Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
The President and his Cabinet are all
IN Washington again.
THE PAGER Johnston made mile at
Chicago on the 9th in 2:1O, the fastest har-
ness record ever known.
THE Ohio and Iowa women turned
out at the polls on the 9th and worked for
the temperance amendments.
THE RIGHT REV. AUGUSTUS SHORT,
Bishopof Adelaide, Australia, is dead. He
was born near Exeter, England, in 1903.
SEVERAL merchants and others of In
dianapolis, Ind, were victimized on the
evening of the 9Th by means of forged pos
tai notes.
The Brooklyn courts have refused q
writ to compel the school authorities to
admit colored girl to a school for white
children.
OEhOEANI hLAoON . COALOOA W Ii SNHP-J
to the President for the full records of the
case, including the report Of the Judge Adj
Vocate-General.
THE British Government will hereaf-
ter make monthly contracts for carrying
the American mails instead of the former
long time contracts.
THE Commissioner of Internal ReVe-
b III, hot
ganization has been formed in West Vir-
ginia to protect moonshiners.
ALFRED A. COHEN, leading member
of the California bar, who has been visiting
in the East for several weeks, was stricken
with paralysis in New York on the Sth.
In the Episcopal Convention at Phila-
delphia Bishop Elliott of Texas stated that
it would be long while before the church
could reach the northern States of Mexico.
THE q. S. court in Chicago on the
9th refused to release under habeas corpus
proceedings Fred Ker, the defaulting cash
Ter who was brought back from South
America.
HENRY T. WRIGHT, the defaulting
Assistant Postmaster at Racine, Wis, was
sentenced on Iue JUn 10 i've years anu one
day Imprisonment and to pay a fine of
$1,000.
AssE1IBLYNIAN SESSIONS of New York
was placed on trial on the 8th charged with
attempting to bride member during the
Senatorial election which was held after
Conkling and Platt resigned.
THE Cincinnati Exposition Commits
i i.
the premium awarded by the jurors on
electric lights. Proceeding were begun by
the U. S. Electric Light Company.
CUSTOMS officers seized in New York
on the Sth package containing 132 dia-
monds, 200 sapphires and So rubies, sent
through the mail from France to a firm
here. The firm denied any intention to
evade the duty.
STATE Veterinary Surgeon Bridge
visited Trescottown, Pa, on the 10th and
ascertained that cattle reported as suffer
ing with pleuro-pneumoniaw were merely af-
flicted by capillary bronchitis. The dis
ease is contagious.
CALCULATIONS made by officials in
the Indian Bureau show that there are at
present 140 Indian reservations embracing
an area of about $50, 100000 acres of land,
an area four times larger than that of all
the New England States.
UPto the close of business on the 10th
there had been received at the Treasury
Department for redemption $23,589, 800
United States bonds, embraced in the 121st
call, leaving still outstanding $6,41O, 700
bonds included in that call.
AT Lebanon, Pa, on the 9th the Phil
adelphia s. Reading Railroad Company
. laid tracks all around lot of ground which
had been purchased as a depot site for a
new line. The property will now be mac
cessible for depot purposes.
NEARLY one-third of the postal notes
issued from the city Post-ofice at, Wash
ington are drawn to the order of NJ.
A. Dauphan, New Orleans, and the lottery
people say to the Postmaster General,
''What are you going to do about it?'
THE elections in Ohio and Iowa on
the 9th were favored with good weather,
and in both States the vote polled was SO
heavy that returns were late. There were
Republican gains in Ohio, but whether
enough to carry the State had not been
learned.
THERE were four new cases of fever
at Brewton, Ala, on the 10th, three dying.
The Mayor of Brewton, a pioneer, was
among the number. The disease is pro-
nOunced yellow fever. Nearly all the stores
and dwellings were closed and the inhabit-
ants were leaving en- masse.
Two quarrymen report finding IN a
cave in quarry at Caperton, Va, on the
Sth an old iron chest containing coins and
tools apparently Of some ancient race. The
discovery caused great excitement The
property is in possession Of the finders, f
L Doerer and Alex. Haxwell.
MOODY and Sankey successfully be