Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-30
NEWS BREvIrIEs.

Missouri has Just paid semi-annual interest |
on its state debt. amounting to sl4l,565.
It was thought in Washington On Sunday
that Hill would either name the man OF take
the nomination
The New York Times. Sun. and World,
and the Herald all talked. June -, that
Cleveland could not be nominated
Cholera has reached Paris. Eight persons
died with the disease in manufacturing
suburb, five miles north of the city.
The Wellington committee having IN
charge the distribution of contributed relief
gives notice that no more IS needed.
At meeting of the Associated Trades of
New York, resolutions were adopted pro
testing against closing the Worlds fair on
Sunday.
For the first time in many democratic con-
ventions, Henry WattersOn was not on the
platform committee. He was left OH at his
own request.
News from Washington via Paris is that
President Harrison will appoint Depew min
lister to England and give Robert L. Lincoln
position as secretary of state.
A dump at a mine in tine Silver Plume dis
trict of Colorado, slid down the mountain
side destroying buildings and machinery OF
several mines, entailing loss OF SoO,OOO.
At Chicago, on Sunday Cleveland 8 chances
seemed to be gaining ground every hour;
while his opponents were struggling to pre-
vent Cleveland's getting two-thirds vote
Private car No. 100 of the Atchison, Tope-
ka d Santa Fe, was sent to OTTAWA Kan, for
the use of General Miles and party, TO return
to Chicago. General Miles lectured at Ut
tawa.
jaw Gould passed through Denver, June
o. on the way to Wood River, Idaho, where
he will spend some time in search of health
He SAYS his journey has no business slgnlh-
canoe.
Professor DAVID R. Boyd, formerly of Van
vert o.. and for four years past super1nten-
dent of the schools at Arkansas City, han.,'
was elected president of the Oklahoma state
university.
A special dispatch from Tacoma to the Eco
de Italia, an Italian paper of New York.
saws that the four Italians killed at LedrO,
WASH were not lynched, but were killed by
a land slide.
1t is said that Jay Gould will complete the
Kansas City, Wyandotte q Northwestern rail-
road, according to the original plan, to the
Black Hills country and the southern part OF
/ the DakOtas.
The gayel used by Chairman Mckinley at
| Minneapolis, which was made and presented
| for that purpose by school children, has by
the request of its donors been presented to
/ the president.
| Ravages of cholera in Persia and Turke-
stan are fearful. The streets of Turbatyshan
i are strown with unburied corpses, and the
/ Inhabitants, as many as can, are fleeing
/ from the town.
! In the municipal election held in Rome the
| Liberal candidates. including ex-Premier
| Crispi, were victorious SignOr Crispl says
/ he will devote the rest of his life to the well
fare of Italy and Rome.
Unitarian churches, quite a number of
/ them, have united IN requesting that the ex-
| position buildings at Chicago be kept open
/ on Sunday, but that it be silent exhibition,
with no machinery running.
At Guthrie two-story brick and stone ho-
/ tel, upon which the finishing touches had not
been put, suddenly collapsed and fell in a
| heap In the cellar and street. The cause of
| the accident was defect IN the foundation.
Hundreds of quarter sections lie unclaimed
in county II, Oklahoma, showing what vast
| horde of spectators rushed into that country
| on opening day and kept actual settlers out
| The land is as fine as any in Oklahoma and
| is yet open to settlement.
A severe thunder storm occurred at Somer-
| set, KY, and a general store was struck by
| lightning. There were so people in il. Two
kegs of powder exploded, throwing a heavy
iron safe through the roof, and Wounding ali
the occupants of the room. 1t is thought
many viii die
The Spanish government has decided. in
view of the confusion and delay in official
and private business, arising from the strike
Of telegraph operators. to dismiss all the
| ClNllAdAlS belonging 10 the Geographic Etaff.
Henceforth all the telegraphing IN Spain vii
be done by military operators.
The Burlington route and the Missouri Pa
cihc had to stop receiving grain for ship
ment to Kansas City because their switching
yards there were crowded. The railroad
men say the glut in the yards comes from
dilatOry action of grain merchants who have
grain in cars there, IN giving forwarding di
l rections.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean publishes a state
ment that Alliance and Knights of Labor
leaders, a dozen of them, visited Judge W
| Q. Gresham at his home, asking his consent
TO have his name go before the Omaha con
vention, for candidate for president, assuring
him that he could be nominated by accla
| nation.
The Pottsville, Pa, Water Company's bi,
reservoir, located on the mountain southWes
of Rockville, mas started TO leak. Hundred
of residents of Newcastle, st. Clair, Por
Carbon and Polo Alto have abandoned thei
homes and properties and taken to the hills
Telegraph operators along the line near tn
I dam are prepared to sound warning Instant
! and give Rsfiee Of approaching dagger.