Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Deputies in Gambetta's district in Paris.
NEAR Scranton, Pa, Peter Ward,
| farmer, killed his mother-in-law the other
night. He said she made his life miserable.
& VERDICT of guilty has been rem
| dered in the case of Nugent and his twelve
associates in the Armagh Creland) Assas-
sination League. The crown counsel, in
| closing, charged O'Donovan Rosa, P. j.
| Sheridan, James Redpath, andJohn Dewey,
| now in the United States, with promoting
a conspiracy.
The Williams sewing-maohlre fac
| tory at Montreal, Cana, burned the other
night, causing a loss estimated at about
quarter of million dollars.
2 The steamships Fuldy and Salier,
which arrived from Europe on the oath,
| brought 2,155,OOO francs in gold for this
country.
IT was reported on the 25th that the
public buildings in London, Eng, were
| guarded by two thousand soldiers.
AN explosion of gunpowder occurred
near the office of the Department of Justice
at Rome, Italy, on the oath.
THE levee fronting the town of Thi-
bodeaux, La, at the mouth of Bayou Terre
Bonnie, broke on the oath and great fears
were entertained that the town would be
submerged.
BY a boiler explosion at Knightstown,
Ind, the other day one man was killed and
another seriously injured.
A BUILDING was nearly demolished in
Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day by an ex-
pIosion of escaping gas. Two women were
badly hurt.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
a dancing contest for purse of $500 be-
tween Joseph Morton and the Dublin dan
Ger, Horace Wheaton, was won by Morton
! in twenty steps, Lancashire style test.
A BAND of prOspectOrs, while inspect
| ing some coal fields near Charleston, Arizo-
ma, recently, were attacked by Indians,
and several of them killed.
A FEUD between cattlemen culminat-
ed in a fight near Fort Huachcua, on the
Mexican border of Arizona, lately, in which
! six men were killed.
The issue of standard silver dollars
| from the MINIS for the week ending March
"a was $21S, 495; corresponding period last
year $18S,5OO.
The statement of the United States
Treasurer showed gold, silver and United
| States notes in the Treasury on the oath
as follows: Gold coin and bullion, 1872, &c.
755; silver dollars and bullion, $106, 467, 1872;
fractional silver coin, $27, 709,519; United
States notes, $44, 817 800; total 1851, 625, 1856.
! Certificates outstanding: Gold, $40, 075, $40;
silver, 500, 7O5, $40; currency, $9,879,5OO
The poetess, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jack
son, has been commissioned by the Govern
ment to investigate the condition of the
| Mission Indians of California.
A DUBLIN Qreland) newspaper cor
respondent said recently that the person
referred to as " No. 1" by James Carey in
his testimony at the hearing of the assassin
alton prisoners, was known to bein Mexico,
beyond the reach of the English authorities.
| EDRIE A. BLAKE, defaulting Cashier
of the Chicago & Alton Railway freight
| office at Bloomington, Ill, and who was
arrested and taken back to Bloomington
from Massachusetts,, had preliminary ex-
animation the other morning, and was held
| to bail in the sum of $4,000.
! IT was believed that the debts of
James Dunn, who disappeared from Long
| Branch, N. J., recently, would aggregate
| $4,000 to $4,000. Daniel Ferns, his father
! in-law, who Endorsed heavily for him, had
transferred his property to his son.
THREE soldiers of the One Hundred
and Eighth Regiment, who were arrested at
Paris, France, on a charge of Socialism,
have been found guilty and sentenced to
| join regiments in distant parts of Algeria.
WSNOwDEN & Co., Montreal (Cana. }
shoe dealers, have failed for 100000. Also
the wool house of Harrington & Symonds
! of Boston, Mass, liabilities $4,000.
G. P. MARKLE & Sons, the largest
paper manufacturers in Western PennsyI-
vania, have made an assignment.
THE attorney who defended Sergeant
Mason in his trial for shooting at Guiteau
has sued him and his wife Betty for S., 800
counsel fees.
DWIGHT +. WHEATON, accused of the
murder of Engineer O'NieI at Bloomington,
Ill, has been acquitted by the jury.
THIRTEEN buildings in Duluth, Mimi,
including the Central House, were destroyed
by recent fire. The total loss was esti-
mated at $47 800, upon which there was an
insurance of $50, 900.
| CHARLES MITCHELL, an English pu-
gilist, arrived at New York the other
morning via the Republic. He came over
under the auspices of Billy Madden to fight
Sullivan.
FERGUSON, the Louisville (Ky.) de-
faulting Back-tax Collector, was given five
years Imprisonment under plea of guilty
on the 26th.
IN the Indian Territory General Por-
ter's forces had disbanded on the 26th and
the United States troops were after Spie
chez.
EDWARD NOBLE, who with his father
stood trial in Peoria County, Ill, a few
weeks ago for murder and was acquitted
was shot from ambush and killed the Other
night in Tazewell County.
LIEUT.. COLONEL FRANKLIN HAIR
) wood, United States Engineer Corps, wa
found dead in his room at a Boston Mass.
} hotel on the 26th. Congestion of the brain
was the cause.
) A MOVEMENT is said to be on foo
among the iron puddIers of Pittsburgh
Pa. to reorganiZe the old order of ttSons O