Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-10
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
MINISTER LOWELL has resigned the
Rectorship of st. Andrews University.
RAILWAY foreclosures last year COW
cred eighteen roads with 1854 miles of
track.
THE collieries of the Reading Pa.)
Company at Wilkesbarre resumed full
time work on the 31st.
. MARsEILLEs, Havre and Bordeaux are
the three ports at which American pork
will be admitted to France.
THE National debt less cash in Treas
urv is ST, 49S, O4I, 723. The actual reduction
for December was 81, 1887
THE Navy Yard Commission gives
the country an impressive warning OF the
dangers of foreign great guns.
The Bond trial at Hillsboro, Ill, re-
suited in the acquittal of the accused
Montgomery, Pettus and Clement.
THE House Military Committee will
report favorably the Fitz John Porter bill
which passed the Senate at the last ses-
sion.
THE report of the committee appoint
ed to prepare an improved plan for carry
ing mails by rail, has been sent to Con-
gress.
THE failures reported for 1888 num-
bered 9,18a, against 6,7S8 in 1882. One per-
son failed for every ninety-four engaged in
business.
SENATOR SABIN, of Minnesota, faVOrs
a cessation of debt payment and wants out
standing bonds converted into fifty-year
two per cents.
LIEUTENANT HARDER, in charge of
De Longs body, expects to reach the Ter
minus of the railroad, at Oremberg, Rus
STA, by the 10Th.
AN election tor Congressman, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Governor Robinson of Massachusetts, will
be held on the 17th.
GOVERNOR IRWIN, of Idaho, declines
to receive his quarters salary on the curl
Gus ground that he has been unable to at
tend to the duties of his office.
IT is suspected that the official in
spection of American pork in French ports
will be so managed as to amount to vir-
tual prohibition of importation.
THE American Bishops deny that any
agreement was reached in Rome regarding
the attitude of the Catholic clery in the
United States towards Fenianism.
INVESTIGATION of the Phoebe Paullin
murder in New Jersey has closed without
throwing any light on the mystery. The
prevailing impression is that tramp COM
mitted the deed.
THIRTEEN boot and shoe firms of Gin
cinnati have declared the Board of Arbi-
tration, which for some time past has been
settling difficulties between employers and
employees, failure.
A FIFTY-MILE wind, with perfectly
clear, sunny sky, was the phenomenon at
Sandy Hook, N. j., on the 2Sth. Wrecks
were reported and considerable damage
was done at various points on land.
TIE business failures in the United
States for the seven days ended the 2Sth
numbered PA; and in Canada for the same
time, twenty-four, a reduction of twenty
four compared with the previous week.
UP to the close of November the
Brooklyn bridge had furnished passage to
4,250,000 foot passengers and 1,062,3OO car
passengers. The amount of tolls collected
for teams was the same as for foot passen-
gers, $4,000.
KING ALFONSO has invited the Comte
de Paris and the Due de Montpensier to
stay with him in Madrid. The visit of the
Comte De Paris is the result of the German
initiative of the Proclamation of all the
Spanish affairs.
A CONVENTION of Ohio liquor dealers
met on the 9th at Columbus, to organize
measures for the repeal of obnoxious laws
passed by the last legislature. The chair
man demanded full protection for the trade
free from all tax.
THE report of the Mississippi River
Commission has been presented to the Sec
rotary of War. The season was unhealthy
and the floods unusually copious, but taken
all in all the results of the work undertaken
were highly satisfactory.
CAPTAIN PIKE testified in the PrOtcus
inquiry on the 9th that he told Lieutenant
Darlington the open water in sight to the
north of Payer Harbor was "no good" but
Darlington insisted on going ahead. His
evidence was contradicted by another wit
ness.
JUDGE MCCRARY of the Eighth United
States Judicial Circuit has resigned
to become Attorney for the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
He became United States Circuit Judge
when JUICE Dillon resigned to become Jay
GOuld's private Attorney.
MATTHEW COUDY, aged seventy, died
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