Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-04


Many. sections in which drought prevailed
have been visited with cOpious rains.
Warner & Merritt, fruit importers Of
Camden, n. J., failed with liabilities OF
$5Oo,OO0.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
Office in New York has been seized by the
sheriff for debt.
The agricultural products Of California
for the year are estimated at Sol, OOO,O OF
which about 90 per cent. will be exported.
The schedule in the assignment of the
lumber firm Of Bliss & Elliott, Of Minnea-
polls Mimi, show the Utilities to be $685.
500; assets, $132,5O
Reports from seven States show that the
corn crop Will be an enormous one, al
though there are limited regions where
drought still prevails.
The Breeders Gazette publishes a state
ment that contagious pleurO-pneumonia
has undoubtedly found lOdgment among
cattle herds in Illinois.
The property of the Sprague Manufactur-
ing Company at Augusta, Me-, which hf-
teen years ago cost s., 900, goo, was sold at
auction for about $500, 900.
The remains of Private Henry of the
Greedy EXPEDITION will not be eEhumed.
The supervisors Of Green county n. Y, hav-
ing refused to pay the expenses Ofsuch eX-
humatiOn.
The Minneapolis team was the victor in
the rife contest at Western Union Junction,
Wis. J. A. Snapper, OF Chicago, won the
first prize in the Billiard match and the
fourth prize in the individual shoot.
The managers OF the NewsbOys' home in
Chicago recently adopted a rule excluding
all inmates over sixteen years OF age. The
result was a unanimous revolt by the lads
seventeen of whom have for two nights
slept in a vacantlot near by.
The 9Th Georgia regiment of the Confed-
crate army held a reunion recently at Ma
con, nine companies being represented. l..
@. Young, formerly of the 56th New York
volunteers, restored the nag OF the 9th reg1-
ment, which was captured at the battle OF
COosawhatchie in 1864. The affair drew
tears from the veterans.
The soldiers reunion of Northern Indi-
ana veterans began at Fort Wayne, In
diana. The city was ablaZe with flags and
bunting and it is estimated that there were
100000 veterans in Camp Allen at the fair
grounds General John S. KOuntE, Com
mander in Chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Generals Jasper b. Lewis and
Ben. D. House were present.
Another party of thirty four camping
miners has Oeen arrested at Coal Centre,
Pennsylvania, for trespassing on property
of the railway company. The wives OF
nearly half the offenders begged to be sent
to Jail with their husbands, as they had
only corn meal on which to subsisb. TrOu-
bic Is feared at Buchtel, Ohio, where force
of guards is employed to protect nOn-union
men.
Capt. Payne, the notorious Oklahoma
boomer, and seven of his associates, who
were arrested at Rock Falls, Indian Terri
tory, by Gen. Hatch some days ago,
arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in
charge of Lieut.. Jackson and a detach-
ment of the Nineteenth United States Cav
airy. They are not delivered to the author
tiles at TT. Smith, as was the original IN
tentOn, but by directions from Caldwell
Kas., were taken to Fit. Scott Kans. where
they will be placed in charge OF United
States officers.
The Forty-second Ohio, (Garfeld's regi-
ment) held a reunion at Lakeside, Ohio,
and voted to meet there next year on the
last Wednesday in August. Since the death
of Garfield no president has been elected,
the ViCe-president presiding. About two
hundred members survive. Capt. HubbeII,
of Cleveland, is the presiding Ylce-presldent,
and @. E. Steney, secretary. No special &C
ton was taken this year. Letters were re-
ceiVed from Senator Sherman, General
Morgan, Mrs. Garfield, Ex-Governor Foster,
Major Mckinley, Amos Townsend and
Others.
Henry Mohler, o. W. Radcliffe Jas. Nc
EVAN Fidelia Parker, Mrs. A. @. Pease,
and Eliza b. Slater, were arrested on COM
plant of the Humane Society, of Chicago,
charged with cruelty to children. 1t appears
that they profess to be leaders of some sort
of religious sect, the character of which
is not clearly shown, though from letters 1t
appears that some of the members of the
sect indulge in the most vicious and hcen-
tious practices. Twelve children were found
in their possession, the Oldest of whom
claims to have been cruelty treated and
kept without food. The prisoners claim to
be earring for Gods orphans, and say they
have no means of support except faith in
the lord. The neighbors say there has
beeen frequent deaths among the little
ones.