Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

HgnI at COney 1SIanQ recently.
Emigration from Canada to New Eng
land factory towns is increasing.
An ice gorge in the Penobscot at Bangor,
Me-, broke, carrying out 100000 feet OF
logs
Sorakichi, the japanese wrestler, defeat
ed Andre Christol at Cleveland in a mixed
match.
THE Governor of Louisiana has issued
his usual quarantine proclamation taking
effect May LIST.
Harper's rolling mill, at Newport, KY, is
forced to shut down on account Of a strike
of coal beavers.
It is believed that cotton crop can yet
be raised in some portions of Louisiana, de-
spite the floods.
Corpus Christi has organized special san
itary measures on account of the prevalence
Of malarial fever.
The U. S. dispatch boat Dolphin, has
been successfully launched from ROach's
yard in Chester, Pa.
The heirs at law of Mrs Valeria g. Stone,
who left $250,O0O to charitable institutions,
will contest the will.
1t is expected that the Washington mon
ument will be completed by Nov. LIST, 1884,
or early in the Su MINER of1885.
Exports of cattle, hogs, beef, pork and
dairy products last month were only about
half as great as in March, 1888.
A convention of cattle dealers will be
held in st. Louis, Nov. II, for the purpose
of forming a National association.
Sheriff Davidson, of New York, charged
with eXtortion and receiving money under
false pretenses, has been acquitted.
Another Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany has been formed in New York to con-
gtruct lines throughout the country.
Members of the Moulders' Union at Troy,
n. Y, have accepted twenty per cent. re-
duction. This affects about 1900 men.
All the employees on the Toledo, Cincin-
natl & St. Louis road, except conductors
and engineers, have struck because of I'M
paid wages.
According to returns of the Department
of Agriculture the Winter wheat area this
year will exceed that of 1880 by 100000
acres.
Pending legislation no new settlers will
be allowed to occupy land in Ft. Smith res
ervatiOn, but those already there may re-
main.
DR.. Daniel Clarke, whose death was re-
ported at Flint, Michigan, possessed one of
the finest private collections of plants in
the United States.
The Butler county corn sold in Cincin-
natl for 81 900. The Relief Committee will
now close up it's business and decline to re-
ceive any more contributions.
A delegation of Usage Indians persuaded
the Secretrry OF the Interior to recommend
that their tribe be excepted from the bill to
allot Indian lands in seVeTalty.
The Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia decided that there is no appeal from
a decision of the Commissioner of Patents
to to the Secretary OF the Interior.
About 8, 500 cattle were received at the
Chicago stock yards, April 18th, the largest
for any day this year, and prices dropped
10 to 20 cents per hundred pounds.
The Erie and Pittsburgh railroad having
been advertised for sale by the Sheriff, the
officers made desperate effort and raised
1915 with which to pay the claim.
The anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of independence was celebrated
by 10000 colored folks in Washington city
April 18TH The military display was ex-
ceedingly Creditable.
The Supreme Court of the United States
mas affirmed the decree of the lower court,
with the costs in the suits, involving the
title to the famous Morgan mine in Cal
everas county, California.
Owing to the belief that another Cuban
flhbuster expedition had been organized at
Key West, Florida, the United States
steamer Tennessee is watching that harbOr,
ready to pounce upon any suspicious look
ing craft.
A floating paragraph about the sale of
relics from the scaffold on which Osawato-
ME Brown was hanged calls out a state
ment that the original structure was demol-
ished and carried off piece-meal by General
Patterson's command in the latter part of
July, 1861.
The youngest daughter of Ex-Governor
Foster, of Ohio, was recently married to
his private secretary, Fred, d. MISSY. He
was sixteen years older than his bride, and
their unhappy relations had led to a final
separation, the lady returning to her pa
rents at Fostoria.
The Secretary of the Interior has request
ed the Attorney General to direct the
United States Marshal of the Western Dis
triCt of Arkansas to permit all persons of
of land within the Fort Smith Reservation,
to remain pending legislation, but to per
NIT no further settlement.
The First Comptroller OF the Treasury
has made decision in effect that where a
liquor dealer, who sells at one time differ
ent kinds of liquor to the amount of five
gallons, is to be considered a wholesale
dealer. IhlS acuOn reVerSeS the runug on
this question made by Judge Brown, of the
Eastern District of Michigan.
The entire Easter services at Trinity
Methodist Church, Chicago, were conduct
ed by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, even to
lining the hymns for the vast congregation.
At the Church of the Ascension Rev. Ar
thur Ritchie celebrated mass at six differ
ent periods of the morning, every availa-
BILE foot of space being filed by spectators.
rob hichnp Eaoharo aalahrofad IDOL
mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name.
The statement prepared by the Postofhce
Department shows that while the revenue
for the quarter ending March S1st was less
than that of the corresponding quarter OF
the preceding year, the issue of the two
cent stamps exceeded by tWenty-seven pei
cent. of the combined issue of the two and