Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-26
PERSONAL and GENERAL.

the late William NeSbit, a farmer atTOngue
Point, Cana, was hanged on the 10Th at
Montreal.
On the 10Th the Birmingham Eng.)
police were investigating the business of
Whitehead's nitro-glycerine factory, re-
Gently discovered, and believed two hun
bred pounds weight were still unaccounted
for.
The trial by a Military Court of
twenty-six members of the South Russian
Workmen's Federation has resulted in their
conviction, and all were sentenced to vari-
Gus terms of imprisonment.
THE death, at Circleville, o., of Mrs
Lucy Cook Boggs, aunt of Mrs. ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, has been announced.
BANK burglars blundered the vault
of the Metropolitan Bank of New Orleans,
La, the other night, after gagging the
Waterman. They were unable to force the
inner safe and consequently got little
booty.
A MEADYLLE (Miss.) mob made
short work of Tom Bailey, colored, the
other morning. He had assaulted a negro
girl, and after numbering her, threw her
body into pond.
A FEW days ago a dynamite car
fridge was found in the basement of a
Brooklyn IN. " factory in which one
hundred girls were employed.
JAMES MARSHALL s. Co., iron pipe
manufacturers, and one of the largest firms
in Pittsburgh, Pa, has assigned, with liza
bilities of $1,5OO,OOO, and assets about
81, 25O,O 900.
FIFTEEN Arkansas conVicts escaped
the other day from a plantation below
Helena, where they were working under
lease. All but five were recaptured. The
remainder had gone South.
AT London, Eng, on the 16th,' Ber-
nard Gallagher was charged with being
connected with the dynamite conspiracy
prisoners. Counsel for the crown stated he
would prove the prisoner was brother of
DR.. Gallagher, one of the men arrested at
Lambeth, and that he had frequently been
visited by him and Curtin. Gallagher
was remanded. The prisoner before leav-
ing Glasgow informed the police that he
was confident he could clear himself of the
charges.
THERE were twenty thousand dock
laborers on a strike at Marseilles, France,
the other day and the number was increas-
ing. Shipping was at standstill.
EMANCIPATION DAY, April 16, was
duly celebrated by the colored people at
Washington, D. c., and various other
places.
THE Atlantic House, at Abba, Iowa,
was burned the other night, three boarders
losing their lives in the flames. The prop
erty loss was $4,000.
Mrs. H. ZEIPPRECHT, wife of a drug
gist of Dubuque, Iowa, threw her daughter,
six years of age, into deep well the other
day and then jumped in herself. The woman
was supposed to have been suffering from
melanchOlia at the time of the occurrence.
FREEMAN, who it will be remembered
claimed to be inspired two years ago to
offer his little daughter as sacrifice at
Pocasset, Mass, and who killed his child,
was recently declared perfectly sane and
would be aTraigned for murder. He says
his inspiration came from the devil.
THE largest cigar manufacturing firm
at Covington, KY, has agreed to give their
cigar makers an increase of one dollar per
thousand after May 1. Carpenters at New
York City have also secured an advance in
wages to $3.50 per day. The painters were
seeking similar advance.
MARY E. SCHENLY has brought an
action in ejectment against the city of
Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover a tract of land
used by the city for wharves, valued at over
$1,OOO,O 900.
A FEW days ago Rev. John Schenck,
a Catholic priest, was found dead in his
room at Long Prairie, Mimi, with dis
charged revolver by his side. 1t was thought
to be suicide.
GEORGE SCHELLER, who was accused
of setting fire to the Newhall House, lately
burned at Milwaukee, Wis, has been ac-
quilted.
The liabilities of James Marshal &
Co., ofPittsburgh, Pa who failed recently,
it is said will reach 81 ,90O,OOO
A HEAVY gale wrecked four vessels off
Victoria, B. c., a few days ago. The hur-
ricane lasted fifteen hours. One sailor was
drowned.
IN Philadelphia, Pa, Casper Young
helm, who threw bomb into the room
where August Goeckel, his son-in-law, was
working, has been fined $500 and sentenced
to Imprisonment for three years.
THREE RATS upset in the great tank at
Secunderabad, India, while crowded with
natives engaged in a religious ceremony
the other day and sixty-two OF them were
drowned.
PROHIBITION constitutional amend
ments have been defeated in the Connecti-
cut Senate and the New Jersey House of
Representatives.
The total production of pig-irOn in
1922 was 5,178, 122 tons, and of this Pennsyl-
vania produced 2,449,256 tons, or nearly
kalf.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gone to Os-
borne. Owing to the trouble with her knee
she was unable to walk and had to be lifted
into the carriage. The route was carefully
guarded.
THE trestle work of the Boston, Hoo
sac Tunnel & Western Railway Company's
crossing at Saratoga Lake, N. Y, was sub
merged by high-water on the 18th and two
freight trains abandoned. High-water also
caused considerable damage at Mechanics
vile and other points along the Hudson.
SEVERAL buildings in Rochester, n.
Y, had fallen down within day or two