Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-07-12

PHILLIPSBURG HERALD.
PUBLISHED BIZ
Herald Publishing Association.
PHILLIPSBURG. KANSAS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
: QUARTERMAsTER-GEN INGALLS,,
who has been in the United States service
forty years, has asked to be retired July l.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN was given a
farewell banquet in London the other even
ing by two hundred representative English
men.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided the Downing high-Hcense bill con-
stitutional and applicable to the city of st.
Louis.
A STATUE of ex-President Taylor, exc
cuted at Carrara, Italy, has arrived in
Louisville, KY, and will soon be unveiled
in the cemetery at that city.
SIX HUNDRED and eighty Mormon
converts arrived in New York on the 1st.
They came from England, Denmark,
Sweden, Wales and Norway.
Up to the 4th inst. the Internal Rev
enue Bureau at Washington had received
claims for 100000 for rebate of taxes
paid on tobacco, snuff and cigars.
THE death list on the 4th included
Bishop Johh McMullen, Of the Catholic do
cese:of Davenport, Iowa, and Bishop Pink
ney, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Maryland.
CHICAGO, anxious to be ahead of the
rest of the world, sends out word that
Heaven itself, with it's artillery and electric
display, assisted in the observation of the
Fourth there.
THERE were one hundred and forty
deaths from cholera at Damieta, Egypt, on
the ID, fourteen at Mansurat and five at
Port Said. A death at Alexandria was
suspected to be from cholera.
The President has modified his origi-
nal order recognizing the internal revenue
collection service. The most important
modification concerns Kentucky, that
State being allowed one more district.
DENNIS KEARNEY was in Chicago the
other day to attend the anti-monopoly con.
vention. He made the assertion that me-
chanics' wages had doubled in California
since the passage of the anti-C Chinese bill.
THE day we celebrate was duly OBJ
served in London, Eng. Minister Lowell
gave reception. There was also recep
tion at the American Legation. The day
was also celebrated in the City of Mexico.
STATEMENTS were made in the British
House of Lords and the Commons on the
I'd that England does not intend to SCOOP
in New Guinea. Among the reasons as
signed was the objection of the natives tt
annexation.
AFTER a three years fight in tn,
courts, the parties who had refused to pay
special tax bills for opening streets in st
Louis, Mo-, the other day gave it up, ant
satisfaction of Judgment was entered il
sixteen cases.
THE Interior Department at Wash
ington has decided concerning the pension
law that "total permanent helplessness'
means permanent injury, requiring tn
regular personal attendance and aid o
another person"
A MONTHS festivities on the thre
hundred and thirty-third anniversary @
l,a fret IF off,
of Santa Fe, N. M, and the American cor
tinent opened at Santa Fe on the I'd unde
the most flattering auspices.
ANOTHER terrible calamity has bee
reported from Europe-the drowning {
over a hundred and fifty persons in tn
River Clyde. The new steamship Daphn
was being launched at Glasgow on the 81
when she capsized with the above result.
BY the shutting down of the glas:
ware manufactures at Wheeling, w. Va
and vicinity, which occurred on the 3Otl
twelve hundred men, two thousand boy
and eight hundred girls were thrown out
work. The shutdown was for six week
A TORNADO swept over Ozauke
County, Wis, on the morning of the q
almost completely wiping out a number
small villages. Over two hundred house
were demolished in Belgium and Fredoni
alone, while many other towns suffere
nearly as badly.
THE Richmond (Va.) editors fougl
at six O'Clock on the morning of the S0tl
near Wayesboro, Va. The weapons weI
Colts six-shooters at eight PAGES. At tt
first fire neither was hurt. At the seconC
Elam fell with a bullet in his right bill