Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
WILLIAM EDwARDs. a prisoner

and was killed.
EIGHT messengers of the American
Express Company on the route from Chi:
eago to WinOha, Mimi; have been dis
charged for dishonesty.
A FEW nights ago, a Mexican named
Lena, resident Of Monies De Las Latas,
n. NJ, while riding homeward, was stop
ped by young american and shot dead.
The highway man rode off with the dead
mans horse and valuables.
THE failure of W. j. Pope & Co.,
Montreal lumber merchants, for 500, 900, is
announced.
SEVEN men were killed and eleven
others were wounded by the fall of an I'M
finished bridge on the Sunset Road in Texas
recently.
Mr.. GLADSTONE on the 18th celebrat-
ed thesfftieth anniversary of his election as
a member of the British House of Com
mons, - -a<1 t.fA
A FIRE destroyed the house of Single
ton James, on a plantation near Stock
bridge, Ga, few nights ago. Thomas
Knight and two children were burned to
death. Knight was lying drunk in the house
when the fire occurred.
POsTIAsTER-GENERA HOWE has
it is said made arrangements for the
manufacture OF two. cent stamps on an ex-
tensiye scale.
THE Western Nail Association at a
recent meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa, reported
trade good and the outlook encouraging.
AT the age of eighty years Henry q.
Jenkins, the oldest member of the I. o. o.
F. in the West, died a few days ago at his
home in Camden, Ind. He had been post
master at Camden for seventeen years.
IT has been voted by the Old South
Church in Boston to pay to the family of its
deceased pastor, DR.. Jacob NJ. Manning,
$1,000 per annum for six years.
WITHIN the past few days seven
earthquake shocks have occurred in the
province Of Almeria, in Spain.
SEVERAL of the most extensive CO.
operative stores in. Dublin, Ireland, were
destroyed by recent fire.
AN explosion few days ago in pow
der magazine at Quay aquil, Central Ameri-
ca, killed sixty persons.
DURING the past year the receipts of
grain at Chicago were % 100000 bushels
less than the year previous. AT Cincinnati
nearly 100000 bushels greater.
MORRIS & Co., of Briton Terry, and
w. Morris, of Llangenech, Eng, tin-plate
makers, have failed. Liabilities, Gl50,OOO and
eT40, 1000, respectively.
ROBERT L. STUART, the retired sugar
refner of New York, died few days ago,
at the age of seventy -four years.
THE paupers in the city work-house
at Vienna, France, revolted few days ago,
attacked the Warden and fired the building.
The military were called out to suppress
the revolt. Forty arrests had been made.
THE extensive depot and VIII arr, to
gether with sixty cars and ten locomotives
belonging to the Manhattan Beach Railroad
Company, at Bay Ridge, near New York
City, were destroyed by fire few nights
ago. Loss, 100000. One man was burned
to death.
A NEW paper, called The Noon, pre-
pared entirely by the lunatics confined in
the Wards Island Asylum, New York City,
has ,made-its appearance. DR.. Mcdonald
said there was plenty of talent in the asylum
to supply matter.
The Directors of the Baltimore &
Ohio Road have reelected John W. Garrett
President for the twenty-filth Consecutive
term.
THE death is announced of Mrs.
Maria Appley, of Morristown, n. j., aged
104 years, seven months and three days.
She was born in New York in 1779 and was
one of tie thirteen young girls who repre-
scented the thirteen original States in Gen.
Washington's mock funeral procession in
New York City.
THE other day a sneak thief in Cleve-
land, o., stole bag containing $4,000
worth Of diamonds from a jewelry store.
AS result of the recent failure of
BidduIph, Wood s. Jevons, of Liverpool,
five other tin-plate houses in England have
suspended, with aggregated liabilities of
940O, 900.
THERE was recently shipped from New
York four carloads of sheep, said to be a
present from the Marquis of Lorne to Queen
Victoria. 80 Es
a FEW days ago Robert Morris, the
first colored man admitted to the bar, died
in Boston.
THE Manitoba Penitentiary inmates,
who recently made desperate effort to es-
cape, were sent enced to receive fifty lashes
each for their attempt to secure freedom.
AT Ironton, o., the residence of P.
Stafford was estrOyed by fire few nights
anu MIS- OGdAO1A PC1AcAOO TIC
flames. ~-
JOHN REDD. at Scale, Ala, and Peter
Thomas, at Mansfield, La, were hanged on
the 10Th for murder.
A FEW days since two letter pouches
filled with matter from New York for Colo
RADIO and New Mexico were stolen and plum
dered near Terre Haute, Ind.
The Commissioners of the Freed
mems Savings and Trust, Company at
Washington received the past year 1856, 1874.
Another dividend would be paid, requiring
$38S, 1927.
"A FEW days ago the steamer Kate
Kinney with her cargo, burned at the
Shreveport, La. wharf. The flames from
the burning boat communicated with build
ings on the shore. and several were de-
stroyed. Loss, $40. COG; insurance, about
sI2OOo0
I SHEPHERD and Levi, two miners were
found dead at the Juniata, Pa, sand
mines under ten tons of sand the other
day. F
q TIE Maamstrasna murderers, Myles
Joyce, Patrick Joyce and Casey. were
hanged-at DublIns Ireland, on the 18th.
MyIes joyce protested his innocence to the
e sJUDGE GILBERT recently decided that