Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

found by the roadside near Cambridge
| City, Ind, on the 9th. The head was liter
ally beaten to pieces.
PERE HYACINTHE arrived in New
| York on the 2Sth, on the steamer Alaska.
THE Spanish cabinet officers have is
sued circulars promising reform in the de-
partments.
JAMES COURTNEY and Joseph Nc
Stein, of Danbury, Conn, were suffocated
in a New York clearinghouse on the morn
ing of the 18th.
CHOLERA has appeared at Mecca.
DISASTROUS floods have occurred in
Thessaly.
THE surplus of the postal service the
last fiscal year was S2,6l0,OO0
G. n. Fox, ex-Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, died ON the 29th at New York.
THE French iron-clads are under or
ders to be in readiness o'sa1 for Tonquin.
A DETACHMENT of Egyptian soldiers
was recently cut off to a man by the hill
tribes in Nubia.
SECRETARY TELLER contemplates es-
tablishing an industrial training school for
Indians at Sitka.
A GREAT demonstration in favor of
universal suffrage is proposed to be held in
Brussels, Belgium, in January.
THE British and Canadian Govern
ments are said to be working together to
promote emigration from Ireland.
FIVE men were killed by the explo-
sion of dynamite magazine near Brooks
tunnel, Pa, on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road on the 2Sth.
AN explosion Of fre-damp occurred in
a mine near Pittston, Pa, on the 18th.
There were thirty men at work and many
were injured, some fatally.
REAR ADMIRAL CROSBY is to be re-
tired under the forty years. service clause.
Commodore John L. Davis succeeds to his
command
The suit of Hallett Kilbourne against
x-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson OF the
House OF Representatives came to trial on
the Goth at Washington.
IMPORTS of iron and steel from Great
Britain for nine months OF this year were
54O,O79 tons, being 100000 tons less than for
the first nine months in 1882.
CHARLES GEHRING and John Isaacs,
letter carriers, were arrested in Baltimore,
Md, on the 10Th for robbing the mails.
OUT of 400 boats plying upon the Mis-
sissippi River in the Dubuque District not
one has furnished during the season a fatal
accident from explosions or fire.
IT was determined at an inquest in
New Y ork on the 29th that Rosa Burns,
niece Of Victoria Woodruff, died of cancer.
Malpractice was alleged.
EDMUND n. BISHOP, an advertising
agent, has brought suit against the Indian
lie for oil Il
done his business reputation.
A FREIGHT train of the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad was ditched the night
of the 2Sth near Grissom Station, Tenn.
The entire train went down an embanll-
ment.
A REPORT was received at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 18th that six men who
tried to jump a claim in the Cour de Lion Dis
trict were killed by the owners, who were
in possession.
The sum of $4,000 has been offered
by Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico, for
the apprehension of three murderers,
Moore, COPYRIGHT and Mcintyre.
VIM. MCCLEAIINGHANI, Agent of the
Northern Pacific Express Company at
Dawson, Dakota, was arrested on the Doth
charged with the embezzlement of s., coo:
THEODORE MANSELL, q little boy
eight years of age, tried to assist in block
ing the wheels of a heavy wagon going up
hill in Dubuque, Ia, on the Goth, when the
wagon slipped back, crushing him to death.
The Free Traders IN England want
light import duty on foreign wheat.
THE mineral collection at Amherst
College was seriously damaged by a recent
fire.
FRANK NIEEsBAUM was fatally burned
in New York the night of the 30th by a
kerosene lamp explosion.
Two freight trains collided on the
goth on the s., c. & W. L. Railroad at Fay
cite Junction, o. An engineer is reported
killed and q fireman injured.
SEVERAL heavy failures are reported
in the cotton trade at Liverpool.
CHARLES G. MCCANN, a Camden, n.
j., mail carrier, convicted of stealing post
age stamps, has been sentenced to pay
$1,000 or go to the State prison for a year.
ROBERT KERR, dissipated member
of a wealthy Scottish family, was burned
to crisp few days ago, at his home on
Oak River, Winnipeg. He was intoxi-
Gated.
dianapolis, was found dead in her room on
the SOth. She had quarreled with man
known as her husband, and committed sui
eide with laudanum.
Two men digging sand at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the SUth unearthed a pine
box containing skeleton. There is a dis
pute among citizens as to whether the re-
mains are those of a man who was muir
deted or one lynched.
NJ E BELL of Des Moines, Ia, has
been appointed Supervising Architect in
place of Hill, resigned.
THREE men were asphyxiated by foul
air in well at Kiefer & Stiefel's tannery
in Pittsburgh ON the morning of the 30th.
The Canadian Department of Agri-
culture has ordered the slaughter of all
focks of sheep for shipment in which cases
of scab are found.
The keeper of the Richmond (Va.)
morgue has been arrested, charged with