Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

u named England was attacked on the morn
ing Of the 18th, on his way home, by four
| men, who knocked him senseless, then tried
to strangle him, but were frightened off by
| the approach of a policeman. England's
wounds are dangerous, but not necessarily
fatal.
In a general fight at German picnic
at Freedman's garden, Milwaukee, on the
10Th. Fritz Avi, fifty years old, was struck
on the head by a stone and probably fatally
injured. Charles Smith and Tom johnson
were arrested as guilty of throwing the
missiles.
THIRTY-sEVEN deaths from cholera
occurred in Alexandria on the 10Th.
AT the Pensacola Navy-yard to noon
of the Goth there were three deaths from
yellow fever. Surgeon Owens was better.
There were two attempts to pass the Gordon
one by force, the other offered bride of
5000. The guards bonds were doubled.
There was no alarm at Pensacola.
The northern shore of Lake Superior
was swept by hurricane the night of the
18th.
THE British Consul imprisoned by
the French in Madagascar has heen re-
leased.
LIGHTNING struck an oil-tank at Gar
field, Pa, on the Goth, and 700 barrels of oil
| burned.
MORTIMER HILL, of Salem, Ind,
shot his wife in the breast and himself
through the heart on the Goth.
Two men were arrested in Dublin on
the Doth for threatening Francis Carey,
brother of the informer.
BERT SCHEIBEL, of Cincinnati, IA
| cI,oE he
| and then committed suicide on the Goth.
ACCORDING to dispatches from Rome
of the Doth the Pope vigorously repels the
charge that he has any desire to stand in
the way of the Improvement of Italy.
On the evening of the goth the sash,
door and blind factory of Williamson, Lib
hey & Co. at Oshkosh, Wis, burned. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
LIsTOWEL., Ont, was flooded on the
Doth in consequence of violent storms.
Several railroad bridges were swept away.
INFORMATION was received by the In
dian Bureau on the Goth that the Jicarilo
Apache Indians were on their way to Mes
calero agency in New Mexico.
For the week ended August Is the
standard silver dollars issued from the
minis aggregated $4244, 499; corresponding
period last year, 1888, 900.
WESTERN UNION officers on the goth
disclafmed any intention on their part to
punish the strikers by refusing them work.
! They would be employed as fast as vacan-
cies occurred.
On the Goth a patent was issued to
Juan Jose and Victor Castro for the Ran
cho ell Sabrante, containg 1882 acres in
Contra Costa County, Cal.
NINE Oil-tanks, q number of stills and
large amount of valuable machinery be
longing to the Standard Oil Company, were
| destroyed by fire at Franklin, Pa, on the
Doth.
On the Doth the body of Captain VIM.
T. Howell, Assistant Quartermaster of the
United States army (retired), was found
floating ia the dock at Locust Point, near
Baltimore.
THE steamship Holland, which arrived
in New York on the Doth from Havre,
brought $50 Percheron stations. This is
the largest shipment of grown stations
ever imported from Europe. Not single
animal was lost on the voyage.
ACCORDING to reports of the Goth,
the crisis in the: Egyptian Ministry had
been averted.
CONSTRUCTION hands on the Cincin-
natl, Delphos & Toledo Railway struck on
the Dist because they had not been paid for
two months.
| ACCORDING to the London Times of
the Goth, a sterner demeanor on the part of
the House of Commons would be necessary
to repress the disorderly language INDUCED
in by members.
S. G. HAYNES & Co., provision deal
ers of Savannah, Ga, suspended on the
21st. Liabilities 100000. The firm had
been in business seventeen years, and had
long been recognized as one Of the largest
dealers in flour, bacon and grain in the
State. It was rumored that other heavy
failures would follow.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIAap appeared among
cattle at Salem, Conn, on the DIST. Two
herds were attacked by the disease. They
are both in quarantine, by order of the
State Commissioners.
BRIGANDs on the 21st captured pro-
vincial Governor and several Councillors
near Salonica, and demand G2O, 900 ran
som.
No NEW cases of yellow fever were
reported at Pensacola on the Dist.
Up to the 21st the British had lost
fourteen soldiers by cholera in Egypt.
FORTY-THREE deaths from cholera
were reported in Alexandria, Egypt, Oh
the 21st.
A TERRIBLE mine explosion occurred
on the 21st at Cardiff, Wales, by which one
man was killed and between twenty and
thirty badly Injured.
THE Chinese are reported as nego-
tiating with Germany for the purchase of
100000 rifles.
, THE Office of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company in Chicago was burned
out on the morning of the 21st. The origin
of the fire is reported to have been the
close proximity of a burning gas jet TO the
switchboard.
) SEVERAL trainmen were injured by a
collision on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Railroad at HazletOn, O., on the 21st.
: THE Chicago lard investigation closed
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