Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

assigned.
Gov. Hoadly refused to send troops TO the
Hooking Valley.
Buffalo and vicinity was visited by a
most disastrous storm
The Baltimore club has withdrawn from
the Union Base Ball Association.
Iowa farmers are complaining Of high
railroad rates and low prices OF grain.
Gov. Stanford's four-y ear-old hIly, salhe
Benton, trOtted mile at san Francisco IN
2:178
The Burlington road is about to run di-
rect trains from De5 MOines to Kansas City,
30 miles.
New York cigar-malZers met and protest
ed against the ratification Of the new Span
ish treaty.
Every is once more quiet among
he striking miners at Angus and Snake
Geek, 10.
Two of the Philadelphia carpet factories
surrendered to the strikers and work was
resumed at the old rates.
A meeting was held at the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange to protest against the rail
road rates on dressed hogs.
Passenger agents met in Chicago and ar
ranged special holiday rates on roads to
that city, st. Louis and Kansas City.
Father AIcGee's congregation, at Fall
River, Mass, locked the doors against him,
and demanded the appointment Of another
priest.
The President of the Canadia,c= 7T.--.c.ic
road has fled at Ottawa plans IOr d y4luse
across the st. Lawrence at Lachine. to cost
So, 100000.
At PiHsburg the ten to fifteen per cent.
reduction in wages by the Union Iron
D he ~ h
continued as usual.
The city council of Gaiesburg, Ill, has
been asked to give g street-car charter to
moneyed men of Dallas, Fort Worth and
AlVaradO, Texas.
The Centennial Methodist Conference at
Baltimore closed with a pastoral address by
Bishop Merrill, of Chicago, and an old
fashioned lOYe-feast.
Several prominent fire insurance men Of
st. Louis, held a secret meeting to consider
the q uesuOn of raising the rates Of lnsur-
aace over the country.
An oil-refning firm Of Cleveland has OBJ
tanned judgment against the Lake Shore
road for 81 900 for discrimination in treights
and 81 900 for damages.
A notice of ten per cent reduction Of
wages after the 29th inst. has been given
the employees of the New jersey Steel and
Plans are being perfected for a monster
parade of idle men in New York. They
will demand that the hours Of street labor
ers be reduced from ten to nine.
On account of the cutting down of wages
graphers' Brotherhood, Of New York, or
ganized tWenty-six new Assemblies.
The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in
presenting its tWenty-fOurth annual report,
shows a cash balance of Sc, 3O0 and asks
the public TO contribute 500 1000 for the COM
ing year.
The entire property of the New York
Graphic Company has been purchased by
J. w. Hinkley. 1t was sold piece by piece,
and it is now said that Hinkley's title is
'bullet-prOOf."
The Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade in New
York res OlVed by a unanimous vote to pro-
test against the ratification of the pending
treaty between Spain and the United
States.
An oil well in Butler county, Pennsyl-
vania, located half mile from all preVi-
Gus developments, was tOrpedOed, and is
flowing at the rate Of five thousand barrels
per day.
A lot of Texas hunters, who tried to have
some fun with Waterman by telling him
they were train robbers, were arrested, and
boys" when they get back home.
Four of the heirs of the estate of R. NJ.
Birmingham, of Rockford Illinois, have
petitiOned for the removal Of theexecutOr,
Dr.. r. P. Lane, whom they charge with
neglect and mismanagement for the past
twenty years.
The charters for 648 National Banks, or
nearly One-fOurth the entire number. will
expire during the six months between Jan
uary 1, and June 1. 1t is estimated three
fOurths of the number will renew their
charters, but it is thought they will reduce
their circulation.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
by unanimous vote, adopted resolutions
protesting against the system Of freight
tarln adhered TO by the railroad lines cen
tering in that city, whereby Chicago is
given the same rate as Milwaukee for
North western points.
A Jury at Syracuse acquitted Mrs. Ran
sier of the charge of numbering Adam
Suffer, with whom she had sustained
criminal relations, and whose threats
almost unsettled her reason. Although
she had already admitted the killing, the
court room resOunded with cheers at the
result.
The officers of the Wisconsin Central
Road, having received an unsatisfactory
decision by the st. Paul people as to the
use of their track, threaten to commence
forthwith the construction of a line from
SchHesingerVille TO Chicago. 1t is under
stood that the Northwestern Road IS nego-
tiating with S. ii. II. CLARK for control of
the Belt line at Omaha, in order to reach
the stock yards in that city.
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
II. d. Lyman, Second Assistant Post