Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Two French columns had marched
to quell an instruction in Southern Algeria
on the 9Th.
NINETEEN nations were represented
in the recent trademark convention at
Paris, France.
The German Emperor has given 5000
marks for the relief OF German flood suffer-
ers In America.
THE anti-Monopolists of Nebraska
have raised $40, 200 to publish a new morn
:ag paper at Lincoln.
TIE Kansas Legislature finished its
business NJ 1879 on the sth. passed the usu-
al resolutions and adjourned sine die.
The British House of Commons on
the It'll passed to second reading bill to
prevent the shooting of trapped pigeons.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has passed
a bill to forfeit the franchises OF telegraph
companies that consolidate with competing
lines.
IT was intimated on the 8th that sew
eral members of Parliament would be more
or less entangled in the Dublin Qreland)
murder conspiracy.
The Moscow (Russia) police had
made some important arrests lately, but no
conspiracy to interfere with the coronation
had been discovered.
THE Georgia Democratic State Ex-
ecutive Committee has called convention to
meet at Atlanta, April 10, to nominate a
candidate for Governor.
SECRETARY FOLGER has given in
| siructions that the word "cents' be placed
on the new fye-cent pieces, in order to meet
| the requirements OF law.
The river was slowly falling at Mem
phis and Helena on the 9th, but reports of
great distress in the Inundated districts
were constantly coming in.
A REPORT was current at Washington
the other day that short time before the
adjournment of Congress an attempt was
made to assassinate eX.Secretary Blaine.
Two new breaks occurred in the Pan
| Their Forest Levee, above Helena, Ark, on
the 9th, making four in all, and the whole
aggregating two miles in length and five feet
in depth.
The editor, the proprietor and the
printer of the Free Thinker, of London,
Eng, have been convicted Of'blasphemous
libel, and were sentenced to twelve, nine,
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lively.
A RECENT London Gng.) telegram
says the Society for the Suppression of Bias
phemous Literature will bring cases against
Huxley, Tyndall, Herbert Spencer and 9TH
or scientists, whose writings they hold spread
unbelief.
THE top of the flood was as far South
as Helena on the Sth. Further occasional
| breaks in the levees were reported. The
stampede OF plantation hands from the bot
toms along the Lower Mississippi was be-
coming general.
PROFESSOR WIGGINs, the Canadian
weather-prophet, was up to the 9th inst.
the principal sufferer by the great storm he
predicted for that date. Nervous excite
ment over the anticipated devastation had
caused his utter prostratiOn.
In defense of Mr.. Parnen against the
charges OF Mr.. Forster, it was stated that
Immediately after the Phoenix Park assas-
sinations the former drew up an address
announcing his retirement from public life,
and was only prevailed upon to withhold il
by the most earnest request Of his party as
sociates.
A REPETITION of the recent Pennsyl.
vania coal m inc catastrophe was imminent in
Mount Carmel, Pa, few days ago. The
earth above the Reliance Colliery was crack.
ing, and there was only thin shell of frozer
ground between the pits and twenty mine
residences and the Reading Railroad depo
and tracks.
THE Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided case involving the claim of the Stats
OF California to tract Of land OF about 100,.
900 acres lying upon the borders of Lake
Tulare. The decision approves the Creigh.
ton survey, and awards the lands to thu
State OF California under the swamp -lanG
grant act OF September %, 1850.
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THE Michigan Democratic State
Convention met at Lansing on the 9TH ant
nominated John w. Champlin for Judge o
the Supreme Court, long term, and Arthur
l.. Clark for Regent of the State University
The nominations for Judge for the shOr
term and second Regent were left for TIT
Greenbaekers, who were formally invited Il
unite with the Democrats on the basis o
such joint ticket.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massachu-
setts, lately vetoed bill to incorporate tn
Union Safe Deposit Vaults, and the mes
sage though written and signed on the 90
of February, was dated the 26th, when i
reached the House. On that day GovernO
Butler was beyond the State lines. and
under the Constitution, was not Governor
A nice law point was thus raised as to tn
observation-disclosures ~ AL,.. .,ntc,