Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE Empress of Germany has given
1000 marks for the relief of the American
flood sufferers.
THE last spike in the Clark's Fork
division of the Northern Pacific Railroad
has been driven at Wellsville, Montana.
THOMAS w. PALMER, of Detroit. was
elected United States Senator on the eighty
first ballot by the Michigan Legislature on
the 1st.
DURING debate in Congress on the
1st Senator Anthony said it would cost $780,
600 to print the pension list furnished the
Senate.
TIE coinage at the various United
States MINIS for February were 81 ,54S, 800,
of which 81, 400, 600 were standard silver
dollars.
TIE Governor of Pennsylvania has
asked for an investigation of charges Of tax
lodging against the Standard Oil Company
in that State.
SENATOR ORvILLE H. PLATT, of
Connecticut, has been elected member of
the Republican National Committee, in place
Of the late Marshall Jewell.
JAMES WILSON, of Tama County,
Iowa, has resigned his position of Railway
Commissioner to contest the election to
Congress from the Fifth District.
-O
THERE were 272 business failures in
the United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the ID, an increase of
forty-twO over the previous seven days.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR recently ad-
vanced $28, 200 to Pastor Galligan, of the
Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, New
York City, to enable the pastor to erect a
new ediice.
III the star-route trial at Washington,
D. c., recently, Merrick denounced Inger-
soil as a puppy, and in return was called a
dirty dog. Both subsequently apOloglzed
to the Court.
D. n. SPEER, Treasurer of Georgia,
has recently sold $780, 900 of United States
bonds for his State and placed the proceeds,
exceeding $4,000, in bank to reduce the
debt of the State.
THE suffering at the flood-swept city
OF Shawneel own, H., was increasing on the
I'd. Only thirty houses were habitable and
malarial fevers and otheI sickness were
frightfully prevalent.
SUCH was the distress at Loughrea,
Ireland, on the LIST, that crowds besieged
the houses of the priests, clamoring for
TODD Tho
riedly convened to take relief measures.
THE flood was at a stand at Cairo on
the 9th, but the situation was still perilouS
The lower river was rising slowly. At
Arkansas City, Ark, there was no further
apprehension felt. The worst was believed
to be over.
THE relief committee at Cincinnati,
o., had received $156, 900 to a recent date,
and the municipal appropriation of $4,000
would probably be returned to the Treasury.
The losses at Lawrenceburg, Ind, had
been carefully computed at $4,000.
A LARGE meeting of citizens was held
in Cincinnati, o., the other day to discuss a
bill proposing to create street and sanitary
commission for two years and place a mil.
lion dollars at its disposal. The vote was
practically unanimous in favor of the meas
ure.
TIE last foot of land at Arkansas
City, Ark, had disappeared under water
on the 1st Disastrous creVasses were re-
ported, though planteas were still hopeful
that the overflow would not be of great ex-
tent. At Cairo the danger was thought to
be over.
RECENT accounts from Andalusia,
Spain, alleged that the doings of the Social
istic societies lately discovered there re-
sembled the worst outrages committed in
Ireland. The societies were said to be par
ticularly violent in their denunciation of
landlords.
In a recent interview between Presi-
dent Grevy and Mr.. Gladstone there was an
effort made to terminate the high tension
relations existing between France and En-
gland on the Egyptian question. Negotia-
tiOns would probably be reopened on a
basis more favorable to France.
S-
AT Helena, Ark, on the I'd they were
expecting greater flood than that Of last
year, which was the greatest ever known.
Damage in Southeast Missouri it was said
would exceed that OF last year, the water
being foet higher than then. At Vicks-
burg a more hopeful view was taken of the
prospect.
THE Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives has defeated-127 to 6O-the bill
to give women the right to vote at town
meetings. The vote in the Texas House on
the prohibitoTy amendment to the Constibu-
tion was 55 against, SO for, and II absent.
The Maine House has passed the bill restor-
ing the death penalty.