Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
EDMUND McCURTAN has been mol


MGR. CAPEL preached two sermons IN
Cincinnati on the 18th on Martin Luther
from the Catholic standpoint
THE Civil-Service Commissioners and
the President can not agree on a scheme to
regulate promotions in the Civil-Service.
THE London police claim to have
clews to the perpetrators of the recent dy-
Mantle outrages, and there are reports that
Americans are implicated.
w. S. KIRKER, absconding teller of
the Second National Bank of IrontOn, o.,
has returned home. He had been on
prolonged spree.
IT has been discovered that the pen
sion claim agents have been guilty of
fraudulent practices in connection with
claims for additional bounty.
THE failure of Higbee & Co., Ere
mont, O., is announced, and is expected to
prove serious. The firm had numerous ele-
vators along the Nickel Plate line.
IT is stated that the commander of
the French forces in Tonquin has informed
the Government it would be impossible to
operate in Tonquin with the present force,
and that nothing can be done until Febru-
airy.
A FAMILY at Akron, o., have trichino-
sis, and it was thought two children would
die.
THREE men were killed on the 18th
by an explosion in mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
Jos. SoMER, of Greensburg. Pa, is
under arrest for numbering his father and
a servant girl.
The November report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture estimates the corn crop
at 1,577 ,000, 900 bushels.
The American terminus of the Ben
nett cable will be at LoblalIy, the south
end of the town of Rockport, Mass.
AN injunction has been issued to re-
strain the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany from executing the proposed $20,000,-
600 mortgage.
Ex-Governor MATT. HEAD, of New
Hampshire, died the night of the 18th.
RAILROAD companies continue to fall
into line on the question of the new time
standard.
THE negotiations for settlement of
the Mexican debt question with the British
bondhoIders have fallen through.
STRIKERS on the Panama Canal re-
Gently ditched a train-load of laborers and
guards and fred on the wreck, wounding
many men.
The Spanish Ministry say that Spain
is enjoying an unexampled prosperity, and
call on the provincial tax gatherers to en-
force payment of the levy.
AT Greensburg, Pa, on the 18th, a
mob, headed by number of women, tried
to lynch Jacob Noble, who killed John c..
Auley. Officers succeeded in protecting
their prisoner.
THE Servian insurgents are surren-
dering their arms.
A sCAFFOLD which fell in New York
| on the 18th killed Patrick Kelefck and John
Glascoot, bricklayers, and injured four
others.
In collision on the West Shore
Railroad, near Troy, N. Y, on the 18th,
John Schermer was killed and several
other persons were seriously injured.
The General Missionary Committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in ses-
| sion at New York on the 18th, appropri-
ated $1,000 for the Austin (Tex.) Confer
ence.
! CHIEF-J UsTICE DAVIS of New York,
on the 18th, called the attention of the Oyer
and Terminer Grand Jury to abuses in the
city departments, and called for thor
| ough investigation.
| SIXTEEN street fronts burned at Shen-
andoah, Pa, on the 18th, including the
United States Hotel, Odd Fellows Hall and
Opera-house. The loss is nearly ST ,OOO, 0OC
and 250 families were rendered homeless.
ADMIRAL LANDoLFE, commanding
the French fleet in the Pacific Ocean, died
recently at Papetit, Tahati.
THE Emperor William of Germany
has given 1000 marks toward the Luther
Institution for the education of the chill.
dren of clergymen.
THERE was a severe gale on the lakes
the night of the 11th. Wrecks were re-
ported on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron
Fears were also entertained for the safety
of several vessels caught out on Lake Mich
igan.
o. NJ. CHASE, Superintendent of the
Michigan fish hatcheries, was drowned
with six others by the capsizing of a boat
between Petoskey and Harbor Springs OF
the 18th.
SLEMD1ER's Oil Works burned at Nor
ristown, Pa. on the 18th; loss, $50, 900.
The Pennsylvania Legislature vii
adjourn sine die December 3.
The British police continue to picE
up an occasional Internal machine.
THE French have renewed anC
strengthened their treaties with Turkey.
The American Catholic Bishops helC
their first meeting in Rome on the 18th.
TEMPORARY buildings are being erect
ed for the homeless victims of the Shenan
doah (Pa.) fire.
TnLNGHAsT & Co., dealers in fur
and leather, failed at Chicago on the 18th
: liabilities, 100000.
REAR-ADMIRAL PLANQUET has beer
ordered to the command of the French flee
5 in the Pacific.
, No witnesses were called for the de
Tense in the Poole murder case in Dublin
The jury disagreed.
On the New England coast, on tn
: 18th, gale had been blowing for twenty
4 four hours at the rate of sixty miles pc