Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-23
KANSAS.

The Boies boomers at Chicago say it is first
place or nothing; that their candidate Noulo
not take second place on the ticket
All sorts of rumors are aaoat about pros
pective changes in the cabinet IN eonnee-
ton with the vacancy in the state department
The Italian government has notified Mr..
Porter, the American minister, that Italy nc
cepts the invitation to take part in the Inter
national monetary conference.
Antony, democrat, was elected in R. Q.
Mills district of Texas: yet Barber. third
party candidate carried the county OF Mills
residence and also Antonys county.
President Polk, of the farmers alliance,
died in Washington at II :15 O'Clock Saturday
morning. The death of President Polk will
be great loss to that organization
The 145th annual commencement of Prince
ton college occurred June l6
Tho governor of Montana has established
quarantine against sheep from neighboring
states and territories.
The Michigan state convention of the PEG
pies party decided dead against fusion 1t
formed a platform of ''the middle of the
road" Orderi and very emphatic one
Omaha expects $1,000 or 60,OO0 people
when the peoples party convention assem-
bles there July 4, and is already making eff
forts to stretch itself, SO as to take them all
in.
The man to present Cleveland's name has
been selected. He is Congressman William
C. z. Breckenridge, of Kentucky. One of
the New jersey delegates will be tho first
second
Two severe storms, cyclonic in character,
passed over Boone, Iowa. June 13.
One of the largest fires that ever visited the
water front of Baltimore started on the Old
Bay line, at the front of Union dock. The
loss, as near as can be estimated, Is nearly
Sl,O0O.C00.
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George V. Massey. of Wilmington, Del. has
been rendered the Office Of justice of the
United States supreme court, made vacant
by the death of Justice Bradley.
John G. Otis was very bitter 10 his denun-
citation of people whom he called low down
trucksters and politicians, constituting the
Topeka gang. whom he charged with his de-
feat at the EmpOria convention
H L Loueks of Huron, S. D., vice presi-
dent of tho national alliance, has gone to
Washington to take charge of the affairs of
that organization, on account of the death of
President L L Polk.
The strike in the Cnur iAlene mining dis
trict Of Indiana IS rapidly nearing an end
The result is favorable to the mine owners
The union miners will probably return to
work IN a body within a few days.
More United States troops have been sent
to Douglas, Nyo., with equipments looking
like six months job. Ii is believed that
martial law is likely to be declared soon in
johnson, Converse and Natrona counties.
The course of the republican national con-
vention was closely watched in Berlin, where
1t was hoped and expected that Blaine would
win, which would have been regarded as n
partial rebuff to the protective policy of the
Mckinley bill
Investigation by tho war department,
through army officers in Oklahoma, shows
that there Is reason to believe that the excite
ment IN Guthrle over negro prisoners was
manufactured to discourage negro emigra-
ton to that territory.
A plague has broken out in Mesopotamia,
the country between the Euphrates and Ilgris
rivers The dispatch does not mention the
nature of the disease. but it is thought to be
cholera, which, travelling eastward from Per.
STA, has entered AsIatic Turkey.
AIrs. St. John says that her husband will
not be candidate for president on the pro
Mbltion ticket, but that General John Bid
well, a millionaire ranchman of California,
will be nominated. Mrs. St. John says that
Bidwen will certainly be elected.
ArmOur's I'D" elevator, at Morgan street,
Chicago, was struck by lightning and com
pletely wrecked. Charles j. L Roberts, who
was at work IN the boiler room, was buried
beneath a mass of brick and timber and his
body was not recovered until evening.
Governor Seay was on his way 10 Wash.
ington and turned back upon seeing sensa-
tlOnal reports from Guthrie. He proposes
lAilL the llEtACS VINO caused Lll- several street
brawls and attempted to incite a riot shall be
given the seyerest possible punishment under
the laws
Two churches in Spain were recently
struck by lightning, while full of people at
tending mass In the two fifteen persons
were killed and a large number injured.
During the same storm the BurgOs cathedral.
one OF the oldest in Spain, was struck and
great damage done.
A Chicago paper gives a circumstancial
statement of alleged new evidence in the
Cronin murder case; one point of which Is
Prosecuting Attorney Longenecker has the
instrument which killed Cronin, and that il
Is not an ice pick, Us maintained at the trial,
but stOne-cutter's chisel.
Pablo Perera, a noted exile. has Just died
IN Phoenix, AriZ-. aged 81 years. Fifty years
ago he was one of the most prominent men
IN Mexican politics. He was twice sentenced
To be shot. but made his escape each time.
lie espousod the cause of MAMMALIAN and
held position on his staff.
During the storm in Chicago the cable
lines experienced considerable difficulty IN
handling their trains. the electricity on the
cables being in some instances conducted
through the levers to the hands of the grip
men, and on the State street line several
were quite severely shocked.
The natives in Meshed, northeast Persia,
are dying from cholera at the rate of $50 per
day. The disease is of the most violent tyne
People are seized with the disease while
walking along tho streets. No panic pre-
walls, because the people look upon the cpl
denic as a visitation from God
Chairman Peel, of the house committee OF
Indian affairs, has at last reported "a bill foi
the opening of the Cherokee Strip, which he
says, blocks all sOoners, land grabbers, town
lot grabbers and claim Jumpers He has the
promise of the committee on rules of a day
within month; and believes the bill will
pass
furious wind storm struck Hammond
Ind, unroOfng houses, tearing down avn
ings and filling the air with debris The
storm assumed the features of a cyclone west
of Hallets- The wind played havoc with the
telegraph wires. most of which are down.
Huge trees were torn out by the roots and
carried away. No lives are reported lost.
Among the countries heard from where
action has been taken with regard to the
wOmen's exhibit ut Chicago, are Italy.
where the queen is patroness; Germany,
Princess Frederick Christian; Belgium,
queen, patrOness; France. Nine. Carnot
patronessi and Austria, Princess Matter
mich, Work IS being done in the countries
which have not yet appointed committees to
forward the project. and have the govern
ments recognize the importance of a NO
mans exhibit at the fair.