Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-08

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Herald Publishing Association.
PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
A FnIBUsTERNG expedition from the
United States is reported to have landed in
Cuba.
A REPORT is published in Paris that
De Brazza, the Congo explorer, had been
killed in a fight.
A BROKERAGE system of furnishing
Chinese emigrants traders certificates has
been discovered at Canton.
A COURT of inquiry to investigate
the causes of failure of the Greedy relief
expedition has been ordered.
IT is said the King of Portugal con-
templates abdicating on account of the
worry of Liberal agitation.
CHOLERA is again becoming general
in Egypt, and a panic has resulted. There
were twelve deaths at Alexandria on the
9th.
THE wooI-growers of Washington
Territory have formed an association, and
will work for the restoration of the tariff on
wool.
COMMODORE A. G. RHIND has been
promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and
Captain John a. Russell is made Commo-
dore.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, OF Massachu-
sets, and Congressman May of Mich
igan, had a long conference at Boston on
the 3Oth.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CoRKHML esti-
mates that soldiers and their relatives have
been defrauded of s., 100000 by the crooked
pension agents.
THE London Times compliments
Lord Lorne and SAYS Canada is the least
troublesome and the greatest of British
colonial possessions.
DIR. LEONARD STEGNIJER of the
Smithsonian Institution has returned from
AluSKa Will SkSlGIOnS VI VIC AAOA CAAOA "A oSe~
cow and other valuable specimens.
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BEN BUTTERwORTH took charge Of
the office of Commissioner of Patents the
3lst, and General Phil Sheridan assumed
command of the army on November 1st.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on the 3lst Clemenceau, Radical, attacked
the government policy in Tonquin. A vote
of confidence in the government was adopt
ed.
In June last ex-Alderman John
Geiger, of Cincinnati, o., disappeared. On
the Goth body, identified as his by watch
badge and pocket-boolr, was found in Mill
Greek.
THE Utah Commission is sanguine
that the law DISTINGUISHING pOlyg-
amists will eventually weaken their influ-
ence and destroy them as an element of the
Mormon Church.
KAN CT SHANK, better known as
Grow Dog, sentenced to death for the muir
der of Spotted Tail, made his escape on the
10Th at Deadwood, D. T. He was allowed
to go out unattended.
INVESTIGATION of the office of United
States Marshal McDougal OF the Northern
district of New York has resulted in bring
ing charges of fraud, conspiracy and ille'
gal collection of fees.
HON. JOHN C. NEW, after an extend
ed interview with President Arthur, on the
S0th has reconsidered his determination to
resign, and win retain the position of As
sistanJ Secretary of the Treasury.
THE annual meeting of the Woman's
National Indian Association took place
in Philadelphia on the 28th, when Bishop
Whipple, Of Minnesota, made an address.
Miss Mary L. Bonny was reelected Presi-
dent.
THE Marquis of Lorne has contrib
uted to the Contemporary ReUielo an arti-
Gle on Canadian Home Rule, in which he
holds that if any one State of the Confed-
GRAFTON gains a preponderating influence
civil war will threaten.
The Paris Figaro publishes the re-
port that the Governor of the Chinese
Province of Yum Nan, with $4,000 troops,
received orders TO enter Tonquin and oc-
cupy Kaobang, $50 miles north of Hanoi,
the French headquarters.
a PETITION againstthe appointment
of Summer Howard, of Michigan, as Chief
Justice of Utah, has been signed by about
half the bar Of Salt Lake City and will be
forwarded to Washington. 1t is said to be
in the interest of Judge Hunter.
A HURRICANE passed in a northeast
ern direction about three miles Syest of Ia
lequah, I T, ON the morning Of the 18th.
Dwellings were blown down and trees up
rooted in strip of country about 500 yards
wide. No loss of life is reported.
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS PRICE reports
a decided advance among the aborigines in
the matters of husbandry and industrial
schools. He recommends that Congress