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

THE Secretary of the Inferior declines
to formulate any new rules to regulate
practice in pension cases.
THE Dutch bark Judith foundered
recently Oh the coast of Norway. The
Captain alone was saved.
THE graves of two of the original
MayHower Pilgrims were discovered on
the 9th at Plymouth, Mass.
THE American Bishops at Rome are
said to be opposed to further interference
in Irish politics.
THE Franco-Chinese troubles were
the subject of Cabinet conference at
Washington on the 9th.
A MAN has been arrested in Orange
County, n. J., on suspicion of being the
murderer of Phoebe Paullin.
FRAIssNET, the French banker who
recently failed for heavy amount, had
the monopoly of trade from Marseilles
with Madagascar and Zanzibar.
THE United States steamer Shenan-
doah is at Boston under orders for voy-
age around the Horn, but neither officers
nor men can be found willing to take her.
ALBANY, WIS, was almost complete
ly destroyed by fire on the 9th. Several
men were fatally injured.
EVERY business house on the public
square at Waverly, Tenn, burned on the
9th. Loss, $4,000.
TWELVE hundred workmen were
thrown out of employment by the failure
of Doble & Co., Glasgow, ship-builders.
THE new Spanish Minister to the United
States is charged with the arrangement of
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ANXIETY was manifest in Paris on the
9th over rumors that Admiral Courbet's
command has been defeated and his COM
munications interrupted.
The Egyptian Government holds that
no change can legally be made in the status
of the Suez Canal without fresh concessions
from Egypt.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the noted actor,
was stricken with complete loss of voice at
Peoria, ILL.,, the morning of the 9th.
THREE young ladies attached to the
Russian Court were arrested on the 9th on
a charge of being connected with NihiIist
conspiracy.
The New York Press Club held it's
third annual dinner at Delmonico's the
night of the 9th. Letters were read from
General Grant, Henry Ward Beecher and
others, and toasts were responded to by
Mayor Edward and Governor Butler.
A NUMBER of the leading capitalists
of Cincinnati propose organizing a stock
company, with capital stock of 100000,
to establish huge cotton-mill, with a ca
pacity of 1000 looms, for the manufacture
of sheetings and cotton. A meeting to or
ganize has been called.
The London Tunes of the 9th, COM
menting upon the celebration of Evacua-
ton Day in New York, says: "The keen
American mind is turning eagerly toward
the best the modern world can give it. The
intellectual future of such race is not
likely to disappoint the most sanguine
prophets"
PETER JONES, colored boy, confined
in Jail at Springfield, Tenn, was found
dead the morning of the 9th, having been
murdered by a white prisoner named
Ernest Worthington.
BIGELOw, President of the National
College of Pharmacy, at Washington
D. c., and thirty-eight students left
the institution on the 9th in con-
sequence of the admission of a colored
man.
THE Governor of Hong Kong re-
Gently returned from trip to Pekin, where
he saw the principal ministers of the
Chinese Empire. He is of the opinion
that China is resolved to fight if forced
much further by France in the Tonquin
matter. China, he says, has 10000 trained
men available for operations against the
French.