Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
Personal AND GENERAL.


Friend Humphreys Sons, leather dealers,
New York, who failed recently, showed the
liabilities to be $445, 097; actual assets, $780,,
442.
ISAAC LEHMAN, awell-knOwn Bleek-
er street manufacturer, had mysteriously
disappeared from New York on the ID and
was being anxiously sought by his rela-
tives.
THE baseball season was opened at
st. Louis, Mo-, on the 1st by a game be-
tween the st. Louis Club and the Grand
Avenues.
BIsMARCK's sixty-eighth birthday was
celebrated at Berlin, Germany, on the LIST in
grand style.
ALFRED DE LACOUR, a well-knOwn
writer of plays and ballads, died at Paris,
France, few days ago.
IT is reported from Washington that
the Government will soon establish an ex-
detrimental farm near that city to ascertain
the causes of epidemic diseases among
cattle.
THE Rev. Isaac L. Nicholson, D. D.,
of Philadelphia, Pa, who was elected to
the bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention early last
month, has declined the Office.
The amount RENTED to Germany
from the United States for the relief of suf-
ferers by the Rhine floods up to the ID inst.
was $152, 1915.
BY majority of one the United States
Supreme Court on the ID reversed the de-
cision of the Missouri Supreme Court in
the celebrated Kring case, and the pris-
oner will escape the gallows to which he
has hee0 81 often pOOdemOad
The residence of the heirs of the late
Philip Verplanck, whose estate suffered
heavily through the late Judge Taylor's
mismanagement, was burned the other
morning by an incendiary. Loss, $4,000.
A DISPATCH from Lordsburg, N. NJ,
on the ID said no news had been received
from Captain Black and his company, who
were in pursuit of raiding Indians, and it
was feared they had been ambushed and
annihilated.
A FIRE broke out in Cate street, Mon
treal, Cana, few doors from the Theater
Royal, the other evening, and before it
could be extinguished 100000 damage had
been done.
THE Atchafalaya River, in Louisiana,
continued to rise on the I'd. A portion of
the Pacific railroad track had been flooded,
and many plantations were submerged.
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Navy Department changing the title of
the grade of master to that of lieutenant,
and the title of midshapman to ensign.
HIRAM SIBLEY & Co., New York, the
other day forwarded 10000 packages of Sc
lected garden seed to the sufferers by the
late tornado at Grinnell, Iowa.
SECRETARY CHANDLER expects to have
all the naval construction authorized by
the last Congress completed in fifteen
months.
The firm of R. & G. Degener, New
York, in the West coast South American
trade, has suspended, with liabilities re-
ported at 100000; assets, $65O,000. One
cause of the failure was attributed to the
impossibility of shipping various products
on account of the revolution in Ecuador.
MUNICIPAL elections were held
throughout several States on the Sd, the re-
suits of which were generally determined
by local issues.
ALL the Apaches had been hunted
out of Sonora, Mex, into Arizona and New
Mexico, on the 3D.. The Indians were said
to number about two hundred. Generals
Crook and Carlo would cooperate in the
campaign against them.
JOHN LEONARD and Johh Murphy,
both of Salem, o., stepped off a train at
Alliance Junction upon a parallel track
the other morning, and were struck by
another train and killed.
RECEIVER Brown has made a state
ment to the stockholders and creditors of
Brown, BonneI & Co., of Youngstown, O..
showing the total assets to be 81 ,917 Jos;
total liabilities, $1,39O,715.
A PARTY of Yale students, who at
tempted to create a disturbance at an anna
teur dramatic performance in New Haven
the other night, were roughly used by town
boys, who did not regard the privileges of
intellect.
FIVE men have been placed on trial
at Rome, Italy, for attempting the life of
Coccopelier, the noted Socialist member of
the Chamber.
EIGHT buildings were destroyed by fire
at Williamsport, Pa, on the Sd, causing
loss of 900.
FIRE the other day destroyed the large
leather board mills and outbuiIdings at
Leominster, Conn.,, involving loss of $780,
600, and four million feet of lumber near
Eland, Wis, valued at $4,000.
The banking house of G. II. Coy &
Co., formerly the Commercial National
Bank, of Cleveland, o., closed its doors the
other afternoon and made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities
were stated at 100000, with assets about
the same amount. The house was one of
the oldest banking-houses in that city.
LOUISA WARDNER EvARTs, daughter
of ex-Secretary Evarts, and DR.. Charles D.
Scudder were married on the Sd inst. in
New York.
RELIGIOUS riots between Buddhists
and Catholics in Ceylou recently were
quelled only by the troops. Many people
were injured.
JOSEPH GLENN, a young dry goods
clerk, was shot twice through the head and
instantly killed at St.Louis the other night,
it was said by Albert Wing, a commercial
man from Owensboro, KY. Jealousy was
the alleged cause of the tragedy. The shoot
inc occurred at the house of Mrs PRETTY