Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-06

THE annual convention of the Fire
Underwriters of the Northwest began on
the 18th at Chicago.
DAVITT, Sexton and Parneu attended
meeting of the Irish National League at
Dublin On the 29th.
LIEUTENANT BOUFELLE MOVES of the
United States navy was killed at Yoke
hama recently by the fall of a spar while
the crew were exercising.
A CONSIGNMENT Of seventy-five cases
of cartridges and one hundred cases of ri
aes and revolvers was placed aboard the
City of Pekin at San Francisco for Shang-
hai on the 10Th.
Two HUNDRED head of Jersey cattle
and number of ponies, sheep, and hogs,
valued at 1000, were landed at Chester,
Pa, on the 10Th from Hull. The animals
were quarantined.
PAYMAsTER Zachary T. Brown died
of yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
Yard on the 10Th.
LIEUT-COMMANDER Thomas and
Lieutenants Woods and Meigs will compose
the court to try the Naval Cadet hazers.
Cadets Breed of Kentucky, and Strife of
Maryland were not among the hazers, and
Cadets Reilly of Wisconsin an Wither-
spoon of Connecticut have been added to
the list of culprits.
A FARMER named Cutcher was found
dead in his wagon in Shiawasse County,
Mich, on the 28th, supposed to have been
poisoned with strychnine administered by
rival in love.
THERE were twelve deaths from chol-
era IN Alexandra in the 18th; ia in Upper
Egypt and seven in Lower Egypt.
RUSSIAN officials now in Bulgaria are
to remain two years longer by command of
the Gar, and opposition to their rule is to
be treated as rebellion.
In Vienna the summoning of the Ger
man Parliament was held to indicate that
Spain had been admitted to the triple ALI
ance.
ELEVEN thousand bales of New South
Wales, Victorian and Cape wool were sold
in London on the 29th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, out of consider
alton for French feelings, decided not to
hold the annual review of the Guards on the
anniversary of Sedan.
THE imports of British iron and steel
during July were 70 1903 tons against 1O3,-
1913 tons for the corresponding month last
year. The imports of iron and steel for the
first seven months of the year compared
with the corresponding period of last year
show a decrease of 1926, 075 tons.
The California Cotton Mill Company
has been incorporated; capital stock, $780,
600. The factory will be located at Oak
| land. Spinning and weaving cotton works
are now in progress in California.
TIE London Missionary Society has
denied the statement that Mr.. Shaw, the
English Missionary, intended to press a
claim for indemnity against France for the
loss of his property in Madagascar, and for
false imprisonment.
HENRY Willard, President of the
Northern Pacific Railway, with his Ger
man guests, fffty-tfve in party, were at Nj
agara Falls on the Doth; also Count Lippe
Weisenfelds, Minister for Austro-H Hungary,
and Baron Won Esendecher, Minister of the
German Empire.
A FREE library was given to the
town of Dunfermline, Scotland, recently by
Andrew Carnegie of New York. 1t was
opened on the 29th by Lord Roseberry who
spoke in praise of the generous Carnegie.
He also referred to the visit he intends to
make shortly to America, a country which
he said had always been dear to him.
IT was reported on the 29th that the
Emperor of Abyssinia, having heard that
King Menelek of ShOa intended to send an
embassy to France to solicit a French pro-
! tectorate over Shoa, had declared war
against King Menelek and the Abyssinian
army had already invaded Shoa.