Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25

PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has given decision under which it is
thought nearly every hotel saloon in the
State can be closed.
THE defunct Augustinian Society
banking institution of Lawrence, Mass, on
the 10th divided $500 among the creditors
on final settlement.
The New York Mercantile Exchange
on the 10Th denounced the article called
'sbutterine" and sold as butter, and took
active steps to prevent its further sale.
THE Northern Pacific Railroad has
gone into the tree-planting business on an
extensive scale as a shelter fence to keep
the snow from drifting upon the tracks.
THE New York Fish Commissioners
are about to begin the experiment of a
hatchery for salt water fish with which to
repIenish the waters of the North Atlantic
coast.
A BALTIMORE Grand Jury, after inves-
tigating the Tivoli disaster in which sixty
five excursionists lost their lives, indicted
the proprietor and lessee of the picnic
grounds.
AT Norfolk, Va, on the 10Th the re-
mains of Confederate soldiers disinterred
at Arlington and to be buried at Raleigh,
N. c., were received with military and civ
&c honoTs.
THE condition of the English harvest
and the competition of Indian grain is held
to indicate that gold shipments from Great
Britain to the United States will not be
heavy this fall.
NIINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, is grinding 49,
900 barrels of -four per day. The produc-
tion will go to 10000 barrels if the water
power improves. All the mills are grind
ing all they can.
Col. CHARLES Button was arrested
on the 10Th in New York on charge of at
tempting to negotiate two $1,000 ocean
steamer bonds, lately stolen from Harvey
Mccall, of Philadelphia.
LIEUT.. HovGAARD, the commander
of the Danish Arctic cruiser Dijmphna, is
the man who so accurately predicted where
the Jeanette would be abandoned and
where her crew would land.
THos. TAYLOR, arrested on charge
of absconding from Chicago with funds of
the Bricklayers' Union, of which he was
Secretary, was turned over in New York
on the 10th to Chicago officers.
SEPTEMBER exports of breadstuffs
show large falling off as compared with
last year. The total for nine months is
$3.50, 43O, 436, being only four and half
millions less than for the first nine months
in 1882.
THE Imperial railways in Austria
may be a little old-fashioned in some re-
Spects, but every passenger car has in it an
indicator which as the train moves for.
ward shows upon dial the name of the
next station.
The latest and most extensive ex-
periments made in France regarding the
transmission of power by electricity proved
practical failure. At distance of nine
miles only fifteen per cent. of the generated
power could be recovered.
A SUIT of the Government against the
bankrupt estate of Jay Cooke & Co. to re
cover on Treasury notes alleged to have
been improperly redeemed by the Govern
ment, was decided in Philadelphia on the
18th in favor of the defendants.
The Society for Promoting State
Aided Emigration will inquire into the con
dition of the working classes in the Eas
End, London, with view of ascertainins
how many persons may feel inclined tt
emigrate to Northwestern Canada.
THE application of Beverly B., sor
of the late William Tiden, of New Y ork, tt
call executors of the estate to account was
denied on the 10th. 1t is claimed that Viii
liam Tnden left s., 600, 600, but that the tive
younger sons got less than 100000 each.
ARTHUR L. BLUE, of Indianapolis, ex
Treasurer of the Grand Council of tn,
United Order of Honor, is supposed to hav,
gone to California. A partner and bonds
man of Blue will be called upon to MAKE
good the ex-Treasurer's accounts, which
are alleged to be in a bad way.
The committee of London Justices tt
consider the letter of Guy, O'DonnelPs so
licitor, in regard to his client being de
prived of the use of tobacco, after seeing
the prisoner and hearing the opinion of tn,
prison physician that O'Donneu was in ex
cellent health, refused O'DonnelI the use o
tobacco.
THE Paris Figaro publishes the mar
rative of French officer of the particular:
of the massacre of natives at Hue by French
sailors. The story relates that after tn,
natives ceased to resist they were driver
from the burning villages unarmed, AM
then shot down in piles, Frenchmen after
ward numbering the wounded.
IT having been learned that an organ
ization of about fifty substantial men wa
formed at Oxford, Ind, to lynch Melting
Ada Atkinson's murderer, the authoritie
secretly transferred Melting to tn
Lafayette jail. Oxford people were indig