Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-29
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Furniture operatives, numbering 5000. in
Cincinnati are demanding union control OF
pay for nine hours work. A combination OF
strike and lockout Is about TO result.
All traffic on the isthmus is dead from the
cholera scare. But one train day passes
between Colon and Panama. All european
and American ships are pronoItte:a from
landing at Colon. Destitution resulting from
idleness Is causing rlots.
President Harrison, on account of Mrs.
Harrison's sickness, asked Vice PRESIDENT
Morton to take up the duties assigned 10
me the official programme, that all posi-
bic hOnors may be shown to the veterans VINO
may gather tins week at the national capital.
A. 6. Weissert, of Milwaukee, is elected
commandments of the Grand army or
the Republic.
The boys who recently went to Burlington,
Iowa, to attend Elliott's Business College.
are well pleased and commend the school
highly.
A dispatch from Sibley, Iowa, tells of a
bad wreck on the Burlington road. The
| track slipped down an embankment with
| freight train.
An eastbount Rock Island passenger train
/ took a header into a freight train at Farruns
near Davenport. No one killed; engineer
| nurt; damage, $4,000.
Lightning struck the opera house at st.
| Petersburg, Pa, September y, and before
the flames were stayed twenty buildings were
| consumed. Loss not estimated.
Fifty-sevea buildings, stores and resi-
| dences, were burned to the ground Septem-
Der % at Buctouche, N. B., and many fami-
/ lies camped IN the feds. The loss Is
| 100000.
The peoples party state convention of
Gratis, the latter Offering to vote for Weaver
and Field electors and the former to vote for
| the democratic state ticket.
DR.. ]. H. McClellan6. the local representa-
| tive at Pittsburg, Pa, on the state board of
| health, has been IN need of funds to take
steps against an outbreak of cholera. H. G.
| Frick, of the Carnegie Steel company, fur
nished him with $4,000 a loan, without
| interest, until the next meeting of the legis-
lature.
No Dickpockets were seen this year at the
Kansas state fair, and no one even reported
a loss while on the grounds to the police. AT
this the police are more surprised than any
one else. The number OF arrests during the
week was not larger than usual. better
behaved crowd, ranging daily from 5000 to
25,OO0, for week, never assembled anywhere
Acting Secretary of War General Grant has
directed General Miles to make such ar
rangements he may deem necessary to
keep cattle and eattlemen out of the Chero-
kee strip. This being the case, it is thought
| General Miles will conform to his recon-
mendations msde to the department., which
provides for troops being stationed IN the
strip in such way that intruders can be dis
covered.
Rockaway Beach. the old famous summer
resort on the Long Island coast, has been
completely wiped out by fire. The fire broke
out at II :25 p. M, September 20, aEd de-
stroyed over 100 frame buildings and left l6C
acres mass of ruins. AS far as known only
one person lost their life. The place is over
run with thieves, who are carrying away
: everything that was saved from the flames
! The fire is believed to be the work of incen
diaries, and the loss Is estimated at ovel
100000.
wreck on the Santa Fe, of the ''Missour
e River night express, due at Topeka from TIT
west at :35 a. M, September q, occurred
straight piece of track at the end of small
e bridge, where the roadway is only abou
three feet above the level of the prairie. III
: train consisted of twelve cars. The engine
baggage, mail and express cars went dow
: the embankment and were terribly wrecked
the engine was buried almost out of sight
/. and two of the cars, the smoker and da
coach, were telescoped but did not go owe
the bank. The three sleepers did not leay
the track. There were four people killed
Ed. Maher, engineer; James Chiddlck, fire
| man; Frank Baxter, Express Messenger
Jack Blumberg, express guard. There wer
, 80 others hurt, few of them quite seriously
About 225 people were on the train, bu
there were but a few in the day coach ant
the smoker. There was in the express car
. million dollars belonging to the Mexican
, Central railway on the way to Boston. Rob
, | berry was the object of the wreck. Spike
found out in the grass; also the tools will
which the work was done, which had beel
! stolen from the section mems tool house a
Barclay. The reason that the robbers die
! not show up was that the wreck was wOrs
: one than they had figured on, as the expires
a car and mail car were, with the engine, bro
! ken to pieces, and buried under the wrecked
! train; so that the robbers could not hav
: | found the treasure had they tried. Genera
Superintendent Nlckerson has offered re
q ward of 81 coo, and Claim Agent Foulks ha
a1vv GOD lana rol oh m
: 5000 for the capture of the guilty parties
Among the most severely hurt are ConduC
tor R. R. Donohue, Of Topeka; S. G. Kelly
mail clerk Mrs. Mary Lyman, of Blooming
ton, Ill. Mrs. Mary E. Reed, of Great Bend
: II. S. Foster. postal clerk; Mrs. Jessie Grant
> of Pedro, Mo. ]. b. Osborn, of Kansas City
Mo-, and c. B. Kinney, of Kansas City. A
the time this report is made up 1t is not Gel
> tainly known whether there are other dea
8 bodies under the wreck. All the passenger
we're brought to Topeka on relief train an
], cared for by the railroad company.