Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

It is estimated that the decrease of the
public debt for April is So, 100000.
The steamship Alert, OF the Greedy expe-
dition, has arrived at New York.
During the present session of Congress
6,85S bills have been introduced in the
House.
The next cardinal, according to London
journal, will be Archbishop Gibbons, of
Baltimore
Virgins claims the recent storms and
earthquake are the fulfllment of his proph-
ecies for March.
1t is reported that immensely rich car
Donate gold mines have been discovered
near Pixies Peak. d.
The steamer Grand Pacific struck a
bridge pier at Burlington, Ia, and sank in
twenty feet of water
1t is estimated that nearly twice as many
money order offices will be established in
1884 as in any preceding year.
Large quantities of whisky are being
shipped out of the country to avoid the
payment of the tax at the present time.
Chas. Friess, of Baltimore and his wife
and four sisters were stricken with trichin-
osis from eating pork, and the former died.
Machinery has been set in motion for an
investigation of all matters bearing on the
leasing and enclosing of lands in the Indian
Territory.
A large volume of clear and ice-cold wa
ter has commenced to pour forth from
macadamized road-bed in Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin.
Isaac McLain, of HilIsboro, Illinois, who
recently secured divorce from his young
wife, has married her mother, now 56 years
of age.
At a charivari at Anoka, Minnesota,
someone fired revolver to increase the
din, accidentally killing a boy named
Willie Gray.
The annual meeting ofthe American Sur
gIcal Association convened in the National
Museum at Washington April 30th, with
large attendance.
Mai. Harrod, OF the Mississippi river
Commission says 100000 will construct
a complete line of levees from Cairo to
New Orleans.
The women of Belleville, ILL.,, becoming
indignant at the laxness of the street clean
ing service, went at it and gave one street a
thorough scraping.
President Arthur has been invited to ac-
company the Army of the Potomac to the
battle-felds of Fredericksburg, Chancellors-
vile and the Wilderness.
Twelve loaded freight-cars on the Flint
and Pere Marquette road went through a
bridge over the Cass river, and were totally
wrecked, causing loss of $4,000.
A shad weing twenty six pounds was re-
Gently found in dry-dOCk at Chicago. IL
must be one Of those placed in the lake two
years ago by the Fish Commission.
Jay Gould denies that he has been assist
ing the bears in the market, and says he
has not sold a share of Missouri Pacific or
Western Union stock since he became di-
rector.
The disappearance of the schooner Win
field from one Of the Florida islands about
one hundred miles from Key West, leads
to the belief that another party of filEbus-
tiers has crossed over TO Cuba.
English capitalists are said to have
offered Trinity church, New York, S., 000,,
coo for its block on Broadway, opposite
Wall steeet, with the intention to erect a
mammoth Ofice-building.
An Indiana court has decided that the es-
Enlistment of arbitrary rates by the I'm
derwriters' Association of Indianapolis is
contrary to the freedom of trade and pre-
judicial to the common good.
Samuel F. Donnelly a reporter for the
New York Sun, who was crushed under a
ladder at a fire in Thomas street, died from
his injuries. Until recently he was city ed
itor of the Omaha Herald.
Southern flood troubles have notyet end
ed. The people living along the Sunfower
river nave sent petition to Governor Low
ry of Mississippi, setting forth a most de-
plorable state of affairs and praying for aid.
Theodore f. Swayze, who has been pre-
moteo to chief clerk of the treasury depart
ment under the civil serVice rules served
throughout the war as drummer in a New
Jersey regiment, and then studied law and
stenography.
Miss Helen Gardener, a lady of remark
ably fine appearance, who is following in
the wake of Bob Ingersoll, lectured to about
two hundred persons in a Chicago theater
and won the respect of her audience by her
earnestness.
Ida Lewis started out in her boat, from
Goat Island lighthouse, to rescue four
drunken men who had Capsized in the har-
Dor, but she was outrOwed by crew from
awrecHng-schooner, who saved the i'm
periled' men.
The House Committee on thanking will
report in the matter OF the Pacific National
bank OF Boston that, while the action of
Comptroller Knox may be open to criticism,
there is nothing to show that he was Actual
ed by improper motives.
Henry W. Cannon, of Minnesota, has
been selected as the successor to Comptrol-
Ter Knox, and James Connolly, of Illinois,
as Solicitor of the Treasury. Connolly is at
present. OnlIeQ OIaIeS DlSIrlcG Attorney Tor
the Southern District of Illinois.
An official of the pension bureau relates
the fact that a soldier died while his claim
was pending, his wife expired while the
papers were being changed in her interest,
and their two children were swept off by an
epidemic before their applications had gone
the rounds.
Judge Bond, in the United States circuit
court at Richmond, has killed one of the
Ridoleberger readjVstment laws by a deci-
sion that any treasurer who levies on prop
erty after coupons have been rendered for
taxes is a hacked trespasser.
Senator Edmunds, in letter to Hon.
VIM. Walter Phelps, of New jersey, denies
statement by the latter that he held a
block of securities of the Burlington and