Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-16
THE Bierstadt mansion at Irvington,

The BierStadt mansion at 1rVlngt0n,
N. Y, burned on the 10th. The rooms were
filed with many valuable trophies and curl.
osities which the artist had collected in the
Yosemite Valley and elsewhere. So far as
known the Valuables and furniture were to-
tally destroyed. The furniture itself was
probably worth $4,000. The pictures and
curiosities are estimated to have been worth
nearly $10G, goo more.
THE French journals are very much
incensed at the Egyptian Government in
suppressing the European control, and at
tribute it to Lord Dufferin's influence. One
editor calls it brutal and illegal; another
says it illustrates British bad faith and bad
policy, even in the light of British interests.
DENNIS GOLDEN and Joseph Cameron
were blown to atoms by an explosion OF
powder at Whitehal!, n. Y, the other day.
FOR informing against a man who
had sold them whiskey, a number Of Utes
ON the Uintah Reservation cut the throat of
an Indian policeman, and threatened seri-
Gus disturbances.
Il. II. BUSTED, a Massachusetts dis
tiller, and G. D. Bayard and G. F. Perre-
mond, New York liquor dealers, are held
on charges of defrauding the revenue.
ARTHUR HALLER was killed and
Frederick Pierce probably fatally hurt by a
road the other day.
THE large wooden bridge across the
Susquehanna at Great Bend, n. Y, con-
Meeting the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern with the Erie Railway, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Also, the Northern & Ham
ilton freight depot at Toronto, Ontario, with
contents valued at 100000.
In the Jeanette inquiry at Washing
ton the other morning Melville narrated an
incident in which Chip, losing strength
and courage, and finding himself unable to
proceed further, threw himself down upon
sled and besought the party to go on with
out him, saying it was no use for him to
struggle on further. A number of lady
relatives of Chipp burst into tears, and,
finding themselves unable to listen calmly
to a further account of his sufferings, left
the room.
THE Department of Agriculture re-
ports exceptionally fine weather during the
past month for maturing and harvesting
cotton, and returns estimate the yield OF
acreage of each State as followsi Virginia,
pounds of lint to the acre, 178; North Caro-
lima, $50; South Carolina, 1873; Georgia, 1872;
tiOrlUa, liz 1oOs D11SSlsSIpplJ
100; Louisiana, 235; Texas, $40; Arkansas,
233, and Tennessee, 10. These figures are
the result of a consolidation of the revised
county estimates and suppose a continuance
of the average weather for the six remain
| ing weeks of the harvest season. Injury by
caterpillar or boil worm is not appreciable
| except in few counties.
THE steamer Emma G. Elliott, while
nearing st. Louis, the other evening, came
upon an immense flock Of wild ducks. The
| electric light was turned on, when the birds
! dashed against it with such force that sew
eral hundred of them were captured, and
| in the morning thirty-six were found con-
cealed in the cabin.
II. o. WATERS, Manager of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company's Office on the
Board of Trado, Chicago, and member OF
the board himself, shot himself on the 10th,
in his room on State street, opposite the
! Palmer House. The ball could not be found,
| and whether the wound is mortal or not the
doctors could not say. There is a scandal
back of the tragedy. The wife of the would
| be suicide is a pretty woman, and foolish.
/ The gossips said she was in Boston, whittier
| she had gone in pursuit of young fellow
whom she loved better than her husband.
She has two children. When friends asked
Waters if there was anything he wanted he
said: "Nothng, except what have tried to
give myself"