Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

airy is estimated at 81, 500, 900.
ANOTHER raid upon the Chicago &
Evanston Road was made at Chicago. Ill.,,
the other night by enraged property owners.
who tore up about five hundred feet of
track.
The tobacco factory of Myers Broth
ers q Co. at Lynchburg, Va, worth SI2U,-
600, was destroyed by fire few days ago.
JOHN H. GRAHAM, of the wool firm
of E. H. Whitney & Co., of Chicago, H.,
ostensibly started for Wisconsin recently to
make purchases with 5000, but instead
went to New York, where he was over
hauled by Doane Whitney and forced to
settle.
AN earthquake startled the citizens
Of Norwich, Conn, the other evening, and
was followed by brilliant meteor.
BAVIER BROTHERS, silk merchants
of Lyons, France, have failed for $5OO,O
AT Rome, Italy, paper bombs charged
with powder were the other day thrown
into the courtyard OF the residence of the
Austrian Minister, before the Austrian EN-
bassy, and in front of the royal palace of
the QuirinaI.
THE brewers of New York have as
certained recently that $4,000 worth of
barrels have been annually stolen and sold
outside the city by the collision OF drivers
and coOpers.
The recent elections in Ontario,
Cana, resulted in victory for the NIowat re-
form administration.
S. II. Fox & Co., of Oneida County,
N. Y, the largest glass manufacturing firm
in that State, have made an assignment.
Liabilities, $3.50, 600.
THREE passengers were killed out
right and three others badly hurt by the
ditching of a train on the Oregon Short
Line, twenty-five miles east of Neosho
Junction, Utah, recently. The cars were
badly wrecked.
LOUIS P. CARMAN, ex-Secretary of
the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company,
had been missing from New York several
days on the 28th, when his accounts were
found to be $4,000 short.
A PARTY of ranchmen surprised an
Indian camp near chihuahua, Mex, the
other day and captured twenty five squaws
and killed ten bucks.
ROBERT u. Cook, the Jersey City IN.
j. Savings Bank embezzIer, has been sem
fenced to five years in the States Prison.
AAAeAAGS 5tAA4OFOLS C-AC1cLuROO GlOOuG
fifteen shots on the streets of Salt Lake,
Utah, the other day, in settlement of some
trouble originating in gambling house in
that city, and one Of the trio was seriously
wounded.
F. j. FRIED, formerly an extensive
lumber merchant at Oakland, Nebr has alb.
seconded, leaving unpaid liabilities to the
amount OF $4,000.
The five train robbers arrested re-
Gently, after desperate battle, for an at
tempt to rob Union Pacific train near Salt
Lake, Utah, have been sentenced to the
Penitentiary, Nay. Hawley and Francis for
fourteen and Earl and jackson for twelve
years.
E. A. SHANNON, who had recently cut
quite swell in Dallas (Tex.) society, has
been arrested and taken to Waco, where he
was wanted on a charge OF theft.
AT Lawrence, Mass, Charles II. Cate
fatally shot Mrs. Nj. S. Anderson the other
day and then killed himself.
THE property of Brown, Bonneu &
Co. at Youngstown, o., was released from
seizure on the 1st, and arrangements were
made to light the fires soon.
THE Receiver of a bankrupt Savings
Bank at New Haven, Ccan., has been adj
vised by letter signed ''Justice' to pay
ten per cent. dividend or see his grave
within six weeks.
A SNEAK thief stole $1,000 worth of
bonds from the Guarantee Trust Deposit
Company of Philadelphia on the ID.
THE Canadian Pacific syndicate has
proposed to assist 10000 of the destitute
Irish to emigrate to the Northwest.
SING LUM, o Chinese murderer I'M
der sentence of death in San Francisco, CAL,
got ahead of the hangman on the I'd by COM
hitting suicide.
A NEW disease among horses has be-
come epidemic in the lumber camps of Mich
igan. It resembles CHAMBERS.
The Bank of England discount rate
has been reduced to three per cent.
A JURY at Buffalo, n. Y, has given
the Lake Shore Road a judgment against
Erie County for s., 900 for the burning of a
passenger car by a mob in the riots of 1877.
HANK MONK, the Nevada stage driver,
has gone to Join Horace Greeley, who gave
him a national reputation as a dare devil on
the mountain slopes.
MASKED burglars robbed the houses
OF Farmers blXler ana Wuenoacn, near
Strasburg, o., recently, by gagging and
binding the daughter in each house and
making her tell where the valuables and
money were kept. They got several thou
sand dollars in the first and 81 600 in the
second.
A GENERAL suspension of the Pitts
burgh, Pa, glass factories was threatened
on the I'd.