Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-05
Published by HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION. PHILLl
CURRENT TOPICS,

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
GEN. SCHoFIELD has been assigned to
the division of the Pacific.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left New York
the other night for the Thousand Islands.
AN epidemic resembling cholera has
broken out in Chiapas, Mexico, and is
spreading frontierward.
THE German Government is consid-
ering project for canal to connect the
North Sea with the Baltic.
AN American horse, fLorillard's Aran-
"a, won the Great Eastern Railway handi-
cap at Newmarket by six lengths.
DISTURBANCES have broken out among
the Montenegrins at Kolaschin. The Gov
ernor of Now Bazaar has sent body of Nj
cams to occupy Turkish Kolaschin.
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The contributions toward the Garfield
Hospital at Washington amount to $50, 900.
Consul PexiottO, at Lyons, opened sub
scriptiOn and received $1,000 francs.
GENERAL !RossER is at the head. of a
project to build a railway from Winnipeg
to Hudson Bay, by which the grain of the
Northwest will find its way to Liverpool.
DoNIPHAN, another star-route juror,
has made affidavit that he was offered bride
by one Shaw, representing himself as acting
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Dorsey.
On the charge of heretical teaching,
the trustees of the Newton Theological In
stitution, in Massachusetts, have dismissed
Professor E. P. Gould from the chair Of
New Testament Interpretation.
PETER COOPER, who was born in New
York when the city had a population of 81, =
600, has spent the last three months in pre-
pairing his autobiography. His health is ex-
cellent and his mind unimpaired.
THE Dublin correspondent of the Lon
don Times intimates that Dillon has with.
drawn from political life because he does
not fall in with what he considers the milk
and-water policy Of his associates.
ADVICEs from Panama are to the eff
feet that insurgents seized Greytown, and
an American vessel in port. The crew sub
sequently recaptured the vessel and citizens
hanged two of the insurgent leaders.
JUDGE BLACK, on behalf of the Nor
mons, viii present to the Secretary of the
Interior argument IN. favor of the removal
of Governor Murray, of Utah, In connection
with argument to prove the Utah Commits
sion unconstitutional.
FRED DOUGLASS says he is not 'sthe
prominent coIored man'' going to Virginia
in the interest of straightout Republicans.
He is in sympathy with Malone. He de-
clines an invitation to Ohio for the reason
that he is too old to travel.
The revolt among the Republicans of
New York grows alarming to the machine
leaders. Stewart L. Woodtord urges Folger
to refuse the nomination, on the ground of
frauds. The Young Republican Club Of
Brooklyn unanimously adopted resolutions
declaring the Saratoga nomination not en-
titled to respect
THE trial of Rev. H. o. Hoffman, at
Lincoln, ILL.,, resulted in verdict of guilty,
and he has been expelled from the ministry
and membership of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr.. Hoffman gave notice that he
would take an appeal from the decision Of
the committee to the Judicial Conference,
and the appeal was accepted.
RIOTS have occurred in several towns
in Upper Egypt, owing to the efforts of the
officials to enforce demonstrations of loyalty
to the Khedive. Flags and devices were torn
down by mobs, and Christians insulted and
maltreated. Five or six persons were killed
and quite a number injured by the explo-
sion OF ammunition on train at Cairo.
A VIENNA newspaper says the En-
peror Of Russia was secretly crowned dur
ing the recent visit to Moscow. If the En-
perOr lives till the public coronation the Sc
cret ceremony will be considered void. In
the-event of his death it will be made pub
lie, so as to avoid any difficulty in proclaim
ing the Czarewitch Alexander as the lawful
successor of the crowned monarch.
THE Khedive held grand reception
in Cairo on the 26th. Nearly thousand
representatives of different villages were
present. He refused to receive mary i'm
plicated Egyptians, and warned the Ulemas
and other high persOnages that they would
be severely punished if they relapsed into
dislOyalty. The principal British officers
were present. Gen. Wolseley, however, was
unable to attend.
A FLEET of steamboats,, decked with
flags and filed with people. passed up and
down the Ohio, at Cincinnati, the other day.
The fleet consisted Of three squadrons, each
under commander. The vessels moved in
order at 100 yards interval between the boats
and 100 yards between the squadrons. Both
shores were lined with spectators. Salutes
were given by all the other steamers, as well
as by manufacturing establishments along
the line. The demonstration was a tribute
by the steamboat men to the Industrial Ex-
position.
MCCANMoN, Assistant Attorney
General of the Interior Department, has ne
gotiated an agreement with the Flathead In
dams of Northwestern Montana to allow the
Northern Pacific Company to build their road
through the reservation, a distance of fifty
three miles. The Indians at first fixed upon
one million dollars as the price of the strip
of land. two hundred feet wide, across the
reservation, but finally accepted $23, OO0-
SIC, 600 for the land and s., 900 as compensa-
ton for the destruction Of buildings and
crops on the line Of the proposed roadway.