Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| be used in protecting the Rappahannock
oyster-beds against dredgers.
LEsH & Co.'s rim and Bending
Works at Warsaw, Ind, burned the night
of the oath. Loss, $4,000. Seventy-tive
men are thrown out of employment.
TWENTY persons drowned on Lake
| Geneva, Switzerland, in consequence of the
sinking of a steamer by collision.
IT is reported that the murderer of
Mr.. and Mrs. King, at Hickman, KY, has
been arrested.
THE hosting works of the Sumner
Mining Co., burned on the 25th in Califor-
mia. Loss, $4,000.
THE fire in tho Sumner Mine in Cali
fornia was still burning on the 26th.
The Limerick election on the Goth re-
suited in favor of the Parnellites.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad earn
ings Tor the past year were $40, 900.
IVAN VALERA is the new Spanish
Minister to the United States.
THE Clearing House statements for
the week are again unfavorable.
A FIRE the night of the 25th at Port
Perry, Canada, destroyed $15O,0O0 worth of
property.
In riot between employees of rival
gas wells at Murraysville, Pa, on the 26th,
one man was killed and four were badly
wounded.
A BRITISH gun-boat has been ordered
from Singapore to relieve a stranded YES
sels crew who are threatened with murder
by Sumatra pirates.
FRANK REED, of Pittsburgh, died on
the 26th of a stab received at the hands of
Andrew Wilbert, playmate. Neither was
more than eleven years old.
EX-SENATOR SPENCER was arraigned
for contempt on the 26th before the Dis
trict Court at Washington, D. @. His
counsel raised the question of jurisdiction.
The Spanish War Department has
decided to disband ten regiments of infan.
try and substitute regiment of artillery.
THE Constantinople Chief of Police
and six detectives are on trial for levying
blackmail and procuring the conviction of
innocent persons on charges of counterfeit
ing.
SAMoN, the fellow who recently
butchered three orfour persons at Laconia,
N. H, sleeps soundly all night while the
officers have to keep wide awake to keep
the people from lynching him.
The conspiracy trial against Messrs.
Lutz, Caruth, McEntire and Butler at st.
Louis, Mo-, began on the Goth. A jury was
secured and the opening argument made.
CHAS, II. SMITH, alias VIM. w. Good
rich, was arrested in Boston on the 10Th for
passing a worthless check on the Exchange
National Bank. He claims to be a San
Francisco architect.
THOMAS O'NEIL and Duke Sullivan,
confined in the Henrico County (Va.) jail,
on a charge Of blowing open and robbing
Post-Office safe at Culpepper, made their
escape the night of the Goth.
w. S. KIRKER, late cashier of the
Second National Bank at Ironton, O., was
indicted by the Grand Jury on the 26th for
grand larceny and embezzlement.
LOUIS NAPOLEON's Minister of
State, M. Rouher, is reported to be dying.
IT is thought by M. De Lesseps that
the settlement of the question of the
construction of the second Suez Canal is
virtually accomplished.
On the Goth, at Nyireghaza, Hungary,
duel with swords was fought between
Herr Haumann and Herr Way. The latter
was severely wounded.
IT has been decided by the Spanish
! troops below the grade of captain.
On the 26th three bodies were washed
ashore at Wharton, Ont, bearing life-pre-
servers marked Eclipse" which leads to
! the belief that the steamer of that name has
been lost with all ON board.
| For the murder of John Seaman in
Pike County, Ind, in August last, Elijah
Craig has been sentenced to fifteen years
in the Penitentiary.
AT hartford, Wis, Mrs. Ellen Long
has confessed having murdered the
boy Harry Whittemore, eleven years old,
whose body was recently found. She does
not give her reason, but it is supposed the
crime was prompted by the boys knowl-
edge of criminal intimacy between Mrs.
Long and Mr.. Whittemore.
THE municipal authorities of Indian
apolis, Ind, have prohibited the sale within
the city limits of what is embraced under
the head of g flash literature" The State
law provides heavy penalties.
BY the overflow of White River in
Indiana, the damage has been very great
thousands of acres being inundated and
unsecured corn and root crops ruined.
On the Goth cold wave struck Salt
Lake City, Utah, freezing things up gen
orally.
AT Oil City, Pa, Henry Montgomery
in a fit of jealousy, on the Goth, fred three
sho OTIS at himself with suicidal intent, but
the bullets would not kill.
THE four children of Carson Mosier,
at Mt. Gilead, o., were seriously poisoned
by partaking of cabbage on which Paris
green had been used.
On the Goth the laborers employed al
Oliver Bros. and Phillips Mills at Pitts
burgh, Pa, were notified of an intended re-
duction of their wages to 81 per day. They
had been receiving $1.25.
In Vincennes, Ind, diphtheria has APP
peared in its most malignant form. Out OF
seven cases six had already proved fatal
and it was feared it would become cpl
demic. A case of smallpox has also ap
) peared in Washington, twenty miles east
of Vincennes, a child of VIM. Guy being