Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

army being defeated with great slaughter.
Two Haytian ships that underworld to as
sist the land force were sunk by Barzalene's
guns. Barzalene was at last accounts adj
vancing on Port-au-Prince.
THE captain and mate of the steamer
Tropic have been arrested at Philadelphia,
charged with carrying men and munitions
of war into Hayti.
Two boys went into a Wilkesbarre
(Pa.) mine a few days ago with naked
palms, and were killed by gas explosion.
PRAYERS were said in Catholic
churches at Toronto, Cana, the other day
for the repose of the souls of the Phoenix
Park assassins, Brady and Curley.
THE employees in BolckOw, Vaughan
& Co.'s iron.works at marlborough, Eng,
were on strike on the 21st because of
were affected.
A BOILER exploded the other after
noon at the Wolverine Paper-mill, Detroit,
Mich, blowing out one side of the building
and killing the engineer and fireman.
a LARGE number of the railroad coal
miners in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district
have returned to work pending the arbi-
tration negotiations.
SHANGA, arrested for the murder at
Ofen, March IS, of the President of the
Hungarian Court of Cessation, has made a
full confession of his guilt
In the case of William II. Bush,
charged by, ex-senator Tabor, at Denver,
Colo, with embezzlement of $1,000, the jury
were out five minutes and returned a YER
dict of not guilty.
ELIAS DEYINE, William DunWOody and
Frank W. Loder, well-known citizens of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, have been arrested in
that city on charge of arson to obtain in
surance.
THE Marquis of Orovic, leader of the
Conservative party in the Spanish Senate,
died at Madrid, few days ago.
WHILE resisting arrest a negro named
Oscar PolIack was shot four times by the
Marshal, at Nillersburg, KY, the other
morning, and died instantly. The negro
knocked the Marshal down several times
before he was shot.
CHARLES AVERY, who was Professor
of Chemistry in Hamilton College, New
York, for thirty-five years, from 1884 to
1869, died the other day at the age Of eighty
seven years.
HARDY CLIFFORD has been sentenced
to life imprisonment, at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
for the murder of Captain Pugh, at Racine,
about year ago.
A FIRE which originated by the burn
ing of brush near Groton, VT, the other day
resulted in one of the most destructive for
est fires ever known in that section, prop
erty valued at $780, 900 being destroyed and
a number of families being rendered home
less.
THE Rev. DR.. Hornblower, of the
Western Theological Seminary, was
stricken with paralysis while preaching a
few days ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Japanese Government has pur-
chased a war ship built on the Tyne and
originally intended for the Chilians.
TREvELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, informed the Commons on the Dist
that the office of special Resident Magis-
trate in Ireland was to be abolished.
A TRANSFER steamer sank disabled
pleasure yacht in Detroit harbor and the
courts have given the yacht owners judg-
ment for damages, holding that a pleasure
boat has as much right of navigation as
any other vessel.
IT is reported from London that the
Governor-Generalship of Canada, in sue
cession to the Marquis of Lorne, has been
offered to the Marquis of Landsdowne, who
has accepted.
VARIOUS points from Lake Erie. south
to the Ohio River reported heavy snow on
the 21st inst. The corn crop was threat
ened with great damage by the cold, wet
weather.
The Governor of the Soudan reports
that the insurgents are yielding to Egyp-
tian authority.
DAVID TODD and Joseph Levesy, of
New Orleans, La, fought a bloodless duel
the other morning.
REPORTS of damage by frost came
from all quarters on the 22d inst.
The Milwaukee (Wis.) saloon-keep-
ers have been notified by the Mayor of that
city to close at midnight.
The net earnings of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad Company for April
were $775,427.
SIX men were arrested in County
Mayo, Ireland, on. the 22d, charged with
conspiracy to murder. A quantity of arms
and ammunition were discovered at Sligo.
JAMES MARRIOTT, the man who alb
seconded from Paris with 200 worth of
New York.
A FEW days ago Mrs. B. j. McMillie,
of Londonville, o., drowned her two chill
dren and then took fatal dose of poison in
a fit of temporary alteration.
THE Attorney-General has decided in
favor of the National Banks, that no taxes
are due from them since January 10, 1868.
THE Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed commission to appraise the Kick
apoo Indian lands in Kansas.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to
place bust of Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey, between the tombs of Chaucer and
Dryden.
THE dynamite conspirators were
again arraigned at Liverpool on the 22d.
Testimony was offered showing the connec-
ton of the prisoners with the explosion in
the gasworks at Glasgow. Counsel for
Deary and Flanagan protested this did not
concern their clients. A policeman tes-
tilted he followed O'Connor in. London the
94th of March. and saw him examine the