Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
pERs0NAL AfsD GENERAL.

A COM1IssARY of Police named Heu-
beck was murdered by anarchists in Wen
ma the night of the 18th. The murderer
has been arrested.
THE Glasgow dynamiters have been
taken to Edinburgh for trial.
THE Mexican Transatlantic line was
formally opened on the 18th.
TIE non-union moulders were at
tackled at Troy. N. Y, on the 18th.
DnLMAN, the wife murderer, viii be
hanged at Easton, Pa, February r.
Two train robbers were captured at
| Clifton, Arizona. on the 18th.
THE issue of silver dollars for the
week ended December 10 was $37S,494.
The weekly review of the English
grain market reports the trade depressed.
THE cotton-mills at New Bedford,
Mass, have shut down on account of a
strike of the weavers.
PROsPECTs are said to be favorable to
the passage of bankrupt law by Con-
gress.
Two THOUSAND coal miners have
been thrown out of employment by the sus-
| pension of work in the mines on the Mo-
nongahela River.
IT is thought that the iron moulders
at Pittsburgh will accept the ten per cent.
| reduction of wages announced to take
| place January 1.
SENATOR HALE has introduced bill
in Congress for the construction of seven
steel essels and two torpedo boats.
A sTAGE-COACH was run into at Kings
ton, Ont, by an express train on the 18th,
and a number of people were killed.
THE stage carpenter who tried to
burn the Casino in New York has been in
dicted for arson in the first degree.
THE President has appointed a board
of officers of the army and navy to con-
slider the question of relief of Lieutenant
| Greedy.
SENATOR SABIN, Chairman of the Re
| publican National Committee, has appoint
| ed D. II. Platt Chairman of the sub-commit-
tee to take charge of the preliminary Re-
| publican campaign.
The report of bank clearings for the
week ended the 18th shows a decrease both
of total and outside New York compared
with the same period last year.
THE remains of the late Congressman
Haskell left Washington the morning of
the 18th in charge of a Congressional COM
mittee for Lawrence, Kas.
A LARGE schooner off Evanston, near
| Chicago, is supposed to have gone down on
the 18th with all on board.
THE convention of iron and steel
workers at Joliet, ILL.,, agreed on the 18th
| to accept ten per cent. reduction of wages
in the North Chicago Rolling Mills. 1t
was not known whether tho mills would
| concur.
IT is now considered almost a GER
| tainty that the House of Representatives at
| Washington will create two new standing
| committees-on Rivers and Harbors, and
Labor.
WHAT was left of the town of Rat
Portage, Manitoba, by the recent fire was
wiped out by similar confagration on the
18th; loss about 100000.
A FIRE at Fortville, Ind, on the 18th
destroyed 1000 worth of property.
The English Government has been
Fenians.
THE Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico,
has been arrested for completely in the
recent train robbery in Mexico.
A NUMBER of vessels were lost with
all on board in a recent great storm in the
Mediterranean.
A BILL to tax incomes on personal
property has been introduced in the Prus-
sian Diet.
POSTAL service was placed on 5000
miles of new railroads from July 1 to De-
cember 10.
BY the explosion of the boilers of an
oil refinery at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
several persons lost their lives.
A -THoUsAND-DOLLAR fire
occurred at Farmland, near Muncie, Ind,
on the 18th.
In the Emma Bond case at Hillsboro,
Ill, on the 18th, the prosecution announced
their evidence was all in.
SIDNEY GREAR, member of the Hi
nois Legislature, died at his home il
Jonesboro, ILL.,, on the 18th after an illness
of eight days.
FIFTEEN hundred workmen in Ben
nett & Co.'s mills, Pittsburgh, Pa, &C
cepted reduction of ten per cent. on wages
on the 18th.
THE conference of glass manufactur.
ers and their employees at Pittsburgh. Pa.
/, failed, and the struggle is now to be settled
, by endurance.
THE United States Court at Toledo
on the 18th decided that the property Of
Brown, Bonnen & Co., of Youngstown
Ohio, who assigned last year, should be
held for the benefit OF all creditors alike.
ALoNzO CASTOR, of Oregon, was con.
firmed Indian Agent at Warm Spring
) Agency; John Scott, of Kansas, Agent al
the Ponca, Pawnee and Otoe Agency. Sew
eral other appointments were confirmed.
THREE HUNDRED pounds of giant
powder, which miners were warming
around a stove in Lion Mountain, Clinton
County, Mich, exploded on the 18th anC
considerably damaged the company's build
ing. The miners narrowly escaped.
The North and Northeast Lanca.
) shire (Eng.) manufacturers have adopted
short time to help the manufacturers O
Blackburn and els ewhere, whose operative:
are on a strike.
OAlE EEI-N-nIsEn An-n L-IL,1.H E.r,c.I-sl m.