Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-10
Personal AND GENERAI.

the coming council at Rome.
SUIT has been begun to annul the
charter of the Eclectic Medical College of
New York for illegal issue of diplomas.
A MOB went to the jail at Yazoo City,
Miss, the evening of the 29th and lynched
four negroes charged with the murder of
the Posey brothers.
In the twelve months ended Novem-
Der 81, as compared with the year proceed
ing, imports fell off sos, 186, 900, and exports
increased $50, 418.0S9.
ROSE KORAN, formerly maid to Lady
Vaudeville, has brought suit for $4,000
damages for false arrest on a charge of lar
cenY at the instance of her employer.
AN inquiry has been ordered by the
Secretary of the Interior as to the truth of
allegations of fraud in the location of
large Spanish grant patented to Pedro Ar
mentario in New Mexico.
PALMER, the mulatto who confesses
the murder Of Kirk at CumminsviIIe, o.,
says he and William Berner agreed to do
the killing for purposes of robbery and the
one who struck the first blow was to have
fifty dollars the more money.
The sanitary condition of Havana,
Cuba, is improving. There were only ten
deaths from yellow fever for the week
ended the Doth. The cases are scattered
among the population and not confined to
shipping and military hospitals as they
usually are.
The latest sensation regarding Egyp-
tian affairs is a report, which is very gen.
orally credited, that Egypt has offered
to sell to the highest bidder concession
for a second Suez Canal. The offer is made,
l. i IL
penses of the campaign in the Sou
dan, which have threatened to plunge
Egyptian finances into state
of more hopeless muddle than even
their present condition. There would be
no trouble about organizing a company
without going out of London, which could
and would pay large sum for such con-
ceSSion if there were any certainty of Tewfik
Pasha being able to deliver the goods; but
between Ell Mahdi on the one side and NJ.
De Lesseps on the other, this seems more
than doubtful
SECRETARY FOLGER decides that the
Cinnamon who came to New York in the
ship ResOlute can not land in this country.
CHAS. BRADLAUGH announces his in
tention of forcibly taking possession of his
seat as member of the British House of
Commons for the Borough of Northampton,
at the next session of Parliament. He
says that, having been promptly re-
elected to the House when he was
declared ineligible, and again when he
was expelled for not taking the oath, his
duty towards his constituents requires that
he should insist upon his seat, but he has
refused the offer Of some thousands of his
supporters to come in procession to Palace
Yard and demand his admittance.
THE public debt reduction for De-
cember is estimated at $12, OOO, 900.
THERE were SO, 982 deaths in the city
of New York during 1888, and 28,982 births.
THE internal revenue receipts for the
six months ended the 3Ist were $61, 12G. POI.
TREASURY receipts fell off about
! SOS, 900 in. the first six months of the
present fiscal year.
| ''BIG KELLY" a notorious express
robber, has been captured near Columbus,
| Ohio.
CHINA expresses willingness to make
material concessions if the French will
keep their hands off BAG Mini.
THE Frisco Road celebrated New
Years Day by opening its extension line
into St. Louis, Mo.
| CONWAY BROWN, q Harvard student,
killed himself on the 3Ist at the home of
friend in Providence, R. 1.
REV. SAMUEL ANDREWS was recently
assassinated in the Choctaw Nation while
on the way to fill an appointment to
! preach.
| GENERAL BEN EDWARDS made the
| closing speech in the Bond trial on the 1st.
The case was given to the jury on the Cd.
ONE feature of the French Prime Mn
lister Ferry's proposed Constitutional re-
vision is abolition of the office of life Sena-
| tor.
THERE was serious rioting between
! Irish Nationalists and Orangemen, at Dro-
more, County Down, Ireland, on the LIST.
Troops have been sent to preserve order.
A SOCIETY has been organized in New
York for the preservation of historical
documents relating to Revolutionary times.
ALEXANDER BROGDEN, a member of
the British Parliament and iron master,
has failed for f723, 900. Henry Brogden
failed for a like amount.
DOMINIQUE, Spanish Minister of War,
favors universal suffrage, except that SOL
diers should never be allowed to vote, for
reasons of discipline.
The Patriarch of the Greek Church
insists upon resigning unless Turkey up
holds the privileges Of the Church. The
Porte refuses to accept his resignation.
FRITZ HOLDER, who was wounded in
the affair of Christmas Eve at Yazoo City,
Miss, died on the 1st.
THE Emperor of Germany kept open
house on the lst. So did the President of
the United States.
A JESUIT missionary in Vienna, Aus
tria, who denounced the immortality of
workingmen and Socialism generally, was
assaulted with stones in the pulpit on the
both.
CAPTAIN PIKE of the Inflated Arctic
steamer Proteus, believes Lieutenant
Greedy and party are sa at Lady Frank
lin Bay.