Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-01

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A MASSACHUSETTS Legislative Com
Tnittee has reported in favor Of municipal
suffrage for women.
PAUL GUsTAvE DoRE, the famous
artist, died a few days ago at Paris, France,
aged ifty-one years.
= A RECENT dispatch from Berlin, Ger
many, announced the death Of WOlfganz
Goethe, grandson of the poet.
THE Democratic caucus of the New
jersey Legislature has nominated John R.
Mcpherson for United States Senator.
In the Hungarian Legislature a meas
ure was recently brought forward to place
Jews on an equality with people OF all other
creeds.
JAMES PATRICK, SR., said to be the
oldest journalist in Ohio, died a few days
ago at his home in New Philadelphia at the
age OF ninety-One years.
THE Judiciary Committee of the
changing the time of holding the State cleo
tions from September to November.
THE Direct and the French Gable
companies lately decided to transact BUSH
ness with all land telegraph companies, in
stead of with the Western Union alone.
THE death of Henry E. Lightner, at
the age of eighty-tour, occurred at Balti-
more, Nd, few days ago. He was the
hero Of Keys "star .spangled Banner"
THE Peruvian Assembly at Gaia
marca has voted to treat for peace, provided
the Republic retains her independence and
is not stripped Of all resource of regenera-
tion.
The business failures in the United
States for the seven days ended on the 26th
were 277, against 274 for the seven days
previous. Seventy occurred in the Western
States.
THE election for United States Sen
ator took place in the two houses Of the
West Virginia Legislature on the 23d, and
resulted in the choice Of John E. Kenna,
Democrat.
THE burgomaster of Versa, Austria,
who arrested OVerdank, the Socialist, was
reported lately as so badly terrorzed that
he was selling his property and would leave
the neighbOrhood.
THE British troops engaged in ma
neuvers at Alexandria, Egypt,on the 10Th, in
imitation OF the siege of Cairo. The dis
play gave rise TO rumOrs among the natives,
creating some excitement.
A PORTION of JUS band of Apaches
were committing depredations near Del Rio,
other day, and Indians in large numbers
were reported on the Mexican side.
IT was reported at Washington the
other day that the claim made by Red Cloud
for compensation for ponies taken and sold
by the Indian Bureau revealed the fact that
no record could be found to show where the
money went.
IT was announced in a recent tele-
gram from Paris, France, that the balloon
in which Powell, a member of the British
Parliament, persisted in December, 1881, had
been found in the mountains of Surra del
Phedroza, Spain.
THE Piute Indians in the northern part
of Nevada and near the line of Oregon were
reported to be in a starving condition the
other day. The intense cold had prevented
them from hunting. There were said to be
about 800 of them.
A HEAVY gale was reported as pre-.
vailing on the English coast on the 26th
causing great damage to shipping and also
to houses. A schooner was lost with all
hands at Yarmouth. At Oldham two per-
sons were killed and six injured.
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IT was announced at Washington on
the 25th that Rear Admiral Pierce Crosby
had been ordered to command the United
States naval station in China, and that Com.
modore Temple would be ordered to com.
mand the South Atlantic squadron.
The COroner's Jury who Investigated
the recent locomotive explosion at Mans.
field, La, by which three persons were
killed and several wounded, returned yer.
dict that the locomotive was made of ole
iron worked over and sold to the company
for new.
AT the Trades Assembly meeting al
Cincinnati, o., the other night it wa!
stated that the difference between the mol
ders and stove manufacturers, which began
with the year by a proposal to reduce wages
| fifteen per cent, had been adjusted by ar
bitration. and work would be resumed with
out reduction in wages.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, the sugar king o.
the Sandwich Islands, talked recently OF es.
tablishing a refinery in Baltimore, Nd. He
| claimed, it was said, that his presence il
Hawaii kept Kalakaua from making treaty
with China, by which the Islands woul(
have been oVerrun by coolies. He preferred
that the Americans should be the next rae
to take possession.
A DISPATCH from Paris, France, OF
the 23d stated that Empress Eugene ap
nounced that she ignored the Republic anC
came to Paris to display sympathy witt
Prince Jerome. 1t was said Eugene wa
eognizant of the recent manifesto. Her ad
herents claimed her presence meant 6
demonstration in behalf of the name Of thu
family of Napoleon.
THE Woman's Suffrage Convention
in session at Washington, D. c., the othe1
day, adopted resolutions declaring tina
woman suffrage means stable institutions