Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-22
A BROKEN rail cansed a wrocL on n

A BROKEN rail caused a wreck on the
Whitewater Road, near Connersville, Ind.
few days ago, in which dozen passengers
were more or less seriously hurt.
IVES, BEECHER & Co., New York
liquor dealers, failed recently for half a mill
lion dollars.
TIE creditors of F. n. Taylor & Co.,
Chicago (Ill.) paper manufacturers who re-
Gently failed for $685., 900, have agreed to
accept forty cents on the dollar in from
three to twelve months.
THE assignment of Griffin & Co.,
merchants, New York City, with-Iiabilities
OF $125, 600, has been announced.
The situation of the lower rivers con-
tinued to improve on the 18th. A dispatch
from Vicksburg, Miss, said there was
gradual decline above and a scarcely per-
ceptible rise at any point below.
THE recent failure of Humphrey &
Co., the New York hide and leather firm,
was said to be for nearly million dollars.
CHIEF-JUsTICE WILLIAM WHITE, OF
the Supreme Court of Ohio, and recently
appointed United States District Judge of
the Southern District of Ohio, died at his
home in Springfield few days ago.
THE California Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th.
THE treaty with Madagascar was rat
fled at the Treasury Department in WASH
ington few days ago.
THE funeral of Bishop Quinlan took
place at Mobile, Ala, on the 18th.
THREE HUNDRED clerks were recently
discharged from the Pension Bureau in or
der to keep the expenses within the appro-
priatiOn.
ADMIRAL Won STOCH, Chief of the
Prussian Ministry of Marine, resigned be-
cause of differences with Bismarck.
A COLORADO murderer was captured
at Fort Fetterman the other day after elud-
ing pursuit for nine years.
THE steamship Hudson, loaded with
cotton from New Orleans, La, was found
to be on fire on arriving at New York re-
Gently and had to be flooded.
The American association of base
ballsts, in session at st. Louis, Mo-, Sc
lected umpires on the 18th, adopted sched
ules and concluded their business.
LYNCHERs hanged a murderer to a
rafter in the Jail the other day in BeaVer-
head County, Montana.
CLARENCE HITE, the train-robber re-
Gently pardoned out of the Missouri Peni-
| Tertiary, died at his home in Logan County,
KY, few days ago.
The wedding of Judge David Davis
and Miss Addie Burr took place on the 14th
at Fayetteville. n. c.
JOHN w. GALE, late Superintendent
of the st. Johnsbury (Vt.) Water works,
has been arrested on the charge of defraud-
ing the village.
W. P. RENOwDEN, living few miles
from San Jose Cal, was found near his burn
ing house the other morning with bullet
hole through his heart. The remains of his
friend, Archie Mcintyre, were found half
consumed in the ruins. Robbery was the
supposed motive OF the horrible crime, but
the perpetrators left no clew.
EMMETT O'NEILL, the Schenectady,
| IN. W broker, who recently failed, has fled.
1t was believed he had gone to Europe. The
up not less than $3.50, 600.
FATHER O'MALLEY, a well-known
priest of Oshkosh, Wis, published card
| the other day pronouncing the recent mar
rage of Mrs. McCourt and Senator Tabor as
null and void. -.
The Citizens Committee of Wash
| ington, D. c., organized some weeks ago
for the suppression of crime, received re-
| port the other afternoon to the effect that
through a system of collision of thieves and
receivers of stolen goods with detectives the
hazard of crime had been reduced to the
| lowest possible rate.