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

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PHILLIPSBURG. = KANSAS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
SPAIN is worried by the discovery of
fresh intrigues in Cuba.
CATTLE disease is so general in Eng
land that only American beef is obtainable
in some sections.
BoGARDUs and son were beaten on
the 18th in pigeon shoot at Reading, Pa,
by Isaac Eckert and Oliver Hinnershitz.
The chief Nihilist organ of St.
Petersburg, which was suppressed some
months ago, recently resumed publication.
HOUSES of Europeans at Canton,
China, had been burned by mob, and for
eigners generally were taking refuge on
vessels.
The Canadian Government contem-
plates allowing sum of money for each
child brought into the country through Car
dinal Manning's immigration schemes.
PRIIA DONNA PERRETA, ''the night
ingaIe of Mexico" died August 20 at Ma
zatIan of Tonic fever. Three members of
her opera company died of the same dis
ease.
The National Vinegar Association
had petitioned the Internal Revenue Com
missioner for the privilege of running low
wines as high as twenty-nine per cent.
proof.
SUPERINTENDENT KHMBALL of the
Iife-Saving Service has completed his in
spection of stations on the lakes. He rec
ommends telephone connections between
stations.
The. Directors of the Second National
Bank at Warren, O., entered suit on the 18th
against the bondsmen of defaulting Cashier
Fuller, to secure the amount of his bond,
$4,000.
THERE were continued reports on the
10th of the damage to unmatured crops by
frost throughout the Northwest. The
Eastern States also suffered to consider
able extent.
MEssRs. Moody, McGranahan and
Whittle, evangelists, leave the country o.
tober for Ireland, on an active missionary
campaign. They intend operating in the
south of ireland.
THE Postal Money Order convention
between the United States and Hawaiian
Islands was signed on the 18th by Postmas-
ter-General Gresham and the Hawaiian
Minister, and will go into effect January 1.
THE quarter-centenary of Martin
Luther was celebrated at Wittenberg,
Prussia, on the 18th. Over 1000 clergy
men, from all parts of Protestant Germany,
assisted. Many descendants were at Wit
tenberg.
LATE dispatches from Hong Kong
said that the Chinese were erecting de-
lenses between Canton and the mouth of
the river. The question was not "Wlll
there be warp but 'When and where will
the war begin?''
EXPORTS of domestic produce (exclu-
sive of specie) from New York for the week
ended the 18th Sc, 1O7, 1O7, against SITE, 696
the previous week. Total exports since
January 1, $247, 1O6,OO7, against 1922, 511 ,346
for the corresponding period in 1882.
RECENT advices from Loando, West
Africa, state that Henry M. Stanley, after
penetrating far into the interior, returned
to Stanley Pool 1t was believed that he
intended to travel through the country
covered in his former journey along the
east coast.
A WOMAN with an alias for every city
she visited has been victimizing citizens of
Easton, Pa; Indianapolis, Ind; Coving-
ton, KY, and lately Wheeling, w. Va. She
pretended to establish Mosaic Art class,
collecting money in advance and then leav-
ing for fresh fields.
A SAN Francisco dispatch of the 18th
says proposed gigantic land steal, involv-
ing several million dollars worth of United
States redwood timber lands, has been
brought to light. The lands are situated in
the northern part of California, and COM
prise the most valuable redwood timber on
the coast.
THE recommendations of the naval
court-martial in the case of Naval Cadets
BENZ. Trapnell, Archibald Campbell, ELL
worth P. Bertholf and Franklin MoeIler,
tried on the charge of hazing, that they be
dismissed the service, have been approved
by the Superintendent of the Naval Acad-
envy, and orders dismissing them were
issued on the 18th.
The condition of the National Treas
ury at the close of the week ending the Sth
was: Gold coin and bullion, $2O4, 661 ,610;
silver dollars and bullion, $119, O79, 703;
fractional silver coin, $27, 710, 124; United
States notes, $57,sS5, 191; total, 40, 2S6, 1928.
MISUNDERSTANDING Gold, So, 759, 16O;
silver, $40, 800, Psi; currency, II, 730, 900. The
bonds redeemed to date under the 121st call
are $13, DOC, $50.
A MUTUAL benefit society of Chicago,
called the Red Cross, has come to the front
with a proposition to take in the entire
membership ofthe late Telegraphers' Broth
erhOod in body. The proposition is spo-
ken of thew movement" but the tele-