Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-13

PHILLIPSBURG HERALD.
PUBLISHED ny
Herald Publishing Association.
PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
CARDINAL MCCABE has issued a pas
toral letter denouncing secret societies in
Ireland.
ANOTHER insurrectionary movement
has been discovered in the Spanish garri-
son at Barcelona.
The Supreme Church Council at Ber-
lin has notified DIR. Stoecker to abandon
the anti-Semetic agitation or resign.
The Deputy Commissioner of In
ternaI Revenue estimates internal taxes for
the current fiscal year at $13O,0OO,0OO.
THE Exchange Bank of Montreal is
said to be hopelessly involved through I'M
authorized operations of the President.
ADMIRAL CoURBET is avoiding the
Chinese troops and operating against the
Black Flags pending peaceful negotia-
tions.
A KHARroUM dispatch reports that
only one-third of Hicks Pasha's force was
destroyed. The remainder are safe in
camp.
LORD LoRNE recently delivered an
address at Birmingham, Eng, in which he
1auded the attractions of Canada for emil
grants.
CHINA has sent circular letter to the
powers setting forth that if the French in
wade Northern Anam they will be opposed
by Chinese troops.
FIVE Constantinople detectives have
been sentenced to ten years. Imprisonment
for blackmal and false prosecutions
againt innocent persons.
CHINESE banks refuse loans until the
war clouds are cleared away, and mercan-
tile houses in Shanghai are reported going
out of business in consequence.
CHARLES HALEY, Chief of the North
western Railway Detective Service, has
been arrested on charges of shielding train
gamblers and sharing their profits.
THE Quidneck Mills in Rhode Island
passed quietly into the possession of Re
ceiver Townsend on the 4th, Ex-Governor
Sprague saying he could not fight the
Court
THE issue of silver dollars for the
week ended December was $343, 4S7; same
time last year, 1902, 600. Coinage at the
minis for Novemberwas $5,824, $40, of which
2,35o, 600 were silver dollars.
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE says if the Irish
people avoid crime and refuse to be trans
ported to America, the present generation
may yet see Ireland clothed in the garb Of
freedom under the Irish flag.
G.. K. HODGE, representing himself
from Philadelphia, obtained 900 on the
4th from the First National Bank at Mas
silon, o., by means of raised draft. He
was subsequently arrested at New Phila-
delphia.
AT meeting of the management of
the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centen-
NAL Exposition, in New Orleans the night
of the 4th, much satisfaction was expressed
over the notice of the Exposition made in
the Presidents message.
REPORTS from Cape Race state that a
fearful hurricane from the east-northeast
prevailed the night of the ID. The sea rose
higher than ever before known. Much
damage was done to shipping and it is
feared a number of seamen were lost.
In New York, on the 4th, was cele-
brated the anniversary of the institution of
the Chamber of Commerce in that city III
years ago. Lunch in imitation of the style
of 1888 was served in the room of the
Fraunces Tavern, where Washington took
leave of his officers in the year last named.
THE suit of Gilmour VS.. Schurz was
removed in New York from the State to
the United States Court on the 4th. Gil
mour's suit is for 100000 against Schurz
for disbarring the former from practicing
in any of the Departments of the Interior
while Schurz was Secretary.
SINCE the window-glass blowers OF
Pittsburgh have been on a strike heavy inn
portations of glass have been made. The
blowers are delighted because, they say
the factory owners can't afford to see ar
import trade built up, and the manufac
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