Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-29
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IT IS SAID the only coin OF the United
States that strictly conforms to the law is the
$50 gold piece. Other coins either lack
something prescribed or bear some device
Unauthorized by law.
TIE Exchange Bank, of Denver, Colo,
after several days OF a heavy run ciosed Its
doors recently aud Receiver was appointed.
The liabilities were said to be $500, 900, With
assets Of 800, 600.
MONTANA stockmen reported lately
that their herds had wintered unusually
well, the losses not exceeding FIVE per cent.
Grass was coming up finely, and there was
every reason to expect favorable season.
A CHILD of five years old who was bitten
by dog at Sioux City, Iowa, died of hy-
drOphobia few days ago.
THE New Jersey Fire Insurance Com
pany, of New York, after an existence Of
half century, has retired from business.
THE Tennessee Legislature has passed
bill pensioning all Confederate soldiers Of
that State who lost an eye during the late
war, and also to Federal soldiers not pen
stoned by the United States Government.
The capital punishment bill recently
passed by the Maine Legislature failed to
specify a mode of execution, and is there
fore imperative.
THE other day William Thornton, a
farmer of Gibson County, Ind, became en-
ragged at his horse because it baked, when
he grabbed knife and cut the horses tongue
out. Thornton was sent to Jail in default Of
5000 bail. .
AT Manteno, H., the other morning
an old couple named MetteI were found
dead in their room. having been suffocated
with gas from stove. Three young men,
sleeping in room above, were resuscitated
with difficulty.
AN eleven-year-oldb boy named CHARLES
Moore, of Davenport. Iowa, fell from
haystsck, twenty five feet high, upon which
he was playing the other evening, striking
the ground head foremost, and died few
hours GfterWard.
IT is estimated that the Canadian
Government has been defrauded out of
nearly 81 100000 by eYasions Of customs du-
ties at Montreal.
JAMES MERIT & Co., of Pierson,
Mich, have been declared by the Post-offiee
Department to be engaged in fraudulent ad-
vertising, and the Postmaster at PiersOn
has been directed to discontinue the deliY-
cry to that firm of registered letters or
money orders.
DUKES, the Pennsylvania Assembly
man who was acquitted on trial for the
killing of Mutt, has not occupied his seat at
any time during the session, and a resolu-
ton has been adopted not to admit him till
the report of an investigating committee was
received.
w. H. CRANE, Register of the Land
Office at Susanville, Cal, has been arrested
on charges of forging settlers receipts. w.
NJ Stewart, clerk in the Cincinnati CO.,
Post office, hasbeen arrested on charges Of
opening letters.
A LARGE employer in Birkenhead,
Eng, has discharged all his Irish work.
men, declaring he would no longer disgrace
himself by paying people who harbor as
sassins.
INJURIES received by Queen Victoria
recently in slipping on stairway were re-
ported serious on the 21St.
THE river was reported nearly within
| its banks in the Helena neighborhood on
| the Dist. Flood trouble had broken out at
Halifax, n. S. A thaw and rain caused dis
astroUs freshets.
The Government counsel will under
take to prove that the Armagh Assassination
| Society was established by one Burns who
went from America for the purpose.
New York's Aldermen have granted
! the Governors Room for the reception Of
John Howard Payne's remains, and the
| New York Press Club would escort them
! from the ship.