Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04

for the week ending September % was
1858, 400. Corresponding period last year,
1888, 49s.
CONGRATULATIONS kilograms were ex-
changed on the Dist by officials and coma
mercial bodies of the United States and
Brazil.
THE Crotian members of the Austrian
Reichsrath refuse to take their seats till
the constitutional rights of Croatia are re-
stored.
DURING the earthquake at Java the
sea suddenly subsidized fifteen feet at Co.
1ombo, Ceylon, but resumed its usual level
in half an hour.
The failures throughout the United
States and Canada for the week ending the
21st numbered 1S8, compared with 173 for
the previous week.
THE International Peace Association
has issued an address calling on the people
of France to resort to arbitration for settle
ment of the Chinese trouble.
JOHN L. WILLIAMS died at Degers-
town, Wis, on the ODD. He was son of
Eleazer Williams, who claimed to be the
son of Louis XVI. of France.
The National Convention of State
Insurance Commissioners at Columbus,
o., agreed not to try longer to establish
standard fire insurance policy.
Ex-Governor TALBOT, chairman of
the Massachusetts State Board of Health
and Charity, declines to deliver certain
books called for by Governor Butler.
SIEDENBACH, SCHwAB & Co., manu-
facturers and jobbers in clothing at 113
Grand Street, near Broadway, New York,
failed on the oath, with liabilities estimated
at 100000.
The New York Railroad Commits
sioners are investigating the reasons why
freight rates between New York and Sing
Sing should be the same as between New
York and Chicago.
BEFORE the Senate Labor Committee
on the oath Thos. D. Devereaux advocated
diversion of part of the money now spent
on military and naval schools to the
survey of Government lands.
The National Association of General
Baggage Agents in session at Chicago
demnation on the existing system of check
ing baggage at hotels and residences.
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The Secret Service Bureau of the
Treasury Department is informed of the
capture at Duluth, Mimi, of plates for the
printing of counterfeit $40 silver certifi-
Gates and $40 notes on the Bank of Mon
treal.
THERE was a terrible gale on the
lakes on the morning of the 25th. The
schooner York State, with seven men, was
lost on Lake Erie. Several other wrecks
are reported. In Buffalo great damage was
done to buildings.
SECRETARY CHANDLER on the 25th
directed the acceptance of the highest bids
for condemned vessels of the navy. These
bids amount in the aggregate to $30S, 273.
The appraised value of all the vessels was
$271, 800; excess of bids over appraised
value, $S6,978.
THE Navy Department has been in
formed that the Tennessee was only slightly
damaged by her recent accident. She will
probably be ordered into dry dock at New
York, however, as precautionary measure
before starting on her proposed cruise to
the West Indies.
The Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department has received from
Boston one of the five-dollar notes Of the
Irish Republic, previously reported in cir
culation here. 1t is said by the treasury
experts to be fair imitation of the United
States treasury notes.
TwENTY-sEvEN trunks and packages
of goods, valued at about $4,000 were
taken from the steamship Alaska at New
York on the oath by the customs authori
ties. They mainly belonged to dressmak
ers of the larger cities who have been sys
Dramatically defrauding the revenue.
A New YORK dispatch of the 26th
announced the arrival in that city of Thorn
as NJ. Knapp, of st. Louis, No., having il
charge the remains of his father, George
Knapp, who was senior proprietor of the
Missouri Republican, and who died at SEES
September Is while en- route from Antwerp
to New York. 1t was expected the re
mains would reach st. Louis the evening Of
the 2Sth. Mr.. Knapp, had he lived till the
18th, would have been seventy years of age
DR.. A B. MCCUNE, a prominent
physician and druggist of Council Bluffs
Ia, was shot and instantly killed on the
evening of the oath by DR.. E. D. Cross. The
murdered man was on his way home t.
supper when he met Cross. Some words
passed when, it is said, they came to blows
resulting in Cross drawing a revolver and
shooting McCune through the body. The
murderer gave himself up and is in jail
He claims the shooting was in self-defense