Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-07-12
Personal AND GENERAL.


of Pawnees will be inquired into by a
Court-martial. SPEECHES band will be taken
home from Fort Gibson by federal troops.
SEVEN THOUSAND American miners
have gone through Guaymas to the Nudge
gold-diggings in Lower California.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, the other morn
ing, a team of horses attached to a farmers
wagon became frightened at a band of
music and dashed through a procession Of
school children. One little girl was killed
and some twelve or fifteen others seriously
wounded.
VERNON, the jim-jam juror in the
star-route trial, was fined ten dollars in
Washington police court the other day for
using rude and indecent language to a
lady.
SIX persons were drowned in Indian
River, near Prince Edwards Island, the
other evening by the capsizing of a boat.
Near Lackawanna, Pa, three men were suf-
located in a well by black damp.
The absence of County Treasurer M.
E. Dunn from st. James, Mimi, created a
ripple of excitement the other day. His
accounts would be investigated, as it was
alleged he was $1,000 short.
The round-house of the Boston &
Maine Railroad in Charleston, Mass, took
fire at midnight on the 1st, and it was be-
lieved that the loss would be $4,000.
FATHER RIoRDAN, of st. James
Church, Chicago, has been appointed CO.
mia. He is a native of New Brunswick,
and is about forty-two years of age.
S. MARVIN, of Fargo, OAK, who lost
both legs while in the employ of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, has been awarded
damages of $4,000.
A MEADVLLE Pa.) girl named
Jennie Roberts drowned herself the other
day to spite her parents, who had refused
to let her attend dancing party.
WHILE Mrs. Grover was engaged in
household duties at New York, the other
day, she was fatally shot by boys playing
with toy cannon in the street.
JOHN ROACH & Son, of Chester, Pa,
were the lowest bidders for contracts for
building four new naval cruisers for the
Government, and will get the contracts.
The Empress Of Germany has given
| 1000 marks for the relief of sufferers by
the recent overflow in Silesia.
DAN, the aged war horse of General
> Il
| days ago.
ENoCH PRATT the other day gave
the Pratt library to the city of Baltimore
Nd; also 1888, 1888, invested in city
bonds, for the support of the institution.
THE Dauphin County Almshouse
building, at Harrisburg, Pa, was destroyed
by fire ON the I'd. The inmates were al
saved. Loss, 100000.
w. H. VANDERBILT has added $780,
600 to the endowment fund of the Wander
bilt University at Nashville, Tenn, swell
ing that fund to 100000.
WILLIAM H. SEAMAN, thought to be
insane, of Thragg's Neck, Westchestel
County, N. Y, killed his sister and himsel1
the other night.
A TRAMP assaulted Mrs. Henry Burns
the wife of farmer, near Rising Sun, o.
the other day. He stabbed her in the throat
after which she took the knife from hin
and drove him off.
COLONEL HOLABIRD has been APP
pointed Quartermaster-G General to succeed
General Ingalls,.
MCGEoCH, the Chicago Ol) provis
ion dealer who failed recently, has offered
to pay his creditors fifty cents on the dol
lar. All creditors must accept, and al
suits, attachments, ETC., be withdrawn, o.
the proposition is void. The unsecured
liabilities of the firm were placed at 81, 344
911.21.
THE public debt was reduced, $18,
COS, POI during June.
AN appeal has been made by tn,
, Bartholdi statue committee to the people o
the nation for funds for pedestal.
Two children were killed and som
twenty wounded in panic which occurre
during temperance fete at Sheffield, Eng
the other day. There were thousands G
children on the grounds and a number G
; them climbed upon dray, when the hors
; became frightened and ran away, causin
the panic.
The Brooks ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
} Dunkirlc, New York, which have been KEEP
, running night and day for three years
f have recently discharged $50 workmen be
) cause of a decrease in orders.
| JOHN MARTIN, Mayor of Maysville
Colo, used four bullets in killing Dick Be
ker for shooting into several buildings tn
other day.
On the Western Indiana track a
Forty-irst street, Chicago, H., the othe
evening, a wabash train crushed a stool
yards street-car into fragments. lively
, persons were seriously injured, three G
more of them fatally.
A FLEET of fifty-six boats left Ba
, City, Mich, the other afternoon, carryin
$4,000 900 feet of lumber for eastern ports.
THREE deaths from malignant diph
: liberia occurred in the family of James Mo-
0 rison, at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day
5 with two more children were PROSTATE. Tw
children of John New, at Elkhart, Indian;
died from the same cause, and five other
> and their mother were fatally i'll.
i AN express and way train collide
r near the tunnel in Hartford, Conn.,, on til
t 1st. Mrs. George D. Parks, of New Yorl
: had a jaw broken, and Mrs. Martin, of Ia
: ifville, was injured in the ribs. An eng
neer and two brakemen were also hurt, an
both engines were wrecked.
AGNES L. WHINE, aged ninetee