Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26
Published by HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION PHI
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE NE VS. IN BRIEF
THE Prohibitionists of New Hamp.
shire have nominated Josiah w. Fletcher
for Governor.
A BILL before the Legislature of Yer
mont imposes a fine of $40 for offering &
boy under 10 years of age a cigar OF cigar.
cite.
"A BILL providing that criminals shall
be made insensible before execution ha:
been introduced in the Vermont Legisla.
ture.
/ TWENTY Mormon Elders have left
Salt Lake for missionary work in the South.
ern States, and seventy five for the Europe
an field.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN has of
ficially expressed to Henry George the re.
greet of the British Government for his re-
cent arrest in Ireland.
A QUARANTINE against all Southern
points has been established at Bagdad, at
the mouth of the Rio Grande, ostensiblY to
prevent the spread of cholera from the Mex
lean States.
AsBURY University, at Greencastle,
Ind, is to receive an endowment of 81 900.
600 from Hon. w. c. DePauw, on condition
that it assume his name and comply with
some pecuniary requirements.
'PLEURO-PN has appeared
among the cattle near Lancaster, Penn. J..
II. Saunders, of Chicago, President of the
Cattle Commission, pronounces Baltimore
and the farms adjacent hotbed of the dis
ease.
SEVERAL sensations in the shape of
new Indictments are promised in the star
route cases. Brady, Dorsey & Co., are said
to be thoroughly scared, and it is alleged the
Administration will furnish them neither aid
nor comfort.
ADvICEs from Panama say matters
on the south coast have a more pacific ten
dency than for long time past, and the
pressure brought to bear on the govern
ments or people of Peru and Bolivia is haY-
ing marked effect.
In an interview at Kansas City, Mo-,
the other day, ex-senator Dorsey sharply
criticised the Government officials connected
with the star route cases, and reiterated the
statement that he had never defrauded the
country of one cent.
THE preliminary election for mem
bers of the Prussian Diet resulted, as far as
estimated, in the choice of 1900 electors
belonging to the Progressist and Secession
ist groups, against $50 Conservatives and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
THE bankers of Chicago are earnest
and united in their disapproval of the ruling
of Secretary Folger that gold certificates can
only be procured at the subTreasury in
New York, which forces upon Western peo-
pie express charges in both directions, on
the coin and the paper.
THE Secretary of War has submitted
to the Judge-AdYocate General for his opin-
ion the question whether persistent refusal
on the part of an officer of the army to pay
just debts does not make him liable to trial
by court martial upon charges unbecoming
an officer and gentleman.
THE President has suspended 'Jona-
than Diggs, Indian Agent at Colorado River
Agency, and appointed John w. Clark his
successor. McGillicuddy, of the Mescalero
Agency, rendered his resignation, but the
Secretary of the Interior declined to accept
it, pending the result of the investigation
now in progress.
.IGNATIo L. VILLAsTA, Chief Justice
of the Mexican Supreme Court, was pro-
claimed Vice President under the recent
constitutional amendment. He promptly
resigned, on the ground that his political
relations interfere with his judicial duties.
He has been Governor, Congressman, and
Cabinet Minister.
REPORTS to the Canadian Govern
ment indicate an uprising of the Indians
on Caradoc Reserve, in the Northwest Ter
ritOries, who have formally decided not to
lease to the whites any portion of their
lands. General Crook, in conference with
four hundred chiefs and head men of the
Apaches, at San Carries, forbade them to
leave the reservation without papers, and
ordered them to stop manufacturing liquor.
A DISPATCH was recently sent from
Chicago stating that three lives were lost on
Lake Michigan through a ruling by the Su-
pervising Inspector of Steam Vessels that
tugs must not take passengers on board, I'M
der penalty of $500. The Inspector says
that no regulation ever made by the depart
ment could be tortured into prohibition of
saving life, the only restriction being as to
equipments for the safety of passengers.
Chicago tugmen are said to have boosted
that they would suffer people to drown.
Mr.. JOHN A. COCKERILL, editor of
the st. Louis Post Dispatch, has been re-
leased from custody on furnishing bonds to
the amount Of $40, 900 to answer charge of
murder in the second degree. In swearing
out a warrant which was intended merely
to hold the accused for ajudieiaI investiga-
ton, and not to decide the justice or injus-
tice of the cause, the Prosecuting Attorney
has only done the duty required of him by
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