Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04
PERSONAL AID GENERAIs

mine at WllkeSbarre, Pa.s on the zzdS Dy Cne
breaking of a scafold. All were drowned.
MISS SALLIE JOHNSON, remarkably
pretty Baltimore girl, attended church on
Sunday and after returning hanged herself
to the banister in her home.
CAREY's widow and other witnesses
arrived in England on the oath from South
Africa:
The London Times says France
cannot obtain Tonquin without war with
China.
The Corean Embassy visited the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on the oath.
THE Catholic Bishops expelled from
Prussia are negotiating for return.
QUARANTINE restrictions are abol-
ished as to vessels arriving at Gibraltar
from Egypt.
THERE is a split in the Greenback
party of Massachusetts and two conven-
tions are promised.
ALFRED E. HAMS, almshouse steward
at Camden, N. j., has been arrested and
held for trial for malfeasance in Office.
Two captured rebelliOus chiefs have
been convicted of treason by the Boer Gov
eminent and sentenced to death.
AMERICAN merchants in the Sand
witch Islands are alarmed at the prospect
of rupture of the reciprocity treaty.
AT Enfield, N. H., Ira B. FOgg was
waylaid and fatally assaulted by neigh
Dor with whom he had a difficulty a few
nights ago.
A sHERIFF's officer on the oath raided
and closed lot of rendering shops at Hun
ter's Point, L. L, they having been declared
nuisances.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED men returned to
work on the oath at the South Chicago roll
ing mills at the Pittsburgh scale of wages.
DAVID FRALEY, q North Carolina
was sentenced on the oath to
the penitentiary for twelve years for kill
ing an officer.
A STILL exploded in Calf, Fleischman
& Co.'s distillery at Hunters Point, L. L,
on the oath, and the distillery burned. Loss,
500, 900.
SHAW, the British missionary, who
was abused by the French in Madagascar,
is advised to file claim for $4,000 dam
ages.
AT the rocket factory at the great
English Arsenal at Woolwich an explosion
occurred ON the oath. Several buildings
were destroyed and two persons were re-
ported killed.
THE convention of colored men COM
menced it's sessions in Louisville, KY, ON
the oath. After an animated tussle Fred
Douglass was chosen to preside over the
deliberations of the convention.
THE French Government has restored
the suppressed stipends to the Catholic
Il &c
tentions toward the Holy See.
RICHARD CURRIE shot and killed his
wife in Boston on the morning of the 18th.
THE rolling-min at Fair Haven,
Conn, burned on the 25th. Loss, $4,000
The jail at Ashville, O., burned on
the oath, an unknown prisoner perishing in
the flames.
The Panama Canal Company will
open subscriptions for new loan of 30O,-
100000 francs.
GILBERT KNOX and S. Vanderlin
were fatally injured by land slide at New
Windsor, N. Y, on the 25th.
THE cotton manufacturers and opera
tives of Lancashire, England, are trying to
readjust wages and production so as to
prevent a strike
The British Government will again
negotiate with the Suez Canal Company
for new canal.
Two men and boy were killed by
locomotive in Detroit, Mich, on the 10Th
while crossing the track in wagon.
O'DONNELL, Carey's slayer, will be
defended by Sullivan, MP. Defendant
had preliminary hearing on the 10Th.
NJ Rr
woollen dealers, have failed for 81, 75O, 600.
Levy Bros. & Co., clothers, failed for $780,
600.
AT the Hutton Pa.) regatta, on the
25th the professional oarsmen refused to
row because the judges assigned them posi-
tions instead of permitting them to draw
places by lot.
AN Irishman, giving his name as John
A. Feeny, fired two shots at the British
consul in New York on the 25th. He is
lately out of the hospital and exhibits
symptoms of crankiness.
Miss EMMA ATKINSON, eighteen years
old, was found at her home near Oxford,
Ind, on the oath, with her throat cut and
numerous knife wounds in her body She
had been left alone in the house, and was
probably murdered by tramps.
HENRY BIsCHoFF, of the German
Bank of New York, testified before the Sen
ate Labor Committee on the 25th that work
ingmen in America work less hours and do
better work than those in Germany, but
have not as comfortable homes. He wants
employers to study the interests of their
men,.
VALUES of breadstuffs exported for
August, 1888, s,S16, 129; same month, 1882,
SIS, 951, 800; eight months ending August 1,
1888, $114, 81, 045; same time 1882, $11O, 275-
SOS.
JESUIT delegates from all parts of the
world have assembled at Rome to elect the
eventual successor to Pere Beck, General of
the order. Beck wished this action taken
because of his advanced years.
SIMEON CHARLES HADLEY, Alderman
for Bavard Ward, was elected Lord Mayor
of London on the 25th.