Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| road track.
THE prohibition amendment in Ohio
is said to have been defeated by nearly co.
| 600 votes.
PROF. j. LAWRENCE SMITH, the dis
tinguished scientist, died at his residence
in Louisville KY, on the 18th, Of diabetes.
He was native of Charleston, S. c., born in
! 1918, and graduated at the University Of
Virginia.
Two deaf mutes were ordained priests
of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia on
the 18th.
RUSSIA is continually growing more
severe in her treatment of German subjects
on the frontier.
THIRTY-EIGHT delegates attended the
meeting of the International Socialist Con-
gress at Pittsburgh.
1T is reported that a syndicate has
been formed to purchase the Sioux lands
which it was proposed to throw open to the
public.
Rev. D. B. KNICKERBOCKER,Of Geth-
| semane P. E. Church, Minneapolis, was
consecrated Bishop of Indiana at Philadel-
phia on the 18th.
THE PAGER Johnston has been sold to
Commodore N. W. Kittson, of st. Paul, for
900. The horse lately paced a mile in
2:10 On the Chicago track.
The Central Labor Union of New
York advises the workingmen to form mil
itary organizations to defend their rights.
A PASSENGER train and coal train col
lided near Reading, Pa, on the 18th, smash
ing half dozen cars. Nobody hurt.
Mrs. LANGTRY landed in New York
on the evening of the 14th by the steamer
Oregon.
The Florida Press Association left
Jacksonville on the 10Th for the Louisville
Exposition.
CINCINNATI is making preparations
for the reception of the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland.
THE Black Flags are reported mass
ing and fight is expected when the French
reinforcements arrive.
THE Lyceum Theater, Philadelphia
belonging to John S. Clarke, the comedian,
has just passed under the control of j. H.
Haverly.
The United States Court has denied 81
motion to enjoin the City of New York
from collecting taxes assessed upon real
estate of the Manhattan Railway Com
pany.
The United States secured 147 prizes
at the fisheries exhibition in London.
IRVING BISHOP, the mind reader,
broke down completely in Dublin recently
and has congestion of the brain.
HYAMs Bros, wholesale clothiers,
New YORK and San Francisco, have sus-
pended. Liabilities, $25O,OO0.
The St. Petersburg hotel-keepers are
under instructions to strictly watch the
movements of foreign guests.
DRESS GOODS, valued at several thou
sand dollars, consigned to the Misses
Partridge, New York, were seized
on the 10Th by the New York customs au-
| thorities.
THE top of Grand Trunk locomo-
| tive blew off at Yarmouth, Me-, on the
10Th. 1t weighed a ton and landed a quar-
ter of mile away.
A FIERCE gale is reported on the
English coast. Among the vessels ashore
are two of Her Majesty's training ships.
THE Egyptian cholera investigation
develops the fact that the disease is propa-
gated by thread-like heterogeneous.
THE new Spanish Minister of War
does not expect to displace any Generals,
| but vacancies will be filed by friends of
| Marshal Serrano.
FORTY women were killed in panic
caused by false alarm of fire during serv-
| ice in a Jewish synagogue in Ziwonka,
Russia, on the 14th.
LINCOLN Posi-, G. A. R., visiting
Richmond, Va, from Newton, N. j., was
cordially welcomed on the 10th.
LORD CHIEF-J JUSTICE CoLERIDGE was
entertained in Philadelphia on the evening
of the 10th by the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
THE Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works
at Homestead, Pa, were sold on the 10Th
to Cornegie Bros, for s., 100000.
VIM. BUTTERdORE, q fireman, was
fatally injured at Buffalo on the 18th by an
accident on the n. Y, L. E. & W. Railroad.
JOHN CHISHOLM, of Newark, n. j.,
convicted of the murder of his wife, was
sentenced on the 10th to be hanged No
vember %.
THE Directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company met in New York on
the 10th and reelected the old board of Off
GERS.
PROF. A. w. HOFFMAN, of the Uni
versity of Berlin, was entertained in New
York on the evening of the 10th by the
American Society of Chemists.
TWELVE of the sufferers in a recent
railroad accident at Marshall, Tex, have
instituted suit against the railroad COM
pany for damages.
THE first Oyer and Terminer Grand
Jury called in New York since 1877 was
ordered in that city on the 18th to investi-
gate frauds on the city Treasury.
The Papal nuncio to France has been
instructed to observe s'rict neutrality be-
tween the political parties.
WILLIAM P. BRONSON, with his wife
and son, of New Haven, Conn, were on the
10th sentenced to Imprisonment for varying
terms for causing the death, by neglect, of
Carrie E. Gerden.
AT Brimsleben, Prussia, $50 persons
were reported on the 10th as suffering from
trichinosis. Several cases had proved
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