Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-22
PERSONAL And GENERAL.

various factories.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
approved the rules and regulations and
amendments to the same adopted at re-
cent meeting OF the Supervisors and In
spectors of Steam Vessels.
LADY FLORENCE Dixie, in a recent
letter to the London Times, charged Biggar
and Parnell, as trustees of the Land League
fund, with not accounting for s125, 900.
Mrs. LUCINDA FORMAN and her
daughter were found murdered with an ak
on farm near Indianapolis, Ind, on the
10Th.
THE Chicago Qn.) Cremation Socie-
ty has proposed to organize with a capital
of 100000.
THE Dublin (Ireland) Invincibles
were reported recently as finding no diff
Guilty in obtaining recruits.
MEETINGS of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron and Steel Workers were held
in the various districts on the 10th to agree
on rate cards to be submitted in the National
convention at Pittsburgh.
IT was announced at Washington on
| the 10th that Judge Lilley would prosecute
S. w. Dorsey for the assault committed on
him some days ago. He was still laid up by
his injuries.
Two ladies, the last descendants of
Amerigo Vespucci, have asked the restora-
ton OF a small pension granted their family
| by the Florentines in 1890.
The commander of the French squad
ron on the Madagascar coast has been or
dered to seize the ports, but not to send
! troops into the interior.
THE Socialists attempted to hold
another meeting in Paris, France, on the
10th, but they were prevented. The cavalry
were compelled to charge the mob twice,
and many people were knocked down, but
no killing was reported.
CAPTAIN KOsTs, who was in COM
mand when the United States ship Tacoma
was lost on the Pacific Coast recently, has
been found guilty of gross negligence and
suspended for two years.
ELEVEN men were burned to death
in lodging house at a wood camp near
Deadwood, Oak, the other night.
THREE judges of election in Philadel-
phia, Pa, have recently been sentenced to
three months Imprisonment for making
| false returns.
THREE officers of the navy and one of
the army are among the Nihilists soon to be
tried at St. Petersburg, Russia.
AT Grove Station, Pa, on the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, fire destroyed two
frame buildings the other morning, IN one
of which two children named Crawford,
aged three and five years, were burned to
death.
BY a wreck on the Texas Central
Railroad, near Austin, Tex, the other day,
one brakeman was fatally injured and an
other had his leg and arm crushed. Eight
cars were utterly demolished.
A MOTION for new trial in the case
of j. D. Watson, recently convicted at CO.
| lumbus, o., of offering brides to Repre-
sentative Black, was oVerruled the other
day and the accused sentenced to one year
in the Penitentiary.
julius MARCUS, the absconding New
York whisky broker, has been arrested at
Portland, Ore.
THE Dublin Qreland) murder con-
spiracy trials have been set for April g.
The prisoners would be tried on three
counts, the Phoenix Park murders, the at
tempted murder of Juror Field, and con-
spiracy.
AFTER two previous attempts to
wreck trains on the Niles & New Lisbon
other day in ditching freight at New Aus
tintown, o. William Thompson WAS killed
and the engineer and fireman had miracu-
lOus escapes.
THREE sailors were drowned the 9TH
er day by the sinking of schooner off Port
land, Me.
THE Government has ordered that
prompt measures be taken for the relief of
the starving people OF Loughrea, Ireland.
THE Arkansas Legislature has passed
a bill changing the name of Dorsey County
to De Soto County.
MRS. BERKESIIER, of Knox County,
Ind, died few days ago at the age of 100
years.
THE body of William H. Burdick was
found in the ruins of the Southern Railroad
Depot at Cincinnati, O., the other morning
and his wife became insane with grief.
WHILE a number of men were at
work in partially burned foundry at Cleve-
land, o.. the other morning one Of the
walls fell and buried Fred Berkhardt in the
ruins. His companions dug his mangled
remains out a few minutes afterward.
THE festivities at a Pittsburgh (Pa. }
christening the other day were interrupted
by the killing Of Nicholas Kretsch.
A DRUNKEN father named Herring,
in Hall County, Ga, poured a shovelfull OF
hot Goals on his infant child the other day
and burned it to death.
A JURY had been secured in the
Dukes-Nutt murder case at Uniontown,
Pa, on the 18th and the taking of testimony
would commence at once.
SIX negroes and a Chinaman were
killed by boiler explosion the other day
in Cuban sugar house.
THERE had been twelve hundred
anarchist arrests in Andalusia, Spain, to g
recent date.
TIE Commissioner of Pensions has
ruled that pension agent can not collect 6
fee for prosecuting claim for increase OF
pension.