Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-09
NEWS BREvITIEs.

Clarkson says Blaine never told MIN he
would consent to be a candidate.
Protestant natives in Africa are waging a
war of determination on Catholic mission
aries.
It was stated at the cabinet council that the
ministers decided to dissolve parliament on
June 20.
Fifty persons are said to have been bitten
BIZ a mad dog in the northwestern part of
Chicago.
At Milwaukee,, on Decoration day, the
monument over the grave of General kllborn
Knox was unveiled.
Delegates from twenty-five or more states
are in attendance at st. Louis on the Nlcara-
qua canal convention
The general sentiment in France, even
among the clergy, Is in favor of the opening
of the worlds fair on Sunday.
A. W. Armour, one of the Armour packing
company, and formerly a banker of Kansas
City, Mo-, is dead he was sick a long
time.
Terrific thunder and hail storms are re-
ported from various places IN Spain, and
grave fears are entertained that disastrous
floods will result.
Memorial day weather, as reported from
all over the country, was generally cloudy
but without much rain. Mud and standing
water were everywhere.
Atchison April statement, including st.
Louis & San Francisco system: Gross earn
ings, s. 454, Al; increase, S1s5, 1855; net, ST.
Oh, 54s; increase, $S6,92O
At Minneapolis all the week before the
convention it was generally accepted that
| Governor Mckinley would be permanent
chairman of the convention.
Secretary Elkins has issued general order
/ to the army announcing the retirement OF
/ Brigadier General Stanley, and paying hlgh
tribute to his military services.
Acting Governor Jermingham's letter to
| the lord mayor Of London appealing for help
| for the sufferers in Mauritius, says that over
| 10000 people are homeless and that S'OO-
| houses IN Port Louis are in ruins.
At Commentry, France, dynamite bombs
| were placed against the houses OF two OF the
| principal inhabitants of the town. Both
| buildings were wrecked, but no one was in
iured-
Two freight trains on the Cleveland 4
Pittsburg road, near Summerville, o., COZ
| ided. Engineer Liptag and Brakeman VII
cox were killed. The two trains caught fire
and were entirely consumed.
The Presbyterian general assembly is hard
at work on the Union seminary controversy
| in which DIR. Briggs is sustained by the sem
| mary authorities as against the decision o.
church authorities that he must Vacate hi
position
A man named keutner, formerly countl
surveyor of Apache county, Ariz., charged
| with attempted assault on a young girl, wa
ipnominiously chased out of Holbrook By
humber OF women with rawhides, who lashet
him for over mile.
At Rochester, N. Y, where President Har
rison took part In Memorial ceremonies tn
flpresident's fiag'' was displayed on the re
viewing stand. This flag, it is said, has neve
before been used except in naval vessels. !
shows the naval coat of arms on blue field
The high water in the Mississippi river ha
made 600 families destitute, and they ar
calling for aid, says dispatch from Murphy
b0po. III. No estimate can yet be put upo
} the property destroyed, but il viii reach "a
beyond anything ever known IN this eountrl
A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette froI
St. Petersburg says that the Econom
, society of that city has received repor
: | telling of a bad harvest IN fourteen a
: ! tricts of Russia, including kief, Bessarabl
. Kerson, Veronezh, EkateriEcslav an
! Perm
The stock yards company at Sioux I'll
viii abandon the old yard wrecked by Il
d recent food and transfer its business 70 Il
z central yard, which Is above the highe
: vTater mark. Officials of the company 81
4 fhat Il can be fitted up for $50, coo 50 as 20
VagfIy better than the old yard