Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-16
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

New Orleans street cars, in large numbers,
burned in thor sheds.
In Colorado, at least four lives we're lost
and much property destroyed rs the result
OF the heavy snowslides, due to the blizzard.
The temperature was the coldost of tho
winter.
Old Two Strikes the leader of the Sioux
outbreak in 1880 and ~, iiagain plotting mis-
chlet. secret camp in the Bad Lands has
been formed where tough Sioux are congre-
eating.
The charges Of Captain ]. M. Leo, U. s.
A., that the Chey enne and Arapahoe Indians
were defrauded out of $67, 800 by attorneys
in the sale of their lands were laid before the
senate by Mr.. Voorhees,.
Enthusiastic members of the house are
firmly impressed with the belief that Mr..
Cleveland favors not only the annexation of
Hawaii, but of Canada.
At meeting of the National Live Stock as
ISOLATION at Omaha n resolution was unani-
mously adopted, that government inspectors
should be appointed under civil service rules.
.Algernon Charles f. Sartoris, the husband
! OF General U. 5. Grants daughter, Nellie,
| dled at Capri, February 3. The news eX-
cited much interest in American circles.
A new telephone company has been
formed to utilize the Harrison patents. A
continental circuit is to be established, with
an automatic switch board system doing
away with hello girls"
Navajo indians are committing depreda-
uons IN the northern part OF the state of
Sonora, Mexico. The YaQui and Mayo In
dians are preparing to join the Navajos, and
much serious trouble is feared.
In the Minnesota house Mr. BECKER Of
fereu measure prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of hoop skirts. Mr.. Bleekers
bill was referred TO the committee on cor
porations, other than municipal.
Nothing has transpme to change the prev
alent sentiment in administration circles
in favor of annexation. Indeed, Secre-
tary Foster Is believed to he moro thoroughly
welded to that course than ever.
The Kansas senate has asked that all vet
Grams of the war Of the rebellion shall be
granted pensions, to be paid, with all other
pensions and the interest on the war debt,
by graduated tax on the large estates of
the country.
Melvin Laughlin, whose dead body was ere
mated in the Big Four wreck at Pana, Ill.,,
formerly lived at Atchison, Kan. He started
ten days ago With his family for Cleveland.
He was injured in wreck in Kansas and
died in Kansas City hospital.
Three thousand colonsts in the province
of Santa Fe, Argentine Republic, armed with
rifles and also having possession of some
cannons have risen in revolt against the
wheat tax. A body of troops with artillery
has been sent to Santa Fe to quell the insur-
rection.
The conference committee of the farmers
and industrial organizations of Missouri has
about completed a scheme for the consoli-
,dation of all the farmers organizations on a
non-political basis, and the only thing in the
way of its success is the reluctance of the
grange to join with the Others
Bills have been introduced in the Kansas
senate creating 123 new offices, viz LOG
supervisors of agriculture at 500 each per
year, nine commissioners of the supreme
court at so, 600 per year each, three judges of
appellate court at $1,000 per year each, and
five live stock commissioners at $1,000 per
year each.
Senators Carey, DuBoise, Perkins and
Delegate Harvey held conference on the
four state bill. They decided that the
chances we're sufficiently encouraging to war
rant close watch on their part seeking an
OpGulub w Btu ltlS Dlll bCluIO lHS bSudt6s
1t is believed that if action can be reached
the bill will pass easily.
Joseph Wolf, a New Orleans, whisky deal
err, secured judgment for $4,000 against
the whisky trust. He agreed to buy his
whisky, exclusively from the trust and was
to receive q rebate of cents gallon. He
bought of other parties, however, and the
trust declined to pay the rebates. 1t was
decided that Wolf was not compelled to con-
fine his trade to the trust.
The court of arbitration selected to settle
the controversy between the United States
and Great Britain relative to the Behring sea
will be convened in Paris on February % and
will adjourn for month Voluminous doc
uments relating to the controversy have been
deposited in sealed boxes at the British en-
bassy and will not be opened until the court
of arbitration is constituted.
Chicago was flooded in the morning and
at night it froze up as tight as drum. In
many places the sewers have overliowed,
flooding the streets and causing many of
the big business houses and some schools to
call on the sewer department for aid. The
rapid changes in the weather, thawlng one
day and freezing the next, have made it
utterly impossible to keep the basins clear
of ice.
The county insane asylum four miles north
of Dover, N. H., burned Thursday night,
February 10, and forty-four lives we're lost.
The Waterman, in making his 10 o'clock
rounds, discovered fire coming out of the
cellar, occupied by woman, and gave the
alarm. William Driscoll, keeper, lived in
the building with his family, and he at once
broke the locks on ffty-four cells and tried
to get the inmates out. he then got his
wife and children out. OF the forty-eight |
inmates only four escaped. The building
was of wood and only two stories high.