Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
A CORNER in the English rice market

a CORNER IN the English rice market
was reported on the Sd inst
DURING prize fight at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the other night between two eighteen
year-old boys, one of them had his neck
broken.
THE National Theater at Berlin, Ger
many, was totally destroyed by fire on the
afternoon of the 4th inst.
PETER COOPER, the millionaire phi
lanthropist, died at New York on the morn.
ing of the 4th, aged ninety-two.
THE State election in Rhode Island
occurred on the Sd, and from the latest re-
turns it was believed the entire Republican
ticket, headed by a. o. Bourne for Govern.
or, was elected.
THE cross-examinatiOn of ex-senator
Dorsey was concluded and Henry NJ. Vale
was called as a witness on the 4th in the
star-mail route cases at Washington.
Two alleged murderers were lynched
at Hastings, Nebr., the other day, and a
negro who confessed a heinous crime in
open court in Union County, Ark, was
hanged on his way to Jail by mob.
The President has appointed Judge
Walter Q. Gresham, of Indianapolis, Ind,
Postmaster-General
LATE Mexican advices were to the
effect that the Indians had killed fifty-two
people south of the Arizona line.
The first through train on the Utah
extension of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad carried two hundred Mormon con-
verts to the Land of Promise.
GENERAL GRANT has been elected
President and life director of the National
Rifle Association.
THE Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives has defeated the Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of liquor.
The projected Vienna Qtaly) confer
ence of the Geneva Red Cross Society has
been abandoned.
IT is reported that on the person of
Featherstone, an alleged American, arrest
ed in Ireland recently, were found written
instructions from O'Donovan Rosa for the
use of certain explosives.
EX-POsTMAsTER WAHLE, of Cincin-
natl, who sued the Gazette of that city for
$40, 900 damages for libel, has been awarded
s. by jury.
CHARLES RICH, aged fifty-six years,
was killed by the fall of the elevator in the
County Hospital at Lancaster, Pa, the other
day. The rope was cut by an unknown
person.
A FIRE in the upper section of Brown
& Reel's foundry, at Harrisburg, Pa, the.
other morning, destroyed hundreds of val
liable patterns.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR intends to visit
Chicago, st. Louis and other Western cities
next June, if not prevented by official du-
ties.
The centennial of the birth of Wash
ington Irving was celebrated at TarrytOwn,
n. Y, on the Sd inst.
THERE was a severe shock of earth
quake at Riposta, Italy, the other day.
FREDERICK DE FROvILLE, former
member of the Signal Corps, shot and killed
his wife and then himself in Washington
the other night. The deed grew out of the
wife's refusal to live with him.
The President has appointed Lieu
nt-COlonel Anderson D. Nelson, U. S.
a. (retired;, Deputy Governor of the Sol
Iiers' Homs, vice Major Milton CogswelI,
deceased.
A THREE-DAYs' secret session of Ger
man Socialists had been held at Copenha-
gen. 1t was determined to oppose Bis
marck's social programme and to force the
fight against capital.
A MAN named William Ludwig, from
Chicago, was killed in st. Louis, Mo-, the
other evening, it was alleged by Tom Nc
Donough, alias Windy Tom, notorious
river rough.