Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-11-24
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Forty mules and ten horses were burned
In barn in Kansas City, Mo. There were
40 mules IN the barn when the fire broke
out
The great labor strike which was begun in
New Orleans October . has ended in the
virtual defeat of the Amalgamated council,
the strikers and unionisn,.
Krem Min still holds the worlds stallion
record. He agaln lowered the colors of
Stamb oul q :08) and trotted mile in 2:07sz
at Nashville. Tenn.s November II.
Natural gas from the Trenton rock bed,
upon which Indiana rests. has begun to rush
through the network of pipes with which
Chicago has recently been undermined.
An effort is on foot to remove the Alabama
capital from Montgomery to Birmingham.
General DuyenfoFth is again bombarding
the atmosphere at San Antonio. Tex, IN an
other ralnmaking experiment, at the ex-
pense of the United States.
George W. Hall, prominent life insur-
ance manager and ex-audItor of the Union
Pacific railway, com mitted suicide at Omaha.
Dependency, caused by i'll health, was the
cause.
The Inhabitants of Ponza, tho chief of a
group of small islands OF volcanic origin,
belonging to Italy, in a state of terror in
expectation of an earthquake. There have
been heavy rumbling and shakings of the
earth.
DR.. n. A. Slade, the spiritualist medium,
was arrested IN a cheap lodging house in
Sioux City, Iowa, and brought before the in
sanity commission, adjudged insane and or
dered to the hospital. His case is consid-
cred hopeless.
Arion, 2:10s[, who holds the 3-year-old
stallion record, was sent against his mark at
Nashville, Tenn, and trotted a mile IN 2 :lO15.
This equals the 3-year-old record of Sunol,
and is the stallion record of the world for
horses of that age.
James H. Carleton, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Haverhill, Mass, has purchased
portion of the Whittier homestead aad will
present it to the city of Haverhill with such
conditions as will cause 1t to remain as a
memorial of John Greenleaf Whittier.
The populists outyoted the democrats in the
Memphis meeting of the national alliance,
on the proposition of electing new execu-
tive board. The vote, 1T is claimed, disposes
of Tillman and Macune, who acted for the
interests of the democracy in the recent
campaign.
At 10 o'clock Saturday night, the republi-
can state central committee having received
official returns from ninety-eight counties
of Kansas, conceded the election to LEVEL
ling and the entire populist ticket. Anthony
is defeated for congressman-at large by
about 5000 majority.
D. NJ. Cooley, of Dubuque, Ia, judge of
the supreme court of that state, died at the
residence of his daughter, in New York city,
of paralysis. Judge Cooley came east in
September. A week ago he was stricken
with paralysis. He Is a brother of Judge T.
M. Cooley of Michigan.
Louis Marke, or Marriott, of Seattle, Wash,
was arrested while landing from an ocean
steamer in New York with sixty-eight gold
watches concealed in a garment next his
body, which resembles both a corset and
life preserver, but which had numerous pock-
cts. His smuggling will cost him dearly.
An engine on the Philadelphia & Reading
road, drawing train of empty coal cars,
blew up at ConnOr's crossing, near Schuyi-
Kill Haven, Pa, November Ia, killing i've
men, tearing up the track, dismantling the
locomotive, hurting the machinery for sew
eral squares, scattering death and destruc-
ton all around.
It is nearly clean sweep. The new party
elects it's state ticket entire, including con-
gresham at-large. 1t elects four of the
seven district congressman and has made
Funston's chances so slight, that, should he
get a certificate of election, a contest
before democratic house of representatives
would probably unseat- This view is based
upon the latest news received.
Senator Carlisle is reported as saying: 'It
appears probable we shall find that there is
not enough money IN the treasury for the
needs of the government We shall have to
see what congress does at this session. If
they do not repeal the Sherman law relating
to the purchase of silver, and take such other
action as the situation demands, we may be
swamped. Upon these things depend the
calling of an extra session."
A cyclone swept over the village of Red
Bud. ILL.,, about 3 O'Clock a. M, November
II, destroying thirty-fve houses, killing one
boy and injurIng fifteen others. Two
churches, the town hall, the Jail and a news
paper Office were among the buildings leveled.
The storm came from the south, accompa-
MED by heavy rain, and swept a path 200
yards wide through the town. There is
much suffering among the homeless victims.