Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Saxony, were reported suffering with trichi-
nosis on the Dist.
EXCITEMENT at Lincoln, Ill, Is at
fever heat over the Zura Burns case. The
murdered girl was buried at st. Elmo on
the DIST Thomas Dukes, her affianced, at
tended the funeral.
THE Princess Victoria. daughter OF
the Crown Prince. Frederick William, has
been betrothed to the hereditary Prince Of
Anhalt.
The convention at Guayaqun elected
Jose Maria Placido Caamano Provisional
President of the Republic of Ecuador.
THE drying-room of the American
Powder Company at Secaucus. n. j., was
destroyed the night of the Goth by the ex-
plosion of ZOO pounds of powder. Mar
tin T. Butts, foreman, was fatally injured.
Loss s., 800.
Rev. DR.. D. A. MCCREADY dropped
dead at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the DIST.
BOUCICAULT, the actor, was so affected
by rheumatism in San Francisco that he
could not appear in his part in a play the
night of the 22d.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, and other
railroad magnates, are inspecting the
Granger Short Line Utah & Northern
Railroads.
The body of Simon Bishop, of YER
mont, was discovered on the 21st hanging
to limb of a tree on the bank of st. Jo-
seph River, near Elkhart, Ind.
AN Inventors Convention was held
| in New York on the 22d and permanent
organization formed.
Mrs. URIAH Mock, living near Ridge
vile, Ind, fell into the fire in an epileptic
fit on the 22d and was so badly burned that
she can not recover.
LONDON, England, is excited over
reported plot to murder the Marquis of
Lansdowne in Canada. The Marquis ar
rived in Quebec on the odd.
THE body of man, the only clew to
the identity of which were the initials 81.
NJ. H" pricl1ed on the arm in India ink,
was found at Rush Run, Ind, on the 21st
THE sloop Little Josie capsized at
Newport News on the 22d, and three men
were drowned.
Ten buildings burned on the 22d at
Annapolis, Md; loss, $4,000. Two lives
were lost
PATRICK EGAN, late Treasurer of the
Irish Land League. is about to take out
papers as an American citizen, settle in
Lincoln, Neb., and engage in the grain
business.
SIX miners were killed by an expIo-
sion in a colliery at Stoke-upon-Trent,
England, on the 22d.
! DUKES, the man engaged to marry
the murdered Zura Burns, at Lincoln, ILL.,,
has proved an alibi as to the murder.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were reported
! at various points on the Mediterranean on
the 22d.
RETURNS to the State Auditor of Colo
RADIO show the assessed valuation of the
| State to be $110,000,Q00, on basis of fifty
four per cent. There is a net gain of $1O,-
! 100000 over last years valuation.
NEARLY 81 100000 will have to be
paid for mail service over branches of sub
sidized roads for the fiscal years 1882 and
1888.
The fifth annual Convention of the
Woman's Foreign Mission Society met ON
on the 23d in Milwaukee.
The wife of John Russell Young,
American Minister to China, died on the
22d in Paris.
HENRY IRVING, the celebrated Eng
lish actor, has arrived in New York.
The issue of silver dollars for the
week ended October 20 was $519, O95; cor
responding period for 1882, 1858, 900.
THE monument over the grave of
Thomas Jefferson is reported by Colonel
Casey to have been completed and adjacent
lots repaired.
AN informal reception was given Lord
Coleridge the night of the 23d by the New
York Bar Association.
NORvIN GREEN and Henry Willard
were elected in New York ON the 23d Di
rectors of the Electric Light Company.
The following persons compose the
new Canadian Vice-regal party: Marquis
of Lansdowne, Marchioness of Lansdowne
Lord Kerry, Lord Charles Fitzmaurice
Lady Evalyn Fitzmaurice, Lady Beatrice
Fitzmaurice and governess, Hon. II. Arson
A. D. c.; Lady Florence Arson, II. STRAIT
field, A. j. Galpin and servants in attend
ance upon his lordship and suite.
The Municipal Council of Paris,
France, adopted a resolution on the 90
thanking the municipal authorities of Bos
ton for the hospitable reception accorded
delegates from the Paris municipality tc
the Boston Exposition.
GENERAL CAMPENoN, the French Min.
lister of War, it is said, will devote all his
| energy TO the reform or the system OF mo
bilizing the army. The prospect of wal
with Germany will be uppermost in hi;
, mind.
A YOUNG man in Portland, Me-,
claims to be the missing Charley Ross. H,
says he was kept in dark room four year.
} and subsequently taken to Brazil
Four more deaths from cholera oc
Cured in the infected Egyptian village OF
the 22d.
A NUMBER of vessels disabled in the
recent gale on Lake Michigan have beer
towed into various ports.
The United States surveyors have
5 found 500 geysers and 5000 hot springs il
2 Yellowstone Park.
A PASSENGER car jumped the tract
near Charlottesville, Ind, on the Esd
f Several passengers were badly hurt.
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