Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-02-11
NEWS BREVITIEs.

Gus Brandner, for thirty years merchant
of AtchisOn, was stricken, with apOplexy and
died in a few hours.
Congressman Broderick has just recovered
from an illness of several days which con-
fined him to his room.
The first consignment of exhibits for the
worlds fair from any foreign country has
reached Chicago from Japan.
At the Berry combination sale of trotting
stock in Chicago, sixty head sold for So, 100.
Thus far Isl head have been sold for a total
of S98, 465.
By the breaking of the scaffolding at the
SlOss furnace, Birmingham, Ala, John Sla-
ton and John Richie were killed, and six
others injured. some of whom viii die.
John I. Riggin, brother of the sailor Rig
gin, killed in the Valparaiso riot, has en-
gagged counsel to press an indemnity suit for
his brothers death against the Gillian gov
eminent.
The eastbound Texas d Pacific passenger
train was wrecked near Robeline, La, by
the burning of a trestle. Engineer Merrick
was killed and three trainmen and two pas
sengens injured.
A German scientific society which claims
to have unusually correct sources of informa-
ton on the subject, estimates the number of
Jews in the world at little less than seven
and half millions.
AS quantity of wreckage has been washed
ashore, 1t Is now believed that an unknown
steamer, with every soul on board, was lost
IN the gale of the night of January IS, on
Cape Finisterree, Spain.
The British ship Ferndale, coal laden, went
ashore tve miles north of the entrance TO
Gray's harbOr, Oregon. Twenty of the crew,
including the officers, were drowned. Three
of the crew reached shore alive.
The French steamer St. Andre. at Antwerp,
from Hayre, reports that when on Fecamp
she collided with and sank the Danish brig
Thor. The crew of the Thor, with the ex-
ception of boy, were drowned.
The officers and crew of the Ohio. now be-
ing fitted out at the CharlestOwn navy yard
for possible Gillian warfare, have been dis
charged Her fitting out as a floating ma
chine shop viii be pushed, however.
The captain of the Elder was the last to
leave the vessel He then only did so when
he saw It was useless to remain any longer
and that each moment added to the danger
of the torn and battered vessel suddenly
going TO pieces.
Secretary Noble has sent formal notice to
the Cheyenne and ArapahOe Indians that IN
der the agreement with the government, rati-
fed last March, he had extended the time in
which they may make selection of their allOt-
ments to February y, 1892.
Old rails are used for telegraph poles in In
dla- Two short pieces of rail are bOlted to the
foot of long rail and the ends are buried in
the ground The bracket Is of wrought iron
with the ends turned up for the insulators
The cost Is less than half that of wooden
posts.
The supreme court decision sustaining the
act of congress excluding Louisiana lottery
matter from the mails, and Mr.. Morris letter
Withdrawing his proposal for a renewal of the
Louisiana lottery's charter, had the effect of
advancing the price of shares of the Mexican
lottery IS TO SO per share
1t is learned at Wichita that the Atchison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe Is about to put IN four
new side tracks on their line through the Cher
okee strip, at points where present traffic does
not REQUIRE them. This Is taken as evidence
that the railroad people are expecting the
strip to be opened very soon.
The Vossiche Zeitung publishes east Arr
can adviees under date of January ., showing
that Emin Pasha is making a victorious
march to his old quarters After several bat
ties with the natives Of UnyOra, he arrived Al
Aaeunco. at the northern bead Of ths Albert
Nyanza, where be Fas welcomed ~ huDdEeGl
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