Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Portsmouth, n. H., on the 10Th.
A BOSTON elevator fell on the 10Th,
with three persons, two being fatally hurt,
but the elevator boy few through a door
and escaped injury.
Two freight trains on the New York
& New England Road collided near VIII
fanatic, Conn, on the 18th, wrecking two
engines and eleven cars of merchandise.
FRENCH reinforcements for General
Bonet in Tonquin were ordered on the 18th
to hasten their departure.
STANDARD dollars issued for the week
ending September 10. $3.50, 1888, against $685.
600 the same.week last year.
Two men convicted of participation
in the massacres after the evacuation by
Arab Pasha were hung in Alexandria on
the 18th.
MARQUIS TSENG is disappointed that
France does not submit proposal on the
Chinese question.
GENERAL ANDREW HICKENLOOPER,
of Cincinnati, has sued the NelcS-JOuT1GL
Company for $1OO,OOO damages.
THE Massachusetts Emigrant Board
reports that the most unpromising immi-
grants now come through Canada.
A HALIFAX IN. s. dispatch of the
18th says the bark Britannia was lost on
Sable Island and the Captains wife, three
children and eight of the crew were
drowned, including the first and second
mates. The Captain and remaining three
seamen arrived in Newfeld. The survivors
were three days on the wreck when res
cued.
JUNIUs BRUTUs BOOTH died at Man
81
AT Columbus, o., on the 18th, an
unknown young man, who said he was on
his way from Indianapolis to Dayton, was
run over by the cars and killed. There
was nothing on his person by which to
identify him.
THERE were four new cases of yell
low fever and three deaths at the Pensacola
Navy Yard on the 18th. The city contin-
ued healthy.
THERE was a light frost in Iowa and
portions of Kansas on the night of the
10Th.
THREE men entered the house of
Washington Odell near Ridgeway, Va, on
the 18th, shot Odell and threatened to kill
his wife if she did not give up the money.
She refused and the men forcibly took
$4,000.
The United States ship Powhattan
has been ordered to remain at st. Johns
until it is determined what course to pursue
regarding the Greedy relief expedition.
WATCHdAN COFFEE, who told the
story of a suspicious man he saw in the
Rose Amber murder case in Connecticut,
recently received an anonymous note of
warning from Hartford.
AT Ashland, o., on the morning of
the 18th, freight train ran into another
freight, smashing locomotive, telescoping
a cabOose and demolishing a car and kill
ing lot of fine blooded cattle just from
Scotland and on their way to Kansas.
LATEST returns from the agricultural
districts in England show a large increase
in the foot and mouth disease among
cattle.
EMPEROR WILLIAM attended a ban
quet given at Meresburg on the 18th, in
honor of the foreign military officers.
THOMAS POWER O'CoNNOR addressed
fifty thousand people at the National Land
League meeting at Carrick-on-Shannon on
the 10Th.
RUIZ GORILLA says if the constitution
of 1869 be re-established in Spain he will re-
nounce all revolutionary designs and rely
on legal action for a Republic.
In August 3,324,711 tons of anthra-
cite coal were carried to market.
A BOX of dynamite was recently dis
covered in one of the Sultan's palaces.
KING COFFEE KALCALLI of Ashantee
was recently defeated in a great battle.
CONSTRUCTION contracts for the
Florida ship canal are to be let immedi.
ately.
MARQUIS TsENG had a conference
with Jules Ferry, President of the French
Cabinet, on the 18th.
ABRAHAM WACH and Edward Wal
lace, fancy goods dealers, New York, failed
on the 18th for over 100000.
KAvANAGH and the other Phoenix
Park informers have been shipped back
from Australia to Europe.
MCDERMoTT, the Irish-American
charged with completely in the Liverpool
dynamite plots, has been discharged.
MOsHER, the man who murdered
a teamster near Cheyenne a few days ago,
was lynched on the 18th.
A sCAFFOLD gave way with five men
at work on barn belonging to August Bel
mont, at Babylon, L. l., ON the 18th. Two
were fatally injured.
REV. JAMES KEMLO. of Newark, n.
81, stabbed his wife, cut his own throat and
jumped out of q fourth-story window on
the 18th Both were still living.
CAPT. HARNA and two seamen of the
foundered barge Oakland were picked up
on Lake Erie on the 18th, having been in
the water more than twenty four hours.
THE wife of Prince Bisnaarck was re-
ported seriously i'll at Gastien on the 18th.
E. H. STILES, of Ottumwa, has been
nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth
Congressional District of Iowa to I'LL the
unexpired term of NJ. E. Cults, deceased.
THE Spanish Government has pub
lished an order raising the direct taxes in
Cuba fifty per cent.
DURING the firemen's parade at Pat
erson, N. J., on the 18th R. s. H. Adams
silk and cotton mills were destroyed by fire.
Loss 81, 900; fully insured.
NEW YORK had a fire on the evening