Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
A CONVENTION of river coal miners Is

A CONVENTION of river coal miners Is
to be held at Pittsburg to select a commit
tee to arrange winter scale of wages.
THE Government has secured the
condemnation in New York of 100000 cigars
not bearing the number of the factory.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lockout
continues at Pittsburgh.
THE Bankers Association of the
United States met on the 10Th at Louisville.
TWELVE prisoners broke jail on the
10th at Lancaster, Pa.
The Chinese Ambassador has decided
to ask England's mediation.
The town of Middleport, n. Y.
nearly burned down on the 10th.
JOHN HAY and Frank Work are the
new directors in the Western Union. Board.
SENATOR EDMUNDs will resign the
position of President pro tenn. of the Sen
ate.
THE Maid of the Mist ran the Niagara
whirlpool rapids on the 10th with 10000
people looking on.
THE Exposition directors at Louisville
have decided to open a bench show on the
3Oth.
A BERLIN editor has been convicted
of libeling the Russian Minister of the In
terror.
SIX children of John Stoufer of
Ligonier, Pa, were poisoned on the 10th by
eating weeds, two of them fatally.
THREE men have been arrested at
Grand Forks, OAK, for counterfeiting sill
yer certificates.
The Treasury Department has com
promised judgment Of $4,000 against A.
G. Hesing of Chicago for 50, 200.
The recent alarming reports about
yellow fever at several points in the South
appear to have been unfounded.
The coastwise steamers City of Brus-
sells and Ludgate Hill collided in the Eng
lish Channel on the 10th. Both were badly
damaged
THE summer residence of Thomas w.
PearsalI, a New York banker, burned on
the 10th at Growers Hill, Conn. loss S .25,-
O0O
In an election fight between whites
and negroes at Cumminsville, o., on the
10th, a policeman was shot in the thigh and
a negro mortally wounded.
HENRY HAAS shot himself at Troy,
N. Y, on the 9th, and was sent to the in
Urinary. On the 10th he hanged himself.
THREE men charged with blowing up
house at Pawling, n. Y, and causing the
death of Samuel Grauer were arrested on
the 9th.
THE breaking of an axle caused a bad
collision on the Pennsylvania Road, near
Elizabeth, N. j. Several cars were smashed,
but no one was hurt.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany earned its largest months revenue in
August, 81 1927 900. A dividend of five per
cent. is declared.
AGRICULTURAL Department reports
indicate that the cotton crop will fall 1,OOO,-
600 bales short of last years yield.
The lower house of the Hungarian
Diet has adopted a resolution to discon-
tinue the bi-linguaI inscription on the
Croatian escutcheon.
The Mexican National Health Con-
gress proposes an amendment to the consti-
tuition giving the Federal Government CEN
trail sanitary control.
+ A MOB of French Anarchists in Lyons,
on the 10th poured a bucket of petroleum
over a policeman and set him II fire. The
man was terribly burned. The mob after
ward attempted to fire the stables of the
municipality.
SUPERINTENDENT CHAs. II. CRANE,
U. S. A, died on the night of the 9th.
REV. DIR. EVER, of New York, who
was stricken with paralysis while preach
ing at Montreal on the 7th, died on the
morning of the 10th.