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

has declared himself as presldenaa- eandi-
Gate.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Cotton, late
lord justice of her majesty's court OF appeal,
Is dead
John Danforth was shot in a riot that &C
CURED at the republican convention at west
field, Ind.
The Prince of Wales has decided TO sever
his connection with the turf, and has can
celled all his entries.
A bill has been introduced in the Miss
issippi legislature making the birthday of
Jefferson Davis legal holiday.
1--WE. Hughes was elected grand fore
man A. o. U. W. at PittsbuFg, Kan, and L.
A. Beck grand receiver. They are both OF
Topeka.
In north Wales 600 quarrymen have been
thrown out of work by the snow, which has
fallen to a great depth in that part OF the
country.
The president is suffering from an obstinate
cold, and has been compelled to decline
number of invitations, including New York
board of trade dinner.
The situation at Briceville, Tenn, becomes
every day more critical. Actual war is on,
with skirmishing every night. The miners
outnumber the militia.
Miss Quay; daughter of Senator Quay, re-
ceived telegram from home dated Fort
ENCrCG, Il ld.s btlSlLBs I(O lAOb NC
Rumors that am seriously i'll are unfounded.
My cold has almost entirely left me-"
Mrs. John A. Logan is suffering from a
fall caused by the collapse of camp stool.
She has slightly injured her spine and Is now
confined to her room, not seriously hurt, but
sufficiently SO to make her friends very
anxious.
John ID. Rockefeller has given a million
dollars to the endowment fund of the Chica-
go university. In the letter rendering the
gift to the university he says: II make this
gift as special thanks to Almighty God for
returning health"
A dispatch from Dublin states that 'tele
graph wires and poles are down in all dlrec-
tions throughout Ireland, and that railway
traffic Is interrupted. The snow storm con-
tinues in the north of England, and railway
traffic is seriously impeded.
MIS-. Harrison has given public reception
which attracted more people to the White
house than ever assembled there before on
similar occasion. Sixty-one hundred persons
entered the mansion, and when the reception
closed hundreds were still awaiting admis-
sion.
While DR.. Volcovitch, the Bulgarian agent
at ConstantinOple, was proceeding to his
club, a man suddenly sprang upon him,
stabbed him in the left side and escaped!
The motive of the crime IS unknown. Vol
covitch was seriously wounded, but Will re
cover.
A receiver has been appointed for the Indi-
ana Natural Gas and Pipe Line company on
complaint of Winfield d Tabor and Dyke
man, Wilson & Tabor, law firms, to whom
the company is largely indebted. This is the
company which contemplated piping gas into
Chicago.
At a recent conference between the Cana
dian commissioners and Secretary Blaine
and General Foster, it was decided to make
an international survey and to establish the
boundary between Alaska and British Column
bia, which is now IN dispute between the two
governments.
A commercial agency at Chicago procured
a statement from the National Union compa-
ny's treasurer, R. ]. Spencer, which shows
that S747, 200 had been invested in forty stores
in various localities, chiefly south and west.
The average price paid for the stores is said
to be 5000, total-Of $4,000.
Minister Ryan of Mexico telegraphs the
state department that the minister of foreign
the bands of Catarina CARA were organized
solely in the state of Texas, and, thanks to
the efficient pursuit of the same by United
States forces, have been completely dispersed.
The Indiana delegation in congress met
and decided to vote as a unit on the silver
question, and to vote against postponement
of the free coinage bill and in favor of its
passage. The result of the meeting was dis
couraging to the anti-silver men, who thought
Bynum would lead the effort to postpone the
bill.
The report of Secretary Schilling at St.
Louis showed that less than $50 remained in
the parry exchequer and that of s., 200 sub
scribed at the Cincinnati convention, only
one subscriber at Cincinnati had turned in
cent. Chairman Taubeneck was authorized
to appoint committee of ten to canvass for
funds.
Lieutenant Edward Delahay, of the navy,
died at Leavenworth last week, of consunp-
ton. DE entered the navy over twenty years
sineei was IN polar rescuing expedition,
and from there was sent to tropical waters.
The result was broken health, from which he
never recovered. He was son ofJudge Mark
w. Delahay.
The snow in Spain, softened by the recent
rains, Is rapidly melting, with the result that
floods IN the provinces of Grenada, Malaga,
Alnerla and Cornova are increasing. Sew
eral towns are flooded, and already enormous
damage has been done to all kinds of prop
erty. 1t is feared that unless the waters sub
side soon the loss viii be incalculable.
The Grand Army managers ana the Sol
diers' Home were both disappointed in falling
to get Especial excursion train from Atchison
to the home. The Missouri Pacific people
fay they have not spare car in the state F;
fhat the Texas and Arkansas laws, recently
enforced, which compel separate cars for ne
groess forced every spare car TO those states.
The joint committee raised by the indus
trial conference at St Louis to locate the ma
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lected Omaha, Neb. The time had already
been fixed for July 4. The basis of repreSen-
tation shall be four delegates from each con-
gressional district, and eight delegates from
each state at large, making the total number
1,776.
The Indianapolis street car strike is still on.
President Frenzel of the street railway com
pany, made his third request on the mayor
for police assistance, which, as on the other
two occasions, was refused. This IS done
regularly, preparatory to a suit for damages
| against the city, the mayor claiming that the
police have no night to interfere except when
| property and life are endangered.
The burning of Coy at the stake continues
all the talk at TeXarkana- Hundreds of relic
hunters have visited the place and now moth
ing remains of the cedar stump to which the
negro was fastened except about a foot above
| the ground and that VIII doubtless disappear
| soon. The stump was fifteen feet high and
one and a half feet IN diameter, but it has
been hacked into pieces and carried on
The Lincoln county jail at Warner, Ark,
was forced omen by a mob who riddled
/ C,eor1e Harris with bullets. Harris was
| cbar1ed With the killing of E. 7. Parker a
sewing machine agent, IN June, 1880. The
prisoner had barrieaded himself inside his
cen. but the mob fired fifty shots at him
through the grated door. Harris IS the sew
enth victim oflynchers in that locality within
tHo weeks.