Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

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The case would be appealed.
The Home Secretary for Ireland,
Forster, says Home Rule in Ireland means
absolute separation from England and great
probability Of a civil war in ireland.
THE United States Senate the other
day confirmed the nominations of General
Popeand Colonel Mckenzie, TO be MAJOR
General and Brigadier- General respect
lively. --....---s
ACCORDING to the report of the Com
missioner Of RAILROADS, at the end of June
lastth Union Pacific Company owed the
Government $63, $50 $40, and the Central
Pacific was indebted to the amount of $52,-
1858.
THE Government has brought suit at
New York against Harrison Johnston, for
merly Treasury agent, for the recovery of
nearly $1,000, 900 arising from the sale Of
cOn1scated cotton, for which he had failed
to account.
The cut of logs at the Minnesota mills
the past saving season was 296,e00,0OO feet
Of-iumber, 129, 00O,60O of shingles, land SO,
100000 laths, against 254,0O0,00O feet OF
lumber, 100000 shingles, and 40, 100000
laths in 1881. ..e.. .E-T
On the New York State canals
the total receipts for tolls for the season OF
1882 up to December 1, were 1865, 195. For
the season Of 1881 they were $631. 621. Last
year there were 211 days of navigation.
This year there were 241.
IT was decided at a meeting of the
rubber manufacturers held recently in New
York City, to close all rubber boot and shoe
factories in the country for several days,
after which one-half the goods formerly
made would be manufactured.
In the English Cabinet recent changes
have been made as follows: Lord Derby,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Lord
Harrington, Secretary of War, and Right
Hon. Hugh Ch1lders, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Mr.. Gladstone resigning the latter
Office.
REGENT advlces state that an Anti
Terrorist Association, the object of which
is to oppose the project OF the Nihilists, has
been formed in st. Petersburg, and branches
established at Paris, Nice, Geneva. Zurich,
London, Berlin, 'Konigsburg, Bucharest and
Constantinople. o. -r. go
ADyICEs from Chiapas, Mexico, stated
that cholera has been raging with such vio-
Hence that in,some places owners of and lab
Orers on plantations had all died, and it was
not possible to bury them. The bodies had
been burned. Sixty deaths a day had oc-
Cured in fonda. A terrible panic ensued.
A RECENT dispatch states that Judge
Bond has decided the cases against the
mi in no ~
officials for prohibiting United States Super
visors from entering the places of registra-
tion in Charleston, S. c., and undertaking
to interfere in the progress Of the registra-
tion.
THE managers of the recent Garfield
fair erected in the rotunda of the national
capitol wall of boards to prot ct the his
tOrical paintings. The wall turned current
of hot air on those works, partially destroy
ing those representing the baptism of Poca-
hontas andthe pilgrims at prayer, which cost
$40, 900 each. & 90
In the recent official canvass of the
State election made at Lansing, Mich, the
vote for Governor was declared as follows:
Begole, Democrat and Greenback, 154, 26S;
Jerome, Republican, 149,697; Sagendorph,
Prohibitionist, 1854. The remainder of the
State officers stand: Republican, 157 ZOO;
Fusion, 149, 900.
HEAvY rains in Oregon and Wash
ington Territories during the past few days
caused great damage. The Pendleton River
rose so rapidly that many inhabitants were
forced to take refuge in the trees, where
they remained all night. Mills, houses and
other improvements were carried away. No
loss of life was Yanorted
For some time Fremont, O., had two
murderers in the penitentiary, named
Knapp and Welsh. A pardon was recently
secured for the former, on the ground that
he was dying of consumption, but he reached
home in robust health, while the corpse OF
Welsh speedily followed. The question
was, who made the. mistakeg = -syzs- y
ARGENT Boise City dispatch says the
Idaho Legislature has assembled. The
Council stands six Republicans, three Nor
mons, two anti-1Iormon Democrats and
one Mormon Democrat They had elected
Col. E. A. Wall, anti Mormon Democrat,
President. House stands: Twelve Republic
ans, seven Mormons, five Mormon Demo-
Gratis. s1tg 2. E $500 e=
THE following telegram has been re-
ceived by Secretary Chandler from Lieut..
Harder, dated Bulem, September Is. ''The
Jeanette men, in charge of Ensign Hunt,
are proceeding to Jakutska. Schultze and I
remain to complete the search of the coast
by sieds. N 10 trace OF the 6hipps party has
yet been discovered. We will reach Irkutsk
about the middle OF December" a-arR
A CITIZEN OF Nebraska purchased
from the GoYernmenta section Of land with
IN the limits Of the grant to the Burlington
e Missouri River Road and reeefyed bis
patent The railway had. pre- TiOusly Died AZ
sVVasnington q nap 81 ITS iocasions which the
Supreme Court TeceAtly held was all that
was necessary, ana man who purchased
thssame section 9romsthe railroad company
was held to be the rightfsn owner.ss
IN q recent decision Secretary Teller
declares that lands within the limits of
grants 20 a railroad company TO which pre-
emption or homestead claims, capable of
being forfeited, had been attached at the
time the giant toek effect. are excluded
from the railroad grant and upon the aban
dOnment Of such claims the lands do not
inure to the company but are restored to
the public domain. He also decides that an
efr6reous entfJ ii The Register's Ofles, e.