Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-20
personal AND GENERAL.

line OF communication can be kept open be-
tween Khartoum and the Red Sea.
a LARGE unfinished building at Erie,
Pa, has been coded TO the General Govern
ment by the Pennsylvania Legislature for
a Soldiers and Sailors Home. It was be-
gun for Marine Hospital under State aus
pices.
A NEW YORK Judge has refused to
enforce the law prohibiting the sale of adul-
terated tea. The tea had been mixed with
some foreign substance, but it was not
poisonous, and so the Court held that it
could be lawfully sold.
ACTIVE negotiations have been
opened between the United States Govern
ment and Spain for reciprocal concessions
beneficial to trade between Cuba and the
United States.
DR.. JOHN WADsWoRTH, American
Consul at SaltiIlo, Mexico, died the night
of the 9Th. He was from New York City.
TWENTY convicted rebels have been
reprieved at Belgrade.
THE Bashi-Bazouks are blamed for
the recent Egyptian defeat near Suakem.
FIVE men drowned on the 10th through
the upsetting of boat on Niagara River.
SEVEN men went down in the steam
barge Enterprise on Lake Huron.
ALFRED TENNYsoN, the English poet
laureate, has been created Baron.
THE German Minister on Ecclesias-
ticaI Affairs will meet the Crown Prince at
Rome.
AT East Saginaw, Mich, M. Ramsay
shot his brother fatally the night of the
9th, mistaking him for burglar.
In Sligo, Ireland, nine persons
pleaded guilty on the 10th to a charge of
conspiracy to murder.
BACON & Co.'s jewelry store, Boston,
was robbed the night of the 9th of $1,000
worth of stock by burglars.
A MAN named Jarvey has been ar
rested at Limerick, Ireland, for possession
of unauthorized explosives.
THE exhibit of clearing house trans
actions for the week ending the 10th was un-
expectedlY favorable.
ATBaltimore, Md, on the 10th, Misses
Carrie and Susie Martin were severely in
jured by leaping from the second story of
burning building.
A CONSPIRACY to insure cOnsumptives
and broken-down drunkards and pocket
the proceeds has been discovered at Fall
River, Mass.
A NATIONALIST meeting near Lough-
rea, Ireland, on the 9th, adopted resolu-
lions condemning the emigration policy of
the Government.
The reinforcements sent forward on
the news of Hicks Pasha's defeat had not
reached Sual1em when the latest massacre
occurred.
IT is supposed that Rogers, the miss
ing Treasurer of Lewis County, N. Y, has
gone insane. He could not balance his
books, and thought he was behind with his
cash, whereas it turns out the county owes
him SIT.
EX-SENATOR KELLOGG's bribery case
goes over to next term.
The Cabinet, on the 18th had under
consideration the O'DonneIl case.
The Courthouse at Butler, Pa,
burned on the morning of the 18th.
The British Parliament will be fur
Their prorogued till February.
THE French are reported to have be-
gun active operations in Tonquin.
The Egyptian commander at Suakem
has been supplanted by a Crimean veteran,
and the False Prophet is reported to have
retired from Ell Obeid to the mountains.
THE bill to legalize marriages of
Jews and Christians was rejected by the
Hungarian Diet on the 18th.
AT Sligo, Ireland, four defendants
who pleaded guilty of conspiracy to MUIR
der were given ten years each.
ALL trains were stopped on the Man
itoba Division of the Canadian Pacific on
the 18th in consequence of a strike.
BILL KINNEY was acquitted of muir
der at West Union, w. Va, on the 10th
and mob hanged him the night follow
| ing.
Mrs. JOHN ECKERT was cremated in
her house at Braddock, Pa, ON the 18th. 1t
! is supposed she was murdered and the
| house fired.
In backwoods saloon on the Cum
berland River in Kentucky, W. H. Fields,
proprietor of the place, shot four men IA
tally because they raised a disturbance and
would not leave.
TREVELYN RIDEOUT, a well-known
barrister of Toronto, Ont, mysteriously
disappeared two months ago. On the I1th
his body was found in High Park, with q
revolver in his hand. 1t is supposed the re-
lection of his suit by lady unhinged his
mind.
A MONTEREY (Mexico) special of the
18th says: Four train robbers were arrest
ed this evening. The names of twenty.
three others are in the hands of the off
Gals. 1t is rumored that the Mayor of New
Laredo is involved in the matter.
THE National Reform Association
held its annual session at Cleveland, o.
beginning on the 18th.
TIE Red River steamer Alexandra
sank OF, the 18th with 100 bales of cotton
SETH LEDYARD PHELPS has been con.
firmed as Minister Plenipotentiary to
Peru.
RECENT violent gales have caused
great damage in England and much loss OF
life at sea.
MARQUIS TsENG attended the weekly
reception given by Prime Minister Ferry IL
Paris on the 18th.
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