Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-20

The Building Committee Of the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans inspected the
buildings, grounds and machinery, and
decided there was no reason for delaying
the opening.
A war on passenger rates to New Eng
land ana Canadian points has opened IN
Chicago between the Grand Trunk and
Michigan Central roads. Tickets to To-
ront0 are quoted by both at $40 and to
Boston at SIS.
A salOon-keeper in Chicago is serving
three friends with quail and unlimited
/ liquids daily. The first man to refuse a
bird within q month is to pay the entire
Dill should the trio hold for thirty days
the host is the loser.
| All letters mailed at Chicago for the first
/ three days of December were counted and
Office Department. 1t was found that
! 81, 322 weighed more than half an ounce,
! while 623, 96I came within the limit of
single postage.
The cigar manu- featuring firm Of StrattOn
| q Storm announced to their 1000 em-
/ plOyes, Saturday night, that their factory
would discontinue WORK until the unCer-
taiuty about the new treaty with Spain, in
regard to the West Indian trade, was re-
moved.
The Missouri River Commission met at
st. Louis recently to agree upon a report to
/ the Secretary of War which Will be sent in
/ as soon as completed. Only surveying viii
be done this Winter but next Spring, be-
! ginning at Kansas City and working down
extensive work will be done along the
river.
The National Association of TrOtting
! Horse Breeders met recently in New York,
and appointed a committee to secure legis-
J latiOn that will make it q criminal Otfense
to advertise garbled pedigrees. A commit
/ tee was also appointed to urge the enforce
ment of the law against pool selling.
The statement of Western Union reve-
nues for the quarter ending December 81,
/ based on nearly completed returns for Oc-
tOber, partial returns for November and es-
timated business for December, 81, 800, OOO;
surplus October j, 81, l59, COO; total So 65G, -
600; Interest on bonded debt and sinking
funds, $144 600. A dividend of II per cent
was declared, payable January 10. Books
closed December 20, and open January 3.
Westcott & Co., brokers, at Syracuse, N.
Y, has made a general assignment. The
Buffalo branch of the same house is in
Guided. Alfred Wilkinson, of Wilkinson
d Co., bankers, who suspended recently,
was special partner Of Westcott q 90.
The preferences amount to $52, 600, 1000
of which is to r. p. Flower, of New York.
Liabilities, 100000.
Complete statistics collected by the Iron
Trade Review show that there was received
at all the Lake Erie points during the nav
igatiOn season of 1884, /, 733, 117 tons of iron
ore, as against /, 692, 687 tons last year, an
increase over 1888 of about nine per cent.
Total amount Of iron ore on dock at all the
Lake Erie ports at the close of navigation;
1,030, $50 tons. At the same time last year
the amount on dock was 943, O95 tons. The
amount of surplus on dock December
first was fifteen per cent. greater than in
1888.
Miss Mary G. Caldwell, a young lady of
New York City, who was in Baltimore dur
ing the session of the Plenary Council, has
offered to give $500, 600 towards the founda-
ton of q Catholic University, to be estab-
lished and controlled by the Council. Her
offer was accepted, and the Board of In
cOrpOratOrs will be named. and during the
ensuing year the plan Of a University for
the higher education of the Catholic min
istry will be considered. A committee of
Bishops and laymen, with Archbishop
Gibbons at its head. was appointed by the
Council to take charge of the matter. The
new University will be located in New
York City.