Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-28

ment three leading Pefuvians have been
sent to Chill.
THE Treasurer of the United States
the other day received s., 900 from 81. R.''
for the conscience fund. ---.ii
I CITIZENS of New York have recently
contributed $50, 900 to erect a pedestal fol
the Bartholdf statue Of Liberty.
THE other day 1000 applications for
assistance to emigrate were made to the
Poor Law Union at WestpOrt. Ireland.
GOVERNOR PORTER, of Indiana, a
few days ago ordered that special election
for asuccessor to the late Congressman Orth
be held January 9th. es~f(, SIS,
ARUBBER company in Trenton, New
Jersey, recently made for western grain
elevator belt 692 feet long, yard wide,
and weighing three tons.
THE Denver & Rio Grande Road had
recently pushed its Utah extension to the
western line of Colorado, and expected to
reach Salt Lake by February 10.
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MAJOR E: H. Grafton, an early set
tier in the lead-mine region Of Illinois, a
brother OF Mrs. Eiihu B. Washburne, died
Of apoplexy at Platteville, Wisconsin, the
other day.
JOHN R. BUEcHTEL, Of Akron, O.,
the other day sold $2OO,O stock in the
Buckeye Works, in order to make an addf-
tional gift of 800, 600 to Buechtel College, in
that town.
AT Columbus, o., the Legislative
bribery cases were finally disposed of few
days since. Representative Wright was &C.
quilted and nolle entered in the case of
Representative Block.
HENRY JAMES, SR., the philosopher
and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley,
Emerson and ThOl eau on this side of the
Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson
on the other, died few days since.
AT meeting of the French Geo
graphical Society the other day NJ. de Les
seps promised that the Panama Canal would
be ready to be opened in 1898. Fears that
the canal would be liable to destruction by
earthquake were unfounded.
THE ex-Empress Eugene wrote to
ROmher the other day requesting him to
convey to Marseilles the park and castle
which the court decreed belonged to her.
The ex-Empress says she believes she is
carrying out the wishes of the Emperor.
THE United States Supreme Court,
in denying writ Of habeas corpus to G en-
eral N. NJ. Curtis, recently held that the
law prohibiting the assessment of Govern
ment employees by Federal officers, for po-
litical purposes, is clearly constitutional.
THE Western Distillers' Association,
1T a meeting held in Cincinnati, O., the 9TH
Er day, aecided to assess a tax on every
Dushel of corn mashed up, to forty per cent.
Of the capacity to pay for the exporting sur
plus, and allow a rebate of twenty cents per
bushel for every bushel under forty per
cent. Of capacity.
VICTOR JoUANNEAULr, whose death
at GAINESVILLE, ILL.,, was reported, few days
since, was a graduate Of the University of
France, tutor in the royal household at
Brussels, Catholic priest in New Orleans,
and teacher Of Brigham Young's children
at NauvOo. For the past thirty years he led
the life of a merchant.
IT was recently announced by the
Secretary of the Treasury that three months
interest, due February 1 next, on bonds
embraced in the 10th call, would be paid
by checks forwarded to the registered own
ers, the fractions of interest from that date
to February 10 being paid with the princi-
pal of bonds at the time OF redemption.
THE preliminary preparations for
rendering the Weser navigable for sea- going
vessels from Bremerhaven to Bremen, Ger
many, were recently finished. The work
was estimated to cost 30,000,000 marks, and
would probably occupy six years. When
completed it will give an immense impetus
to trade between Bremen and New York.
ONE of the severest earthquake shocks
ever felt at Concord, n. H., occurred on the
evening of the 18th. The shock was like q
heavy explosion or Of some heavy object
falling. In one building the shock was
sufficient to extinguish the gas. 1t was al
SO felt at Piusield, Great Falls, Manchester
aud other places. The shock lasted eight or
ten seconds.
j. E. MCCONNELL, assignee in bank
ruptcy of ex-Mayor Blackmore, OF Pitts
burg, has brought suits in ejectment to re-
cover all that ground upon which stand the
United States Capitol building, the White
House, Treasury building, Navy and
other Governmental buildings, and hundreds
of fine dwellings and business houses, as
well as thousands of acres in Georgetown,
D. c., and Washington County, Pa. Ex-
Mayor Blackmore was said to be a descen-
dant of the original owner Of the property.
In the action of the Governm ent
against three packages of distilled spirits,
which had been originally properly stamped,
but afterWard, when part had been drawn
on and water added to the packages, siezed
by the Government as not of the proof in
dieated BY the stamp. Judge Brown, at New
York the other day held that the mere addi-
ton of wster is not fraud. The sugges-
ton that the stamp must correspond with
the proof of the spirits as that of certiica-
ton IS argumentatiye only and is not ware
Tanted by law.
THE other day at Washington the
Supreme Court gave decision in 8 test case
involving the tile TO certain mining lands in
the City Of LeadEills. Col. This was 8 suit
brought by the st. Louis Smelling and Re.
filming Company against Steel ct al. to recover
possession Of certain tract Of mineral land
In Leedviile claimed by the company under
patent issued to one Thomas Starr On the
29ih Of March, 1873. The judgment OF the
Circuit Court Of Colorado in favor Of the St.
Louis company was affirmed, with costs.