Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-30


undertaker's establishment in suburb Of
London, Eng.
THROUGH connection on the North
ern Pacific was expected to be completed
on the 23d. The golden spike will be
driven September 8.
A DIVER recently discovered the hull
of the brig New Dominion, which disap-
peared in 1872, at the bottom of the shoals
near Cape Breton Island.
THE Madrid newspapers of the goth
contained articles advocating a Spanish
Austro-German alliance to counterfeit the
effects of French democracy.
On the. goth Secretary Folger started
for a cruise to Lake Superior on the Reve-
nue. steamer Andy Johnson, and Secretary
Chandler sailed from Portsmouth, N. H.,
Tor a pleasure trip in the Tallapoosa.
CoLLMGs, Liberal member for Fps
witch, has given notice that he will, at the
next session of parliament, offer a resolu-
ton that a Home-Rule measure is the best
means of securing peace with Ireland.
The 1891, 900 bequest of J. B. Gard
ner of Boston has been received at the
Treasury Department and placed to the
credit of Patriotic donations. He willed
that it should go to help pay off the nation
al debt.
THREE Standard Bearers tainted from
exhaustion, and Sir Alexander Wood, aid
TO the Grand Commander of California,
was thrown from his horse and had both
legs broken during the Conclave procession
in San Francisco on the Goth.
THE Commissioner of the General
Land Office has been informed that the
Register of the Land Office of the st. Cloud
(lhinn.) District began the sale of 100000
acres of public land at auction on the Goth.
Prices realized, $685. per acre.
EARL SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, arrived at Cork on the 21st. He
was respectfully received by the people.
Policemen in sight of each other guarded
the train of the Lord Lieutenant along the
entire route from Dublin to Cork.
LIEUTENANT A. E. WOOD, Fourth
Cavalry, on leave of absence in Paris, has
been designated by the United States Gov
eminent to attend the militia maneuvers of
4 the French army near Paris, in September
ment.
On the goth the acting Secretary of
the Interior issued an order disbarring
from practice before the Interior Depart
ment Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, Pension agent
of Washington, he having failed to dis
prove the charges of fraudulent practices
preferred against him.
THE statue of Lafayette will be I'M
yelled at Lepuy, France, the Capital of the
Department of Haute Loire, on September
6. Waldeck Rousseau, the Minister of the
Interior; General Thibaudin, the Minister
of War, and Morton, the American Min
lister, will be present at the ceremony.
A PROMINENT physician of Westfeld,
NY, Dr. J. B. Campbell, committed suicide
on the 10Th by taking choral. Cause,
drink. Wilder Rixford, farmer in com
Portable circumstances, living in the same
vicinity, shot himself in the. right temple,
the ball emerging from near the left ear.
JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK died at ten
minutes past two O'Clock a. m. on the 10Th
at York, Pa. He had been sick for some
time, and on the 18th was apparently some
what improved, so that faint hope of his
recovery was entertained. He then sank
gradually during several hours and was
conscious to the last.
A VETERAN of the Mexican war,
George w. Bromley, who, it is claimed
killed the Seminole Chief, Osceola, in the
Florida Indian war, was buried at Darby
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the 18th. He
was born in 1917. A few years ago he de-
clined a commission and retirement with
pay. He had been a soldier in the regular
army forty-eight years.
THE four Reading Railroad laborers
arrested at Philadelphia recently, under
the charge of illegally performing worldly
labor on the Sabbath, were given hearine
on the 21st. Testimony was offered to show
that the work could not be accomplished OF
any other day of the week in consequence
of the frequent passage of trains, and the
Magistrate, taking that view, decided thai
the work was necessary and discharged the
defendants.
OK the 10Th DR.. Norvin Green, Presi
dent of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, arrived in New York in the steam
ship Alaska. After a short talk with
General Eckert, the acting President, DIR
Green expressed himself well pleased thai
the strike of the operators had been brought
60 a close and in hearty terms thanked
General Eckert, Superintendent Tinker and
Superintendent Rhinestone and other Off
GERS Of the Company for their able manage
,meut Of the troublous question.