Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-22
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
AN electric tram car recently tested in
London, Eng. ran distance of four miles,
fulfilling the conditions claimed for it.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ended on the
1Uth was $269,000; for the corresponding
period last year, $144, 900.
THE President has been requested by
Secretary Lincoln to order a military court
to inquire into General Hazen's manage
ment of the Signal-serVice Bureau.
IN the English House of Lords on the
18th the Colonial Secretary opposed the idea
of using force against the Beers as being
calculated to create an African Ireland.
AT recent meeting of twenty-one
delegates representing the South Yorkshire
and Lancashire eng iron trades, it was
resolved to restrict the output Of finished
ron.
Two new breaks occurred in the Pan
Their Forest Levee, above Helena, Ark, on
the 9th, making four in all, and the whole
,aggregating two miles in length and five feet
in depth.
THE New Jersey Senate has passed,
almost unanimously, bill prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any form to
minors, under a penalty of twenty dollars
for each ofiense.
THE ice was rapidly breaking up at
Davenport and Dubuque, Iowa, on the
14th, owing to the mild weather. The in
dications were that the river at those points
would be clear in a few days.
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IT was reported in Washington the
other day that Secretary Folger was in very
poor health and that his physicians had or
dered him to go to the sea-shore in order to
receive the benefit of salt air.
THE National Cremation Association,
TO be operated on the cooperative plan, for
the purpose of disposing of the remains of
members after demise by cremation, has
been organized in Philadelphia, Pa.
IT was reported in Washington the
other day that Senator Edmunds would
only retain the place of President of the
Senate until next December, when he
would give way for Senator Anthony.
TIE homeopathic physicians of Mas
sachusettes petitioned the Legislature of
that State recently for the establishment of
an additional insane asylum, to be under
the control of their school of medicine.
DIR. EBEN TOURGEE, who sixteen
years ago founded the New England Con-
servatory Of Music, in Boston, Mass, now
the largest music school in the world, has
presented the institution to the Board of
Trustees.
The French Government was consid-
ering plans to provide work for the un-
employed on the 18th. 1t was again reported
that President Grevy was about to resign.
Also that Prince Napoleon was cognizant OF
Socialist doings.
THE river declined slowly at Helena
on the 18th and the levees there still held.
There were several hundred negro refugees
to care for. From Memphis and Arkansas
City the reports were encouraging and it
was claimed the worst was past.
PLANTING operations around Skip
with, Miss, were progressing rapidly ow-
ing to the fine weather on the 14th. The
river at Helena, Ark, was still declining at
The rate of two inches per day. 1t was de-
Clining steadily at Memphis also.
DOCUMENTS had arrived at Paris,
France, on the 18th, it was said, showing
that John Walsh, who was arrested at
Havre at the instance of the British Gov
eminent, was not in Dublin at the time
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WRECKERs at the hull of the Cimbria,
recently sunk by collision in the German
ocean, found the cabin entrances blocked by
compact masses of bodies. To save the
cargo three decks would have to be re-
moved by explosions, and explosions would
shatter the four hundred corpses in the
hold. EH
AsUIT for $50, 900 damages has been
Drought by Colonel Thomas Worthington,
OF Cincinnati, o., against Third Auditor
Keightey, of the Treasury Department, fol-
alleged stateme nts contained in official re-
ports that tended TO defeat the PLAINTIFF:
claim for pay for supplies furnished Camp
Dennison, o., during the war of the rebel.
lion.
FRINGE GORTSCHAkOFF, With whose
career the history of Russia the past quarter
OF a century has been intimately linked died
at Baden Baden a few days ago, in the
eighty-ffth year of his age, after having
been for more than sixty years in officia
employment, beginning as legation attachC
and ending as Chancellor of the Russian
Empire.
PATRICK EGAN, Treasurer of the Irisf
Land League, arrived in New York few
days ago. He denied in specific terms TIT
assertion that his departure from DubliI
was caused by fear that he would be con
nected in any way with the ass estimation
league, but said he came to America on
commercial errand and incidently to assis
Sheridan in the extradition proceeding:
pending against him.