Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

PHILLIPSBURG HERALD.
PUBLISHED BY
Herald Publishing Association.
PHLLIPSBURG. KANSAS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Ell MARD1, the False Prophet, is re-
ported already in Khartoum.
THE departure of the Marquis 'Tseng
from Paris is thought to be but the matter
of few days time.
Twenty-Five Black Sea steamers laden
with wheat were reported on the Goth ice
bound on the river Don.
ELECTRIC light wires are being placed
underground on one of the principal ave-
nues in Philadelphia, Pa.
THE Life-Saving Service rendered as
Bistance in three hundred cases of disaster
during the last fiscal year.
SECRETARY FRELMGHUYsEN has sent
instructions to the Asiatic squadron with
view to protect American interests in event
of war.
THE San Francisco Grand Jury have
indicted Miss Hill and her attorney for
perjury and conspiracy in connection with
the Sharon suit.
MINISTER WALLACE has made fresh
complaint to the Porte because of delay in
bringing to justice the assailants of Ameri-
can missionaries.
TESTS of American and English steel
rails, laid side by side for thirteen years in
Pennsylvania, show that the former are
the more durable.
THE Archbishop of Namur has been
appointed Cardinal, and it is expected this
will settle the difficulties between Belgium
and the Vatican.
CHINA has sent circular letter to the
powers setting forth that if the French in
wade Northern Anam they will be opposed
by Chinese troops.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Brooklyn bridge, as con-
structed, can not be declared a nuisance or
unlawful structure.
The fiftieth anniversary of the run
ming of the first locomotive on the Philadel-
phia & Columbia Railroad is to be cele-
brated early next year.
CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAMSON, U. S.
N, who was court-martialed for extrava-
gance in the matter of repairing the Gov
eminent vessel Pinta, has been acquitted.
THERE is report from Madagascar
that the French have bombarded town
without giving notice, killing five British
subjects, and destroying large amounts of
neutral property.
AS the Egyptians are about to send
out an expedition to try and keep open a
road for retreat from Khartoum it is prob
able the Soudan provinces are to be aban-
doned for the present.
SoJoURNER Truth, the noted colored
lecturess, died at her home in Battle Creek,
Mich, on the 26th, aged 10S years. Fhe old
served until quite recently.
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A PENNSYLVANIA manufacturer, who
neglected to put up fire escape when no.
titled, has been mulcted for $4,000 dam
ages by an employee who was crippled in
escaping from his burning factory.
The Comptroller of the Currency adj
vocates reduction of revenue and CONVEX
sion of the longtime four per cents into
threes as measures to prevent undue con-
traction of the National Bank circulation.
ALoNDoN dispatch of the 9th says
there is nothing there to confirm the report
in America that Khartoum had fallen into
the hands of FL Mahdi. On the contrary,
last advices indicate that the siege was
likely to be stubbornly opposed, as the
garrison was being reinforced and pro-
Visioned.
A CRAZY ex-convict created a sensa-
ton at Jackson, Mich, on the Doth by play
ing the role of Pinkerton detective, Sc
curing the use of a special engine and ar
resting an innocent farmer for the Crouch
murder. An excited populace had nearly
1ynched the prisoner before the facts were
discovered.
A PARTY of hunters consisting of
Fred. Jenkler, with his two sons Emil and
Frederick and printer named Dick Har-
tig, of Dubuque, Ia, are supposed to have
been drowned during a recent storm which
overlook them on the Upper Mississippi
Their boat was found bottom side up nine
miles below the city.
RAJ SCoTT, after two years separa-
tion from his wife, returned to his home
near Eaton, twelve miles from Muncie,
Ind, recently, and insisted that she should