Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-24
NEWS BREYITIEs.

The Michigan prohibition state convention
declared against fusion with the peoples
party.
Ingraham & Co.'s wholesale drug store at
Detroit, with adjoining buildings are dam
aged by fire IL large amounts.
The New York congressional apportion-
ment bill, as prepared, gives the democrats
sixteen and the republicans fifteen districts.
The improvement in the condition of Rep
resentatiVe Springer continues, but his prog
ress toward recovery is exceedingly slow and
tedious.
The New York Produce Exchange has
followed the example set by the Chicago
board of trade in pressing the fight against
puts and calls.
The house committee on territories finished
the consideration OF the Arizona statehood
bill, and decided to report it favOrably to the
house in an amended form.
The management of Yale has decided that
next fall all post graduate courses with the
degree of doctor of Philosophy" will be
open without distinction to sex.
A fire at Bloomfield, Ia, laid waste the en-
tire south side of the public square, including
the opera house and many fine store build
ings. The loss Will probably reach 100000.
At Liege, Belgium, three anarchists, who
stole from the powder magazine 500 pounds
of dynamite and then tried to blow up the
to penal servitude for from twelve to fifteen
years.
Claus Spreckles says that under the pres
emit tariff law sugar monopoly Is impossible.
He says: st don't favor trusts and never
did. My refinery Is now and always will be
conducted independent of every other in
terest."
Mrs. Potter Palmer made an address be
fore thespecial house committee on the worlds
Fas.- of
bill before the committee to appropriate $780,
600 to be disbursed directly by the board of
lady managers of the exposition.
Mining industries in Colorado are much
more active than for years. New companies
are being organized and new mining fields be-
ing worked, the announcements of lucky
finds increasing, and the precious metals be-
ing brought out of their hiding places.
The Subcommittee of the house Judiciary
committee viii shortly look into the charges
that the clerks offices in Boston of both the
district and circuit courts of the United States
are being worked to make all the money pos
sible out of them, and that the court officers
are engaged in fee-taking practices.
While attempting to cross the Missouri
river in a skif at Nebraska City, three I'M
known men met death. They had embarked
from the Iowa side and reached the middle
of the river, when their boat was crushed by
seen by several persons, who were powerles
to render assistance, and the three men per
ished.
Mail advices from Parilla received at
Panama bring news of the latest Indian up
rising in the COldilleras. The Toba tribes
are at the head of the outbreak and with them
are many other tribes heretofore friendly
toward their Spanish neighbors. Half a dozen
towns have been destroyed, several frontier
missions have been wiped out and murder
and pillage still go on.
News of the strike of the trainmen of the
western division of the Canadian Pacific was
received with interest by the grand officers OF
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen who
were at Gahesburg, Ill. Grand Master E. 5.
Wilkinson authorized the strike because the
Canadian Pacific would not grant the Amer
lean schedule of wages and declined to allow
the employees to remain members of the
brotherhood.
The resolutions adopted BY the Iowa STATE
republican convention gave expressions Of
fealty of the Iowa republicans TO the republi
can party, endorsed the administration o.
President Harrison strongly favored protec
nance of sound currency and making ever
dollar equal to every other dollar No IN
structiOns were given to delegates &c the IA
bonal convention.
Secretary Foster, on his return from Lon
| don, says that the silver question Is one o
the principal topics of conversation there
He adds: Il also notice that there Is an In
creasing sentiment IN favor of bi-metalism
| This sentiment. however, finds but slOs
| growth among the bankers ana brokers o
| Lombard street, which corresponds with on
Nan street. They are generally opposed to-
change i IS to-day the burning question l
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