Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

OWING to defect in the applications
for license all the saloons and tavern IL
censes granted in Newark, N J., recently
were void, and no license could be granted
until September next. A number of the
leading hotels in the country were thus
without license and liable to Indictment if
they sell liquor.
The Atlantic Milling Company of St.
Louis, Mo-, of which George Balm is Presi-
dent, has been obliged to suspend tempo
rarily on account of duIIness in the Euro
pean market and an overstock of wheat.
The assets of the concern were largely in
excess of the liabilities, and Mr.. Balm be-
lieved the suspension would be for a short
time only.
FLOODS and an ice jam in Maitland
River carried away a miIl-dam at God
erich, Ont, the other day, and the banks of
| the stream were undermined. Several land
slides occurred.
JUDGE LILLEY, of Washington, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
| ex-senator Dorsey on account of the recent
assault committed at Dorsey's house.
A CAvE-N at the Keel Ridge Mine,
near Quinnesec, Mimi, the other evening
| buried eight men, whom it was not thought
! possible to rescue alive.
! Mrs. ROSE HOWARD, in q fit of deli
rum, killed her three-months' old child a
few days ago by dashing it against stove
at her home in New York.
AT Muncie, Ind, recently, Charles
Rhodes and Beach Tinsley were blown to
fragments by the accidental explosion of a
can of Hercules powder.
! IT was reported from Ottawa, Ont,
that the Indians who crossed from Mime
sofa into Canada recently were being deci-
mated by smallpox. Three hundred were
reported dead. The remainder were on
their way to Portage la Prairie.
PosTAIAsTER-G GENERAL GRESHAM quail
| fled and took charge of the Post-ofice De-
| partmenU on the 18th.
A COLLISION occurred on the Flint &
Pere Marquette Road, near. Saginaw, Mich,
lately, by which a passenger train was de-
rallied and four persons badly injured.
DICK LIDDIL, a member Of the famous
James gang of outlaws, has been released
on his own recognizance by the United
States authorities of Alabama.
THE Treasurer of the Irish National
Land League at Dublin has acknowledged
the receipt of 50, 900 from Australia.
The crown regalia has been trans
ferred from the Winter Palace at ST..
! Petersburg, Russia, to the Kremlin at Mos.
COW.
THE King of Italy has signed de-
cree ordering the formation as quickly as
possible of seventy-two new companies of
territorial and Alpine troops.
THE brig Letitia, which arrived at
New Y rk the other day, reports the Revo-
lutiOnists as causing trouble in Nicaragua.
JAY GOULD has decided to pay out of
his own funds the enjoined dividends on
Western Union Telegraph stock.
THERE was a disastrous fire the other
day at MandaIay, Burmah. One thousand
buildings, were destroyed, including the
residences of several Cabinet Ministers.
Two prisoners were burned to death in
| their cells.
ADvICES from Benson, Ariz., state
that 400 soldiers have been sent to guard
the San Carlos Reservation Indians from
Tombstone and other Rangers.
TWENTY prisoners in the Tarrant
County Jail, in Texas, overpowered the
guard the other night and escaped. When
the alarm had been given, about twenty
five citizens started in pursuit with shot
guns and bloodhounds, and before evening
seventeen of the fugitives had been recap
tured.
THOMAS H. BLYTHE died in San
Francisco, Cal, recently, leaving fortune
of $1,000, 600 and no will. Claimants were
numerous.