Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-07-12

EIGHT THOUSAND English iroR-workers
were on a strike against a reduction OF
wages in South Stafordskire and East
Worcestershire on the 4th.
THE graduating cadets of the Virginia
Military Institute received their diplomas
from President Arthur in New York on the
4th.
HENRY WICKEs, a gray-haired law
yer of Albany, N. Y, has been discovered
to be an embezzler to the extentsof S5o, 900.
His client, Mrs. Catherine Van Rensselaer,,
was the loser.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has passed
resolution asking Congress to make the
trade dollar legal tender.
FoR the twenty-four hours ended at
eight O'Clock on the 4th, there were one hun
dred and twenty-five deaths from cholera
at Damietta, and forty-three at other points
in Egypt.
AwAGON in which were Henry Kracke
and his family-six persons-was struck
by train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad, near Cincinnati, O., the
other night, and the entire family was
instantly killed.
A NUMBER of people were injured by
the explosion of the boilers of the steamer
Susquehanna, at the Wilkesbarre (Pa.)
wharf the other day. Nobody was killed,
but the boat was demolished.
THE arbitrator to whom the trades
| tribunal referred the question of miners'
wages at Pittsburgh, Pa, has fixed the
price at three and a quarter cents bushel.
RABBI SCHULZ, of Dallas, Tex,
whose character had been under investiga.
=,
of charges preferred against him.
JAMES F. JONES has been elected
to Congress from the First Alabama Dis.
! trict.
HANLoN, the oarsman, won another
victory on the 4th, at Lowell, Mass.
ONE of the most remarkable suicides
on record was that of Hunter Jameson of
Skipwith, Miss, a few days ago. He
placed the muzzle of a gun against his
! head and compelled his little child to pull
the trigger.
OVER a hundred wild Pawnee Indi-
ans INDUCED in dance of death at Bird
| Greek, I. T., the other night. It was a big
ball and broke up in a row in which two
Indians were killed.
CUsTER's last battlefield is to be
marked by granite monument. The shaft
has been shipped from Monticello, Wis, to
| its final destination.
The Georgia Legislature convened
and organized at Atlanta on the 4th. The
officers were all present.
On a steep railway grade at Hudders-
field, Eng, the other day, defective brake
caused a coach to capsize, by which two
persons were killed outright and thirty
more or less injured.
FRANK GUM, a carpenter, died of sun
stroke in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 3d.
Several men were Frustrated in the iron
mills at Pittsburgh, Pa, and two persons
topp1ed over in the street in Chicago, Ill.
j. G. FLEMING, of Nashville, who was
Assistant Treasurer of Tennessee under NJ
T. Polk, was arrested by detectives at Hot
Springs, Ark, few days ago, on charge
of making false entries against the State to
the amount of $40,0 900.
On returning from a night session OF
court at Jefferson, Tex, the other night
Judge Haughn was fairly perforated with
buck-shot by some unknown person, and
died in his saddle.
AFTER Vainly waiting two months
for their wages, three hundred miners al
Ely, VT, the other day stripped the com
pany's store of goods and threatened tc
demolish everything belonging to the mine
Mrs. KIRKLAND, of Massillon, o.,
arose at four o'clock the other morning tc
prepare for railway trip. AS she threw
open window she was shot dead by
burglar.