Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01


PHILLIPsBURG. KANSAS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE Marquis of Lansdowne was duly
sworn in as Governor-General of Canada
on the 23d.
IT is reported that oil has been dis
covered on the Island of Conanicut, off the
New England coast.
HAMILTON COUNTY, O., cast a vote of
6O,SS6 at the late election, of which only
S,4O2 were in favor of the Prohibitory
amendment.
LIEUTENANT WAND the French Off
Ger who told about the atrocities of the
French sailors at the taking Of Hue, has
been retired.
CARDINAL MANNING thinks the Pope
has shown much willingness to meet Bis
marck's advances, and that Bismarck is
anxious for a reconciliation.
SECRETARY FOLGER has made requi-
sition on the Civil Service Commission for
five men to fill 5000 clerkships which have
been usually filed by women.
THE Acknowledgement of Pennsylva-
mia has begun proceedings to compel the
Sinking Fund Commissioners to invest the
sinking fund in United States bonds.
THE cash reserve in the United States
Treasury on the 23d was $162,0O0,OOO, and
the Secretary is in quandary as to how to
reduce the reserve to 100000.
THOMAS BRENNAN and John Dillon,
leaders of the Irish reform movement, were
in Chicago on the oath, and proposed to de-
liver lectures throughout the country.
AT Chicago on the 23d a heavy track
prevented Jay Eye-See and Johnson from
making great records. The latter paced
three miles in 2:14, 2:15 IL and 2:15 3-4.
THE sum of $3.50, 900 has been sub
scribed by Bostonians in aid of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, to be
called the William Barton Rogers Fund.
THE Chinese Government is charged
with trying to evade the anti-immigration
laws by issuing traders and students GER
tificates to persons not entitled to them.
THE New York Board of Aldermen
want $40, 900 to celebrate the centennial Of
the departure of British troops from that
city, and ask the Mayor to proclaim holt
day.
The New York, Lackawanna & West
ern Railroad Company has absorbed the
Pennsylvania Company of the same name.
The new combination elected Gould di-
rectory.
GENERAL ROGER A. PRYOR says he is
satisfied O'Donnell killed Carey in self
defense; also that he will have fair trial,
and the most he can be convicted of is man
slaughter.
THE Paris Temps denies that the
French Government had arrived at any de-
cision regarding the amount of indemnity
to be paid Missionary Shaw, or the source
from which the money will be obtained.
DIR. G.. FAYETTE TAYLOR has OBJ
tanned Judgment for $4,000 against New
York elevated railway company for run
ming trains before house he had rented
for a hospital before the road was built.
The "Black Flags of Anam are
credited with cannibalistic practices, the
bodies of brave enemies being especially
esteemed as imparting an extra degree OF
courage and ferocitY to those who partake
The Huguenot Society of Americ q
held meeting in New Y FORK on the ODD anC
decided to hold three meetings yearly
April 10, August "a and October %. The
society will give grand dinner sometime
during the winter.
ROBERT MORRISON, of Pittsburg, Pa.
has sued the Commercial Gazette of tina
city for 100000 for announcing while h
was absent from the city that he had lef
for parts unknown with obligations to bust
ness patrons unsettled.
EMIL TRUMPITER, on trial in Cincin
natl for the killing of Anthony Delano, wa
convicted on the 22d of murder in the frs
degree. He was convicted of murder il
the second degree on a former occasion
but took the chances Of a new trial.
THE Abbey Metropolitan Opera
house was formally opened to the New
York public the night of the 22d, Nilsso
and other artists appearing in Faust. A
the Academy of Music Col. Mapleson'
troupe, with Gerster and fine support
was the attraction. Both houses wer
crowded.
LORD RosEMoRE, as Grand Maste
Orangeman of Monaghan, has written t
the newspapers calling attention to the Sc
rious state of affairs in Ulster. He say
that henceforth the self-restraint of Orange
men can not be reckoned upon; that onl
the utmost efforts of himself and othe
leaders have prevented Orangemen fro1
storm ing the hill at Roslea during the II
cent Parnell meeting. 'IIf the Govern
ment,' he adds, 'allows disloyal meeting
TO continue in Ulster, the result viii
bio odshed and perhaps civil war;"
THE report of the Commissioner {
Pensions for the fiscal wear ended June B