Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-25
Published by HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN Belief.
THE police recently closed a Jesuit
Church at Lemberg, Germany.
THE Quebec, Cana, Legislature
opened Its session on the 18th.
TIE President has signed tlAe Pendle-
ton Ciyil-service bill and it is. now law
of the land.
1T was reported lately tn It the Lehigh
Valley Railroad had carried 1886, al tons
oticOal last year.
SENATOR HOAX WAS reelected United
States Senator by the, Massachusetts Legis-
lature on the 18th.
The Italian Financial Commission
lately decided that specie payment should
be commenced in April.
OVER $4,000 had been subscribed at
Providence, R. l., recently for an equestrian
statue of General Burnside.
KING OSCAR opened the Swedish
Rigsdag on the 18th. The budget showed a
surplus of 1,7OO,O 900 crowns.
THE Boston CMass.) Historical Socie-
ty celebrated the 101st anniversary of the
birth Of Daniel Webster on the 18th.
THERE were PIT business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 262 for the pre-
ViOus seven days.
JOHN WELLEs HALLENBECK, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently presented Lafayette
College with a second $50, 900 to endoW the
chair of President.
A PROSPECTING expedition which
went to the upper waters of the Yukon
River in Alaska recently discovered gravel
deposits averaging $3.50 to the pan.
THE Illinois Legislature elected Shelby
NJ. CullOm United States Senator on the
nth and the North Carolina Legislature
reelected Senator Ransom on the same
day.
SEVERAL State Legislatures began
balloting for United States Senators on the
10th. Frye was reelected in Maine. Also,
Harris in Tennessee and Garland in Arkan-
sas.
IT was reported from Washington re-
Gently that the report of the Jeanette Board
would not be completed till the rest of the
wrecked crew returned from Siberia in
March.
GEORGE DARWIN, son of the late
Charles R. Darwin, the evO!utionist, has
!
Experimental Philosophy in Cambridge
University, England.
THE rubber manufacturers of the
United States, recently reported as about to
form a combination, met at New York the
other day but failed to unite or plan to
control the gum trade.
A SUSPENSION of three days per week
was reported to have taken place in all the
cOllieries of the Wilkesbarre, Pa, district
on the 18th. 1t was thought the suspension
would last until March.
THE Oxford Iron Works at Belvidere,
N. j., which had been idle for some time
past, were the other day reOpened by new
company. The works, it was said, employed
several hundred hands.
| In the suit of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company against the United States.
| judgment for plaintiff for $S3, 1873 was rem
| dered by the District Court of Claims at
| Washington the other day.
WILLIAM GoUvERNEUR MORRIS, Col
| lector of Customs at Sitka, recently stated
| that last season a small force Of men made
over $3.50, 900 by surface digging on the
mountain sides in Alaska.
AT the Republican Legislative caucus
held at Topeka, Kans., the other afternoon
TO nominate United States Senator, Pres.
| ton B. Plumb received the unanimous vote
of the caucus on the first rolI-call.
IT was said lately that Japan was
about to adopt the American system of rail-
road building, and had organized union
steamship company, with a capital Of
S., 900, 600, TO develop the trade of the EN-
pire.
STRAGGLING bands of Indians, en-
route from San Carlos reservation to join
Ju in Sonora, were seen frequently neal
Tombstone, Arizona. The Governor o.
Sonora the other day ordered out large
force of troops to intercept the hostiles.
A MANIFESTO issued by Prince Napo-
leon was published by the Paris (France)
Figaro the other day and also placarded OF
the streets. The Prince was arrested anC
the newspaper seized. The Prince said he
issued the proclamation because everything
was going wrong in France.
THE Smithsonian Institution at Wash.
ington, D. c., received last year SCI, 600 and
expended $37, 200. The Board of Regents
recently recommended that Congress vote
$500, 900 for new building in which to prop.
erly exhibit mineral, geological and Other
collections already on hand and increasing
every year.
IT was stated as remarkable fact g
few days ago that the roll of the House o.
Representatives at Washington had not beer
complete during the present session till the
other day, after the new member from In
diana was sworn in. The next day the roll
was again made incomplete by the death Of
Mr.. Shackelford, Of North Carolina.