Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-05-25
News of the Week.
THURSDAY, MAY is.

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In the presence Of 10000 people at
high noon to-day the building erected
by the state OF Illinois at the Worlds
fair was dedicated. ...... Theodore
Thomas was to-day asked to resign
his position as musical director of the
Worlds fair. AT meeting Of
the M. X. & 7. officers this morning it
was decided unanimously to comply
with the law. Thus under pressure
of the attitude Of the governor and
attorney general the railroad officials
were brought to time. ......... The
general assembly Of the Presbyterian
church in the United States convened
in the l05th annual session to-day in
the New York Avenue church, Wash
ington City. Drs Briggs and Smith
are the chief centers Of interest.
John ID. Rockefeller of New York,
again presented the University of
Chicago with a magnificent cash gift.
lie wired President Harper to-day
that he would add $150,000 to the
100000 offered by Martin A. Ryer-
son last January, in case the officers
could raise sufficient to make $1,000
600 by July l.. George Lee
Blanche, the Marine, was knocked
out in the sixteenth round by Billy
MCCARTHY of Australia, in q prize
fight in New Orleans tonight. The
fight was for a purse of $4,000 before
the Crescent City Athletic club. ...
Harris Blank and Isaac Rosweig were
hanged in the jail yard at Tunkhan-
mock, Pa, this morning for the muir
der of peddler named Marks. They
are the first Jews ever executed for a
capital crime, not only in the United
States but in North America.
FRIDAY, MAY 10.
The Infanta Eulalie arrived in
Washington this morning and was
met by Secretary Gresham on behalf
of the president, The princess rep
resents the Queen Regent of Spain.
She is also the direct representative
in descent of the famous Queen Isa-
bella. .......T The Kentucky handicap
worth $4,000, and next in Importance
to the derby: was won to-day at Lou
isvllle by Rudolph, with Ferrler Sec
ond and Galindo third. The track
was fast, the weather perfect and the
attendance large. Altogether it was
one Of the most interesting races of
the season. ...... Charles S. Rogers,
the millionaire president Of the st.
Paul Cordage trust, committed sui
eide in fit of insanity by jumping
from the Smith Avenue bridge in st.
Paul this afternoon. .. The great
floods in western Pennsylvania and
northeastern Ohio are subsiding.
SATURDAY, MAY 20.
The Spanish princess called upon
President and Mrs. Cleveland this
afternoon. 49,. Thomas W. Porter,
prominent business man of Denver,
was today appointed receiver of the
land Office in that city. ...... "A seri-
GUS accident happened the closing
day Of the Woman's Congress at the
Worlds fair. At 8 o'clock this morn
ing a section of floor 20x30 feet sud
denly gave way, precipitating about
seventy-fve women a distance Of
twelve feet to the ground. No one
was fatally injured though many re-
ceived painful wounds. "A great
strike is on among the miners at
Pittsburg and Weir City, Kas, Not
a miner belonging to the miners or
ganlzation will go to work tomorrow
morning. There is not the least ex-
element, however, and the miners
are cool and perfectly willing to listen
to any proposition the operators may
make provided it is made to their or
ganization. ...... The worst storm
ever known at PittsBurE Pa, struck