Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Pa, owned by Michael D. Kistler, burned
| on the 9th. Loss $15O,0O0; property insured.
SECRETARY FOLGER returned to his
duties in the Treasury Department on the
10th.
THE drivers on the Metropolitan
Street Car line, Washington, struck on the
9th and traffic was suspended.
HUGH LAW, Lord Chancellor of Ire
land is very sick.
BUCKwHEAT and tobacco in the East
suffered severely from the recent frost.
DIR. HERMAN REDFIELD, of Monroe,
Mich, shot himself in his own lot in the
cemetery on the 9th. He left a note say
ing it was the only piece of property he
owned.
THE Russian chapel was consecrated
at Copenhagen on the 9th. The Gear and
| Czarina of Russia. King and Queen of
Greece, Princess of Wales and all the mem
bers of the Danish royal family were pres
emit.
Two men named Powers and Mosier
were crushed to death by the fall of an i'm
mense amount of ore in the Highland Mine
at Deadwood, D. T., on the evening of the
8th.
FROsTs were general throughout the
Northwest the night of the Sth and morning
of the 9th.
BISHOP DECKER, of the diocese of
Washington, sailed for Rome on the Sth.
1t is understood in Catholic circles that he
would be made Archbishop.
A FIRE in the building occupied by
the Western Union and Rapid Transit Tel
egraph offices at Utica, N. Y, on the 9th
badly deranged the business for a time,
owing to broken wires. The instruments
were saved.
AT Eau Claire, Wis, on the 10th,
Jack Mahoney shot four men, one of whom
died.
ELLIS CRAFT, one of the Ashland
(Ky.) murderers, is to be hanged October
II.
LARGE numbers of Russian military
officers were reported crossing tho frontier
into Bulgaria.
THE recent Spanish outbreak is re-
ported to have been arranged to take place
in connection with a rising in Cuba.
SEPTEMBER cotton returns to the De-
partment of Agriculture are less favorable
than those for August.
AT q rehearsal in the Fourteenth
Street Theater, New York, on the 10th, a
scenic bridge gave way with several actors.
Six persons were injured.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 10th An
drew Williams playfully pointed pistol at
his sister with the usual result, a funeral.
Another Pennsylvania man shot his wife in
like manner.
THE city of, Pensacola continued
healthy. There were five deaths and one
new case on the 9th and 10th at the Navy
Yard. No new cases on the 10th.
MORE earthquake shocks were felt
on the Island of Ischia on the 10th.
ARNEL HICKEY and Herman Pilgrim,
teamsters, were killed by lightning at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 10th.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt
at St. Thomas, West Indies, August 81.
AMAsA SWALLOW, of Delaware, o.,
offers 5000 for the capture and conviction
of the slayer of his son, mysteriouslY muir
dered some weeks ago.
Hon. j. HANSON GOOD, Democratic
candidate for Congress from the Wheeling
CIV. Va.) District against General Golf in
1882, and a prominent attorney, died at his
residence in Wheeling on the 10th, aged
forty.
AT Clinton, Arizona, on the 9th. Billy
Delaney walked up to a gambling table and
shot and killed Henry Sawyer. In the
fracas that followed two other men were
seriously wounded.
THE employees of the Manchester Iron
and Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pa,
numbering 125 men, quit work on the 10th
because the assignees who have charge of
ha yrO~Lyc inf An
thony Kloman.
L. HOsLE, a French aeronaut, sue
ceeded in making a balloon trip from
France to England on the 10th.
CETEWAYO's brother who was re-
ported killed in the late rebellion, has
turned up safe at Natal
The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
offers another 100 miles of road for Govern
ment inspection.
ADMIRAL PIERRE, of the French navy,
died on the 18th.
THERE were further riotous demon
strations among the Cro5ians on the 18th.
FOREST fires were reported on the
18th among valuable timber lands in Vir-
ginia.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
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of one and three-quarters per cent. on the
18th.
A HEAvYs storm prevailed on the North
Carolina coast on the 11th.
Four more bodies were recovered
the ruins of the recent fire in Cincinnati on
| the 18th.
j. G. BEDELL, Vincennes, Ind, dis
appeared recently, leaving $4,000 debts
unprovided for.
THE Georgia Pacific Railroad will be
opened from Atlanta to Birmingham in No
vember.
THE King of Anam is to be decorated
with the grand Gordon of the Legion OF
Honor by the French.
The Catholic clergy in Hungary have
issued pastoral letters against the practice
of Jew-baiting.
| OCCASIONAL cholera cases occurred
in Alexandria, but the disease was rapidly
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