Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-11

A LIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
In Halifax, N. S., the other night, lasting
twenty to thirty seconds.
The Indian chief Red Cloud visited
his grandchildren at the Hampton (Va.)
Normal School few days ago.
THE death of Rev. Titus Coan, an
American Missionary at the Sandwich Is
lands, was announced few days ago.
JANUARY 1, 1882, standard silver
dollars in circulation was $35, 791 ,O43. On
the 1st Of January, 1888, the amount was
$3S, 9O8, 23S.
DURING the seven days ended on the
9th there were 224 business failures in the
United States, against 1913 for the previous
seven days.
AT the recent election General Joseph
Wheeler was elected to Congress from the
Eighth Alabama District, over Mcclellan,
by 1000 majority.
THE other day Red Cloud called on
Secretary Teller at Washington and de-
handed $4,000 for horses taken from him
six years ago by Governor Cook.
GOVERNOR RUsK, of Wisconsin, was
called upon to appoint all the officers for
Waukesha County except sheriff, the other
day, those elected having failed to file bonds.
j. D. TAYLOR was elected by about
1900 majority at the recent congressional
election in the Seventeenth Ohio District to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of J. T.
Updegraff.
THE other day the leading rubber
factories of the country were seriously con-
sidering the propriety of making $25 600, :
600 consolidation, to handle the entire crop
Of Brazil.
w. r. MORLEY, who was killed in
Mexico the other day by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver, built the Sonora rail-
way and was chief engineer of the Mexican
Central Road.
Mr.. SENEGAL, of Montreal, Cana,
financier, recently reported having formed
a syndicate in Europe, with a capital OF
$5,G00,00O, and made a contract for cable
from Queenstown to Halifax, N. S.
VETERINARY surgeons, after a post
mortem examination. of four victims of the
horse disease raging in Oskaloosa, Iowa,
the other day decided the cause of death to
have been cerebro-spinal meningitis.
LARGE gaps had approved in the
wall Of the central tower OF the Peterbor-
Ough Cathedral, London, Eng, the other
day. The tower was to be demolished. The
Cathedral was said to be one of the finest in
England.
A COMMERCIAL paper, in a recent
article on mercantile failures for 1882, says
that the business disasters for last year
numbered 1874, against 1920 in 1881, and
4, $50 in 1880, being an increase in 1882 OF
1915 over the year previous.
The following State officers were
elected in a joint convention of the Maine
Legislature on the 4th: Joseph o. Smith,
Secretary of State; Harry B. Cleves, Attor-
ney-GeneraI; George L. Beale, Adjutant-
General. Governor Bodie was inaugurated
with the usual ceremonies.
GREAT damage was being done by
the floods in Germany on the Sd. At Dus-
seldOrf the Market Square was flooded
Seventy houses had fallen at Badenheim,
and at ReXbeim, Morsch and Oppau two
hundred and forty had fallen. At Vienna,
Austria, the danger was serious, and prep.
arations were being made to sound the
alarm bells. The dykes showed signs Of
yielding.
On the Sd the Connecticut Legislature
organized by the choice of Robert Cot
President pro ten. of the Senate and the
a. - Al,
House. In the Massachusetts Legislature
George G. Croker, Republican, was elected
President of the Senate, and Edward A
Mclaughlin, Democrat, was chosen Speak
er of the House. John L. Cutler was elected
President of the Maine Senate and Man
chester Haynes Speaker of the House.
RECENTLY the Bureau of Statistic!
prepared a valuable table showing thu
average ad valorem rates of duty collected
from the various classes of imports durin!
the fiscal year, 1892. The amount of dut,
collected was A 70 100 per cent. of the valut
Of the dutiable imports. The average ad val
orem rates Of duty on leading articles o
imports were as follows, emitting the frac
tions of one per cent: Sugar, molasse
and confectionery, 50 per cent; wool ant
manufactures Of silk, 80 per cent; cotton
and manufactures of cotton, SO pc
cent; iron and manufactures of iron
40 per cent. steel and manufacture
of steel, 40 per cent; spirits and wines, 7
per cent. tobacco and manufactures OF to
bacco, 70 per cent. earthenware and china
43 per cent; glass and glassware, 56 pc
cent; salt, A per cent; hats, bonnets AM
hoods, 40 per cent. marble and manufac
lures of marble, 81 per cent; soap, 45 pc
cent.
FORTY years ago Ludwig Fasznach
disappeared from his home in Reutlingen
Germany, and was not again heard of. TIL
family became scattered in time, and one O
the brothers came to Paterson, N. J., ant
started a watch-repairing shop. The othe
day another German stepped into the sho
in Paterson to get his watch repaired, an
giving the same name as the matchmaker
the latter asked what part Of the world tn
customer came from. The answer led tn
way to the discovery that the customer an
the matchmaker were brothers. The new
conner had been living until recently nea
Jerusalem, Penn, and was at the Centen
NAL exhibition with some cedar wood furni
ture made by another brother. The Pater
son matchmaker had, when he visited tn
Exposition, examined the exhibit and aske
a number Of questions about it, not haYin
the slightest suspicion that the goods wer
the product Of an establishment owned
one brother and that the man in charge wa