Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-17
Representative John Kendall, of Kentucky,
died 10 Washington, Tuesday, from apople1y.
KANSAS.

mt int effect reduction of 10 per cent. on
the WSges of their employees caused by the
t0E price of iron
new volcano has opened in the California
desert. The flames from it do not rise far
above the level of the desert and appear to
come from pit hole.
Infectious cerebral meningitis has caused
i've deaths within a few days in the vicinity
of Laurel Hill, town of Newton, Long Island
Three of the deaths were IN one family. II
Noah Porter. vice president of Yale college,
Is dead, aged 81. He was a vOluminOus au-
thor and was admittedly one of the most
scholarly of American metaphysieians-
Waldo Adams, manager of the Adams Ex-
press company, Is dead.
John =. WInslow, who built the Monitor to
whip and destroy the Merrimac, IS dead. He
died at his home in POughkeepsie, n. Y
It is a matter of record that 10. $40 dollars
were coined in 1904, yet only eight samples
are known to exist, and those that are IN
good condition are valued at $1,000 each
Hon. Thomas Ryan. American minister to
Mexico, says that the Mexican authorities at
tach less importance to the Cara revolution
than do Americans to band OF train robbers
The town Of Harvey, in the Sa. and Fox
country, which was looted by band OF out
laws six weeks ago, has again been visited by
the same gang, who robbed the pOstOffice and
The senate of the Iowa legislature has
passed a bill providing for local option, by
counties, a vote to be taken once In ive years
There is little doubt that the measure would
receive the approval of Goyern7r Boies-
The total population of Brooklyn, N. Y,
according to the late census returns, with
the exception of one DISTRICT is 953, 1888. The
missing district will probably bring IT up to
S55,000 The federal census for 1880 was
s06Si2
Senator Hill, of New York, has, it is said,
refused salary as senator for any time prior
TO the date he was sworn in, Janu ~ 7; al
though the books of the secretary of the sen
1. 1881
Thomas E Rawlings joint freight agent of
the Missouri Pacific and Hannibal & st. Joe
roads, at St. Joseph, No, has been discharged,
being charged with drawing more money IN
pay checks to his under helpers than the men
received
Ten boxes of giant powder caught fire and
burned without exploding. in the American
Nettie mine at Ouray, Colorado There were
100 men in the mine at the time, and if the
powder had exploded a great loss of life
would have been the result.
Judge Levy, of San Francisco, issued a
warrant for the arrest of Mrs Sarah Althea
Terry, and she was taken to court. to be ex-
amined as to her sanity The warrant was
Mrs Terry's friend and Rerse.
The Guatenalan consul general at New
York has received this dispatch: THE ma
Npnal assembly has declared elected General
RNyna Barrios as constitutional president OF
abe republic. Perfect peace and tranquility
rejgns throughout the whole country"
A meeting was called of members of the
Missouri legislature who favored rebuilding
the state university at some new location, and
a large majority of members attended The
demonstration of their numbers seemed to
satisfy them, as they took no formal action.
The fire which has been burning for two
months in the mine of the Pana Coal COM
pany, at Pana, ILL.,, has been quenched. No
estimate can be put upon the damage done,
but il will reach several thousands. 1t will
be several weeks before mining can be re-
sumed.
The new system of relief distribution under
police supervision in Vienna Is working we'll.
The distribution proceeds IN an orderly man
ner and all applicants are supplied twenty
four hundred unemployed laborers have been
put to work clearing away snow at two pence
an hour.
The cars birthday, besides being observed
with festivities, was marked by the launch
ing at Sebastapol of the ironclad George the
Victorious, of 5000 tons Another war ship
1900 tons, the largest in the Russian navy,
will be launched at NIcolaie6 early IN the
coming summer.
The next Russian military maneuvres, the
scene of which will be in the vicinity of Mos
COW, viii be on gigantic scale Six army
corps, under Generals ObrutschOh and Drag
omirof, Will take part, besides the guards
and other cavalry, the whole reaching total
of 100000 men.
At the general elections for the province of
Quebec the Mercier party sustained a most
signal defeat, the result being the election OF
hfty-three conservatives, fifteen Mercierites
md Ave frlarar1arfa MarTsiar hiwozalf
elected. In the old legislature Mercier had a
majority of tventy-eight-
A wreck occurred on the Creede branch of
the Rio Grande at Del Norte, in which sew
eral passengers were injured. B. Disman, a
merchant OF Salida, was seriously nurt, Thee
others were badly bruised. The car was
ditched by broken rail while running about
twenty-five miles an hour.
The pulp mill of the Rochester, n. Y, Pa
per company, near the lower falls, fell, kill
ing Albert Gault, an employe, and seriously
inJuring the engineer, j. Shelk. Without
warning the heavy roof suddenly caVsd,
burying the two men, Gault was crushed to
atoms, his skull broken like an eggshell.
Senior Montt, the Gillian minister, has in
formed the secretary of state that conse-
quence of his election as deputy for Peturia,
in the provence of Aconega, he will soon re-
lnquish his present diplomatic position, but
that he viii probably remain in Washington
until his successor shall have been appointed.
At New Orleans fifteen persons, officers
and employees of the Louisiana State Lottery
company, indicted by the grand jury for
alleged violation of the anti-lottery postal
law, were arraigned before Commissioner
Wright ana placed under bonds of 500 each
TO appear at the next term of the circuit court
at Trenton, n. j..
The will of Major General George W. Cul-
lom has been filed for probate in New York
It gives $4,000 to erect a freproof, stone
memorial hall on the public grounds at West
Point, n. Y, to be the receptacle of reminis-
cences and trophies Of war and such other
objects hat might tend to the elevation of
the military profession
The British steamship, Missouri, which is
going to take the grain Offering of the boun-
tiful west TO the sufferers from famine in
Russia arrived IN New York from Philadel-
phia and was towed free of charge to the foot
of Twenty-seventh street, where she remains
also free of charge until she completes her
cargo and takes in additional coal
Acton will be taken at Brussels to prevent
Belgian mine owners from exporting their
product to England, and thus aid in the de-
feat of the English miners who, on March u,
will cease work for fortnight, their object
being TO so restrict the output as to cause the
consumers to pay better prices and thus at
ford the l. ! owners no excuse to carry into
effect their contemplated reduction in wages.
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