Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-05

were landed at New York. This is the largest
number landed in any one week this year.
Henrietta, Texas, has lost the best and
largest part of its business buildings by IN
cendlary hres-
An important deal IS being put through
looking towards the amalgamation Of the big
live stock shippers of Montreal to control the
trade of the dominion
Eugene H. Cowles, eldest son of the late
Edwin CoWles, for years editor OF the I'm
cinnati Leader, died at FL PasO, Tex where
he had gone for his health.
A large collection of cliff dweller relics is
on exhibition at Durango, Col, including
mummies. skulls, pieces of woven and eolored
cotton cloth, seeds, etc
The scandal about William Astors married
daughter has already caused two dnels, with
the unfortunate result that none OF tho SOFT
headed Williams were killed
With each bag of corn meal sent TO Rus
sia was a receipt printed IN their language
for preparing the various dishes from It
Excursion parties to visit the grounds and
buildings of the Columbian exposition have
already commenced Over 1000 boosters
went on one of them the other day.
ParisiAns are studying the work of the Wig
ilance committees IN the early days OF san
Francisco, and talk OF organizing on that
plan to rid France Of Anarchists
IL is now proposed to grind coal at the
mines, add water so that 1t will pass through
pipes to the great cities, be there drained,
moulded and dried for consumption
Seven hundred feet of the worlds fair man
ufacturers' building was blown down Thurs
day.
]. @. Haskell, the Kansas architect, had
claim for services for designing the buildings
of the ChillOco Indian school, and the seere-
tary of the interior has ruled 1t out
Seventh Day Baptists and Adventists of
seven states have sent TO congress protests
against any action to commit to any religious
creed by closing the worlds fair on Sunday.
The Kansas City Journal says that the
Santa Fe Just issued orders for the building
at Guaymas Mexico, OF a mammoth hotel,
of which c. ID. Barnes, Of Denver, Is to be
the manager.
The steamer Darmstadt, from Bremen,
jurt arrived at New York, brought the largest
number of immigrants ever brought by one
vessel to that port. She had 2,O19 steerage
passengers
Andy Snider sold at Kansas City the other
day a half interest in 5000 cattle on the
ranges in Texas and Montana for 100000,
and the same day sold $1,000 worth of cattle
to another party.
An English corporation owns and is pre-
pairing to extend the railroad system of Peru;
opening up new territory which Is said to be
fertile and healthy and giving an outlet to
valuable mining sections.
Ex-Governor Harvey has wired Senator Per
kins that he Will accept the executive clerk
ship of the senate should he be chosen for
that place. Il seems likely that it is now to
late for Harvey to enter the lists
France is making preparations TO more
vigorously fight the king Of Dahomey;
French papers charge English influence
against French interests in the quarrel,
while the black king Is defiant.
meeting of the peoples party committee
of the second congressional district i called
at Kansas City, Kan, to arrange to establish
all hat fffr tn bf2 1s1fi Isf
from July till the November election
The Rothschilds had a cashier to serve
them at Berlin forty years He was sue
ceeded by his son, who has served them If
teen years, and who Is defaulter for
large sums and has gone somewhere
Alta special election at Chilheothe, No.
Tor the purpose Of voting $1,000 bonds for
the erecting two additional ward school
buildings, the proposition was carried by u
vote of $40 in favor with only 45 against.
While some boys were playing in a sand pit
Mt Toronto a slide occurred covering por-
ton of the pit to the depth of several feet and
smothering three boys named Alfred Lucas,
aged IL. Ernest Lucas and Henry Petit,
aged u.
During exercises attending the laying OF
the corner stone of the Y. n. c. A. gymna-
sum at Holyoke, Mass, an iron giTder, upon
which people had climbed, gave way. George
Merritt was killed and Mrs. II. R. Terry was
fatally injured.
The Santa Fe has arranged to put on a new
last train between Chicago and San Francisco
about May Il The train will make up about
forty-tve minutes between Chicago and To-
peka and about six hours between Topeka
and the Pacific coast.
Shipments of flour, grain and provisions
from Chicago to the seabOard by the roads in
the Central Traffic association last week
aggregated p, 547 tons, against %, 4OS for the
preceding week and p ,24S for the CORES
ponding week last year
Wheat farmers in the northwest are hold
ing back a good deal of wheat, the amount
marketed hardly meeting demands and in
consequence the price at Minneapolis has
hardended somewhat. It will take a good
advance to bring all the crop forward
The house committee on postoffices and
post roads proposes to cut the pay for carry
ing mail on the railroads IN the west about
one-halt; while eastern mail lines remain
about the old figure. The proposed cut in
the pay of Kansas railroads is about 55 per
cent
The federal grand jury at Topeka is al
work upon violations of the interstate com
merce law, and Is said to have reached con.
elusive action upon indictments against OIL
cials of the Union Pacific. Evidence is fur
nished the jury by interior wholesale men Of
Kansas.
The Durham, England, coal owners issued
statement that owing to depression in the
coal trade and the expense of repairing pits
none of their mines will be reopened excepi
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wages, to continue IN force during the mex
three months.
The food which caused such damage a
English, Ind, played sad havoc all along tht
Little Blue clear to the Ohio. Some Of tn,
best farms had Just been plowed and Ia,
washout has ruined them. Thousands O
dollars were lost in fences, lumber and stock
All bridges were washed away.
Kansas towns which will be entitled to FIRE.
mail delivery under bill which has passed
the senate and Is now in the house are: Be
lott Chanute, Clay Center, Coffeyville, Col
umbus, Hiawatha, Manhattan, MINNEAPOLIS
Olathe, Oswego, Paola, Holton, Independ
enees Eureka, Garnett, Great Bend.
Not long since the Boston Courier offere,
gold medal to any young lady between thi
ages OF 10 and 20 who would write the hes
essay on some political subject. Miss Julii
OLaughlin, a graduate of the Cameron, Mo.
high school, sent in paper on the subject
what It Takes to Make a Political MAJ
Famous" She was awarded the prize owe.
several thousand competitors. Miss O'Laugh
I'm Is only - years of age, and by this victor
she Is entitled to the appellation of '1QueeI
OF Politics, and the handsome gold media
Is so inscribed
GENERAL MARKErS