Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Carey, is set for the 10Th inst, but post
ponement will be asked by the defence.
AT Northboro, Mass, on the 9TH,
man named Brockton shot his wife and
himself. He is dead; the woman will re-
cover.
REPORTS from the cattle ranges in the
Indian Territory say the autumn round-ups
are progressing rapidly and with satisfac-
tory results.
AT Milwaukee, on the 9th, Albert
Estermann killed his wife with an iron bar
and disappeared, leaving note that he had
gone to hang himself.
The Northern Pacific stockholders
thorized the issue of $20,0OO,0O0 second
mortgage bonds.
AMBROSE DAGGETT worked for David
Greedy near Liberty, Me. He fell in love
with his employers daughter Ella. On the
9Th he killed the young lady and then blew
his own brains out. He was jealous of her.
ADMIRAL CoURBET, after consulting
the French commanders in Tonquin, has
concluded that an advance is impossible at
present.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 9TH says
Nihilist proclamations have been issued
solennly sentencing the Gar of Russia to
death because he has failed to grant liberty
to the people.
THE Catholic Diocese of Portland,
Maine and New Hampshire is to be divided
because of the increase of Catholic popula-
ton. New Hampshire will be called do
cese.
The National Association of Street
car Companies met in annual convention
in Chicago on the 9th.
BILL HENsLEY and Red Jack, two
outlaws, were killed by sheriff's posse,
near Wilcox, Arizona, on the Sth.
AT Macedoh, N. Y, on the 9Th, four
men were killed and seven injured by the
explosion of an old blast which they were
removing.
ELEVEN THOUSAND dollars was stolen
from the paymaster of the Mexican Ma
tional Railway in the station in the City of
Mexico on the night of the 7th by the pay
masters's servant.
GERMANY has prohibited the impOrta-
ton of hogs from Russia.
The Black Flags have reiterated from
several strategic points in Tonquin.
THE Spanish Cabinet is giving pro-
found study to its Paris correspondence.
SENATOR KELLOGG's counsel in the
Star-route case has asked that the trial be
set for an early day.
THREE new cases of yellow fever were
reported at the Pensacola Navy Yard on
the Sth, and three deaths at Ship Island.
EMILY MCTAVIsH, a granddaughter
of General Winfield Scout took the black
veil on the 7th at Baltimore convent.
THE French and American Claims
Commission made various awards against
the United States on the Sth.
The Swiss will protest against the
erection of military works by France in the
neutralized portion of Savoy.
EDWIN BUTT, a travelling salesman
for Chicago firm, cut his throat in a sleep
ing car at Bay City, Mich, on the 18th and
died in few hours.
CARDINAL MCCABE, of Dublin, asks
additional educational privileges for Cath
olics IN order to place them on a level with
other denominations.
S. r. CRUIBAUGH, United States Col
lector, Second Kentucky District, is charged
with using Government stamps and envel-
opes for private business.
JAY GOULD and Russell Sage are said
to have taken each 2,O0O, 900 in Northern
Pacific second mortgage bonds.
GEO. VIM. BALLOU & Co., who re-
Gently failed in New York, have resumed
business, their creditors being paid in full.
GENERAL DENT has asked to be
placed on the retired list December 1, un-
der the forty-year service provision.
THE Governor of Maryland has des-
ignated the 10th of November for the exc
cution of John Smith, colored, of Garrett
County, who killed Joseph Harden on the
18th of May.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA has broken out
in Lehigh County, Pa.
GENERAL CA9IPENON has been ap-
pointed French Minister of War.
THEY have discovered an immense
river hitherto unknown in Alaska.
The German Admiralty is perfecting
plans for more rapid mobilization of the
navy.
The Black Flags were badly deci-
mated by epidemics before they retreated
from Hanoi.
SAMUEL MCDANIEL was hanged on
the 9th at Fort Wayne, Ind, for the murder
of Louis Laurend.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9th,
Franklin Monroe shot tramp dead for
throwing stones at his house.
IT is reported that the French have
had a collision with regular Chinese troops
and defeated them.
UNITED STATES District Attorney
Milton of North Carolina denies the report
| that he has resigned.
THREE passenger cars were thrown
from the track and burned at Deux
Rivieres, Canada. Several passengers
were badly hurt.
JOHN S. LAxwELI., an Ohio man, has
been arrested in New York for trying to
have engravings made of photographs s.f
| treasury notes.
DAN GOULD, colored, was convicted
at Troy, n. Y, on the 9th of the murder of
/ William Carpenter and sentenced to be
| hanged October 20.
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