Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04

A DISPATCH from Saigon, Cochin
China, states that General Bonet sailed for
France upon a mission solicited by himself
to inform the French Government of the
real position of affairs in Tonquin.
THREE hundred houses burned in
Constantinople on the night of the 9th.
AT Shelbyville, Ind, Charles Vernon
was stabbed to death in an election row on
the 18th.
THE Sternberg elevator at Buffalo
Goth; loss $4,000.
THE Corean Embassy visited Gen.
Hancock at Governors Island on the 26th.
THE official estimate of casualties
at the Ischia disaster is 1900 killed, 374
wounded.
THE Massachusetts Democrats on the
26th renominated Benz. F. Butler for Gov
ernor.
THE reply of the Chinese Govern
ment to dispatches of the Marquis Tseng
has been received in Paris.
THE Limerick Qreland) Town Hall
and other buildings were demolished on the
26th by storm. A bridge over the Shan
non was injured.
Jos. MED1LL of the Chicago Tribune
testified on the Goth before the Senate La
Dor Committee. He favors industrial
schools.
SITTING BULLS baptism into the
Catholic Church has been postponed be-
cause he can not make up his mind which
Of his two wives he will let go.
ANTI-JEWISH excuses are reported
in the Veszprim district, West Hungary.
Several houses occupied by Jews in two
villages were burned to the ground. Sew
eral persons have been arrested.
The schooner Victor, bound for ia
maica, was lost in a recent hurricane; also
the Charleton from Nassau. Fifty-three
lives are known to have been lost.
THE Paris newspapers are spiteful at
King Alfonso for accepting the colonelcyof
the Strasburg Uhlan regiment.
EIGHTEEN vessels were wrecked in
the harbor of st. Pierre, Martinique, on the
night of September 4.
Jos. A. DONOHUE's trunks were
seized by the customs authorities at New
York ON the Goth, and found to contain
$1,000 worth of dutiable goods. Donohue
is wealthy Californian.
The National Wool-Growers' Associ-
alton met in Chicago on the 10Th. Vermont.
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota,
Texas, Colorado and West Virginia were
represented.
JUDGE DIXON, the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor of New Jersey, has sig
nifed his acceptance of the nomination.
THE Nebraska Republican State Con-
vention nominated NJ. B. Reese for Judge
of the Supreme Court.
The New York State Prohibition
Convention was held on the Goth and a
State ticket was nominated.
The British Association for the Adj
vancement of Science decided to invite the
American Society for the Advancement of
Science to become honorary members of
the association during its visit to Montreal
in 1884.
DETAILS of recent anti-Jewish rioting
at Nowmoiskowsk, province of Ekaterino-
slav, have beenreceived. Only a synagogue
and three Jewish houses escaped demolition.
Two hundred families were rendered home
less. Order was restored after five rioters
had been killed and thirty arrested.
THE value of exports Of domestic pro-
visions, tallow and dairy products, for the
eight months ended August 81, 1888, is ST.
457, $40; same period 1892, $50, 922, 1S5. Pro
visions and tallow for ten months ended
August 81, 1888, $84, 333, 204, against $780,
8514 679 same time in 1882. Exports of
dairy products during last four months in.
creased 81, 569,215 over same period last
year.