Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-05-24


lightning struck Florida man the
other day in the side, ran down his leg
to his knee, forked and burned two
streaks to the sole of his foot. After
leaving him it hunted up a can of pow
der, which It exploded, and then knock
ed a sick man out of bed. The latter
found himself cured of the chills when
he recovered from the surprise, and the
other is none the worse for the lightning
trick. The house, however, is total
wreck from the powder explosion
[Annias
Elsewhere in this impression will be
found an article copied from the Prai-
RE Farmer in reference to the appoint
ment of L. S. Coffin, of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, as one of the railroad commits
sioner of that state. His selection is
certainly an earnest of good work for
the commission. Mr.. Coffin is one of
the leading agriculturists OF Iowa
and a man of broad and intel
ligent views and an earnest worker in
every cause of reform from which good
results may flow.
The Eufalia Times tells the tale:
"a little boy just old enough to walk
was found under some bushes near
Headland in Henry county, the other
day, and no one knows where he came
from or why he was there. 1t is sur
missed however, that the little fellow is
wait of the late great storm that
swept over that section and over five
states. 1t is not unreasonable to sup
pose that the child had ride on the
wind to that spot where he was found
unnjured. He is now in the hands of
good people and is doing Wells
We have before US a postal card upon
which Prof. Lewis wrote us from Chi
huahua, Old Mexico. It is the regu-
Iation postal card OF the Mexican Re
public. On the upper right hand cor
ner is affixed a three cent postage
stamp; On the lower the stamp of the
Office dated May 10Th, 1888; upon the
upper left hand corner is the number
1888; and across the upper border the
words "Union Postal UniversaI;" on
the lower border "Union Postale Uni
verselle;" across the left hand Gre
publique Mexicana.' Across the face
of the letters e. U. M, with the words
''Lorieta POSTAL and "Carte Postale"
in scroll under, the Instructions as fo'-
lows: first cen este lado solo debe
e scribirse Ia directions,' second ''Ce cote
est reseve exclusivemen6 al adessre.' -
s'Senior." Then follows the address.
The Commissioner of Pensions is dis
posing of pension cases at the rate of
800 to 400 a day. It takes three men to
carry the certificates over to the Interior
department, and one man all he can do
every day to afix the big seal OF that
department. to these certificates. A new
step will shortly be taken, which viii
have the effect to close up large class
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notification to attorneys and claimants
that, if the evidence called for in sus-
pensions is not furnished within reas-
enable time, the cases thus neglected
will be rejected. There are thousands
of pension claims chung up'' for the
want of proper evidence which cannot
be passed upon finally, merely because
they are not complete in form. When
the Pension Bureau works up the com
plete eases, it will turn in and reject
such as have apparently been abandon
ed. Such claimants as wish to revive
their rejected cases will have to begin
de novo.-IEX.
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