Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-15
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James Corbett the California heavy weight.
wins 49, 900 and the championship of the
world by whipping John L. Sullivan, at New
Orleans, September q.
The secretary of war has approved the re-
commentators of the Missouri river com
mission, relative to the general plan OF pro-
ceeding with the improvement of the river.
Absolute confidence prevails among the
people that the perfect sanitary condition OF
England will secure that country against
the ravages of barccli bred in foreign filth.
Small notes to the amount of 100000
were shipped to various places IN the coun,
try by the treasury department. up to the emo
of August, to facilitate the movement OF
crops.
More than 100 of the locked-out men at
Homestead returned to work Monday.
Foreign vessels passing through the Ssulte
Ste. Marie canal in twenty-four hours paid
sos in tolls.
We are pleased to know that Mss Jessie
Burt, who recently completed Shorthand
Course at Elliott's Business College, Bur
lington, Ia, has secured an excellent position
IN Burlington.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
notified the Reading company that 1t Will
not make joint rates on anthracite coal and
that 1t will not advance local prices and
freights coal.
Striking iron workers at Hughes and Pat
terson's mill in Philadelphia, have broken
loose from the Amalgamated association
and are being taken back to work as fast as
places open for them.
Rocky Bar, Idaho, had been destroyed by
fire and the people rendered homeless.
Money, blankets and clothing have been
literally contributed by other towns in the
southern part of the state.
The third explosion within three years has
| occurred in one of Rothschild's coal mines
at BOrorage, Belgium. The first in 1889,
killed 123; the second, last May, killing 1925
the last killed 20 and wounded nine.
A moonshiners camp, with its still and
| stock of sour mash, has been found between
| Liberty and Kearney, Clay county, Mo.
| James Reynolds, the old he one of the con-
Germ, was captured, his pals escaping.
Hotel Belmont at Sulphur Springs, n. c.,
Durned. Many guests were in the hotel,
| out all escaped without injury, though many
| lost personal property. The hotel cost over
| 100000 and was owned by northern CAPT
| talists.
The Pacific express on the Wichita train
was robbed of all money in its safe by two
| robbers who entered the tram soon after
| leaving Kansas City, and who bound and
| gagged the messenger, and left the train at
| the next station.
Two hundred policemen in fourteen pa.
troll wagons ralded the Garfield race track,
Chicago, during the progress OF the races
| One hundred and sixty people were arrested,
| including twenty-five bookmakers and near
| ~ d. LIdHS JOShOJ5s
1t is said that several roads have been fro
zen out of their already contracted q. A. Il.
business by the refusal of the Pullman COM
pany to furnish tourist cars to lines other
than these having a standing contract Tor
this kind of car.
Another attempt to hold up a passenger
train was made at Lees Summit, Mo-, but
was a failure as freight train was running
on the passengers time, the latter being de-
layed. When the rutfians found they had
stopped a freight tram, they left.
Gnadalajara, one of the principal cities Of
Mexico, has scarcely passed DAY IN three
,onths without an earthquake. The NUM-
ipal and state buildings there were among
the most elegant and substantial in Mexico,
but are now dangerous to occupants.
Secretary of the treasury, Foster, and
Surgeon General Hamilton visited the
quarantine stations at New York harbor, and
the secretary congratulated DR.. Jenkins, OF
| the local board of health, for the extent and
effectiveness of the work he is accomplishing
Four weeks ago the Wabash killed five OF
its men while engaged IN repairing culvert
at Kellers, Ind, by wreck. Last week an
attorney for the road visited the late homes
of each of the victims and left check fol
s., 900. Not even a receipt was taken OF
asked.
Eight men were killed and three fatally
injured in a collision on the CIearheld q
Cambria railroad at 6 p. M, near Altoona
Pa, September 8. AS a result of disobeyinf
orders, the work train met the passenger
train in a deep cut. None of the passenger
were hurt.
The Interior department is pushing thu
departmental work required to enable it tt
open the Wichita and Kickapoo reservation
| to settlement as soon as congress provides
for the same. The work of allotment O
lands to the Indians will be proceeded witt
at once, under the act of 1881.
Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 2:07 fiat 9
st. Paul, September 7; beating her Owl
record, which already beat the world. Shl
made the first quarter in 221S; the half il
:o31S; three-quarters in 1 :3414, and as shC
came under the wire in 2 :07 she turned he
head to the grand stand, with the plain ex
preston of ''Well, I have done it."
A Santa Fe passenger train was held up a
r | wharton station, twenty miles north o
Guthrie, o. T., September 8, but the rob
bers secured. nothing but a couple of basket
of grapes, the express messenger having hiC
t the valuables of the safe while the robber
. were effecting an entrance to the car. M
effort was made to rob the passengers.