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

THIRTEEN buildings We. re burned in
the business portion of Nil IS City, NJ. T. or
the night of the 22d. The flames were
checked by blowing una building in the
track of the fire.
A HEAVY snow was reported in Yer
mont on the 24tll.
THE members of the Corean Embassy
sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong
on TIE Ath.
The Government paid $19, 234, 800 for
mail transportation last year.
PRosPECTs of war between France
and China seem to grow stronger.
THE annual Convention of Fire En-
gineers met in New Orleans on the oath.
GENERAL CROOK again reports the
Chiricahuas on their way to the resvera-
ton.
THE hardest northeast gale known in
years was reported raging on the New
England coast on the oath.
The police in New York raided ten
policy shops on the oath, arrested the pro-
prietors and closed the establishments.
IT is stated that the Commercial Bank
of Reading, Pa, is to be placed in iquida-
ton. Depositors viii probably be paid in
full.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, a petition
was recently presented to the City Council
for a cable railway, with five cents fare,
from Jordan River to Fort Douglas.
The Bundesrath has decided to pro-
long the state of siege in Berlin and Ham
burg under the Socialist law.
ALBEIT, the Democratic nominee for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in Massachusetts,, has
declined to make the race.
TIE GeOdetic Association at Rome
recommends the universal adoption of the
Greenwich meridian as time standard.
DANIEL B. VERMILYE has been ar
rested in Chicago, charged with embezzle-
ment of $183,OO from the Weems Stone and
Marble Company of that city.
A MASSACHUSETTS workhouse con-
vict some time ago was dissatisfied with
his treatment and set fire to the buildings.
He has been transferred tothe Penitentiary
for twenty years.
The wholesale clothing house Of
Stern, Trautman & Co., Philadelphia, has
failed for $4,000.
BALTIMORE polled 1854 votes at the
city election on the 23d. The regular Dem
ocratic ticket was successful.
The National Board of Steam Engi-
neers are taking steps to have Congress re-
wise the navigation laws.3
BILLY PORTER, the burglar, has been
locked up charged with shooting Walsh
in New York at the time Walsh and Irving
were reported as having killed each other.
THE Society of the Army Of the Cum
| berIand met at Cincinnati OH the oath.
Two strangers went to the house of
an aged couple near Clinton Falls, Ind, on
the night of the 23d and knocked both
down with clubs iuficting fatal inju-
ries. They plundered the house, securing
SO, and left.
A VIENNA dispatch Of the 24th says
the Car Of Russia has decided to grant
Russia more freedom and such reforms as
! are suitable to the spirit of the people. He
has intrusted to Count Tolstoi and Count
KatjOf the task of preparing a constitu-
ton.
DIR. LEONARD D. GALE, an old and
well-known scientist, died at Washington
on the 23d. He assisted Prof. Morse in
building the first telegraph line between
| Washington and Baltimore.
AMONG the cases recently docketed in
the U. S. Supreme Court is the City of New
Orleans VS.. Myra Clark Gaines. The record
in the case is the largest ever submitted to
the Supreme Court or probably any other
court. 1t is bound in one Immense volume,
which weighs over 200 pounds and contains
| 5000, 900 words. 1t takes two men to open
and shut the book.
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