Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15

9hILL1RSBUkG, KANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE London Times says there is no
occasion to depart from the usual rule and
allow American counsel to defend O'Don-
NELL
ADMIRAL CoURBET has been in
structed to push the campaign in Tonquin
and make the Chinese Government show
its hand.
THE Chinese Government will indorse
the course of Marquis Tseng. The latter
says in the event of war Anam will be the
ally of China.
, CHIEF-JUsTICE CoLERIDGE has had a
conference with leading members of the
London bar regarding methods of practice
in England and America.
THE officers appointed as court of
Inquiry to investigate matters relating to
the Proteus disaster were notified to meet
at Washington on the Sth.
THE Federal Court in San Francisco
intimates that Cinnamon formerly resi-
dents, who left prior to the issuance of re-
turn certificates, are entitled to land
IT is reportedfr from Portland, Oregon,
as almost certain that the wheat surplus of
Oregon and Washington Territory will be
1OO, 1000 tons less than heretofore estimated.
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DURING a recent visit to st. Louis,
Mo-, Miss Emma Abbott the charming
American prima donna, became the posses
sor of a ten and quarter carat diamond,
valued at $500.
ToBIA BERTINI, prima tenor assoluta,
wants 1000 from Colonel Mapleson, who,
he alleges, does not mean to keep con-
tract by which Bertini was to receive So, 900
a month for the season.
MARI CHURCHILL, the missing st.
Louis girl, was found on the Sd at Indian
apolis, Ind, where she has been employed
in the laundry department of the Insane
Asylum since September 3.
The body of w. A. Seely, land buy
er from Michigan, was discovered near
Mitchell, Oak. on the 9TH. Over $500 was
found on the body, which had bullet hole
through the head, while revolver lay near
by.
Mrs. ANNA OTTENDoRFER, owner of
the New York Stats Zeitong, was recent
1y presented an autograph letter and silver
decoration, in recognition of her humani-
tartan work among her countrymen in
America.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, was swept by a
cyclone on the afternoon of the 9TH, which
destroyed a vast amount of property,
caused the death of at least four persons
and the injuring of thirty or forty more,
some quite seriously.
JUDGE FINN, of San Francisco, on
6he 9th, at the request of Senator Sharon,
ordered Miss Aggie Hill to furnish photo
graphic copies of the alleged marriage con-
tract with him, to afford an opportunity Of
testing its genuineness.
The police of London, Eng, offer a
reward for John McCaferty, convicted of
treason in Dublin in 1867, and sentenced to
penal servitude for life, and since escaped.
McCafferty was born in Ohio of Irish par
ents, and served in the Confederate army.
IT Is probable the British Government
will introduce at the next session of Par.
lament a household suffrage bill, which
shall apply throughout Great Britain and
Ireland alike. A bill for the redistribu.
ton of seats in the Commons will probably
follow.
THE Postmaster-General has dis
missed from service PosU-ofice Inspector
Amos P. Foster for rendering the depart
81 q.
stationed at Austin, Tex, and was render
ing accounts for per diem services which
he never performed.
THE Court of Appeals in St. Louis,
Mo-, on the 9Th, decided that the removal Of
Chief of Police Campbell was illegal. He
was reinstated in office and at the meeting
of the Police Board charges were formally
preferred against him with view to GUST
ing him in legal form.
THE creek which supplies Salt Lake
City with water has become so offensiv,
from dead sheep in its bed that the Sal
Lake Council, Tuesday night, considered
the problem of remedy for the evil
Stories of the impurity of the water hav,
heretofore been denounced by the Mormon
as GENTLE lies.
COMPTROLLER KKoX is credited with
the statement that without some remedia
legislation the National banks will, during
the next two or three years, give up owe
half their circulation and cause a contrac
tiOn of the currency from $3.50, 100000 t.
$17O,OOO,0OO of bank notes, provided tn
calling in OF the bonds continues at tn
present rate.
THE annual report Of the Commits
siOner of Internal Revenue says the aggre
gate receipts this year are estimated a
$l2O,OOO,oOO During the first three month
OF the fiscal year there has been falling
of of S7,926.4Ol. A saving to the Govern
ment is said to have been Effected of $125,
OO1 annually by the consolidation of tn
collection districts.
JOHN TEEMER, the young OArsmal