found there next morning She had
been sick and IS supposed to have become in
sane.
Since the new wheat has been available the
Minneapolis mills have run as they never run
before, their work for the first four months
of the crop year being unprecedented as 10
FhEsrr f0F 3
the calendar year, too. IS above anything ever
before done. The year of 1888, heretofore
the banner year, IS exceeded by over 800, 600
barrels.
The New York Herald's representative AT
Valparaiso cables: Warlike reports are. in
my opinion, sent out from this country by
persons who seem anxious to bring about S.
rious trouble between Chilli and the United
States. These dispatches are invariably col
ored highly, and in many instances are sent
with the cOnnivance of those who wish to
profit on exchange
The mouths of the tunnels at the SUNNY
cribs, out IN theiake, at Chicago, we've choked
with anchor ice during the cold snap and for
several hours the entire city's supply of water
was cut on. This stopped most manufactur-
ings stopped elevators in the tall buildings,
and, what was worse, put the entire city in
danger from fires. The blockade was broken
by ire boat, which attacked the masses OF
ice with powerful streams of water.
GENERAL MAkKEr&
KANSAS CErv. January %