Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Spouse to numerous inquiries of cattle men,
has telegraphed that at present no leases
will be granted in the Indian Territory.
AT political meeting at Thrasher's
Corners, Ont, few days ago, sixteen men
were injured by the giving way of a floor.
DONALD S. PEDDIE, who was recent
ly buried in the Potter's field at Philadel-
phia, Pa, swindled religious and charita-
bic associations in Edinburgh to the amount
OF 100000.
FOURTEEN of the victims of the re-
cent school house panic in New York were
buried on the 22d.
A MILITIA company in New Mexico
captured three cattIe-thieves at La Mesa
the other day and killed fourth, noted
desperate.
THE defaulting officers of the City
Bank of Jersey City, N. j., have been SEN
fenced to hard labor in State Prison for ten,
six and four years respectively.
SCARLET FEVER was reported as cpl
demic at Sigourney, Iowa, on the 21st. The
Board Of Health ordered the closing Of all
schools. churches and theaters.
FRANK RAHM, formerly Sheriff of
YOlo County, California, and his cousin
der of John E. Maltby last March. A wit
ness of the tragedy was said to have been
found.
A STORY was afoat at San Antonio,
Tex, the other day that three locomotives
were lost in game of poker at New York
between railroad kings, and that they were
transferred to. the Texas Road, controlled
| by the winner.
COLONEL r. A. PACKER, a we'll
known railway manager Of Pennsylvania,
died at Jacksonville, Fla, a few days ago,
leaving $1O,OOO,OOO or more.
TIE railroads were running trains
into the Cincinnati depot on schedule time
on the 23d.
AN engineer and fireman were killed
on the 23d in collision at Spring Wells. O.,
on the Fort Wayne Road.
THE barkentine L. Taylor was
wrecked off Cape Flattery, in the Pacific
Ocean, on the 23d, and the Captains wife
and son were lost.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the seven days ended
on the 23d numbered 23O, against pa for the
seven days preceding.
AT Milford, Mass, thirteen children
were thrown out of a sleigh which struck
tree through reckless driving recently, and
nearly all of them were picked up uncon-
scious. Four Of them were seriously in
jured.
THE death of James Gamble, ex-
Judge and Congressman, was announced at
Williamsport, Pa, recently.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY has sailed for
Liverpool, Eng.
THE Canadian Pacific Railroad has
sent out the first through train for freight to
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The total railway construction of
main lines during the year 1882 was II, 343,
or about ?, 900 more than in 1881.
TIE banks of Austro- Hungary and
France have reduced the rate of discount.
In Boston (Mass.) court j. G.
Knowles has obtained judgment for -, O0O
against a saloon keeper for selling liquor to
young son of the plaintiff, from which he
became intoxicated.
w. T. ALLEN & Co., wholesale grocers
of Chicago, ILL.,, have made an assignment
of their partnership and individual property
to Bradford Hancock. It was thought the
liabilities would reach 800, 900.
A SUBSCRIPTION has been opened in
Berlin, Germany, for the relief Of sufferers
by the Ohio River floods.
A CLANDEsTINE Masonic organization
in Connecticut is said to be comforting de-
grees-up to the thirty third, in one or two
evenings, for ten dollars.
THE furnace of the Wampum Iron
Company, at Wampum, Pa, has been
closed by the Sheriff. The failure was said
to have been brought about by the recent
financial difficulties of KlomRn Bros, Pitts
burgh.
NUMEROUS earthquake and volcanic
eruptions are reported as occurring in Italy
lately.
In the trial of Craft, at Grayson, Ky,
for the murder. of the Gibbons girls at Ash
land, the jury on the 23d returned verdict
of guilty and the prisoner was sentenced to
be hanged May 25.
A SUIT recently commenced in Bos-
ton, Mass, to recover stolen bond has led
to an exposure Of the theft of 5000, 900 in Sc
curities from a safe deposit institution last
year. A prominent physician of Philadel-
phia, Pa, is charged with having in his pos
session $50, OUO of the booty.
AT lumber camp near East Tawas,
Mich, one teamster recently severed the
head of another with a blow from an ak.
He was promptly hanged with log-chains.
1t was said that a riot subsequently &C.
CURED, in which several men were killed.
TREASURER GRITz, of MadisonC County,
Nebr., on seeing that he had not been re-
elected has fed. His books show a dis
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