Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-19
NEWS BREvETIES

The Berlin Tageblatt publishes a report
from Arab sources that Emin Pasha is dead.
Orsamus G. Warren, senior proprietor of
the Buffalo Commercial, Is dead. He died
of pneumonia
An electrical brush has been invented to
kill grass and weeds along the tracks. 1t de-
stroys every blade of grass it touches.
A report from Western Kentucky is that
buffalo gnats are causing great loss. It is
estimated that ], 600 horses have been killed
by them
A terrific tornado occurred in the vicinity
of CoIliersville, Tenn, doing great damage
trees, and fences. Several persons were hurt.
David Dingle and James Lucas, employed
in the Sheridan mine at Telluride, Col,
were blown to atoms while attempting to
pick out an unexploded shot of giant powder.
Private dispatches received at Santa Fe,
n. M, announce thad Jay Gould Is quite i'll,
being confined to his bed IN his private car at
Albuquerque.
The schooner Grover Cleveland. from st.
Johns. n. F., for Boston, with cargo of
fish, was lost IN the gale. She was com
manded by Captain Day, with crew of six
men.
The territorial capitol of New Mexico, at
Santa Fe, is said to have been totally de-
stroyed by fire. The dispatch says the loss is
geratiOn.
On English railways, in their compartment
passenger cans, repeated cases of insults, Us
saults and even murder of women occur.
Public sentiment is pressing the railways to
adopt the American passenger coach
A shock, believed to be that of an earth
quake, was felt IN Terre Hill and sections OF
northern Lancaster county, Pa. The ground
swayed and houses were shaken. The dis
turbance lasted but few seconds.
In answer to inquiries about the reported
illness of Jay Gould, George Gould showed
dispatch from his father from Albuquerque
depot which read, ''All well. We shall remain
in Albuquerque to-day. Jay Gould"
The peoples party convention of Atchison
county. in session at bingham, resolved
against fusion The action was a dlsap-
pointment to a few Atchison county demo
Gratis, who favor an alliance with the peoples
party
Department Commander Greene has been
officially notified that the amount of money
required to be assured for the expenses of the
G. A. R. state reunion has been secured, and
that Wichita is now ready to entertain the
old soldiers IN August
The Italian cabinet has resigned because Of
the refusal of the chamber of deputies to
adopt a vote of confidence IN the govern
ment's financial policy, which included a
heavy reduction IN the credits to be devoted
to military and naval expenditure
The recent action of the mob near Nash
vile has stirred the negroes to such activity
that great preparations are being made for
an exodus on a large sca'e. Nearly every
negro Is boarding money to take him to the
promised land One of the ring-leaders in
the coming migratlons said that before June
1900 negroes would be on the march
A small cyclone accompanied the rain
north of Guthrie, o. T., and did considerable
damage The houses of John Davis, Henry
Smith and John Crockett were carried some
distance by the wind and badly injured.
Many barns and other buildings were de-
stroyed. AL the streams of the territory are
over thsir bsnks, aaa many bsidgSa ~ goes.